What did it feel like to be surrounded by a hundred million Zergs?
Disgusting, extremely disgusting, extremely disgusting!
Just as I said before, surrounded by all kinds of worms, reptiles, slimy worms, arthropods … Ugh … Every day, when I turned on any holographic projection, all I could see was the worms' flesh and blood splattering everywhere. It was hard for me to imagine how Pandora and Visca could happily charge into outer space every day and still eat half a bowl of rice when they came back …
Under the effect of Shallow Shallow's time acceleration, all of our defensive turrets were finally operating normally. The entire Planet Black Egg was armed to the teeth with tens of thousands of orbital defense cannons and even more ground-based anti-aircraft cannons. A hundred million Zergs arrived as promised. Just looking at the boundless sea of Zergs from the holographic projection gave me goosebumps. Even though they were attacked by the near-earth orbit laser cannons when they were still a day away from us and suffered heavy casualties from the laser beams, for a hundred million Zergs, the losses of a few million Zergs were less than one-tenth. The dead Zergs were even pushed to the front as cannon fodder for the reactive armor. I was willing to bet that the cost of creating such a Zerg was even cheaper than the plate that Sandora ate every morning. Speaking of which, why did I suddenly think of such a strange analogy?
After paying a small price, more than a hundred million Zergs finally flew to the synchronous orbit of Planet Black Egg. Then, they encountered a truly powerful obstruction here and could no longer move forward. The defense army led by Sicarro formed a powerful psionic shield that enveloped the entire planet. The strong energy floating on it could not only firmly resist the impact of the Zergs, but it could also burn the Zergs into ashes during the impact. After paying the price of millions of melee Zergs, the Zerg commander clearly realized that this mysterious shield was more dangerous than any defense device they had ever seen. So, they decisively gave up the attempt to use suicide attacks to destroy the planet's shield and killed the Zergs (or should I call them puppies?). The Zergs (or should I call them puppies?) retreated to the back of the formation, revealing tens of millions of ugly wyverns.
However, after seeing these so-called wyverns, I couldn't help but spit on the spot. These things actually dare to have the word 'dragon' in their name?
This bastard was basically a dried grasshopper with a toad's head and a pair of bat wings on his back! This thing was several times more disgusting than the Alien created by Blizzard's designers! Not only were their bodies covered in dark brown lumps of flesh and thorny carapaces, their faces were so hideous that I wished I could censor my eyes. What was even more disgusting was that these fellows actually spat at our beautiful sky-blue shield!
Since when did the Mutalisks in StarCraft become spitfires? This is different from the setting, right? Speaking of which, shouldn't these guys spit out a bunch of bugs … Eh, that seems even more disgusting …
Alright, I've decided. I'll temporarily name this operation "For the Clear and Beautiful Blue Sky".
That's it for now, we still had to face the situation of being surrounded by a hundred million insectoids. Mutalisks — even though I couldn't agree with this term — these insectoid's most effective aerial units were indeed worthy of their illustrious fame in StarCraft. According to our measurements, the corrosive acid they spit out actually had the kinetic energy of a conventional cannon and an acidity that was sufficient to corrode titanium alloy armor. For a carbon-based lifeform to produce such an attack, I couldn't help but sigh in admiration at the ridiculous DNA mutation abilities of the insectoids. However, against Schilling units with psionic shields, these spitfires would definitely meet a tragic end. The corrosive attacks that they were most proud of were completely ineffective against psionic energy, and if they wanted to rely on the kinetic energy of a mouthful of saliva to penetrate the planetary shield … I was confident that I could make these spitfires vomit blood!
