Deep within the Antennae Galaxy, scattered high-gravity planets hung in silence.
What should have been a starfield suffused with cold white light had been blanketed by the Insect Swarm across the entire void.
The former mainstay of the Insect Swarm, Corruptors over a hundred meters in diameter, could now only linger at the outermost perimeter.
If this magnificent scene were rendered in three dimensions, one would see a colossal Insect Swarm large enough to cover hundreds of celestial bodies slowly accelerating toward a certain direction.
At the very deepest point wrapped within the swarm was a brown "celestial body" roughly three thousand kilometers in diameter.
It was a living planet of flesh and blood!
A fungal carpet covered the entire planet, upon which stood countless unheard-of structures of flesh.
White Armor led the Bone-faced Insect Beasts as they patrolled above the planet.
Star Devouring Beasts, stretching thousands of kilometers like earthworms, formed the second line of flesh-and-blood defense.
Brown incubation sacs continuously ruptured and regenerated, and slimy larvae crawled out one after another.
Nearby, tower-like piles of flesh extended soft tubes resembling mouthparts, supplying nutrients to the larvae.
The larvae grew and transformed at a visible rate.
Some gradually formed skeletons and armor plates, while others began to grow wings.
Others began a second-stage proliferation, expanding their volume hundreds or thousands of times over.
Within rings upon rings of fungal carpet, seven fat white Worms were worshiped by the swarm atop a massive rock platform, all facing a hollow roughly ten meters wide at its center.
They seemed to be worshiping something.
The insect race's underground tunnels, capable of freely traversing spatial distances, could be found everywhere on this celestial body.
Yet compared to this hollow, they received vastly different levels of attention.
At this moment, the sound of a