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There had been no warnings, no alerts...not even the faintest sense of foreboding or crisis alarm when they arrived.
They just appeared accompanied by explosions, and all of a sudden, the Bug Empress felt the Hive Mind screaming in pain and blood.
The very first thing that Nicholas did as soon as this operation began was to take down Hive Mind.
With a single snap of his fingers, the Hive Mind—the very pride and joy and one of the main strengths of the Horde—was destroyed thoroughly. It couldn't even muster a lick of resistance against Nick's absolute command over the element of destruction.
Without the Hive Mind, the Horde suddenly found themselves blind and lost. The loss of the Hive Mind affected them greatly. Everyone who's connected to it felt its disappearance through a sheer, severing pain in their heads. It even drove some to insanity straight away.
