After all, it took them fifty years of being played before they noticed something was wrong, and a lot of their own kind had even been used for experiments.
If this had been one of those elected leaders from certain countries a thousand years ago, with a screw-up this big, their approval ratings would have cratered and they'd have resigned in disgrace on the spot.
The leader of the alien invaders, however, chose to dispatch a great army, first shifting internal contradictions outward by suppressing humanity before anything else.
It wanted to destroy that World Tree owned by those humans who were now baring their fangs, where the monster might be hiding, and kill every human inside the World Tree.
The result, though, was that the drone corps and mutated creature corps it sent to destroy the World Tree not only failed to take it quickly, not only failed to win it any face, they even started calling back for reinforcements.
