"Sometimes, the greatest strategy is to make your enemy chase their own destruction."
Mainu's vast consciousness was a maelstrom of agony and confusion. Its thoughts drifted, constantly drawn to the painful, itchy area on its tail, where the dark purple scales were rapidly reatomizing, crumbling into glittering dust.
What is this thing?! it raged, its internal roar shaking its very being, vibrating through the void. It keeps eating my tail! These goddamn insects and their weapons! My chaos energy doesn't work on it either! It tried to lash out with psionic bursts, sending waves of destructive energy through its own body, hoping to incinerate the invisible threat, but the nanites simply phased through its defenses, relentlessly gnawing at its essence, replicating with terrifying speed. Mainu thrashed its tail, trying to physically dislodge the microscopic swarm, but it was like trying to swat away smoke. The itching intensified, spreading like wildfire across its vast form.
