Global Game: I, the Necromancer, am the scourge

Chapter 837: Chapter 511: Direct Confrontation

In the blink of an eye, the Insectoid corpses fell to the seabed like dumplings.

The Insect Swarm had only two months for development. The resources and materials required for the low, middle, and high-level swarms were of general categories, not difficult to collect.

Therefore, there was no problem with mass breeding and hatching. This was one of the reasons the Insect Swarm was considered a disaster.

When the troop numbers reached a certain level, it was terrifying, especially for the fourth-tier units.

With enough of these, surrounding and killing fifth-tier epics was not a significant issue.

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Unfortunately, in just two months, gathering various resources in between, the number of Insect Swarm troops was still far from enough.

Facing the sea alliance’s grand army, especially a corps of tens of thousands formed by fifth-tier epics, they were truly getting beaten.

The fact was, the Insect Swarm’s high-level fifth-tier commanders counted only two thousand at best, and that was after exhausting much effort by the swarm’s dominator.

Such a limited number wasn’t even enough to fill the gaps between the enemy’s tens of thousands of same-tier epics.

Thus, from the start, these fifth-tier Insect Generals remained in the rear, directing the swarm’s attack.

The swarm’s dominator did not want these generals to die, as creating them had consumed significant resources.

As the swarm’s numbers continued to explode, the swarm’s dominator couldn’t fully control them and naturally needed to create and hatch high-level Insect Generals to help rule the swarm.

In this war with the Sea Clan, from the beginning, the Insect Swarm’s dominator didn’t intend to deplete their resources but to significantly weaken the opponent’s living forces.

After entering the first layer of the Sea of Realms, being sent out to develop freely by Zi Liyuan, he understood the nearby sea areas.

He also quietly captured several people from nearby Sea Clans.

First, to obtain their genetic information, and second, to understand these Sea Clans’ situations.

It could be said that the threats from nearby Sea Beasts had long been eliminated by the Insect Swarm.

The limited occupied land had a finite amount of resources, especially since the Insect Swarm could essentially strip an adjacent territory clean of resources.

Hence, expanding into the occupied regions of the Sea Clan was unavoidable.

Nearby Sea Clans were all affiliated with the Naga, collectively called the Sea Clan.

The Insect Swarm, with its massive breeding, produced a huge swarm. However, it was not yet a match for the Sea Clan and the Nagas of the Sea of Realms.

The gap lay in the high-end combat power because the development time was limited, causing a severe shortage of fifth-tier power.

Moreover, the ocean was the adversary’s home turf. At the same tier level, the Sea Clan could easily take on three of the Insect Race.

Swarming with numbers when the enemy had structured formations and massive guards nearby was too costly.

On the battlefield at present, the Insect Swarm was being slaughtered on a large scale. The frantic charge never broke through to the formation comprised of fifth-tier epics.

Billions of the swarm, charging frantically, only managed to tear through the formations made by the fourth-tier Sea Clan and were utterly unable to penetrate inside, disrupting the fifth-tier epic formation.

Countless corpses piled up like mountains on the seabed.

The entire battlefield had the seawater dyed a blood-red color.

When the swarm numbers dwindled to just over sixty million, the swarm’s dominator had no choice but to issue a retreat order.

Leaving behind tens of millions of swarms to cover, the rest surged backward like a tide.

The remaining Sea Clan, apart from annihilating the rearguard swarms, did not pursue further.

It wasn’t for lack of desire to chase but because they lacked the strength to do so.

This battle was too brutal; both sides were truly fighting desperately, using every means possible.

Fighting to the end left everyone exhausted, and their Spiritual Power was nearly depleted.

Besides, with such swarm numbers, the Sea Alliance dared not ensure whether it was a deliberate lure by the opponent.

If it was an ambush, it would be quite a predicament.

As for the battle’s outcome, it could be said both were losers.

Billions of the Insect Swarm fell to about fifty million post-battle, with only the good news being the minimal loss of fifth-tier Insect Generals.

On the Sea Alliance side, twenty-five million troops suffered over eighteen million casualties!

This battle can be described as brutal, and both sides were losers.

However, this was only a temporary situation in the battle. Given further development, the Insect Swarm already held an absolute advantage.

After all, their troop-spawning capability was exceedingly potent, allowing for the creation of billions more swarms in another two months.

In contrast, the issue of replenishing the Sea Alliance’s forces was a significant problem.

They had only three methods to supplement troops.

First, the Lord could use an altar to summon by sacrificing resources.

Second, they could search the territory for various wild camps, recruiting the Sea Clan deliberately refreshed by the Sea of Realms.

Third, they could complete dungeons and Secret Realms to acquire Troop Cards for summoning.

The first method required a substantial amount of resources to summon a large number of high-level sea soldiers.

Therefore, summoning a small number was reasonable, while a large number was excessively wasteful of resources.

The second method, recruitment, had a cyclic process, with wild camps refreshing every seven days, and the troop tier was random, ranging from high to low.

The third method was the typical way to obtain a large number of high-tier soldiers.

However, recruiting fourth-tier units required at least completing fourth-tier dungeons, which was quite challenging.

As for Secret Realms, only strong Lords could typically conquer them, and the harvest often involved things more significant than Troop Cards, like directly obtaining fifth-tier servants.