Chapter 573: Lying Flat
Although the foreign race members of the Confederation forces spoke with certainty and grew increasingly confident in their speculations—much like how they had believed in the Swarm’s stellar bomb plan—the Swarm always defied expectations.
Just as the foreign race members were bracing themselves and scrutinizing the Swarm’s megastructure for possible launch points, the upper surface of the megastructure suddenly revealed over a thousand small catapult channels.
The confederation members were dumbfounded, unsure of what the Swarm was up to. Even when the Primordial Bodies began ascending the channels, they still felt like they were in a dream, unable to believe what they were seeing.
After all that grand preparation, the Swarm was still resorting to such a primitive method? And even if they were launching Primordial Bodies, why use the megastructure? There were tens of thousands of Desolation-class motherships, each with its own catapult channel. Quantity alone could have made up for the lack of sophistication.
While they were still lost in thought, the Desolation-class motherships, as they had hoped, began charging up. Electromagnetic catapults crackled with arcs of electricity, adding a flash of light to the void.
They were utterly stunned, still struggling to believe what they were witnessing. What kind of operation was this? What kind of logic? This move was no different from sending troops to their doom.
“I thought they had developed ultra-long-range ray weapons. I was worried earlier, but I never expected the Swarm to pull something like this?”
“Maybe the Swarm’s commander has changed?” one foreign race member speculated uncertainly.
“The Swarm’s commanders don’t have any titles. After so many battles with us, we still don’t know how many commanders they’ve had.”