Several Hours Later, Underworld Garden.
As it was predicted, this siege became a battle of attrition really fast. Bugs were brutally efficient in their fights, tearing through one line of the Undeads after another, killing them, destroying them, and getting through their fortifications with relative ease.
Unfortunately for the bugs, after they destroyed the Undeads, they were resurrected several seconds later by the Domain of the Myriad God Emperor of Underworld, Ijun.
He was continuously using his Divine Power to keep resurrecting the Undeads that the bugs killed, and thus the odds were still equal. Thought it was an important thing to say that the strongest bugs participating in the siege were of Tier 10.
While the several Tier 11 bugs were still within the bioships, waiting for the right moment to strike. They were probably waiting for the moment when the Divine Avatars of the other Myriad God Emperors arrived to ambush them or possibly had other schemes going on.
"You are more familiar with the Void Insects; how long before they will break this through?"
Suddenly Weissmann asked me this question because I have may or may not studied the Void Insects extensively. In my collection, I had even Tier 10 bugs that I managed to capture several centuries ago because, in the end, they were fascinating creatures.
Not to mention, I was always modeling my new Mechs after the Void Insects.
"Several hours at best, while the Undeads under Ijun seem to have the upper hand, it was not so... Bugs are still keeping their biggest hitters closely hidden, Juggernaut-type bugs were not properly deployed, and higher Tiered bugs are now just watching. Not to mention, even three Superbrain Bugs are coordinating the war efforts."
I explained that while now basically the Undeads had the upper hand, mainly due to their continuous resurrections, it was not so.
Firstly, all higher Tiered bugs were just watching from their bioships, and even the bioships were not participating in the combat. If they were, then even Ijun would have some problems keeping up with the resurrection rate of his Undeads.
Secondly, right now, insects were not even coordinates, as the Superbrain Bugs were just throwing them in waves, but that was just to test out the waters. Normally, Superbrain Bugs were able to devise strategies and tactics far eclipsing our best tactician and strategist.
Thirdly, on those bioships were far more Void Insects than they let out, so they were probably waiting, wanting to weaken Ijun as much as possible. Not that they were taking any losses, because technically, Undeads killed millions if not billions of Insects.
However, it was still biomass that would be, in the end, recycled by the Swarm and remade into new bugs.
"They probably want to weaken Ijun as much as possible; in the end, as long as they win the battle as a whole, then their losses are basically nothing because they could turn entire biomass into new bugs."
I said this was the terrifying ability of the Swarms.
No matter how bad losses they take, no matter how much they lose, as long as they are final winners, they are able to recuperate and rebuild what was lost.
After several more seconds had passed, Weissmann and I sensed powerful auras approaching from the direction of the center of the Divine Star Region; there were three of them, each one radiating terrifying Divine Power.
Naturally, those were the Divine Avatars of the remaining Myriad God Emperors, and as expected, they sent their Divine Avatars to help Ijun, because they were aware that if even one of them was killed, it would practically send them to their grave.
Even if each of them was individually comparable to 2 or 3 Tier 11 bugs, there were tens of such bugs, and with the support of hundreds upon hundreds of Tier 10 bugs, they were an unstoppable force.
Immediately after the three Divine Avatars of remaining Myriad God Emperors were in the vicinity of the Underground Garden, hundreds of bioships from the Void Insects Swarm started firing all of their weapons at them.
"So, they were waiting for them in the end."
In this situation, destroyed completely, even a single Divine Avatar would hurt the Myriad God Emperors a lot because right now, most of the planes where they were "farming" Power of Faith from their followers were overtaken and processed by the Swarm.
Though they remained with their home planes and Power of Faith from there, it was not enough for combat of this level. By my own calculations, it would probably take 6 to 9 Divine Avatars to completely exhaust their resources to recreate them, meaning after these tries, Myriad God Emperors would be forced the fight with their true bodies.
And that was the aim of the Swarm.
Three Divine Avatars of the Myriad God Emperors erected around them some kind of golden barrier, which protected them from the incoming artillery strikes of Swarm's bioships, but that was not enough.
After several minutes of intense bombardment, the barrier cracked, and they were attacked by Tier 11 bugs which were already waiting there for an opportunity to ambush them.
"And the real shows starts right now."
I muttered as several Tier 11 Bug Kings started fighting with the Divine Avatars of the Myriad God Emperors.