On our side, after the laser cannons that were known for their long range lost their greatest advantage, the psionic storm obelisks ushered in their spring. These enormous obelisks that required five minutes to charge every time they were activated were indeed worthy of their title of "King of AoE" (Bubble term). Every time the obelisks that were placed on the platforms below the shields were surrounded by bluish-purple lightning, a psionic storm with a radius of ten kilometers would appear in the center of the insectoid army. These dangerous spherical lightning bolts could effortlessly turn tens of thousands of insectoids into carbon. Of course, I was referring to the conventional insectoid units. There were some that I had never seen before, which should be the advanced flying units of the Mutalisks. They seemed to have the ability to control special energy to a certain extent. Even if they were enveloped by a psionic storm, they would often struggle to escape from the lightning bolts. This kind of survivability forced me to reevaluate the insectoid's strength. If we didn't set up a certain degree of planetary defense system in advance, perhaps we would have suffered huge losses when facing the attack of a hundred million insectoids …
Furthermore, in the process of killing these insectoids, I also witnessed how efficient and cruel a true war race was. Due to the existence of the astral psionic shield, those close-combat basic insectoid units that I called "Puppies" seemed to have been abandoned. When the insectoid commander realized that it was impossible to break through this layer of shield in a short period of time, these expendable insectoid cannon fodder actually became … food!
A large number of basic insectoids that had been determined to be useless were mercilessly torn to shreds by their own kind and sent to the rear of the battlefield. There, a large number of insectoid tissues and cosmic materials (such as meteorites or broken spaceships) were fused together to form strange things. Perhaps these were their portable hatcheries and various nests. The torn "Puppies" and the remains of the insectoids that had died in battle were thrown into these squirming disgusting organs and turned into the most useful army type: Wyverns, and … Hmm, who knows what those are …
Furthermore, I also discovered a very noteworthy phenomenon: Many of the insectoid units that were responsible for the frontal assault were created at the last minute at the rear of the battlefield. These insectoids, including some 'regenerating wyverns', were brought back by the assault ships. After dissecting them, we discovered that they did not have digestive organs or feeding tools. Their lifespan was also only a few days, just like the insectoid that we first discovered in the Star Sniper Cannon. This meant that their production cost had been greatly reduced and their production speed had been greatly increased. The newly discovered method of the insectoid army was giving us a headache.
"If we don't destroy those hatcheries, I'm afraid this battle will drag on for a very long time."
When we discovered that the insectoid's numbers were decreasing at a much slower rate than the speed at which we were destroying them, Sandora released a large number of invisible detectors and headed towards the battlefield that was completely filled with insectoids. Then, she finally discovered the hatcheries that were protected by the insectoids. It was obvious that these disgusting space hives allowed the insectoids to maintain an extremely vigorous reproduction rate throughout the entire war. Although the one-time-use insectoids that they created had a short lifespan, their combat prowess was no weaker than the humans' main battle tanks.
"However, in order to attack these hatcheries, we have to break through the super defense line formed by at least forty million insectoids. Furthermore, there are many high-level insectoids with special abilities. Ultra Space Strike is unable to lock onto targets at such a close distance. If we attack them directly, our military strength is insufficient. Before we reduce the insectoid's numbers to a certain extent, we can't do anything to these hatcheries that are far away from the enemy's rear."
This was such a depressing situation. Why couldn't these insectoids come a few days later? At the very least, they could allow us to develop peacefully for a while! Right now, we had just finished building our base, but we didn't have any soldiers or ships. Our powerful battleships were still lying on the ground, busy with construction. Suddenly, we had to face this overwhelming number of enemies … Wasn't this just ridiculous!? Did I really have to endure the pain of tearing down General City, which had just gotten on the right track, and drive the Empire Admiral to kill the cockroaches?
Forget it, I didn't want to think about such useless things.
The current situation on the battlefield was extremely complicated. Although the insectoids had a frightening advantage in numbers of a hundred million, the Schilling technology had an absolute advantage in terms of quality. On top of that, the enemy lacked a sufficient number of top-tier units, so we weren't at a disadvantage. However, the enemy's strange way of fighting was just too disgusting. In fact, due to the insectoids' endless suicidal attacks, the Imperial Army had already lost a few battleships that were close to the planet's weak point in the planet's protective shield to the insectoids.
But overall, with our powerful Schilling fleet, we were still in an undefeatable position.
Pandora and Visca were currently leading their respective main forces to take on the heavy responsibility of wiping out the insectoids. It was obvious that the two lunatics were more than happy to take on such a task. Relying on the outrageous combat prowess of their elite troops, they rampaged through the encirclement of the flying dragons, tearing huge gashes one after another in the dense formation of the insectoids. However, even for Pandora, it was difficult for her to extend her killing range to a position a thousand kilometers away from the planet's protective shield — the insectoids there were too densely packed.
