Zerg in the Crystal Wall World.

Inside the sticky, warm chamber.

An insect egg is beating and throbbing.

Through the translucent egg membrane, you can see a worm floating in it, with only the digestive tract and nerve center left.

As the serum penetrates deeper into the egg membrane, the undifferentiated totipotent cells become part of the insect's body in an almost adhesive manner.

The worm, which was only the size of an arm, began to split at a high speed, then expanded and metamorphosed...

In just a few minutes, a worker bee emerged from the cocoon.

The shell was not yet completely dry, but the force field in the flotation capsule had been established, allowing it to slowly float up from the ground. Driven by instinct, it floated in the direction of the wind and light.

The moment it crawled out of the hatchery exit, the command from the queen insect also reached its brain.

It began to pinch and pinch the fungal mat, taking a bite from time to time. This was through physical stimulation and hormones in the saliva, prompting the fungal mat to differentiate into large blood vessels for transporting nutrients.

Compared to waiting for the building units to develop and then forcing the fungal mat to develop vascular tissue through demand, it is faster to let the worker bees lay out the web in advance.

Extending back along the place where it bit, you can see thick pipes protruding like roots on the fungal mat.

These pipes converge together to form a towering insect tube in a building that is dozens of times larger than the hatchery.

Finally, it connected to a huge, constantly beating, pomegranate-shaped cluster of tissue that emitted dazzling light.

It is a construction unit used to produce organic matter, a heroic twisted nodule.

Countless root tubes are connected to this nodule from all directions, supporting an inner spherical world like the Φ world.

This world is actually just a new storage chamber in the body of the Overlord.

Of course, the chamber is not that huge in reality. It is formed by warping space after the microcosm technology matures. It is essentially the reuse of the scattered psionic energy in the brain core of the master.

It was precisely because of its proximity to the master's brain that this place was chosen as the gathering place for faction leaders.

At this time, a unit with a layered carapace structure and exaggerated spines on its back was floating above the fungal carpet.

This is an oversized unit.

It is nearly two kilometers long, much larger than an ordinary Leviathan. From a distance, it looks like a rocky mountain.

But if we change our perspective to dimensional perception, we will find that the disturbance it emits alone can be compared to a world group of considerable size.

It is the throne, a sofa-shaped fungal carpet where the first overlord sat. Because the overlord often sat on it to mobilize psionic energy, it evolved an extraordinary ability to interfere with time and space.

Even when the Zerg's deep space navigation capabilities were not strong enough, it took on the task of warp scheduling.

Later, the Overmind abandoned its human form, and the Throne became an independent heroic unit.

This time, the Overlord placed the faction leaders' meeting place behind it.

The center of the throne's back armor still retains the original seat of the master. It even restores the original texture of the fungus blanket, which is soft, silky, and fits the human body.

At this time, the Overmind's alternate spare body, with the infected emperor sitting on it.

However, the infected emperor had already changed his appearance. The master's telekinesis and distortion power exceeded the emperor's will in his flesh and blood, and the appearance of this body was twisted into the appearance of the master's previous life.

……

The first to arrive was Agatha, the leader of the void swarm.

She broke through the bubble of time and space like a submarine diving in the water, and appeared on the left hand side of the master in the position reserved for her.

Compared to before, the psionic glow on her body is even more dazzling.

The huge insect body seemed to be surrounded by a ball of fire, and the interference with time and space was so strong that the whole body became transparent and ethereal to the point where the texture of flesh and blood could hardly be seen.

There is a limit to the psionic energy that flesh and blood can carry. In other words, the original essence represents the limit of the combination of psionic energy and organic matter.

This almost limits the limit of the psionic energy that a high-level unit can use, which is one of the reasons why the Overmind chooses such a huge body.

Since the Void Swarm has chosen to go all the way down the path of psionic energy, this problem must be solved first.

After the Zerg gradually mastered the power of the soul, they first used soul quenching technology to further enhance the carrying capacity of flesh and blood, and then cultivated a true psionic affinity soul.

Finally, a little bit of technique to increase psionic energy exponentially: Today, every high-level command unit of the Void Swarm is born from the combination of two experienced Queens in body, spirit, and even the commander's hive.

