Millions or even tens of millions. When the scale of the nest was large enough and the production line was in a cycle, the number of drones was no longer a problem. The rate of their proliferation was even faster than the rate of attrition in a large-scale battle. When the drone fleet began to warp, there might only be a few million drones in the fleet, but when they reached the destination, a steady stream of drones from various nests would expand the number to zero.
Therefore, at any time, there was only one accurate word to describe a large drone cluster: countless.
Countless drones entered the warp state, and the light emitted when the warp engine was activated caused the entire dimension to fluctuate violently like the ocean in a storm. The starlight swayed and twisted into a ball, and a crack opened up in the universe. This huge army operated at the same time under the control of a command, pouncing toward the clear coordinates, and welcomed their mission with a fanatical attitude …
"This is the first time I've seen someone use F2A in such an epic way." The MDT's voice was full of despair. In order to express its mood, it even activated its' Pattianne 'form. A girl with long, straight blond hair and cerebral thrombosis was lying on the console next to it. "Buddy, you only pressed two buttons in total. Can you not show this kind of aura on the battlefield?"
Hao Ren rolled his eyes at Pattianne. "Don't look down on these two steps. The timing is very important! And I'm just a police officer. Where do you expect me to learn how to command a battle? The drones will fight on their own. I just need to press A! "
After that, he lowered his head and continued to fiddle with the battle module in front of him. F2 then A, F2 then A … There was always a steady stream of drones coming off the production line, and even from the distant space outside Star Cluster X to the front line to support the battle, so he was quite busy.
"Let's go back to full automatic. Manual F2 is quite tiring," Hao Ren spread out his hands. "I'll just press A …"
Pattianne turned back into the MDT form and slapped Hao Ren in the face. "Damn it, there are only two buttons, and you're complaining that you can't handle it! Who was the one who was so excited to play with this battle module? "
In the end, it was Vivian who could not stand it anymore. "Can you two be serious? We are going to the front line anyway. "
"I have to find a way to relieve the pressure before the battle," Hao Ren saw that Vivian was a little serious, so he waved his hand and explained. "After all, this is the first time I've participated in a battle of this scale."
Although he looked as calm as Lily on the surface, he was actually panicking like Lily in his heart (there was nothing wrong with that).
At this time, Nolan suddenly jumped out and said, "Boss, there's a battle report from the Heart. The guardian army is in full contact with the festered, and the drone cluster will also arrive on the battlefield in forty-five minutes. Should we go now?"
Hao Ren looked up at the reports showing the situation in each theater. In the position of the base group, the drone cluster had already engaged the enemy, and the festered legion was still rushing into the blockade line. Even though the Heart had started the battle, they did not have the slightest intention of retreating. Everything was going as planned. The decline of Salaman's guardian legion in the long war had made the mad minions make a rash judgment. They thought that the guardians were nothing to worry about, and they still had a huge advantage in fighting on two fronts. The weakening of the defense of the base group gave them great encouragement. This time, they were determined to pull out the nail that popped out of nowhere.
"Let's go."
With the distortion of light caused by the dimensional jump, the Petrachelys, the Naqdal fortress, and the second echelon of millions of armed drones disappeared into the vast space.
Over the guardian's position in the Heart galaxy.
The fierce battle had lasted for dozens of minutes. After the battlefield shields of both warring sides were exhausted, a large number of debris began to appear and accumulate in space. Salaman stood on the bridge of the flagship Aiur, watching the progress of the battle through countless holographic images and his own telepathic ability.
The Hub, shrouded in a crystal-like barrier, was left far behind. Even if he looked back, he could only see a bright ball smaller than a ping-pong ball. Agodal's towering figure stood at the edge of the battlefield. The huge starship hovered like a behemoth hibernating in the darkness, constantly providing artillery support to the Guardian Legion with various ultra-long-range weapons built on the surface. The mighty black starship shuttled on the battlefield, constantly throwing heavy annihilation bombs and scorching high-energy beams at the twisted monsters. How long had it been since this happened?
Since the destruction of Naqdal, Agodal had also been seriously damaged in the battle, and its power had declined. The guardian legion's line of defense had repeatedly shrunk. The numerical disadvantage and the enemy's ability to pollute had left Salaman and his legion in a terrible state. In the long war of 3,000 years, the guardian legion had taken the initiative to attack only a few times, and it was only limited to the first few hundred years. After that, the guardian legion, which had failed to recapture the lost land and break through the blockade, could only hide in the narrow area of a few astronomical units around the Heart. Rather than saying that they were resisting, it seemed that they were struggling at death's door.