"I never thought that there would actually be such a complete warring species in this world." Even Sandora sighed with a headache. "Tearing apart their own species of low-value and using them as fertilizer to produce more suitable warriors for the battlefield, even collecting the scattered flesh and blood on the battlefield to use as materials for the next batch of soldiers … Even we, the Shiring Apostles, didn't go to such a state of war."
I had my reservations about Sandora's words. Wasn't the Shiring Apostles a warring species?
"Hey! Ah Jun, don't show such a doubtful expression! We also have something like art! "
Looking at the expression on my face that I couldn't hide, Sandora, who had been calmly commanding the attacking troops to attack the enemy, immediately pouted in grievance. In front of me, this iron-blooded queen was even more like a little brat than Shallow Shallow.
"The art of the Schilling people?" I was momentarily speechless. Are you referring to the Imperial Army who had nothing better to do than to laser carve the entire Empire's Code of Ethics on their bullets?
As expected, the battle against the Zergs fell into a war of attrition. We tried dropping the EOP-03 outside of the atmosphere to eliminate the Zergs. The first time we dropped it, we achieved decent results. Although a vacuum environment wasn't suitable for a chain reaction, the powerful psionic bomb was still able to successfully eliminate more than ten million Zergs. However, the second time we dropped it, the Zergs had obviously learned their lesson. The instant they sensed the terrifying power, they chose to flee. Perhaps they didn't have enough intelligence to discover the principles behind the EOP-03, but they were lucky enough to encounter the fatal flaw of the psionic bomb: In a situation where it didn't come into contact with enough matter, the EOP-03 would be unable to produce a chain reaction. In this case, the damage that a single psionic crystal could cause to a hundred million Zergs would be meaningless.
Other than this type of AOE killing weapon, the various anti-air firepower and battleship main cannons might be powerful, but in the face of the astonishing number of Zergs and their strange way of replenishing their troops, the effectiveness of point and line killing was nothing to scoff at.
Was this a classic example of quantity trumping quality?
"If we continue fighting like this, although it won't be a problem to eliminate the Zergs, it'll be too exhausting."
Syves looked at today's battle report, his face full of depression.
"Don't we have a more effective AOE killing weapon?"
I frowned. The Shiring Apostles' war technology was so advanced, so why was it so troublesome to deal with these low-level lifeforms?
"The most effective weapon is naturally the EOP-03, but its weakness has been coincidentally discovered by the Zergs, and the Psionic Storm Obelisk isn't strong enough against a hundred million enemies. The adaptability and evolution of these Zergs is too shocking. We tried several immature biological weapons and conventional radiation weapons only a few times, and all the Zergs have already evolved to develop antibodies. We don't know how they share their DNA information with their own kind, but if we can't solve the problem of the Zergs' rapid evolution, which causes the effectiveness of our weapons to decrease, we'll probably have to fight a long battle to exterminate these large numbers of Zergs."
Shallow Shallow was lying on the table and counting her hair out of boredom. She suddenly raised her head. "By the way, don't you guys have the ultimate laser that can wipe out the entire Sky Zone? Ultraman Ray doesn't work, even Kinetic Light Wave counts! "
I decisively gave her a karate chop in response to this lass' words that were purely making trouble.
At this moment, Visca, who had just come down from the orbit, bounced into the command center. The moment he saw me, he excitedly ran up to me to claim credit. "Bro, bro! Ten million! Ten million! Today, my troops wiped out a total of ten million Zergs! "
Although I didn't want to hurt my precious little sister's feelings, did you know? Out of the ten million Zergs that you wiped out, close to seven million would turn back into the Zergs the next day!
Just as we were having a headache over the Zergs' numbers and their tenacity, the automatic door of the command center suddenly slid open, and Tawil walked in.
Strictly speaking, it was Tawil's clone that walked in. The edges of "her" were shaking unstably, and her body was almost translucent. It was obvious that this wasn't her original body.
"Tawil, do you have any new research results?"
I nodded my head in greeting to this dedicated female scientist. She used her Mass Clones to simultaneously conduct research in several different fields in several research labs, and her achievements in all of them left me in awe. If some of those commanders who were in pain could work even half as hard as she did, I would have to thank my Lord Doraemon.
