110: Chapter 110 Demon Gene Extraction and Hybridization Project
The scene on the other side of the Abyss portal was a fortress built upon a scorched plain.
Twisted flesh and wailing Souls were cast into high walls, while bones burning with Hellfire formed sentry towers; the air was thick with the stench of sulfur and rot.
This was the Domain of demons.
A forbidden zone for order and life.
However, at this very second, the forbidden zone was breached.
No omen, no warning.
A pure, primal, and hungry will, like a bursting black flood, erupted from that stable spatial rift!
"Enemy attack!?"
Atop the city wall, a Horned Demon Warlord responsible for sentry duty didn't even have time to sound the alarm before its vision was completely filled by endless carapaces and sharp claws.
In the next instant, its body was submerged, torn apart, and devoured by at least a hundred Zerglings.
This was not a counterattack.
This was a consumption.
The Zerg Swarm had no tactics; their tactic was numbers.
The black tide swept across the plain, crashing against the walls cast from flesh and blood.
No pause.
No deceleration.
The Zerg Swarm at the rear stepped over the corpses of their comrades in front, forming a continuously rising black slope.
In just a few breaths, the swarm bypassed the dozens-of-meters-high walls and poured into the demon stronghold.
Chaos.
Slaughter.
The demons who had just been gathering here, preparing to reinforce the vanguard through the portal, fell into complete panic.
What they faced was an army of destruction that had just experienced a glorious victory, with morale and killing intent reaching their peak.
What made them even more desperate was that within this endless black ocean, there also lurked imperceptible shadows of death.
Five emerald-green light blades leaped across the chaotic battlefield.
Every time they flickered, they appeared precisely behind a high-ranking demon.
No wasted movements.
No flashy techniques.
Only the purest cutting.
A Dread Lord, who had just summoned Hellfire in an attempt to clear an open space with an area-of-effect Spell, suddenly froze in its casting motion.
An emerald-green energy line emerged from its neck, and subsequently, its head slowly slid off.
The Dark Templar Warriors who decapitated it did not stop for a moment, tracing a bizarre arc through the Void Realm to appear at the flank of another Abyss Lords wielding a giant axe.
The light blade pierced in silently, crushing its heart.
Killing.
Devouring.
Inside the slain demons, the pure Abyssal energy that had just dissipated was greedily absorbed by these shadowy killers.
Their psionic fluctuations grew visibly with every consumption.
Finally, when one of the Dark Templar Warriors cleaved a berserk Succubus Queen in half at the waist, a massive and pure surge of dark Demonic Energy flooded into its body.
Hum—
An invisible energy shockwave, centered on it, suddenly expanded!
Ripples appeared in the surrounding Void Realm, and its originally blurred figure became solid for a fleeting moment.
Upon the emerald-green psionic light blades, black flames that seemed capable of burning the Soul ignited.
Its aura crossed a certain threshold, stepping into an entirely new Domain.
Legendary Rank.
This was only the beginning.
Over the next few minutes, the other four Dark Templar Warriors also completed their life leaps one after another amidst the frantic slaughter and devouring.
Five Legendary Rank Dark Templar Warriors.
They were like five of the sharpest razors, excising every high-value node within the demon battle line.
Having lost their command and elite combat power, the remaining low-level demons were not even worthy of being called cannon fodder before the sea of insects.
The battle ended quickly.
When the wails of the last imp were drowned out by the chewing sounds of the Zerg Swarm, this Abyssal Outpost had completely changed hands.
Countless Drones swarmed in, beginning to efficiently decompose the demon corpses and dismantle the buildings made of flesh and bone.
Everything would be converted into the purest biomass and energy, feeding back into the Zerg Swarm.
Lumina's figure slowly emerged beside an exceptionally large demon corpse.
It was a Balrog Lord; even though it was dead, its lava-like body still emitted staggering heat, scorching the surrounding ground black.
Strands of dark energy threads wound around her fingertips as she carefully reached into the Balrog Lord's sliced-open chest.
A moment later, she withdrew her hand.
