Faced with this unique mechanical design, the insects' prized close-range attacks became useless. After all, insects are biological organisms, and their defense relies on controlling energy to create a defensive energy layer around their bodies to counter various energy impacts. Now that the Mechanical Civilization's warships hardly use energy attacks anymore, the insects were temporarily at a disadvantage.
Human academics have also considered this attack method of Mechanical Civilization warships, but the special nature of Reversed State Armor makes such a design impossible. Using conventional materials cannot achieve the defensive strength of Reversed State armor. In terms of materials technology, Mechanical Civilization may have reached or even surpassed the Great Star Region Advanced Civilization.
The Great Star Region Civilization had been searching for traces of the Mechanical Civilization, but they never expected that the Mechanical Civilization would quietly develop within the Insect Zone. With the power of the Mechanical Civilization, it was indeed possible to seize a space within the Insect Zone and develop quietly. Each mechanical entity could independently develop a fleet, while each human could not even build a small spaceship. This is the difference in the development speed between the Mechanical Civilization and the ordinary biological civilization.
The swarm wasn't entirely helpless against the Mechanical Civilization's fleet. The images obtained from light analysis showed that the largest of these insects was only 100,000 kilometers in size, but judging from their combat power, they far surpassed any giant insect the Reaper had ever encountered.
Although the swarm has suffered a temporary setback, a million high-level swarms are nothing but a drop in the ocean for them. The Reaper fleet is a hundred light-years away from the battlefield, and the information they have is from a hundred years ago. Now, there are hundreds of millions of high-level swarms on the battlefield.
Although the Mechanical Civilization's warships were powerful, the Zerg swarm was not helpless against them. They frantically brought four-dimensional space into the three-dimensional universe and bombarded the Mechanical Civilization's warships relentlessly. The violent energy accumulated in the war zone, and the Mechanical Civilization could only use conventional power engines to travel.
With their mobility greatly reduced, the Mechanical Civilization's warships quickly suffered significant damage under the swarm's onslaught. The three-dimensional universe was no longer suitable for the operations of such advanced warships, and one by one, the Mechanical Civilization 'Mechanical Civilization warships directly entered the fourth dimension, but those that entered the fourth dimension immediately retreated.
They could barely maintain an advantage in the three-dimensional universe, but in the fourth dimension, the insects were piled up like mountains. Among these insect swarms, the Mechanical Civilization even discovered many terrifying beings.
The lord commanded the battle from afar in the starry sky. He had barely managed to establish a foothold in the Insect Zone after losing countless mechanical beings. He originally thought that with these warships, he could occupy a place in the Insect Zone. Unexpectedly, there were even more insects in the fourth dimension. The Mechanical Civilization lord knew that the Great Star Region Civilization in the Milky Way would definitely be checking the energy extraction situation in the fourth dimension.
When their strength was weak, the lord chose to abandon the fourth dimension and directly use the matter of the three-dimensional universe to build the fleet. In order to bypass the defenses, the Mechanical Civilization consumed countless mechanical bodies and warships to circle around a large area outside the galaxy and arrive at the Insect Zone. The Mechanical Civilization, which was not strong enough, released countless mechanical bodies to secretly penetrate into the interiors of planets and stars in the insect swarm, steal mass, hollow out celestial bodies, build production lines, and manufacture the fleet.
Soon, hundreds of thousands of planets were hollowed out, countless stars' mass was stolen, and the Mechanical Civilization's fleet was rebuilt. Just as the lord was gathering his fleet to prepare to open up territory and fight against the Great Star Region Civilization, the swarm launched an attack. The lord, naturally, did not hold back and directly fought the swarm.
The war raged for over a hundred years, during which the Mechanical Civilization killed countless insects, leaving the entire airspace littered with their remains and fragments. It wasn't until the insects summoned higher-level insects from the fourth dimension that the Mechanical Civilization began to struggle.
The lord knew that the Great Star Region Civilization were confronting the higher-order insectoids in the fourth dimension, and that even if the higher-order insectoids descended, their numbers could be contained. Therefore, they had never made any concessions. Moreover, this was the pride of the Mechanical Civilization. Back in the Alpha Universe, wherever the Mechanical Civilization went, they bowed down and never suffered a defeat. Now, it was one thing that they couldn't defeat the major Great Star Region Civilization in the Milky Way, but it was laughable that they couldn't even defeat these insectoids. So, the Mechanical Civilization went head-to-head with the insectoids.
In reality, this was only the Mechanical Lord's surface meaning. Even if all these warships were lost, it wouldn't matter. The lord didn't take this fleet seriously. After all, his fleet had once spread throughout the entire Alpha Universe, and its number could not be described in trillions. The lord's deeper meaning was to attract all the high-level insects in the three-dimensional space of the galaxy.
Once the higher-level insects are attracted, the mechanical bodies can take the opportunity to spread across every planet. Although the mechanical bodies currently occupy many planets, they are all barren planets that even insects are reluctant to stay on. These planets are generally inhabited by insects of relatively lower levels, which gives the mechanical bodies the opportunity to invade.
Some resource-rich planets have been occupied by high-level insects, and mechanical entities cannot break through the surveillance of these high-level insects. The area of Insect Zone is slightly smaller than the area occupied by the civilization, but there are still hundreds of billions of planets here. Although the insects have consumed some of them, the total number is still no less than hundreds of billions.
If every planet and star were invaded by mechanical entities, the lord would possess a fleet exceeding trillions in a short period, at which point even a siege by Great Star Region Civilization in the Milky Way would be no longer a concern.
Moreover, with so many celestial bodies, the Mechanical Civilization's warships can be quickly replenished even if they are depleted in battle. Unless Great Star Region Civilization in the Milky Way destroys half of the galaxy and blasts all the celestial bodies apart, it will be impossible to eliminate the Mechanical Civilization even if they know of its existence.
At this point, the Mechanical Civilization can openly extract energy from the fourth dimension. As long as the spark remains, the Mechanical Civilization will face no further crisis. At that time, the Mechanical Civilization will unify the galaxy and gradually expand to the surrounding star systems from here as the center. It won't be long before it can reproduce the glory of the Alpha Universe.
Thinking of this, the lord was overjoyed, wishing that all the insects would come to besiege his fleet; the more insects that came, the happier the lord would be.
The lord's only worry was that too many fourth-dimensional insects would arrive, and the Great Star Region Civilization sector civilizations of the Milky Way would take the opportunity to attack the insects and destroy them in one fell swoop. If the insects were no longer a check on the galaxy, all the Great Star Region Civilization in the Milky Way would turn against the Mechanical Civilization, and then the galaxy would be doomed.
Thinking of this, the lord couldn't help but slow down the attack speed. Some Mechanical Civilization warships deliberately exposed their attack openings, as long as they were not destroyed by the insects while preserving themselves. Sure enough, the arrival speed of the high-level insects also slowed down. When the Mechanical Civilization deliberately contracted its defenses, the arrival of the high-level insects even stopped.