"I have good news for you, Your Majesty." Tawil's voice sounded a little distorted by interference. "We have finally made a breakthrough in the analysis of Silvia's soul. A file of the Empire Emperor that existed in the shared database showed changes after simulated abyss radiation, and it is more than eighty percent similar to Silvia's soul. We believe that the former Emperor of the Empire is Silvia's true identity — — in theory."
Can you not add the worrisome "theoretically" at the end of every sentence you say?
This was indeed a good news that could alleviate our gloomy mood. It successfully diverted my attention. "Silvia's true identity is the former Emperor of the Empire? Which one? "
Although I asked, I reckoned that even if Tawil said it, I wouldn't know who it was. The Schilling's Emperor Council consisted of 135 people, and they were far apart from each other. Other than the occasional exchange of information through the entire Empire's communication network, they didn't even have any contact with each other. Even Sandora didn't remember half of her colleagues …
Tawil took out an information screen and read the words on it, word by word. "Belavilla the Terrifying Evoker. She gradually rose through the ranks from an ordinary officer and succeeded the Chancellor of the Schilling Empire after the former Emperor's death. She is the Shiring Apostles of the Mystery Branch. She is also the most powerful Raven in the Empire, and her combat prowess was once praised by a certain Main God of the Star Domain. That is how she got the title of the Terrifying Evoker. It was originally a title for a high-ranked Dark Protoss in the Star Domain. She used unprecedented arcane magic, flame, and shadow powers to battle, and once destroyed an entire planet with a thunderstorm in ten minutes. The 'energy vacuum' that Silvia would occasionally erupt might be the work of the Raven's soul talent. She didn't destroy the energy, but turned it into arcane power and extracted it. However, because she has forgotten how to control the energy, it will eventually be released into the void."
An Apostle of the Mystery Branch? Was this really a coincidence? The leader of the Mystery Branch, Alaya, was already an idiot, and now another Apostle of the Mystery Branch was also an idiot? Should I say, cherish your intelligence and stay away from magic?
"The Terrifying Evoker?" Sandora muttered to herself thoughtfully. "I seem to have heard of this title before. He is an Emperor who keeps a low profile, and his territory is quite far away from mine, so I don't really know much about him. Tawil, you should have some other results, right? Just discovering Silvia's true identity shouldn't be enough to satisfy your research interests. "
Sandora was right. Tawil immediately revealed a happy expression, and then said to us proudly, "I hope that the two Emperors will like my gift. They are already standing in front of the teleportation door of the Space-Time Management Center. This small troop might be able to display an unexpected effect in the upcoming battle."
A few minutes later, the troop that Tawil spoke of completed their teleportation and gathered at the plaza in front of the crystal tower.
"Actually, a few days ago, we discovered the secret of Silvia's soul, so I prepared this surprise." Tawil's clone stood in front of the hundred new troops that were teleported over, his face glowing with pride. "The former Emperor of the Empire, Belavilla, is a rather unique existence. She slowly advanced from an ordinary heroic soldier, which allowed our research to be possible. Through reverse calculations on Silvia's soul, we analyzed the key technology of the Ravens, and then replicated these Shiring Apostles that can be said to be the grandmasters of group warfare — — Mass-Produced Ravens."
As Tawil spoke, he stepped aside, allowing me to personally inspect these … Great Mages from the Xiling Empire.
Since they were replicated from Silvia's soul, these Ravens were all females, without exception. Furthermore, they had the appearance and long silver-white hair that was extremely similar to that Adorable Adorable Queen. A hundred of them stood neatly in front of me, their faces filled with the resolute and courageous expression of the new Schilling recruits who just came off the production line. But it doesn't matter, after mixing with those old veterans, especially some commanders, these new recruits who were filled with a sense of glory will sooner or later become the same — — Vega's Scorpion Troopers have already started to learn how to play mahjong …
Cough cough … I definitely digressed from the topic.
They weren't wearing the silver-white alloy light armor and metal boots commonly used by the Empire soldiers. Instead, they were wearing long black battle robes and boots of the same color. After observing them for a long time, I suddenly felt that from the back of these Ravens, they looked like female versions of Sephiroth …
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