I Am The Swarm-Chapter 813: Battle Outcome

The Ji Race had staked everything on this wave of triangular-winged fighter drones, and the numbers were quite substantial. Based on the Swarm’s combat patterns, they quickly calculated new evasion formulas, giving their drones a roughly 30–40% chance to dodge the Swarm’s homing spider silk.

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The Modified Spider Combat Bugs’ silk had a long cooldown, since there was never a need to enhance this capability—space combat changed by the second. If a shot missed, the target could be hundreds or thousands of kilometers away in an instant, leaving no time for a follow-up.

So, even a 30–40% evasion rate was enough for many triangular-wing drones to break through the Swarm’s lines and reach the under-construction Star Gates.

However, the Ji Race’s resources truly were running dry. These triangular-wing drones were not only without ranged weapon systems—most of them didn’t even carry bombs.

According to the Swarm’s analysis after retrieving the destroyed drones, only about 20% of them were equipped with a high-energy concentrated bomb.

Though powerful, these bombs would require an extraordinary number to destroy a Star Gate the size of a planet.

And since not every drone carried a bomb, the actual number required would multiply several times. The difficulty was staggering—even Luo Wen had to click his tongue in disbelief.

Still, if the Ji Race dared to deploy such a loadout, they must have had some level of confidence. During their flight maneuvers, the bomb-less drones moved to the outer edges, shielding the bomb-laden ones in the center to increase their chances of crossing the Swarm’s formation.

When confronted with magnetic silk from the Spider Combat Bugs, some even sacrificed themselves, intercepting the threads to protect the bombers.

As a result, the passage rate of bomb drones indeed increased. More and more of them reached the Swarm’s Star Gates.

To cut costs and increase ammunition stockpiles, the high-powered bombs lacked any long-range delivery systems—the triangular-wing drones themselves served as the bomb’s radar and propulsion system.

Swarm Star Gates did have self-defense mechanisms, but being unfinished prototypes, these functions had not yet been installed. Faced with the incoming drones, they could do nothing but sit there like wooden stakes.

However, over the years, even the basic fungal carpet templates had undergone many upgrades and improvements, and now possessed much faster mutation capabilities.

The Star Gates’ external tissues absorbed energy from their underlying structures and began to mutate. They became denser, harder, and developed energy-insulating textures, granting them far greater resistance to explosions.

Just as these changes completed, the triangular-wing drones arrived. The energy cores inside their fuselages had already been operating at overload. Through auxiliary structures, the destructive energy was amplified and activated.

Finally, the finely tuned magnetic field reached its critical threshold. The raging energy broke free of its containment, blasting the drone’s already fragile frame into dust from the inside out. The fragments barely traveled before being swallowed by the energy tide.

The tide then slammed into the nearby Swarm Star Gate. But the gate stood like an unshakable mountain. Its grotesque outer structures acted like coastal wave breakers, dispersing, weakening, and diverting the force of the blast.

However, everything had its limits. Even a wave breaker would begin to wear down under repeated pounding. The mutated outer layers were destroyed, but the underlying structures began mutating anew, replacing their fallen counterparts.

Eventually, the clash ended. The defensive barrier held on through sheer resilience and internal regeneration, surviving the onslaught of the energy tide. But the sea’s fury had not abated—another wave soon followed.

The energy tide seemed endless. One layer of wave breakers after another fell, but each time, new defenses awaited behind them.

The blast radius was massive. Larval bodies and Spider Combat Bugs could not function in such conditions and focused solely on blocking new drones from advancing.

Primordial bodies, however, could withstand a portion of the blast. They advanced deep into the explosion zone, forming a final line of defense before the Star Gates with their flexible tentacle limbs.

The battle continued. New triangular-wing drones kept charging through the Swarm’s defenses. The brilliance of their explosions lit up the void, outshining even the more intense main battlefield nearby.

Under constant bombardment, the Star Gates’ surfaces became tattered and battered. The sheer force of the explosions even managed to destroy quite a few Primordial bodies. Unfortunately, the Swarm’s biological composition was too unique—its cellular structures could change form at will, and its defensive layers were virtually endless. Explosions could never directly harm the unmutated inner structures.

One burst of strength, followed by exhaustion. The drones reaching the Star Gates began to dwindle. Their vast numbers had been gradually worn down, and reinforcements had dried up.

On the main battlefield, the Ji Race seemed to recognize that the situation was beyond salvaging and began to withdraw. Yet, they did so in an orderly fashion—after all, with the Swarm’s current strength, they couldn’t wipe them out completely.

As long as the warships maintained formation and retreated methodically, they wouldn’t suffer heavy losses.

This battle dragged on for more than half a year. Thousands of battlegrounds were littered with destroyed ships. Still, both the Swarm and the Ji Race had the ability to rapidly recycle this debris and return it to the frontlines in a new form.

But only the victor could claim that right.

Post-battle statistics showed that out of the Swarm’s five thousand Star Gates, over five hundred were destroyed in the Ji’s fierce assault—more than 10%. The Swarm also lost over sixty billion units.

This result was completely acceptable for the Swarm.

The remaining four thousand-plus Star Gates, aided by all the recovered debris, would be constructed even faster. Once completed, Swarm forces would receive a surge in reinforcements. With their protection, building another five thousand Star Gates wouldn’t be difficult at all.

But for the Ji Race, this outcome was utterly unacceptable. To them, unless they reduced the number of Swarm Star Gates to below one thousand, they had no hope of launching a second wave of attacks. Worse still, this war cost them nearly ten billion warships, plus massive numbers of support drones and ammunition. For a civilization whose resources were on the brink of depletion, such losses were unbearable.

The situation was irreversible. To withstand the inevitable Swarm counteroffensive, the Ji Race had only one choice left—

Migration.