Until today, the guardian legion finally took the initiative to push forward again.
Salaman was also wondering if this was a blind adventure. The "observer" and his drone legion were completely unfamiliar to the guardian giant. The guardian giant had never heard of such a force in the universe. It was impossible for any gifted race to suddenly develop to such a powerful level in the short 10,000 years since his mother left. So the observer and the drones were most likely from outside the world, at least outside the known world.
The concept of "outside the world" was not unfamiliar to the guardians. Although they had not yet confirmed the existence of the world barrier or found a way to cross the world, various data models and some experiments done by the goddess of creation had confirmed the existence of "the limits of the world" and "the rules outside the world." So Salaman could make a bold guess about the observer that suddenly appeared.
So could such a force, which was most likely from outside the known world, be trustworthy?
In any case, in order to cooperate with this mysterious observer, the guardian legion had taken the initiative to push forward, and the scale and method of the advance were the decision made by Salaman and a group of think tanks after carefully weighing the risks. Faced with a possible opportunity, the guardians could not do nothing, but they could not bet everything on it. If the drones really came to help, then the advancing front would become a springboard for the guardians to counterattack. If the drones did not come, then the legion would have plenty of opportunities to retreat back into the core defense circle.
Salaman shook his head and shook the useless thoughts out of his mind. After making the decision to attack, there was no point in looking back or regretting anything. This was not what a qualified commander should do.
He looked at the tactical map on the holographic projection. The battle line had reached a stalemate, and this stalemate would not last long. The guardians were unable to maintain such a battle line. They could launch this surprise attack and even relied on the festered to send a wave of troops to attack the "nest" of the drones. But even so, the festered from Amantir were still far more powerful than the guardian giants.
The guardian's Agodal fortress was on the edge of the battlefield, and so was the festered Amantir. It floated at the end of the battlefield, and the dark star shrouded in an ominous dark red light was like a malicious eyeball staring at Agodal's every move. Although its doomsday weapon was damaged and could not be used, as a planetary fortress, its other firepower was still enough to deal with the half-dead Agodal.
The two planetary fortresses confronted each other, and the strength of the conventional army was clear at a glance. In this situation, the guardian legion would soon run out of steam.
"When will the drones appear?"
The young adjutant asked impatiently.
Salaman's voice was still calm. "Don't panic. There is still a little time before the appointed time."
"I hope those things will appear soon," the adjutant said. "Otherwise, this will be a meaningless attack."
For many races that had just become cosmic citizens and were still in a "low-speed civilization," a space battle was long. The huge battlefield and slow weapons and equipment could cause each exchange of fire to last more than a few days. But for the demigods who had entered the era of faster than light and mastered the power of rules, a battle of tens of minutes was enough to determine the outcome of the whole war. The guardian giants and the festered knew each other well, and the battle line was close, so the situation was even more so.
The guardians were already showing signs of weakness on all fronts.
But before the adjutant reported the worse news, Salaman suddenly felt something and looked up in a certain direction in the universe.
There was a flash of silver-white light there.
Reports from all areas of the battlefront instantly converged on the bridge of the flagship.
"Large-scale spatial distortion observed! It's a super-large scale, unprecedented! "
"The drones are entering the battlefield from the KS35-26 area. Their numbers … cannot be determined!"
"Drones have also entered the battlefield in other areas!"
"There are drones here too. They have gone directly behind those freaks!"
"There's no way to visually observe the festered here. Drones, all I can see are drones!"
Salaman looked up blankly at the space scene directly transmitted back through the external viewfinder.
He saw the entire universe was rippling. The silver-white waves did not come from a specific direction, but from all directions at the same time.
He inexplicably remembered the words sent by the "observer" the last time they contacted him.
"Tactics, you don't have to worry about this. The drone swarm's tactics are reckless. With my operation, can't we just shoot them over?" "Everyone jump in. This is how I command. First throw ten million armed drones in, and if they don't die, then throw another ten million …" "They can be crushed to death. What tactics do you need? What tactics do you need? You just need to consolidate your own battlefront. You don't have to cooperate with the drone swarm." "I'm telling you, I'm a professional commander. You have to believe me. How can a professional commander be wrong …"
The face of the man who claimed to be the "observer" gradually became blurred in Salaman's mind. The man's face seemed to merge with the silver-white waves in space, but the incredible remarks gradually became clear. The initial doubts and worries had all disappeared at this moment. Salaman finally understood what those unreliable remarks meant. He now only had one thought: So that's it.
"Drones! There are drones everywhere! They have occupied more than 90% of the sky! "
The adjutant's voice seemed to be far away …
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