77: Chapter 77 Metabolic Overclocking Field and Dragon Blood Hunt
“I may be the Queen of the Zerg Swarm, but you... are my Master.”
Kerrigan’s voice slowly dissipated in the depths of Su Chen’s soul, yet the echo remained, transforming into the purest brand of loyalty.
Su Chen’s will did not waver in the slightest; he accepted this allegiance as naturally as breathing.
For a qualified Master, the most powerful creation should naturally be the sharpest weapon.
Divine thought transformed into the next command.
Cold, absolute, and indisputable.
“Kerrigan, take your position! Take control of the leviathan!”
The moment the command was issued, the psionic energy Queen suspended in the reactor core, that perfect body fusing destruction and temptation, began to decompose.
She was not disintegrating into flesh and blood, but undergoing a transformation into a higher dimensional form. Her purple skin turned into billions of light particles, her slender bone wings dissolved inch by inch, and her condensed psionic energy tentacles disintegrated into the purest stream of psionic energy particles.
In a single breath, the beautiful Queen transformed into a brilliant purple nebula.
This nebula did not pause for a moment, surging violently into the entire reactor, into every corner of the leviathan!
Hum—
The leviathan, this sleeping Starry Sky Behemoth, let out its first true heartbeat since its birth.
It was a dull roar loud enough to tear the soul apart!
The internal energy flow rate of the biological conduits, which had previously only been maintaining basic operations, underwent a qualitative change in an instant. The dark red biological energy, previously just a trickling stream, now turned into a roaring, scorching white torrent of lava!
The neural network spread throughout the ship's hull was completely taken over by Kerrigan’s consciousness. Countless dim neuronal nodes were lit up by psionic energy at the same moment, blooming with an eerie purple light.
On the surface of the leviathan’s hull, those huge tentacles that had originally been swinging sluggishly and instinctively suddenly snapped straight!
Following that, they danced nimbly in a posture that contained terrifying power and perfect coordination. Every movement of the tentacles perfectly offset the impact of interstellar dust, adjusting the behemoth’s flight attitude.
The originally rough and rigid energy transmission network was optimized to the extreme under the intervention of Kerrigan, this “super biological CPU.” The energy transfer loss between various regions approached zero.
Energy transmission efficiency increased by more than ten times!
This massive Starry Sky Behemoth seemed to have been injected with a true soul at this moment.
It had come alive.
At this very moment, Kerrigan’s will connected with Su Chen once again.
“Master, my psionic energy field has combined with the leviathan’s life center, creating a brand new force field effect.”
“Deploy it.” Su Chen’s will was concise and clear.
In the next second, an invisible yet vast and majestic psionic energy fluctuation suddenly spread out, with the central reactor where Kerrigan was located as its core!
This fluctuation, like a purple ripple, instantly swept across the entire brood nest.
[Metabolic Overclocking Field]!
This was not an acceleration of the laws of time, but a more savage, violent catalysis that better suited the aesthetics of the Zerg Swarm.
The vast psionic energy transformed into the most primitive life hormones, acting directly at the level of every cell.
In the hatchery, a mutation occurred suddenly!
The mucous membranes on the surface of those Flame Burst Venom Bugs eggs, soaking in nutrient solution and originally requiring a full day to complete final incubation, began to bulge violently.
Pop! Pop! Pop!
The cuticular shells of the eggs were forcibly burst open in a series of dense explosions. Larvae, not yet fully formed, were squeezed out of the eggs.
Under the purple psionic energy glow, their body tissues proliferated, divided, and reorganized at a speed visible to the naked eye!
Carapaces solidified, acid glands developed, and explosive sacs expanded rapidly.
The development cycle, which originally required a full day, was compressed to the extreme.
In just ten minutes.
The originally quiet hatchery was already crowded with thousands of restless [Flame Burst Venom Bugs]. They emitted rapid hissing sounds, and their abdomens, radiating green fluorescence, pulsed with every beat, signaling a carnival of destruction.
There was a cost, however.
Kerrigan’s will resonated again: “Master, units matured in this way have their cellular activity severely overdrawn; their lifespans will not exceed three days.”
Three days.
There was not a trace of emotional fluctuation in Su Chen’s will.
For swarm tactics, lifespan?
What is that?
As long as they are alive the moment they reach the enemy and explode, that is enough.
“All forces, attack!”
The cold command transformed into the final horn of war, resounding throughout the Zerg Swarm’s psychic network.
“For the Master!”
The commander of the ground forces, the cerebrate Zaz, let out a fanatical roar from that huge, wrinkled brain.
Rumble—
The gates of the hatchery's incubation chamber swung open.
Tens of thousands of [Flame Burst Venom Bugs], radiating an ominous green fluorescence, surged out madly like a breached dam of magma, mixed with viscous creep secretions.
They converged into a green torrent of death, and wherever they passed, even the hard alloy ground was corroded with a hissing sound.
The sky was shrouded in an even more terrifying shadow.
The psionic energy Queen Kerrigan extended her will to every armament unit of the leviathan. The carapace on the behemoth’s back cracked open, and biological flight units with ferocious appearances, resembling wraith fighters, detached from the hull. Their wings burned with purple psionic energy flames; these were the leviathan’s secondary weapon systems—psionic energy fighters.
And on the flanks of these psionic energy fighters was the Silver Wing Legion led by Andra. Cold metal creations and ferocious biological weapons formed a canopy of death that blotted out the sky.
The three-thousand-kilometer distance was quickly erased by the Zerg Swarm’s forced march, regardless of cost or attrition.
...
Savage Mountains.
This was a land injected with wild and primitive blood. The rocks of the mountains presented a deep red color, as if soaked in blood, and the outlines of the peaks, like the ferocious fangs of a giant beast, pierced the firmament.
The air was filled with the rich scent of blood and sulfur.
In the deepest part of the mountains, inside a crude fortress built of giant stones and beast bones, a heaven-shaking roar made the entire mountain range tremble.
“Roar!!”
An unimaginably massive figure stood up from the shadows.
He was a hundred meters tall, his body seemingly carved from the hardest red granite, and his knotted muscles contained explosive power capable of shaking mountains. His skin was an ominous crimson, as if it were not blood flowing inside, but scalding magma.
In his hand, he tightly grasped a totem pole made from the spine of some giant beast.
Hercules, the ruler of this mountain range, sensed that overwhelming, disgusting aura coming from afar.
In his scarlet eyes, flames of tyranny and disdain ignited.
“Those disgusting bugs again?”
His voice, like countless boulders rubbing and crushing against each other, was full of savage majesty.
“Little ones, tear them to pieces for me!”
Rumble!
At his command, the entire fortress, and even the entire Savage Mountains, came alive.
Countless roars erupted from caves, rifts, and stone forts.
Countless [Dragonblood Orcs], over three meters tall and covered in fine red dragon scales, rushed out of their nests, wielding rough bone axes and stone hammers.
They were born heavy infantry.
Possessing immense strength, skin as hard as iron, and dragon blood flowing in their bodies, they were fearless, craving only slaughter and blood.
The red orc frenzy and the green Zerg Swarm torrent sweeping in from afar rapidly closed the distance on the vast red wasteland.
On one side was a primitive, savage, power-worshipping tribe.
On the other side was a cold, efficient, absolutely obedient cluster.
A head-on battle, like a collision between Mars and Earth, began in an instant!