A fist-sized cluster, seemingly condensed from the thickest blood with dark red lightning flashing inside, floated quietly in her palm.
She came before Su Chen and knelt on one knee, her posture respectful to the extreme.
"Dominator."
She held the cluster of blood essence high.
"This is the 'Abyssal Demon Blood Essence' refined from the heart of that Balrog Lord."
"According to preliminary analysis, this blood contains extremely strong physical regeneration capabilities, as well as a special energy circuit that demons call 'Berserk'."
Su Chen's gaze fell upon that cluster of essence.
He reached out, and the essence automatically flew into his palm.
It felt heavy, scorching, and full of frantic vitality, as if he were holding not a cluster of blood, but a heart beating wildly.
The Mother Nest's Eye of Analysis activated instantly.
In his vision, the internal structure of this blood was infinitely magnified and analyzed.
It was not a stable, orderly gene chain.
It was a storm.
Countless chaotic, violent gene fragments filled with the desire for destruction and annihilation were entangled in an illogical manner, yet weirdly maintained a fragile balance.
Every gene fragment was screaming to tear apart and devour everything around it.
This was the source of the demons' powerful physical bodies.
Chaotic, disorderly, but full of power.
"The physical power of demons..."
A data stream flashed through Su Chen's consciousness.
"The absolute discipline of the Zerg..."
Another even larger data stream emerged.
Two seemingly contradictory concepts collided in his mind.
A thought, insane to the extreme, like the lightning of creation, split open the Chaos.
What if...
What if this Demon Blood Essence, filled with the desire for destruction, was injected into the bodies of Zerg units?
Then, using his supreme Dominator's will and his sea-like psionic energy, he would forcibly suppress this Chaos, erase its self-awareness, and retain only its purest physical characteristics.
Finally, he would harmonize and fuse it with the Zerg's genes, which were born for war and perfect obedience.
What kind of creation would be born from that?
A perfect biological weapon that combined the peerless physical body of a demon with the absolute obedience of the Zerg Swarm...
In Su Chen's mind, fragments of memories from his past life flashed, showing a certain ultimate unit from a game that inspired despair.
Hybrid.
"This will be a perfect war machine that surpasses the Ultralisk."
Su Chen stared at the cluster of violent blood essence in his hand, the corners of his mouth curling up uncontrollably into a cruel and fervent arc.
"This great gift sent by the Abyss is truly timely."
"In that case, I will unceremoniously accept it."
His gaze shifted, falling upon the towering figure not far away.
Theodore.
This former Templar Grand Archon, now a Fallen Colossus, stood quietly, awaiting the Dominator's next command.
Su Chen's voice echoed directly in the depths of Theodore's Soul through the Zerg Swarm network.
That oracle was cold, clear, and beyond doubt.
"Theodore."
"I command you to lead a hundred thousand Drones and the Split-forms of two Hatcheries through the portal immediately."
"Establish an outpost belonging to us on the other side."
His will became incredibly sharp, filled with irresistible predatory intent.
"I want more samples, more high-ranking demons!"
"Even if you have to hollow out that Abyssal plane for me, you must capture them alive!"
"I want to initiate the 'Hybrid Project'!"
Theodore's massive head snapped up, and the two clusters of ghostly blue fire in his eye sockets throbbed and expanded violently!
It was a shudder and fervor originating from the depths of his Soul.
He responded with a low roar that sounded like the grinding of countless metals:
"By your command, for the Swarm!"
Su Chen withdrew his gaze and looked back at the Abyssal portal that was still operating stably.
The black tide of insects was continuously pouring into it, expanding his will and the territory of the Zerg Swarm to another plane.
That "Nine Shrines" Alliance, which had tried to scheme against him by sacrificing a city.
They probably wouldn't imagine in their wildest dreams.
What they opened with their own hands was not some Pandora's Box at all.
They were merely humble gatekeepers who opened an endless treasure trove of resources for Su Chen and the entire Zerg Swarm.
In Su Chen's eyes, the red light originating from the depths of his genes burned like a star.
"When my army of Hybrids takes shape..."
"It will be the day of your death."