Under the full-scale attack of the Consciousness Field, the speed of the swarm gradually decreased until it came to a complete stop. The area in front of the fleet was filled with thousands of kilometers long high-level swarms writhing in agony and low-level swarms whose consciousness had dissipated.
The Civilization Fleet seized the opportunity to charge forward, coordinating with the Consciousness Field impact weapons of the Fish Horse Star Civilization and the Reaper to kill the high-level insects that rushed to the front.
The battle with the insectoid swarm has lasted for more than 30 years. The fleet has retreated more than 500 light-years and has finally intercepted the swarm. Some civilizations can't help but secretly complain about the Fish Horse Star Civilization and the Human Civilization, wondering why they didn't use such a weapon in the first place. However, they only mentioned it in their own civilizations and did not put it out in the open.
Hu Yu also knew that these civilizations might have their own grievances, but what good were those grievances? At least humanity had brought out effective weapons. If humanity hadn't, the losses of these civilizations' fleets would have continued to increase, and when the losses reached a certain number, they would no longer be able to stop the advance of the insectoid swarm.
Like the swarm that humanity destroyed before, this swarm is also controlled by a small individual Insect King, but its rank has reached 30, which is enough to damage the warships of Great Star Region Advanced Civilization.
It has eight strong insect legs, a blackish-gray body, a head full of eyes, a huge mouth full of sharp teeth, a terrifying and bizarre appearance, and a body more than 50 kilometers long. At this moment, it is comfortably lying on the body of a giant insect that is 10,000 kilometers long, enjoying other insects.
The swarm of insects ahead stopped advancing. The Insect King immediately sensed something was wrong. Waves of Consciousness Field shockwaves reached the center of the swarm. The other insects couldn't feel them, but the Insect King did. The Insect King immediately understood why the swarm had stopped advancing. It leaped up, its two sharp forelegs plunging deep into the giant insect's body.
The giant worm writhed in pain, but the Insect King ignored it completely, tearing off a chunk of flesh from its body and swallowing it whole. Then it flew straight towards the front of the swarm of worms. The giant worm dared not attack the Insect King, not even bothering to resist. Resisting meant death, while not resisting only meant losing a piece of flesh.
The other insects scattered upon seeing the arrival of the Insect King. The Insect King glanced at the civilization fleet ahead with its massive, eye-filled head, then leaped directly into the fourth dimension.
A high-level insect quickly marked the coordinates for the fourth-dimensional Insect King in the three-dimensional universe. The Insect King began to manipulate energy to form a standard four-dimensional hypersphere in the fourth dimension. Like a hypercube, the four-dimensional hypersphere is a shape that can only be formed in the fourth dimension. After the four-dimensional hypersphere was formed, the Insect King quickly sealed off several dimensions with energy and directly brought the four-dimensional hypersphere into the three-dimensional universe.
The four-dimensional space appeared in the three-dimensional space, and the extra dimension immediately began to fall, at the same time bursting with tremendous energy. A Reaper happened to be near the four-dimensional hypersphere, and the super energy directly turned the Reaper into dust. Hu Yu was extremely shocked that the powerful Fourth Reversed State Armor could not even withstand such an energy burst for a second.
Hu Yu could accept that the Second Reversed State couldn't withstand the dimensional drop, but he didn't expect that the Fourth Reversed State would also succumb to the dimensional reduction attack.
However, Hu Yu vaguely sensed that the dimensional reduction attack was not just the energy released by the dimensional drop. If it were just energy, it shouldn't be so intense. The energy intensity that the three-dimensional universe can withstand has a certain limit. Once this limit is reached, the energy will break through space again and run into the fourth dimension.
Although Hu Yu had not directly tried the energy limit Reaper in the three-dimensional universe, Hu Yu felt that even if the Fourth Reversed State could not withstand it, it would definitely not be destroyed so instantly, without even a fragment the size of a fingernail remaining.
Like the Reaper, within a radius of 100,000 kilometers around the four-dimensional hypersphere, not a single warship from the Fish Horse Star or any other civilization survived intact; they were all completely destroyed.
"Dimensional reduction attack! It's a dimensional reduction attack!" Some civilizations began to send out messages in alarm.
However, Hu Yu didn't care. Even if a single four-dimensional hypersphere was incredibly powerful, it couldn't possibly defeat a civilization's fleet. Besides, although the four-dimensional hypersphere had immense energy, its attack range was extremely limited. Beyond 100,000 kilometers, its attack effectiveness was greatly reduced. In other words, the four-dimensional hypersphere's attack time was only at its most powerful during the first third of a second.
After releasing one four-dimensional hypersphere, the Insect King immediately entered the fourth dimension, bringing a second four-dimensional hypersphere, followed by a third and a fourth. The Insect King's target was clear: each time a four-dimensional hypersphere descended, its first choice was the warships and Reaper of the Fish Horse Star Civilization. Although the Insect King was incredibly fast, able to create a four-dimensional hypersphere every few seconds, facing hundreds of billions of Fish Horse Star warships and 20 billion Reaper, even if the entire swarm was wiped out, it probably wouldn't be able to create enough four-dimensional hyperspheres.
Knowing the Insect King's intentions, the Fish Horse Star Civilization's warships and Reaper dispersed their fleets as much as possible, so that the Insect King could only destroy one warship at a time. This greatly troubled the Insect King. Insects around level 25 could freely traverse the fourth dimension, but while they could fight in the fourth dimension, they could not use energy to create a four-dimensional hypersphere like the Insect King. Moreover, their numbers were small, and they dared not descend into the civilization's territory from the fourth dimension alone.
While a few dozen or a few hundred Tier 25 insects can cause immense damage to a civilization, Small Star Sector Intermediate Civilization can kill them with a fleet of billions or tens of billions of units. High-tier insects, like civilization fleets, require time to evolve and are not as endless as low-tier insects. They can only exert sufficient combat power when mixed among an endless stream of low-tier insects. Although this insect swarm contains many Tier 25 and above, reaching tens of billions, their target is the civilization's defense line.
The warships at the Civilization Defense Line are all in the trillions. Without the cooperation of low-level insects, even hundreds of billions of high-level insects wouldn't be enough to feed the Civilization fleet for an hour.
The Insect King realized that even if it worked itself to death, it couldn't destroy so many civilization fleets. It abandoned the use of the four-dimensional hypersphere and charged directly into the Reaper fleet. It was exceptionally agile in the air, and the Reaper had no way to dodge it. Soon, it captured one of the Reaper.
Although it is only about 50 kilometers long, it is nearly twice the length of the Reaper. The Reaper is just a slightly larger toy under its legs. This dangerous toy Insect King does not take it seriously at all.