More importantly, as the proliferation occurs, the information processing nodes within the nest will also increase.
This means its calculation power will grow with the increase in size, and the information processing ability will also improve, which in turn will accelerate its absorption and transformation speed.
This forms a positive cycle: the bigger, the faster; the faster, the bigger.
When the calculation power becomes strong enough, even external attacks will be absorbed and transformed into its own body.
Energy attacks hit it, are parsed, reorganized, absorbed by the information nodes; physical attacks hit it, are buffered, enveloped, devoured by its gel-like body.
This means, unless the nest is destroyed from the beginning, it will become increasingly difficult to kill.
Of course, this growth isn't unlimited.
Constrained by biological individuals and technology, the growth rate of information nodes cannot keep up with the growth rate of the volume.
