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Within seconds, the first wave of drones were either obliterated by Hellward's firepower or were damaged beyond repair from indirect attacks. But yet, the drones were still moving towards the fleet. Suddenly, the tightly packed swarm began to spread out, effectively removing the chance to indirectly damage the drones like when they were piled tightly together. A fifth of them broke off from the rest of the swarm, veering off towards the Neurosuits.

Almost instantaneously, Malice was bombarded by gauss fire, mainly from the one named Aerios. Noticing the barrage of missiles coming in, she knew that her Avatar couldn't negate the barrage. Her Arbiter gem was becoming slightly chipped from the gauss weapons, and thus she began to rotate. Sure, it was a bit slow, but by the time the missile barrage would hit, the gem would be safely out of the blast radius.

The peppering of the barrage began, however the damage it had cause against her dense plating was insignificant. It had only scratched the surface, but it had made Malice fire off a mental roar, strong enough for the pilots to hear, loud enough to hopefully make them wince at the mental sounds.

Petty humans. Did you think that your peppering would hurt me? Do you think that those were my only drones? I devour planets! I devour their resources and use them to build my drones! Don't you see that I am just simply toying with you? But seeing that you are now getting annoying, I'm going to send out some more friends for you to play with, you pathetic little ingrates.

During the end of that last sentence, Malice had fired off another swarm of drones, nowhere as compact as the prior wave, with a good 1500 meters between the two waves. But something different was happening with these. This swarm were splitting down the middle, one half going towards the fleet, the other half bee-lining straight towards Aerios.

The drones had one objective in mind: Shutdown the long-range weaponry, at all costs.