58: Chapter 58 Ascension at the Gene Altar and the Birth of the Silverwing Archer
Within the Divine Realm, ripples in space spread out silently.
Su Chen's figure stepped out from the void, and the noisy, chaotic atmosphere of the trading house was instantly shut out, replaced by a dead silence that belonged solely to him, one of absolute control.
The will beneath the black mist was cold, devoid of even a trace of warmth.
He did not pause for even a moment.
"Hog! Gather all the Silver Centaurs and head to the Overlord Altar!"
A vast and merciless oracle boomed in every corner of Ge Wushi City.
The command was unquestionable.
A moment later, the earth trembled.
Thousands of robust Centaurs, draped in silver fur, led by their patriarch Andra, converged into a torrent of steel and rushed toward the temple square. Their hooves thundered against the obsidian floor tiles, creating a dense, rhythmic sound.
They stopped.
In front of all the warriors, that massive incubation pool, rolling with countless purple bubbles, was emitting a heart-palpitating aura of psionic energy.
Every time the viscous liquid surged, it felt like the beating of a giant beast's heart.
Awe. Anticipation. And a trace of fear born from the instinct of life intertwined in the heart of every Centaur warrior.
Su Chen's figure hovered high in the air, overlooking the assembled legion below with an indifferent gaze.
In his hands, he held an archaic bronze altar.
[Tier 4 · Bronze Archer Class Transfer Altar].
This was the spoils of war captured from that Mithril Vein, covered in mottled verdigris and ancient divine scripts, exuding the decaying aura of the old era.
"The remnants of the old era shall become the fuel for the new era."
The cold voice fell. He tossed it aside casually.
The heavy bronze altar traced an arc through the air and, without causing a single splash, sank directly into the viscous purple incubation pool.
Immediately after, the remaining hundred million plus Power Of Faith in the deity account transformed into a blinding golden torrent, descending from the sky.
It was not light, but the purest form of energy. It struck the Overlord Altar with unrivaled might!
At the same time, mountains of various high-tier biomass accumulated in the Divine Realm's warehouse were drawn by an invisible force, transforming into torrents of flesh and blood that were injected into it as well.
"Talent activated: Infinite Gene Evolution!"
Su Chen's will became the sole law of this world.
"Hum—!!!" The entire incubation pool instantly boiled over!
A beam of purple psionic energy, thick beyond imagination, tore through the clouds and shot straight into the sky, dyeing the entire sky of the Divine Realm in an eerie purple.
At the core of the light beam, the bronze altar emitted a groan of being unable to bear the weight.
Countless ancient runes flashed within the light, only to be forcibly torn, crushed, and dismantled by a more overbearing and primitive will.
The Zerg Swarm's gene chains, like billions of greedy vipers, frantically gnawed at the rules belonging to the old deity, parsing, devouring, and reorganizing them into a part of itself.
Su Chen's consciousness sank into the microscopic world of genes. Like a cold and mad creator, he wantonly scattered his "inspiration" in this chaotic ocean composed of DNA and divine power.
"Add [Mithril Gene]!" The will was issued.
A brilliant touch of silver instantly permeated the boiling purple liquid. The toughness and magic resistance characteristics belonging to high-tier metals were forcibly inscribed into the brand-new genetic blueprint.
"Add [Dragonfly Compound Eye Gene]!" Countless tiny hexagonal lattice structures flashed and vanished in the light, and ultra-high-frequency dynamic visual information was encoded.
"Add [Bat Membrane Wing Gene]!" A tough biological membrane structure was written in, granting the new species the possibility of breaking free from the shackles of the earth.
Finally, the light beam that pierced through heaven and earth slowly dissipated. The boiling incubation pool also gradually calmed down.
A brand-new building replaced the original incubation pool, standing towering in the center of the square.
It was a hundred meters tall, cast entirely from a silvery-white biological metal, with no visible seams on the surface, making it appear seamless. Countless deep purple, vein-like vessels covered its surface, pulsing rhythmically with a steady beat.
