123: Chapter 123 The Awakening of the Seventh Generation Primarch

The ground was littered with dense piles of Zerg corpses, including Zerglings, Drones, Roaches, Hydralisks, and several mutated varieties that could not be named, yet they hadn't even managed to organize a decent resistance.

The dark gold Progenitor continued to advance. Countless Zerg Swarms surged in densely from other areas. The types of insects coming were also increasing. Even large units like Brood Lords appeared in the distance, resembling mounds of flesh.

The surface of these flesh mounds writhed violently, and countless incubation sacs rapidly formed, expanded, and ruptured. A massive amount of Larva poured out. This was the Brood Lord's combat style: continuously incubating large numbers of combat units, attempting to overwhelm the enemy with a Zerg Tide.

If one could not defeat their main bodies before they entered a production state, one would encounter more and more Zerg Swarms and would eventually be worn down to death.

The dark gold Progenitor stopped its movements.

Its six eyes stared simultaneously at the surging Zerg Tide, the lava luster in its pupils flickering slightly, as if it were conducting some kind of "assessment."

Then, it did something that would leave any normal commander dumbfounded—

It turned and left.

It wasn't a retreat, but... a change of direction. It sped away in a direction devoid of Zerg, completely ignoring the Zerg Tide forming behind it.

The other Progenitors also turned one after another, following their leader.

The Larva finished incubating and swarmed toward the backs of the Progenitors in a dark, overwhelming mass.

The next second, a mutation occurred again.

Within the Progenitor squad, an unusually tall individual suddenly stopped and turned. Its form began to expand during the turn—metallic textures emerged on the surface of its skin, muscles bulged, and bones stretched. Within two seconds, it surged from three meters tall to over fifty meters, transforming into a large Giants of Light.

Giants of Light gene expression.

The giant raised its arm, which appeared to be made of metal, and assumed a lifting posture. It was the starting stance for the Specium Ray.

"BOOM——!!!"

A stream of photons shot out, breaking through the wall of Larva, directly striking the main body of the Brood Lord, and clashing with the Brood Lord's biological shield to spark a dazzling radiance.

The Zerg along the entire path were cleared, and the Brood Lord did not last long either, turning into a pile of ashes.

The giant retracted its fist, its body rapidly shrinking back to its original state, and turned to follow the squad.

The entire process was smooth and fluid, as if it had been practiced countless times.

The previous creep and creep nodes had already been evaporated by the high heat of the ray, leaving nothing behind.

Just like that, the Gene Primordial Bodies began their "ground exploration."

They had no clear goal, only instinctively moving in the direction of stronger energy reactions. All Zerg units encountered along the way—Drones, Zerglings, Roaches, Stalkers—were casually cleared. The cleaning efficiency was terrifyingly high: 4th-5th rank strength against these Zerg was a complete crush.

Moreover, their combat styles were bizarre and varied:

Some Progenitors grew massive, turning into invulnerable giants, pushing through everything along the way.

Some unfurled snowy white or pitch-black wings from their backs, flying into the air to perform area bombardment with holy light or shadow.

Some had their figures blur, turning into translucent spirits, with surging mental power pouring out to directly crush the fragile neural nodes of the Zerg.

Some controlled plants—the creep itself was also a type of fungal organism—making the creep "turn traitor," entangling and strangling the Zerg units upon it.

Others displayed elven-like agility and precision; as their figures flickered, bowstrings vibrated, and energy arrows pierced the vital points of one Zerg after another.

The ten thousand races of the universe each had their own strengths. But for most, the talents of the same race were highly consistent.

For example, the Light Giant Race generally had Plasma Sparks as their talent, manifested as powerful physical bodies and light energy manipulation, with ratings generally between A and B.

The Angel Race generally had Holy Light as their talent, manifested as healing, purification, and the manipulation and utilization of stellar energy, with ratings generally between A and B.

The Demon Race generally had Shadow as their talent, manifested as stealth, curses, and spatial manipulation, with ratings also between A and B.

The Forest Fairy Race mainly had Child of Nature and related derivative talents, manifested as plant control and healing, possessing affinity for life energy, with ratings between A and C.

The Elf Race mainly had Elemental Spirit as their talent, manifested as elemental magic or energy archery, with ratings between A and C.

But humans... human talents were bizarre and varied, ranging from F to SS, with an absurdly large gap between the upper and lower limits.

