66: Chapter 66 Searching for the Starry Sky Beast and Discoveries in the Void
Su Chen watched the perfect creation before him, struggling wildly on the edge of rage and self-destruction, and smiled.
The smile was cold and cruel.
"Mechanical Legion?"
His consciousness swept over the countless brand-new crystal eggs gestating on the creep, as if he could already see the battlefield of the future.
"I look forward to seeing your expressions when your pride-and-joy laser arrays cannot pierce through my Zerglings."
"When you are completely submerged by an endless, raging sea of crystals, what will your expressions be?"
With his forces strong and prepared, it was the perfect time to use that secret stronghold for target practice.
Su Chen was a man of action.
Since Lisa had risked her safety to provide intelligence, there was no reason to sit idly by.
Furthermore, he had developed a keen interest in the "materials" the Mechanical True God used to modify its warships.
That technology, which could combine cold machinery with flesh and blood, might offer new insights for the evolution of the Zerg Swarm.
His will echoed throughout the overlord avatar's divine domain, transforming into a series of unquestionable commands.
"Andra, assemble the Silver-Winged Archer Legion!"
"Baghdad, take twenty thousand Scythe Deathsworn!"
"All five thousand newly hatched Crystal-Armored Zerglings, move out!"
The order was instantly transmitted through the psychic network.
Within the divine domain, the dormant war machines began to awaken.
The Silver-Winged Archers, with their metallic-lustered wings, flew out from their towering nests, converging into a flowing silver cloud.
On the ground, the creep cracked open as the massive Scythe Deathsworn, with their terrifying bone-scythe arms, stepped out with heavy strides, each footfall causing the earth to tremble slightly.
But the most eye-catching of all were those five thousand brand-new creations.
They lay quietly in the hatchery, their translucent crystal carapaces refracting the dim light within the divine domain, exuding a strange sense of beauty.
They were silent works of art, yet also killing weapons about to bare their fangs.
The vast Zerg Swarm army, led by Su Chen's overlord avatar, silently gathered before a massive teleportation array at the edge of the divine domain.
Space distorted, and light and shadow shifted.
The next second, this death legion spanned the vast distance, appearing directly outside a void rift in the northwest.
This place was a graveyard of dead silence.
Broken asteroid belts drifted aimlessly, and countless spaceship wrecks floated quietly in the darkness, silently recounting the brutal battles that had once taken place there.
The void turbulence here had become docile, as if suppressed by some invisible aura.
Su Chen's gaze penetrated layers of asteroids, casting toward the deepest part of the rift.
There, a corpse so massive it was suffocating occupied his entire field of vision.
It was a Starry Sky Behemoth!
Its body length exceeded ten thousand meters, floating quietly in the void.
It was not a mountain, nor an island, but a floating continent in the truest sense.
Although it had been dead for countless years, that desolate, ancient aura originating from the very apex of life still permeated the surroundings, causing all energy and matter to retreat.
Was this the "shipyard" of the Mechanical True God?
Su Chen's divine sense, like an invisible tide, instantly swept over the entire body of the Behemoth.
He clearly "saw" that on the Behemoth's undulating, mountain-like surface, a large number of mechanical scaffolds flashing with indicator lights had already been installed.
Countless engineering puppets were crawling upon it, performing cutting, welding, and installation work.
They were transforming this great body of flesh and blood into a cold machine of war.
A sense of blasphemy welled up.
"Clean it up."
Su Chen's will transformed into a cold command of slaughter, exploding in the minds of all Zerg Swarm units.
"Hiss—!"
The instant the order was given, the inconspicuous glands inside the bodies of the five thousand Crystal-Armored Zerglings suddenly overloaded!
An eerie red light shone through their translucent crystal shells, instantly dyeing their entire bodies red.
[Metabolic Overload] activated!
Scorching steam erupted frantically from the gaps in their carapaces, rapidly condensing into ice crystals in the vacuum environment, only to be evaporated again by their even higher body temperatures.
Their eyes turned blood-red in an instant, leaving behind only pure destruction and madness.