This requires the two hives to attack and devour each other in a near-communicative manner. But correspondingly, the void swarm can mass-produce thirteenth-order psionic units.

Today, in terms of frontal combat capabilities, the Void Swarm is still the leader among all factions.

……

"I am the first!" Accompanied by rainbow light, a brisk voice sounded from the right hand side of the master.

"Hey~"

"I saw her, second isn't bad."

As the conversation continued, the entire hive world began to flourish. Under the catalysis, the light emitted by the twisted nodules was even like a real sun.

The one who came was Mota, the leader of the life swarm.

Among all the faction leaders, Mota's change is the smallest, and it can even be said to be a reverse change.

Now, Mota's psionic and twisted powers even seem to have weakened a lot, almost falling below the twelfth-level standard, but his life force is becoming more and more terrifying.

This is related to the evolutionary direction of the life swarm.

The Life Swarm is the only faction that has not established a fleet.

Because the essence of life force comes from connection, sending a large number of insects into deep space is obviously contrary to this characteristic.

In addition, the greatest effect of vitality is to accelerate life activities: as long as your destruction speed is not as fast as my reproduction speed, you can't do anything to me.

Therefore, under the pressure of selection brought by the ancient gods, the life swarms embarked on an evolutionary path of fighting to the death for the speed of proliferation.

High-level psionic units and high-level soul units take too long to grow and are being abandoned by the life swarm.

As compensation, the Life Swarm truly expanded like a tsunami, and was the only faction among all the factions that could devour the elemental world.

……

Golden flames rose from the side.

A little blond girl with luxurious clothes and an expressionless face emerged from the flames and also took up a position.

There was no sign of insect transformation on her body. After arriving, she did nothing but bow her head and pray quietly. She was so quiet that it seemed as if she had walked into the wrong set.

But as long as we test her genes, we can find out that she has quite a few alien insect genes in her body.

The fewer Zerg characteristics a high-ranking member of the Imperial faction has on him, the closer he is to the Emperor.

This is a living saint who can fully carry the emperor's will and represent the imperial faction.

As for the emperor himself... he is the core component of the Imperial Truth and cannot leave easily.

The same thing happened to Erin.

The mechanical swarm was the only one among all the swarms that had not cultivated deep psionic energy. For other faction leaders, a meeting was just a casual trip, but for her, it required long-term preparation and positioning, or the Overlord had to do it himself.

Therefore, the remote-controlled mechanical goblins were still the representatives. Like the Overlord, they were waiting in their positions long ago.

……

There was a violent shock.

I saw a crack suddenly appeared in the void.

Countless snake-like creatures with ferocious heads bit the crack in space and opened up a passage that was one person tall and wide.

Eleanor, surrounded by dense snake-shaped units, walked out.

Compared with the past, Eleanor is undoubtedly much calmer now, and she even has the complex and multifaceted temperament of the emperor.

Correspondingly, the soul strength of the spinal symbiote around her changed from level 12 to level 13.

Like the Void Swarm, the Tyrant Swarm also has the ability to mass-produce thirteenth-order units.

This was the result of the joint efforts of the Master, Hope, and even the Emperor went to be her experimental subject for three years.

The living saint girl who had been praying with her head bowed finally opened her eyes and saluted the imperial princess.

But Eleanor ignored her and looked at Agatha instead.

Buzz—a rapid buzzing sound was heard.

Telekinesis and distortion power exploded behind the throne. The two thirteenth-order units, just by looking at each other, burst out with a power that was enough to affect the celestial phenomena.

If the Void Swarm uses souls to amplify psionic energy, then the Tyrant Swarm uses psionic energy to stabilize souls.

The almost mirror-image evolutionary paths make the essence of the two factions extremely useful for reference to the other side.

The mutual attacks between the two factions are also the most serious in the Zerg.

"Sit down." The master's voice suddenly came.

The two leaders restrained their wills at the same time and stayed obediently in their respective positions.

"One more missing." The Overlord raised his hand and tapped the last nerve contact point on the back of the throne.

The psionic energy gathered to form a void shield that could isolate the inside and the outside.

Mota waved his hand immediately after. A green light flashed, and a natural spell severed the connection between the contact point and the surrounding life force.

