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Chapter 1462: Chapter 830: Insect Beast War (Part 2)

These ’beasts’ make pretty good opponents. Although they don’t feel fear, anger, or any emotional shifts, which means fighting them doesn’t have the same thrill as fighting intellectual species. But the key is, these beasts are numerous, and they’re not cunning, so when they fight, they really fight, setting up to battle until you’re satisfied.

So what’s not to like? Abundant and fulfilling, waaagh on!

Of course, after these two fierce races started fighting, they began committing more and more forces against each other, and they certainly weren’t kind to humans either, casually obliterating nearby human worlds. Sifleg himself nearly got caught but managed to escape in the end.

But he didn’t run far, staying just on the edge of the battlefield observing with a small fleet.

Then, humans witnessed a staggering and intense war.

Fires of war erupted simultaneously across hundreds of worlds, stretching both sides’ lines incredibly long. Both races were relatively less dependent on logistical supplies; not only could they source and manufacture weapons and ammunition locally, but even soldiers could be bred or hatched on-site, allowing them to throw themselves into intense warfare without hesitation.

The first stage saw the Insect Race achieving an undeniable advantage.

The Dragon Shell Orc Empire initially did not realize the level of warfare they were facing. They were still in a playful and amused state of crushing fragile human units, with their tribes not yet assembled. Large forces remained deep in the Omgeria Star Realm, and there was frequent infighting among clans and tribes within the Empire.

Even though the Dragon Shell Great Chief was present and had the ability and prestige to effortlessly suppress all internal struggles, he did not do so.

On the contrary, he encouraged such behavior.

In the absence of external pressure, internal struggle is pretty good. Train his boys, select an elite army, and then conduct a great waagh—isn’t that quite a normal option?

Fight, fight even harder, it’s the best approach.

In this scenario, it’s natural for them to struggle against the full-on assault by the Void Insect Swarm.

The swarm feasted, quickly using biomass to hatch new armies, biological ships, and soon pressed further into the depths of Omgeria.

But during this phase, they faced the tenacious resistance of the Green Skin Orcs.

The fighting power of the Dragon Shell Clan was still fierce, and Dragon Shell himself was a very perceptive commander.

He quickly analyzed from the frontline battle that the Insect Race was a formidable opponent and promptly devised countermeasures to retaliate.

For three years, they engaged in a brutal tug-of-war with the swarm in the southwest part of the Omgeria Star Realm, with hundreds of planets serving as major battlefields, countless beast and insect swarms clashing together.

Every second, countless insects emerged from hatcheries and joined the battlefield.

Yet in the same second, countless beastman boys were generated from spore plants, being handed guns, or simply rushing onto the battlefield with machetes, shouting.

The insects had hard shells, the Green Skins had sturdy bodies; the insects had swarming low-level insect swarms, the beastmen had dense, even more numerous pissed-off cannon fodder troops. Assassin Insects roamed the enemy rear, while the beastman’s special forces boys had excellent rear combat experience; they were contrary to the typical Green Skin Boys who liked to shout loudly, but instead were silent, sophisticated, and cruel…

In terms of elite forces, the insect race’s Biological Titans faced off against the Green Skin’s Gao Mao King Kong; battles also occurred between the Insect Nest Tyrant and the beastman warlords under Dragon Shell control.

On the surface, neither side was losing.

But with warfare enduring for three years, reaching levels of brutality beyond imagination, the Green Skin Orcs holding the home advantage first gained an edge.

Their replenishment speed was faster than that of the swarm.

Not only were they fighting locally while ’growing,’ they also had countless Garbage Cities producing mass consumables for the frontline. Additionally, in the heartlands of Omgeria, dozens of worlds controlled by beastmen continuously sent reinforcements and supplies to the front line.

In three years of brutal war of attrition, the Green Skin Orcs fought more fiercely, even causing the insect race’s losses to surpass their replenishment speed.

In a war of attrition, the only race potentially suppressing the Void Insect species might just be the Green Skins.

Plus, in space, the biological fleet destroyed two-thirds of the Insect Nest Mother Ship’s forces, seemingly putting the Green Skins in a crushing position over the Void Insect species.

Across hundreds of planets, the Void Insect species were being beaten back decisively, at one point pushed to the few planets initially invaded by them.

By this point, the Void Insect species could almost be considered on the edge of collapse. If the Green Skin Orcs could spare a bit more effort to destroy the insect nests on these few planets and could find the remaining fleet that had previously fled to hide, then they might completely win this war.

This situation made Sifleg, who had been watching nearby, very anxious.

He had been hoping they would fight endlessly, to the point of mutual destruction.

Instead, in just three years, it nearly ended?

In these three years of battle, the Green Skin Orcs also suffered countless casualties, but what about their formidable forces compared to three years ago?

Even sharper!

Three years of bloody combat with the swarm acted like a whetstone. It may have worn some bits away, but the blade that resulted was sharper.

Sifleg’s many subordinates found themselves with varied feelings.

Especially those who had earlier opposed this plan.

The worst situation had arrived.

Not only did the rise of the Dragon Shell Orcs fail to be halted, it was significantly strengthened. Now, with the beastmen strengthened to a certain level after the bloodbath, according to their character, how could they continue to stay inside the Omgeria Star Realm?

Nothing left to stop them—they would surely break out.

This development might be faster than if the Void Insect species hadn’t been invited. After all, if the swarm hadn’t come, it might have been the Green-skinned Great Chief, who intended to continue overseeing internal tribal and clan warfare for another decade before he would go to war to his satisfaction.

Sifleg’s plan accidentally accelerated the Green Tide’s rise.

Sifleg himself was bewildered.

Having exhausted all methods, why was this the result?

However, he didn’t dwell on it for long as the situation changed again.

Just as the Green Skin Orcs were launching a massive assault on the swarm’s last planet bases, determined to eliminate them completely, a new Insect Nest fleet emerged from the Star Realm Tunnel and arrived in Omgeria.

This newly arrived fleet was even larger than the initial swarm!

Evidently, during the previous brutal tug-of-war, the Insect Nest had realized they were facing a different enemy, one they couldn’t defeat with just available forces. They had likely called for reinforcement several years earlier, and now it had finally arrived.

The two sides clashed again in these galaxy systems.

This time, the swarm emerged victorious.

On the frontline, a beastman warlord commanding the army had his flagship destroyed. This then triggered chaos among the beastman fleets, causing heavy losses.

Subsequently, taking advantage of the Green Skin Orcs’ front line troops’ command failure and internal chaos, the swarm launched a massive counterattack.

The Green Skin Orcs took over a year to stabilize the situation, and then the battle lines fell back to approximately how they were three or four years ago.

Yet this time, even having achieved stabilization, the Green Skins remained strategically passive.

However, the stalemate phase this time is likely to persist for quite a while.

Sifleg let out a big sigh of relief but regretted he couldn’t continue observing.

He received word the Alliance’s Dark Side Expedition main force had arrived and needed him for questioning.