The Zerg decisively transported 20,000 unicycles from the Orc Empire to the front lines. With a relentless flurry of launches, they inflicted over 20 million casualties on the magic beasts every single day.
Of course, not all the magic beasts were surrenderists; many remained unyielding to the death.
The truth was that the Zerg were simply too terrifying, utterly shattering their understanding of biological beings.
With twenty-four-hour continuous offensives, no need for sleep, no emotions, and pure firepower suppression, it was a maddening way to fight.
During this time, Xia Jin's units on the moon were surreptitiously observing the fat rocket-shaped spaceship floating above the Dawn Empire, finding that it hadn't changed at all.
This allowed Xia Jin to relax significantly.
The Hive Carrier transported a batch of bugs into deeper space, scanning the surroundings and determining the positions of several planets within the stellar system.
Near the star, most were relatively small rocky planets. Planet Insecta was the second planet from the center. The innermost one was too close to the star and extremely hot; being so far away, it wasn't suitable for the Swarm's current exploration.
Moving outward, the third planet was currently over 62 million kilometers away from Planet Insecta, which was relatively close in astronomical terms.
Having confirmed this, the Hive Carrier immediately set off toward the target.
In fact, for any civilization, discovering a tiny spaceship on an astronomical scale is much harder than discovering a planet.
Any civilization capable of detecting the Hive Carrier would have undoubtedly already discovered Planet Insecta itself.
If not for that eyesore of a fat rocket suspended in the sky, Xia Jin would have felt that her home planet was just an isolated island in the sea of stars.
“It will still take some time to fly there, about seven and a half hours. I'll just wait patiently.”
Lying inside the ship, hugging a fleshy arm, Xia Jin prepared to take a nap...
“Mmm, this soft pillow feels really nice.”
How decadent. She remembered being terrified when she first saw these things.
Indeed, once she knew the Swarm wouldn't fear her but would instead absolutely protect her as their "partner," the revulsion in her heart vanished.
To the point where staying inside the terrifying Hive Carrier actually felt like home.
...
Two days later, the Zerg's northern front completely breached the final core region.
In such a desperate situation, the Magic Beast King wisely chose to surrender.
Xia Jin, who had originally planned to eliminate her and then acquire her genes, thought for a moment and decided to accept the surrender and modify her instead.
The efficiency of gene acquisition after modification would be higher because there would be no damage involved.
The current Hive Carrier's strength could already support the power of a Tier 13 being, but for safety, she only used a lower-tier Level 9 Hive—the one located beneath the Great West Sea.
“Fine. Go back and tell your Magic Beast King that I will soon send bugs to fetch her for modification.”
“Modification?” The mythic magic beast messenger was bewildered upon hearing this.
However, facing the beautiful Zerg girl before it, the messenger suddenly felt that surrendering might not be an unwise choice.
“Modification means being integrated into the Swarm system. The Zerg are a race linked by a single will; you aren't just facing a single bug, but a complete collective. It's somewhat similar to... a hive mind.”
In truth, the Swarm consciousness was far superior to a hive mind.
But the other party wouldn't understand that anyway.
After hearing this, the mythic king left with a complicated heart.
Spreading its wings and flying halfway back, it felt a sense of daze whenever it thought of the girl who held such a strange attraction for magic beasts.
They clearly weren't the same species, so why was her charm higher than its own kind?
With these thoughts, it arrived before the Magic Beast King and reported the situation.
Sure enough, after a while, an elf bug arrived at the scene.
“Hello, I am the messenger of the Zerg. Please come with me to undergo modification.”
The elf bug looked at the exceptionally beautiful Magic Beast King, who had already taken human form, and was somewhat surprised.
It had always thought the king was male, but it turned out to be a girl.
“Aren't you male?”
“Disguising myself as a male isn't difficult, but I am indeed female.”
This brown-haired Magic Beast King looked like a wild lion, but her true body was a native creature whose name was unknown. It was said to be near extinction, with only extremely powerful individuals surviving to this era.
“Please follow me.”
Sitting on the back of an ultralisk, they set off.
The ultralisk soon crossed into the magic beasts' territory.
Under her mental perception, the Swarm—with Tier 10 to Tier 12 creatures everywhere—filled her with an unspeakable terror.
“No wonder the magic beasts lost.”
What kind of creatures are these? Why are they so strong?
“Could they be from another world, just like the demons?”
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