Then the Living Saint changed the words of his prayer, trying to summon the power of the God-Emperor.

But before she could finish reciting, a spinal symbiote flew over to Eleanor and surrounded the neural contact point.

So the living saint stopped praying silently, not giving the imperial princess the opportunity to blaspheme the Divine Emperor.

At this time, a spherical entity with a black core appeared in the void shield.

This guy who looks so disgusting is the leader of the Unified faction, the Claw. After multiple iterations, he has become so contaminated that even 13th-tier units will have nightmares for weeks after coming into contact with him.

Of course, among the faction leaders there are also Big Sphere No. 1 of the Insect Worship Cult and the Ancient Root Spirit of the Demonic Insect Swarm.

However, these two factions can now basically be renamed the Order Swarm and Chaos Swarm. Even the Overlord cannot guarantee whether the leaders of the two factions have any connection with the Ancient Gods. Naturally, he will not invite them to his main body.

"Is everyone here?" Motta was the first to speak, "Do we have an undead faction?"

"Everyone is here." The Lord replied.

There was indeed an Undead faction.

Using the same method as the Integration, he used his body to counter the soul fire, and after finally controlling the Black Knight Lord, he took in all the Lords from top to bottom and formally incorporated them into the Zerg.

However, as a dead being, it is not compatible with the Zerg; its reproduction speed cannot match that of the Zerg by assimilating life forms; it is too closely bound to the Shadow Realm, which is controlled by the Chaos Ancient God, greatly affecting its evolutionary potential...

Now, it has become the first faction to be eliminated. The essence and hive of the Undead faction were divided up by the Tyrant, Unity, and Chaos Swarm respectively.

"The reason for calling you all together this time is because a new mutation has been created that will give the Zerg a greater strategic advantage."

The master said, motioning for everyone to look up.

In the sky.

The heroic twisted nodule suddenly "bloomed" like a dandelion, extending many tentacle-like petals.

It began to absorb and transform the surrounding elements in large quantities, forming waves of magic power. Moreover, the same tides appeared in the insect nest will almost synchronously.

boom--

Suddenly, the tide turned into a storm, and the exploding elements produced magical visions in the flower-like twisted nodules, and violent magic poured back from all parts of the insect tube.

The entire inner world was like a volcanic eruption, with flames, icicles and whirlwinds erupting everywhere...

All faction leaders turned their eyes to Mota - she had just thrown a Life Catalyst at the Twisted Knot.

"Hehe, it's convenient, it's convenient..." Mota smiled apologetically and pulled back the unicorn that was rubbing against the side without leaving a trace.

The master was not angry, but directly arranged: "It is handed over to you."

Motta understood: "Don't worry."

This is a mature process. Through his intuition of evolution and the deduction of the evolutionary equation of the truth machine, Shuaiqiu mutates into a high-precision mutation. Then he hands it over to Mota, who cultivates a secondary but easy-to-popular version through the high-speed iteration of the life swarm.

"It needs to replace the position of the original twisted nodule in the gene chain." The Overlord gave the order directly.

It would be better to say that it is "casting a spell" rather than giving an order.

This idea, while being transmitted to the ears of the leaders in the form of words, was also directly imprinted on the level of the hive's will through telepathy, soul contracts, life connections, etc.

There is no need for the Overlord to operate anything. Command units of all levels and even the neural network of the fungal mat will consciously promote the renewal of the twisted nodules.

"Master, just let us do these things." Agatha said.

The Overmind's way of giving orders was indeed quick, but the pressure from the feedback of the Hive Will was also considerable, and it was far less easy than issuing orders through layers of command units.

"You have more important things to do."

The master raised his hand gently, and a star-like light filled the back of the throne.

This is the embodiment of the will of the hive, and also a special world map. Each point in it represents a hive world.

The Overlord refers to a very dense and deep place in a hive world.

The image expanded rapidly until the dots of stars spread out, revealing the gaps between them.

Here, there is a stable, high-quality world embryo that happens not to be connected to any elemental world. It is very suitable as the base world of the "pure insect nest"...

"How many Hive Fleets can reach this location in a short period of time?"

…………(End of chapter)