A small swarm made up of tens of millions of combat bugs was approaching Lancer at a steady pace, and the one leading them was a Class 5 Insect King, the lowest of the Insect Kings.
More than a thousand years ago, when the passage to the small world once again opened, the insectoids stationed inside received Aliya's order to slaughter all the primitive civilizations in the small world and use them as nourishment. She wanted to cultivate a large number of insectoids in the shortest time possible to make up for the losses of the insectoids in the previous war.
Like the other Insect Kings stationed there, Arbor led a small swarm of bugs on a journey of slaughter. To him, this mission was like an armed excursion, and there was no pressure at all.
In fact, after encountering those primitive civilizations, any low-level combat bug could easily slaughter an entire planet!
Within the area he was responsible for, there was only one target left — planet Lancer, an indigenous planet that did not even have a Class 1 civilization.
The swarm of bugs moved forward in the void, passing through one scattered asteroid belt after another, and finally, the blue and green planet appeared in their field of vision.
It was just a planet with a primitive civilization, and Arbor did not even bother to sense if there was any danger ahead. However, he did not know that a fatal crisis was already so close.
While he was enjoying his rare leisure time, millions of kilometers away, in the direction of Lancer, a large number of blue lights streaked across the void without warning, sweeping toward the swarm of bugs led by Arbor.
Arbor finally realized that something was wrong and immediately used his senses to the maximum. It was only then that he realized that there were hundreds of thousands of battleships in Lancer's orbit, and he was so frightened that he trembled all over.
Although he did not know which force this fleet belonged to or why it would appear in the Insect Tribe small world, based on the range of the enemy's weapons and the size of the battleships, Arbor could preliminarily determine from his inherited memories that this was at least a fleet of a Class 4 technological civilization.
Although he was leading a swarm of ten million bugs, they were all made up of the lowest-level combat bugs and spray bugs, similar to when the Insect Tribe first invaded the Milky Way.
Ten million bugs did not have a high chance of winning against more than 300,000 battleships of at least a Class 4 technological civilization, and if they had reached the level of a Class 5 technological civilization, he would not even have a chance of winning.
Damn it, where did this fleet come from?
At this moment, Arbor's entire being — no, his entire insect — was in a bad mood.
Although the energy weapons used by Tier 4 technological civilizations could not surpass the speed of light beams, they could cover a distance of three million kilometers in just a dozen seconds. The blanketing attack gave the Zerg swarm under Arbor's command little room to dodge. A large number of energy beams and energy bullets blasted into the Zerg swarm.
Although the loss of being hit in the head was not small, Arbor heaved a sigh of relief.
Looking at the extent of damage to the front of the insect swarm, it was obvious that the other party had not reached the level of a level-5 civilization. Although the power of their energy weapons was not bad, it was obvious that they had not reached the level of a level-5 civilization.
It should be noted that Tier 4 and Tier 5 civilizations had completely different concepts of Arbor. The biggest difference between them was their defensive means.
Although Tier 4 technological civilizations possessed energy shields, they were not impenetrable. In addition, Tier 4 technological civilizations did not have powerful energy sources, and they usually used nuclear fusion energy, which could not provide powerful support for their energy shields.
Therefore, as long as he could close the distance, Arbor was very confident that he could annihilate a mere 300,000 battleships after paying a certain price.
However, if it was a Tier 5 civilization, it would be completely different. For Arbor's small insect swarm that only had Combat Bugs and Spray Bugs, the Spatial Shield was an unbreakable existence.
Yes, using the large-scale concentrated fire of the Zerg battleships could indeed break through the Spatial Shield, causing it to exceed its carrying capacity at the same time. However, the problem was that his small insect swarm did not have any Battleship Bugs. He could not possibly ask the Spray Bugs to complete this task, could he?
It was not that it was impossible. Hundreds of thousands of Spray Bugs attacking at the same time could be compared to the large-scale concentrated fire of the Battleship Bugs, but the problem was that he only had a few million Spray Bugs. He could not possibly say that he could destroy ten or twenty battleships in each wave, right? Wouldn't that be equivalent to not fighting at all?
Therefore, after Arbor confirmed that the other party had not reached Tier 5, he heaved a huge sigh of relief.
The most important thing was that Arbor had discovered one thing, and it was something that was very important.
The enemy fleet's formation was completely based on Lancer's orbit, and it was a defensive formation.
No matter what their purpose was, there was no doubt that this unknown fleet was protecting Lancer. Then, what he had to do was very simple!
Since the other party wanted to protect Lancer, it was impossible for them to retreat from their orbit. As such, as long as he pressed forward with all his might, he would be able to engage in close combat with them in the shortest amount of time. Once the Spray Bugs got close, there would be no suspense in this battle!
Facing wave after wave of cannon fodder from the Tarak civilization's fleet, Arbor commanded his insect swarm to continue pressing forward. He did not notice that there seemed to be an excessive number of scattered asteroid belts on his way to Lancer.
Yes, there were an excessive number of asteroid belts.
It should be noted that this was a small universe. When the Zerg first discovered this small universe, there were no planets in it and it was completely empty.
The reason why there were so many stars and planets now was because the Zerg had been lucky enough to discover them over the past 100,000 years. After all, it was not too difficult for a Tier 6 Zerg Monarch to do this.
It was precisely because of this that all the star systems and asteroid belts in the small universe were very rare. It could even be said that there were almost none!
However, on the way here, Arbor had passed through several scattered asteroid belts. This was very abnormal, but unfortunately, Arbor did not notice it at all!
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Planet Lancer, in the command center of a secret military base.
A female army member who looked very similar to Zi Ling was staring at the huge real-time tactical projection in front of her.
"It's about time!"
Looking at the huge red blob that was not close to Lancer, Zi Luo's eyes narrowed when it was only two million kilometers away from Lancer.
"I order now to remove the camouflage of the space defense network. All defense platforms are to immediately start charging weapons. At the same time, the Sixth and Seventh Fleets are to prepare for a short-range hyperdrive. Give me a way out for these bugs!"
"Yes, Commander!"