"Damn, is this game's designer out of their mind? Throwing this many waves of grunts at us in the early stages-how are we supposed to save any stamina for the boss later?" Silver Wolf complained, chainsaw in hand.
Stelle nodded and ventured a guess:
"Could this be a Swarm event from the Simulated Universe?"
"Have you been snooping through my design documents?" Herta frowned. "Let me make this clear: this isn't the Swarm."
At that, Chu Mu grew thoughtful.
At this point in the story's timeline, it was unclear whether Tayzzyronth, the Aeon of Propagation, had even been born.
More importantly, Chu Mu hadn't found any traits of Propagation in these monsters.
These monsters possessed terrifying vitality. Even with their skulls smashed to pieces, they could still get back up.
Bullets did little to them, whereas the chainsaw proved remarkably effective.
Since these monsters simply wouldn't die, sawing off their lower legs to impair their mobility was the most efficient way to save time and effort.
At first glance, these monsters seemed as densely packed as the Swarm of Propagation, yet also resembled those blessed by Abundance-like cockroaches that no amount of swatting could kill.
Anyone who knew a little about Aeons could easily associate these monsters with those two Aeons.
But someone who knew more about Aeons-someone like Chu Mu, who had actually met both of them-was different.
He could keenly sense that the monsters had nothing to do with either Aeon.
The Swarm of Propagation could reproduce and replicate endlessly. Even a single egg planted on a planet could soon leave it covered in nothing but teeming insects.
Yet the monsters before him showed no such reproductive ability. They expanded their ranks by killing others, who then transformed into more of their kind.
That resembled a certain kind