More Zerg

On Xia Jin's side, she was already creating a new projection.

This wave of tactics targeting Star Rain Academy had eliminated roughly 30 magic mentors, over 400 students from the magic department, and nearly a thousand geniuses in strategy and tactics.

The enemies in melee classes were merely collateral damage.

Regarding the attacks within the city, they had seized several opportunities to launch ambushes on the mage units of the 19th and 20th Legions, taking out over a hundred people in total.

By the afternoon of the second day, the 19th Legion discovered that no new insects were appearing in the city.

“The enemy’s target was the mages. Damn it.”

The expressions of the two legion commanders turned grim as they realized what had happened.

Although the number of insects committed to this tactic was very small, the results were significant.

While every city would surely strengthen its defenses afterward, their strategic value could not compare to that of Star Rain Academy.

...

That afternoon, after annihilating the 17th Legion, the Swarm of approximately 20,000 units dove into Clearwillow Lake. They swam two thousand kilometers south underwater, finally coming ashore on the Kingdom's southern lakeshore.

As soon as these insects landed, they split their forces, launching rapid attacks on several nearby lords before joining forces to capture a city.

Since the cost of each Hive upgrade was increasing, Xia Jin temporarily set aside the idea of deploying more branch hives. Instead, she continuously funneled more terrestrial insects from the rear.

The opening of this second landing zone immediately placed the Kingdom under encirclement.

Xia Jin closed her eyes, and she automatically traced offensive lines on the map in her mind.

To the north, Brain Bug No. 1 and two primal brain bugs were advancing toward the southern part of the Kingdom from three different directions, aiming to eventually surround the capital.

To the south, the forces pushed northwest from the southeast coast, then split into three clusters.

The smaller cluster advanced westward the entire way, fighting until it reached the western coastal area.

The two larger clusters moved north from two different directions, aiming directly for the capital.

As for whether capturing the capital early would force the Kingdom to surrender, Xia Jin didn't care at all.

The Swarm craved battle; ideally, they would destroy every fighting legion in the entire Kingdom and convert them into energy. Therefore, during this northward advance, they would continuously seek out and engage the various enemy legions.

Currently, at the southern landing zone, Xia Jin had only dispatched 20,000 zerglings and 2,000 hydralisks, forming a standard mixed unit of melee and ranged forces.

Although they could target aerial enemies, they were still vulnerable to being countered if Falcon Knights dropped explosives from high altitudes.

Because the reproduction rate could not keep up for the time being, approximately 30,000 locusts would establish landing zones in various coastal areas that night and launch attacks on coastal cities.

Xia Jin didn't care whether they could capture them or not; the purpose of the locusts was to exhaust the enemy's low-tier troops. Their role was to make the entire Kingdom erupt in conflict, ensuring the enemy faced threats everywhere.

...

At this moment, at the main hive area.

“My Queen, the production of the Swarm is now steadily increasing. The daily output of standard energy has reached approximately 8 million units, which includes the results of the creep and drones digesting soil. Regarding production, as the number of insects beneath the waters of Clearwillow Lake has reached nearly 80,000, we have reduced the total production of Swimmers to 10,000. The rest is dedicated to terrestrial and aerial Zerg species.”

Brain Bug No. 1 transmitted the compiled Swarm data into Xia Jin's mind.

The current production scale was no longer comparable to what it once was.

She took a quick look and got a general idea.

The current daily production was as follows:

30,000 zerglings, consuming 2.4 million units of standard energy.

2,000 hydralisks, consuming 1.2 million units of standard energy.

2,000 banelings, consuming 200,000 units of standard energy.

200 lurkers, consuming 360,000 units of standard energy.

200 infestors, consuming 300,000 units of standard energy.

1,600 roaches, consuming 1.6 million units of standard energy.

14,000 scourges, consuming 560,000 units of standard energy.

200 mutalisks, consuming 560,000 units of standard energy.

100 swarm hosts, consuming 240,000 units of standard energy.

...

This essentially utilized all available energy.

The goal was simple: a short-term production surge to overwhelm the opponent.

However, considering the current battle lines were too long and the losses from previous battles were too high, Xia Jin actually planned to completely occupy the city states region first.

In the direction of the Kingdom, she would primarily use delay tactics, advancing steadily while continuing to pit various sizes of the Swarm against their main legions.

Meanwhile, the bulk of the forces was being frantically mobilized toward the city states region.

Roughly one-third of the production would go through the eastern part of the City of Darkness, crossing territory that originally belonged to the goblins to support the main force attacking in that direction.

The second third would cross Clearwillow Lake, and after dealing with the gnolls there, split into multiple groups to attack different city states.

The time given by the brain bug was five days.

In other words, five days from now, the countless city states separated by mountains and rivers—covering nearly one-third of the Kingdom of Clear's land area—would fall completely into Xia Jin's hands.

The eastern part of the city states also bordered the ocean.