Every pulse emitted a dull boom, shaking the hearts of all the Centaurs present. It was a tower. More than that, it was a living, breathing giant heart.
[Tier 6 Flying Class Building: Silverwing Archer Gene Bank]
Su Chen's grand and cold voice echoed in the ears of all the Centaurs. "Go in, my warriors." "Welcome your rebirth."
Dead silence. All the Centaurs looked at the biological building emitting a massive aura of life and terrifying pressure, looking at that huge, mucus-covered portal slowly opening, their hooves scraping the ground uneasily.
Andra, the patriarch of the Silver Centaurs, looked at the indifferent figure high in the sky, his chest heaving violently. He was the first to take a step. With heavy footsteps, he stepped into the gate of the gene bank, which was filled with the unknown and viscous liquid. The gate closed silently behind him.
"Arghhhhhh!!!" The next moment, a heart-rending roar came from inside the building.
The sound did not seem like something a living creature could produce, filled with the extreme pain of bones being forcibly broken and flesh being melted and reorganized, making the thousands of Centaurs waiting outside feel their scalps tingle, their silver fur standing on end.
But this scream only lasted for a few minutes. A few minutes later, the painful roar was replaced by a roar filled with explosive power!
"Boom!" At the very top of the gene bank, a tightly closed biological hatch suddenly popped open!
A silver stream of light burst out from within, accompanied by a sharp piercing sound, shooting straight into the sky, tracing a perfect, power-filled arc in the air.
That was Andra! No, that was no longer Andra. At this moment, he had been completely reborn.
His original flesh and blood body was completely wrapped in a layer of streamlined, beautiful silver chitinous shell. Under the light of the Divine Realm, the shell refracted a cold, merciless metallic luster.
The muscles on his back tore open, growing a pair of massive silver membrane wings with a wingspan of over ten meters. On the membrane wings, they were also covered with deep purple energy veins. Every slight flap stirred up a gust of wind on the ground.
Most astonishing were his arms. The hands that originally held the war bow had disappeared. In their place were two "biological bone cannons" completely fused with the forearm bones, nerves, and blood vessels!
The form of the bone cannon was ferocious and efficient. At the tip of the muzzle, deep blue energy light was constantly gathering and compressing, emitting a heart-palpitating aura of destruction. That was the [Magic-Breaking psionic energy] compressed to the extreme!
"Is this... the feeling of flight?" Andra hovered a thousand meters in the air, a sense of dizziness washing over him from this unprecedented perspective. The earth stretched out beneath his feet. The city shrank in his eyes.
He raised his arm, and the ferocious biological bone cannon aimed at a hill hundreds of meters high at the edge of the Divine Realm. In his mind, the attack method naturally emerged. Will locked. Energy surged.
"Boom!" A silver bone thorn wrapped in deep blue energy instantly shot out from the muzzle!
There was no huge explosion, only a dull sound of energy annihilation. That hill was razed to the ground in an instant. It was not a collapse, not an explosion, but a complete erasure from the material level!
This is the [Silverwing Zerg Cavalry]! An aerial killer with Tier 6 flying combat power, possessing high mobility, high defense, and high burst damage!
On the ground, all the Centaurs were stunned. They looked up at the silver figure in the sky emitting terrifying pressure, feeling the power that instantly razed the hill, and the fear in their eyes vanished. In its place was fanaticism. It was the most primitive desire for power!
There was no need for any further orders. Hundreds upon hundreds of Centaur warriors, like a bursting flood, frantically surged into the gate of the Silverwing Archer Gene Bank.
Immediately after, one silver figure after another shot into the sky from the biological hatch at the top of the gene bank. Ten. A hundred. A thousand. They blotted out the sky, gathering into a silver storm of death in the sky, circling Su Chen's divine statue, emitting long howls that shook the entire heavens and earth of the Divine Realm.
From now on, the shadow of the Zerg Swarm will not only shroud the earth. It will also cover the sky!