62: Chapter 62 Advancement to Silver Demigod and Construction of a Zerg Swarm Defense Network
The moment the ratman warlord Baghdad was born, deep within Su Chen's consciousness, a brand-new faith thread, filled with fanatical and tyrannical emotions, was forcibly connected.
It was thicker and more savage than any that had come before.
If the faith of other saints was a stream, then the one coming from Baghdad was an underground river mixed with magma and molten iron.
The instant this brand-new faith channel was established, a massive amount of Power Of Faith, like a floodgate opening, swept along with a race's most primitive desire for survival and the absolute loyalty instilled after being transformed, violently impacting Su Chen's divine spark.
His divine spark hung in the center of his consciousness sea, originally possessing Firmness, perfect and round, radiating immortal brilliance.
However, under the savage impact of this newborn power, that invisible barrier representing his current realm emitted a crisp shattering sound that only he could hear.
Crack.
A barely perceptible crack appeared.
Now is the time!
Sitting cross-legged on the overlords throne, the divine light in Su Chen's eyes suddenly surged, piercing through the dimness of the divine temple.
"Fourth divine power baptism, activate!"
His will became the highest law of the divine domain.
Rumble—!
The sky of the entire divine domain dimmed in this instant.
Endless ink-green calamity divine power poured out from the void, gathering high in the sky into a viscous, heavy cloud of calamity that emitted an ominous aura.
The clouds rolled violently, as if a giant beast about to destroy the world was gestating within.
The next second, a massive beam of light with a diameter exceeding one hundred meters tore through the clouds, carrying the might to destroy heaven and earth, and accurately bombarded the overlords throne, completely swallowing and enveloping Su Chen's main body.
Inside the beam of light was an energy storm pure to the extreme.
This baptism was completely different from the previous ones.
The divine power was no longer a gentle nourishment and strengthening, but had transformed into billions of the sharpest carving knives, not only intending to reshape his physical body but also to infect his divine soul.
Inside Su Chen's sea of consciousness.
That illusory humanoid figure representing his soul origin was enduring unimaginable impacts.
The ink-green divine power turned into a liquid torrent, forcibly pouring in, intending to completely transform his soul from the inside out.
This was a reconstruction originating from the essence of life.
Excruciating pain!
The excruciating pain at the soul level far exceeded the limit that the physical body could bear.
But Su Chen's divine soul did not emit any wails; it simply endured it quietly.
His inhuman will, like an eternal, unmelting iceberg, allowed the storm to wash over it, remaining unmoved.
Gradually, the invading divine power was no longer violent.
They seemed to be tamed by this indestructible will, beginning to flow, adhere, and condense slowly on the surface of his divine soul according to Su Chen's intent.
A layer of substantial, ink-green armor shimmering with a cold, hard metallic luster began to condense and form upon his divine soul.
Starting from the breastplate, ferocious patterns spread out, carrying the cold and efficient killing aesthetic unique to the Zerg Swarm.
Then came the pauldrons, bracers, war skirt, greaves...
Finally, a ferocious helmet covering the entire head clamped down, leaving only a pair of eye sockets burning with ink-green soul fire.
The moment the last piece of armor closed, a cold stream of information emerged in his consciousness.
[Chitinous Divine Armor: Significantly weakens mental attacks, immune to curses of the same rank!]
Above the divine domain, the beam of light that pierced heaven and earth slowly dissipated.
On the overlords throne, Su Chen slowly opened his eyes.
Deep within his pupils, that trace of ink-green light became even more profound, as if containing a sea of stars of calamity and withering.
Fourth-turn demigod, Silver rank!
Achieved!
He gently clenched his fist.
No sound was made, but the space around his palm twisted slightly because it could not withstand that terrifying physical strength.
The divine power surging within him was more than an order of magnitude more vast than before, as if a rushing river had transformed into a boundless deep sea.
The surge in power did not cause Su Chen's thinking to fall into fanaticism.
Quite the contrary, his will was unprecedentedly calm.
The improvement in strength meant that the "beacon" effect emitted by his divine domain in the endless void would be stronger.
It would attract more and more powerful prying eyes.
Offense is the best defense.
But the lair must absolutely not be exposed.
Su Chen's gaze swept across the entire divine domain, and his cold will instantly covered every inch of creep.
With a wave of his hand, the massive amount of biological energy obtained from just breaking through his realm, like a breached flood, was unsparingly injected into the underground of the divine domain.
There lay the root system of the Abyssal Poisonous mother tree Rott.
"Rott."
Su Chen's voice turned into a mental command, exploding directly in the core consciousness of the mother tree.
"At the border of the divine domain, plant these 'seeds' for me!"
The earth began to tremble violently.
It was not a roar, but a dull, oppressive rumbling, as if an ancient giant beast sleeping deep in the earth's core was waking up.
In the surrounding edge areas of the vast divine domain, the ground covered by creep began to bulge upward in large areas, tearing open countless huge cracks.
Immediately after, one after another, huge tumor-like buildings reaching fifty meters in height broke through the ground!
They presented an unsettling dark red color throughout, their surfaces covered in knotted blood vessels and nerve bundles, and were still pulsating slightly, as if they were huge hearts.
Thousands of such terrifying buildings rose from the ground in a very short time, completely sealing the entire border of the divine domain.
The moment they were completely formed, the tops of all the tumors slowly split open like flower buds.
There were no stamens in the cracks, only a bottomless pool of green viscous liquid that was violently rolling and bubbling.
That was the highly concentrated strong acid spore, ready to launch, emitting a pungent aura capable of melting steel.
[Defense Building: Ground-to-Air Spore Turret]
[Range: 20,000 meters]
[Damage: Strong Acid Corrosion, Splash Explosion]
The ground was impenetrable.
But the sky, similarly, could not be left with any blind spots.
"Theodore!"
Su Chen's call was like thunder rolling across the sky.
"Roar—!"
A violent dragon roar full of metallic texture came from deep within the clouds in response.
A huge black shadow swooped down.
That was the Bone Dragon Theodore.
Its current form was already vastly different from the beginning.
Its original bone-white skeleton was covered with a layer of thick biological armor, which was of the same origin as the Chitinous Divine Armor.
Under its wings were mounted rows of biological sacs capable of firing bone spurs.
Its head was even more ferocious, and ghost-green dragon breath was constantly brewing in its mouth.
It was no longer a simple Bone Dragon, but the "Air Force General" of the Zerg Swarm, a flying war fortress armed to the teeth.
Behind it, dozens of slightly smaller black dragons, as well as hundreds of "Silver-Winged Archers" with silver membrane wings on their backs and holding bone longbows, formed a strict aerial formation.
They patrolled day and night in the clouds, their cold gazes scanning every inch of the airspace.
On the ground, there were thousands of spore turrets capable of spraying deadly acid rain at any time.
In the sky, there was an aerial strike group led by the Bone Dragon Theodore.
And deeper underground, countless Lurkers, like silent ghosts, extended their sensory tentacles to every corner of the divine domain, monitoring every vibration.
A three-dimensional net, from the sky to the underground, and then to the ground, had already been spread.