Humans also had an advantage that no other race could compare to: population base, which brought about infinite "mutation possibilities."

Holy Brilliance Purity's Primarch project was essentially trying to combine these two advantages: using the human population base to carry and fuse the "stable high talents" of other races.

But experimental results showed that the fusion of human genes with other races' genes always led to "human characteristics being diluted"—resulting in the growth of wings, scales, extra eyes, and so on.

Instead, when Zerg genes and human genes were fused, a strange phenomenon occurred: Zerg characteristics were humanized.

Olivia was a typical experimental subject—

Although the initial Olivia looked no different from a human girl, she actually still carried Zerg characteristics.

For example, that pair of dashing bat wings; for example, that set of scale armor she was very proud of; for example, her reproductive system, as the Queen had no reproductive system; for example, her nervous system, as the Queen's nervous system was not complete and would be influenced by the will of the Zerg Swarm.

After fusing with human genes, these problems were gone; Olivia's nervous system was complete, and she could still connect to the Zerg's mental network, but she was no longer controlled by the will of the Zerg Swarm.

She still retained the power and authority of a Zerg Queen, and Zerg biological weapons like Zerglings and Mutalisks would not harm her.

The bat wings and scale armor were gone, but she now had more elegant energy wings and armor.

Most importantly, Olivia no longer had the ability or desire to consume males, becoming a human girl who could eat, drink, fall in love, and reproduce, the kind that no instrument could detect.

In a sense, were the Zerg actually the race most suitable for "fusion" with humans?

Of course, Holy Brilliance Purity's real purpose this time was to verify the combat effectiveness of the Gene Primordial Bodies against the Zerg. It did not involve such philosophical questions as the completion of life.

They only needed to instinctively act, fight, and advance to kill Zerg; as for setting errors causing them to attack all personnel, that was a minor issue.

But their direction of advance... happened to overlap with the defense zones of several trial teams.

...

Planet G-77-3 orbit, Joint Trial Command.

This was a virtual command space specially organized for this trial. Hundreds of holographic projection seats were arranged in a circle, with each seat representing the supreme commander of an escort fleet or the person in charge of that civilization in this trial.

The seats were roughly divided into areas according to civilization strength: the inner ring consisted of the three major human civilizations (Blazing Dragon Federation, Holy Alliance, Olympia Empire) and several established powerful races (Angel Race, Demon Race, Light Giant Race, etc.); the middle ring consisted of civilizations with medium strength; the outer ring consisted of those weak civilizations that were just there to make up the numbers.

At this moment, a holographic projection of Planet G-77-3 floated in the center of the command space, with the projection marking the locations of various defense zones, progress, and real-time monitored footage transmitted back.

Everything looked normal—if one ignored those areas that were rapidly turning red.

"Alert! Defense zone number D-7, the Goblin race trial team has lost contact! The last transmitted footage shows they encountered an attack by unknown units! Repeat, unknown units, non-Zerg characteristics!"

The report came from an officer of the Holy Alliance, and the console in front of him was playing a blurry battle recording:

In the footage, a dozen small green-skinned Goblins were surrounding a crude automatic turret, firing at the Zerg Swarm surging from afar. Suddenly, several twisted figures rushed into the edge of the frame—humanoid, but with strange limb proportions, some with many hands and feet, some with wings on their backs.

The Goblins were clearly stunned, and one of them even rubbed his eyes, seemingly suspecting he had misseen.

Then, those twisted figures made their move.

A flash of holy light swept past, and two automatic turrets melted into molten iron. A patch of shadow shrouded them, and three Goblin warriors fell silently to the ground. A giant rock fist smashed down, creating a large pit ten meters in diameter, with the Goblin squad leader as a meat patty inside the pit.

The whole process took less than five seconds.

The Goblins finally reacted, letting out shrill screams, and then—turned and ran. They ran incredibly fast, their short legs kicking up afterimages, not even bothering with their equipment.

The recording ended there.

The command space was silent for a few seconds.

Then, in the outer ring area, a Goblin commander with feathers stuck in his head and oil paint on his face jumped up and shouted in a shrill voice:

"How did you arrange this trial? How could such things appear in the trial area? We Goblins want to withdraw from the trial! Immediately! Right now! Bring our children back, and we also demand compensation!"

No one paid attention to him.