"Roar!"
It was no longer a biological hiss, but a wild howl mixed with the sound of metal grinding and flesh tearing.
Five thousand streaks of red lightning tore through the dark void, charging fiercely toward the Behemoth's corpse.
The hundreds of mechanical puppets stationed there couldn't even complete their first round of targeting.
The alarm had just sounded when the red wave of death crashed into their formation.
"Chih, chih, chih!"
Dozens of emergency-activated laser beams shot out in a crossfire, precisely hitting the Crystal-Armored Zerglings charging at the very front.
However, the moment the energy attacks, which were powerful enough to pierce warship armor, made contact with that layer of crystal carapace, a bizarre scene unfolded.
The lethal laser beams were instantly decomposed and refracted into hundreds of brilliant rainbows, scattering in all directions and leaving countless shallow scorch marks on the distant asteroids and the surface of the Behemoth.
The momentum of the Crystal-Armored Zerglings' charge only faltered slightly.
The next moment, it was a devastating massacre.
Sharp claws easily tore open the alloy shells of the mechanical puppets, and violent force ripped their internal structures to shreds.
In a single encounter, the front row of mechanical puppets was torn into parts flying all over the sky.
A battle?
This wasn't a battle at all.
This was a one-sided, efficient, and cruel dismantling job.
Just a few dozen seconds later, the alarms in this area stopped abruptly.
The five thousand Crystal-Armored Zerglings stood quietly amidst the completely destroyed mechanical wreckage; the red light on their carapaces was slowly fading, and the scorching steam was gradually subsiding.
But the life signs within them had weakened by nearly half.
This was the price.
Trading life for an instant of extreme burst power.
Su Chen felt not a shred of pity for this.
For the Zerg Swarm, this was simply the most cost-effective exchange of resources.
His massive overlord avatar slowly flew closer, hovering beside the corpse of the Starry Sky Behemoth.
At such close range, one could better feel the grandeur and magnificence of this body.
Every wrinkle on its skin was like a deep canyon.
Su Chen's divine sense extended once more; this time, it was not a rough scan, but like the most precise probe, delving deep into the interior of the Behemoth's corpse.
Muscle fibers, dried-up blood vessels, petrified internal organs... all information was constructed into a three-dimensional model in his mind.
He could feel that a faint, extremely high-level energy still remained within this corpse.
It was precisely this wisp of energy that allowed its corpse to remain immortal after ten thousand years.
Just as his divine sense explored the abdominal region of the Behemoth, Su Chen's consciousness suddenly paused.
A massive biological sac, sealed by countless complex runes, appeared in his perception.
This biological sac was tightly connected to the Behemoth's body, yet it emitted a completely different life fluctuation.
It... was alive!
Although extremely weak, that life rhythm, like a candle in the wind, was burning stubbornly.
The Mechanical True God seemed to have discovered it as well and was attempting to crack the external rune seal, but the progress was very slow.
Su Chen's will touched it without hesitation.
[Ding! High-level life reaction detected!]
[Target discovered: Tier 9 Demigod-level Void Leviathan (Larval Embryo)]
[Description: Imperial bloodline among the Starry Sky Behemoths, a natural Void predator. Capable of surviving and flying in a vacuum; upon reaching adulthood, it will naturally comprehend the ability to perform space jumps. It is the best biological carrier for constructing the Zerg's ultimate transport unit/interstellar combat mothership!]
Le... leviathan?!
Su Chen's overlord consciousness experienced a violent fluctuation for the first time.
His face, constructed from cold, hard carapace, showed no expression, but his sea of consciousness was stirred into a monstrous storm.
This was a legendary higher-order creature!
It was the key for the Zerg Swarm civilization to move from within a planet to the sea of stars and conduct interstellar expeditions!
With it, the entire divine domain would no longer be a fixed target capable only of passive defense!
Instead, it would be a mobile war fortress capable of space jumps! A walking, predatory war divine domain!
Struck it rich!
This time, he had truly struck it rich!