I Only Wanted A Class In The Apocalypse-Chapter 1926: The Hivemind Special Field of Power!

"Fine! Let's move closer then!" Hye growled, his jaw tightening as he stared at the weird state of his technique. He didn't know why his arms were sluggish, nor why the distance seemed to stretch like taffy, resisting his will.

He had almost no information to even make a wild guess. Instead of wasting time on theories, he decided to take the risk. He slammed the thrusters, diving headlong toward the swarm.

And there, something new—and violent—happened.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Out of the blue, a series of concussive strikes rocked the ship, throwing Hye against his seat restraints. The outer shell of his ship groaned under a sudden, overwhelming pressure. He had already activated the protective shields, and his defence systems were running on full cylinders, spitting fire at every perceived threat.

Yet, all of this was useless against the thick, purple lightning bolts that appeared out of thin air. They didn't come from the insects themselves, but seemed to coalesce out of the very air around the ship, landing fiercely over his ship.

"Damn! It's like they have a field of power of their own, where they can freely control lightning!" Hye shouted over the blaring alarms. He realised he had fallen into a trap laid by those insects.

He yanked the stick back, executing a jagged retreat to a safe distance. As he recalibrated his sensors, the reason behind his technique's earlier failure finally clicked into place.

"That field... It must have special rules inside. It's not just electricity; it must have a sort of power like distortion. It can halt speed, manipulate space, or even interfere with external forces, even if they aren't from this universe. What a troublesome bunch of insects they are!"

Just as he opened a wide gap between the swarm and his ship, the insects refused to stand idle. The purple cloud shifted, elongating like a spear, and began to accelerate toward him. They were acting as if they had finally found their long-lost lunch meal, and they weren't about to let the prey escape.

"Yet for a reason, the ship's fire shots passed freely through that field without interference," Hye noted to himself. "Do they perceive missile shots and plasma bolts as normal environmental hazards in this hellish world, thanks to the heat they produce while moving? If so..."

His mind spun fast, drafting a new plan for a counter-attack. If the insects' field was designed to filter out anything abnormal from this world, specifically speaking about having high temperature, then he could use that blind spot if he timed things right.

"If I let my ship's attacks move alongside the arms of my technique, then there is a chance to bypass the detection in that field and successfully hit the insects," Hye said, his voice dropping into a dangerous tone.

He didn't hesitate to consume several bones, gushing out tons of power into his technique. Outside, the thin, shadowy arms of his black ball began to swell, growing thicker and humming with a dark, resonant power that made the ship's hull vibrate. "Let's see how you'll stop this! Fire!"

He launched a coordinated two-pronged attack. First, he unleashed a volley of missiles and plasma shots from the ship's primary weapons. As the projectiles streaked toward the swarm, he controlled the many shadowy arms to move in their wake, using the physical fire as a "shield" to slip his cultivation force inside that invisible globular field.

Unluckily for him, he was inside his small ship, so the number of his weapons at hand was limited. Yet it also helped him better control his arms and make them follow the small number of shots towards the insect cloud.

The results were instantaneous.

Boom! Boom! Screech!

He targeted the central cocoon area once again, and this time, it was a direct hit. The missiles exploded against the outer chitinous layers, providing a massive flash of heat and debris that did little damage on its own but served as the perfect distraction.

His shadowy arms finally landed on their targets. Hye didn't hold back; he commanded the arms to divide and multiply upon contact, expanding the attack over a rapidly growing range of the swarm.

This time, his arms didn't need to cross long distances, and they easily hit the insects without any interference from the annoying field of power around.

Loud, ear-piercing screeches echoed through the comms, dying out almost as soon as they began as his technique invaded the area. The entire locust-like swarm began to vibrate violently, as if a collective nervous system had been shocked.

"I got you!" Hye shouted. He didn't know which specific insect he had managed to seize control of—whether it was the King, the Queen, the effect was undeniable. The sudden panic and restless, disjointed movement spreading across the swarm proved that their link with the superior hivemind had been severed.

He had successfully hijacked the highest-ranking member of the hive. Now, he needed to see if he could turn the swarm against itself.

"Attack!"

Hye realised he didn't know how to communicate with these insects in their own tongue. Even if they were intelligent and even if they possessed a field of power that defied physics, they were still fundamentally alien. He couldn't share meaningful thoughts.

So, he focused his intent through the shadowy arms currently tethered to the leading insect. He visualised the order to turn around and attack other insects, shouted it even into the void of the cabin, and waited, hoping the bridge of cultivation technique would be enough to translate his will into a command the swarm could not ignore.

And then, a massacre started—one of the tons of others to come later at his hands.

He didn't know exactly what worked, but the insects started to attack each other with a chaotic ferocity. The sudden shift from their unified hivemind had frozen the entire swarm in a moment of existential confusion before turning them into a whirlwind of cannibalistic violence. And Hye didn't just stop there.