158: Chapter 158 The Birth of the Medusa Queen and the Petrifying Gaze
Time lost its meaning within the God Domain.
For Su Chen, his will was eternity.
But for the Spawning Pool undergoing a violent mutation, every second was a world-shaking transformation.
Three whole days passed.
The rocky nest, mutated from a Hydralisk Spawning Pool, emitted a greyish aura that had thickened to a critical point. The surrounding ground had long since turned into a dead, grey stone, and even the air seemed to congeal into semi-solid crystals. Any Zerg Swarm unit below the eighth rank would have its life activities forcibly terminated upon stepping within a hundred meters of this area, turning into a lifeless stone statue within a few breaths.
Inside the Mother Nest, the Soul links of all high-level Zerg Swarm units were deathly locked onto this direction.
They could feel an unprecedented, terrifying will—one capable of threatening their own existence—awakening deep within that rock.
At this very moment.
"Crack."
An extremely slight yet incomparably clear sound of cracking abruptly pierced the dead silence.
This sound seemed to ring directly in the depths of every unit's Soul.
Su Chen's will focused instantly.
His vision penetrated layers of space, staring intently at the top of the mutated Spawning Pool.
There, a tiny crack appeared out of thin air.
Then came a second, a third...
Spiderweb-like cracks spread frantically at an incredible speed, covering the entire thick rock eggshell.
"CRACK—!"
A sharper explosive sound rang out!
An arm suddenly pierced through the eggshell from the inside!
It was not a body of flesh and blood.
Its skin displayed a bloodless pallor, delicate in texture yet possessing a rock-like coldness and hardness, as if meticulously carved from the finest God Domain marble by the hand of a divine craftsman.
The arm's movement was full of power; the five fingers spread out, gripping the edge of the eggshell fiercely.
"Hiss hiss hiss—hiss hiss hiss hiss—!"
The next second, a Soul-shuddering hiss of venomous snakes poured frantically from the broken gap like a mental storm!
It wasn't a single roar, but a death symphony gathered from hundreds of venomous snakes, filled with the most primitive malice and desire to kill!
Boom!!
The entire rock eggshell completely exploded and shattered under the impact of internal force!
Countless rock fragments shot out in all directions, but lost all kinetic energy mid-air, silently decomposing into the most primitive grey dust.
Amidst the permeating dust, a brand-new figure slowly, inch by inch, revealed itself before Su Chen's will.
Her—or rather "its"—upper body was a nearly perfect female form. Every inch of skin was so white it seemed to glow, yet it possessed a non-human eeriness. The breathtaking fullness of her chest was barely shielded by several pieces of black bony armor that seemed to have grown into her flesh, covered with ancient and evil serpentine patterns.
Looking upward, her most striking feature appeared.
On her head, there was not a single strand of human hair.
In its place were hundreds of living, black-scaled venomous vipers! They were writhing restlessly, raising their triangular heads, flicking their crimson tongues, their pairs of golden vertical pupils flashing with cruel and cold light.
And her lower body had completely departed from human form.
It was a giant snake tail, twenty meters long and thicker than a water bucket. The tail was covered in layers of dense, greyish-white scales, each scale flashing with a dual texture of metal and rock, filled with explosive power.
With her appearance, the earth elements of the entire God Domain began to riot and submit.
【Medusa Swarm Queen · Gorsha】
【Rank】: Tenth-Rank Demigod (Peak)
【Talents】: Petrifying Gaze (Rule-level), Ignore Defense, Poisonous Blood
Su Chen's will swept across this brand-new panel, the data stream surging within his mental core.
Rule-level Petrifying Gaze!
This meant her attacks had already touched the level of "Law," no longer being simple energy or physical attacks.
"Domi... nator..."
Gorsha slowly opened her eyes.
A voice, somewhere between the crispness of a young girl and the hiss of a venomous snake, rang out in Su Chen's Soul link.
The moment those eyes opened, even a will as calm as Su Chen's experienced a slight ripple.
What kind of eyes were those!
There were no pupils, no whites, no signs of anything that could be called "life."
Only a pure, dead greyish-white.
That greyish-white was as deep as a bottomless abyss, as if billions of withered worlds were buried within, sealing countless corpses whose concepts had been stripped away.
Merely making eye contact gave the illusion that one's own existence was being peeled away and negated.
"Congratulations, Dominator! Salutations, Dominator!"
To the side, Lumina, Dominator of Light, and Queen of Blades Kerrigan, who had long since been alerted, bowed deeply toward Su Chen and their newborn colleague.
The radiance around Lumina was restrained to the extreme, as if she were fearing something. Kerrigan's bone wings were also tightly folded, her eyes filled with unprecedented gravity.
Their instincts and Souls were screaming in panic, sounding an alarm.
The danger level of this newly born unit far exceeded any enemy they had ever seen.
That kind of power was irrational and impossible to defend against; it was a pure "conceptual erasure."
"Let's test it out."
Su Chen's will held little emotion, only absolute rationality and anticipation.
He waved his hand.
A crack was forcibly torn in the coliseum space deep within the God Domain. Several thick flesh tentacles reached in and, accompanied by heavy, earth-shaking footsteps, dragged out a massive beast.
"Obsidian Golem."
This fifteen-meter-tall elemental creature was composed entirely of the hardest obsidian, its surface shimmering with the glow of magic runes. It was famous for its nearly unsolvable defense; physical damage was like a mere tickle to it. With 90% physical immunity, most physical units were helpless against it. At the same time, its magic resistance was also ridiculously high.
As soon as it was dragged out, this Peak ninth-rank Obsidian Golem let out a deafening roar, violent energy gathering within its body.
"Look at it."
Su Chen's command was concise and cold.
Upon hearing this, Gorsha slowly turned her head.
Those hundreds of snake hairs seemed to receive an order, instantly stopping their writhing and aligning their golden vertical pupils toward the roaring Puppet.
Gorsha's dead, greyish-white eyes also quietly gazed over.
One second.
It took only a single second.
Time seemed to have been paused at this moment.
"Crack... crack crack..."
The Obsidian Golem's roar, which was loud enough to shatter mountains, came to an abrupt halt.
Its originally pitch-black, shiny, and magically lustrous hard body lost all color at a speed visible to the naked eye, turning into a ghastly, lifeless greyish-white.
This transformation was absolute and thorough.
Not just on the surface—Su Chen could clearly perceive that the magic core inside the Puppet, serving as its power source, and the Soul fire where its consciousness resided, were both fundamentally distorted in their material form within that brief instant, forcibly converted into worthless, ordinary stone!
"Whoosh—"
A light breeze blew past.
Without even needing any external force to touch it.
This ninth-rank giant beast, famous for its defense, this indestructible war machine, simply collapsed silently and completely under the gaze of all Zerg Swarm units, turning into a pile of fine, wind-blown stone dust.
From existence to nothingness, it took only one second.
"Ignoring defense, stripping away the attributes of 'life' and 'matter' on a conceptual level."
Su Chen's will examined this scene, finally confirming the results of this evolution.
A cold thought, carrying a desire for absolute control, rose in his mental world.
"With this petrifying legion, even a true god can be pulled down from their god throne by me and turned into my collectible!"