Starting Expansion

The wilderness between cities was incredibly vast, and the countless roaming demons served as excellent nutrients.

Xia Jin had already cultivated many stronger Abyss Zerg variants.

For approximately every 10,000 bugs, she produced a higher-tier legion commander bug, specially enhancing their abilities to provide them with a certain level of command capability.

The current reserves of Abyss energy were undoubtedly plentiful.

Following this trend, the proportion of Abyss Zerg would surely increase in the future, and the combat power of the bugs would clearly continue to rise.

...

The next day, the Zerg officially began their large-scale expansion.

A radius of fifty kilometers was cleared in just one day. At this point, the size of the Swarm Xia Jin deployed reached 800,000. As bugs continuously crossed the portal from the rear, the number of units she could mobilize each day would only grow.

Under the control of brain bugs, this main force split into three routes to simultaneously attack three Tyrant Cities near Talon's City.

The reason for attacking them at once was that intelligence indicated these three Demon Tyrants were closely related and had cooperated many times to face enemies from further away.

If she attacked only one, the other two would certainly come to its aid. It was better to be thorough, so she divided the 800,000 Swarm into three parts to occupy their territories at maximum speed.

Two hours later, a Swarm of 250,000 units arrived before the first city.

This was the current 1st Legion of the Swarm.

The powerful Zerg struck first, launching hundreds of thousands of rockets. They followed up with long-range fire, bombarding the city walls for a full minute until they completely collapsed.

Subsequently, over 100,000 melee bugs surged into the city under long-range support and began their slaughter.

The mighty ultralisks became the core of this assault.

Xia Jin’s projection also entered the city first, directly locating the enemy Demon Tyrant and killing it.

As that body was devoured, Xia Jin felt the strength of her projection and her true body reach the peak Tier 13.

However, reaching Tier 14 would require a staggering amount of energy.

“The higher the level, the harder it is to upgrade,” she mused.

She wasn't in a hurry though, because the Zerg’s rate of improvement was truly too fast.

After the first city was captured, the 2nd Legion and 3rd Legion arrived at their designated cities and launched their attacks as well.

Since she didn't have a projection there, the difficulty of the assault in those two locations was slightly higher.

But relying on the saturation of hundreds of thousands of rockets, the Demon Tyrants were ultimately blasted to death.

Most demons were unable to fly.

Those that could fly generally lacked intelligence; this was a characteristic of the Abyss.

Under these circumstances, the Zerg deployed over 2,000 mutalisks and Devourers to participate in the air raids.

Originally, in Xia Jin’s view, some bugs were strictly anti-air.

But she soon realized that wasn't the case.

Even using anti-air bugs to attack the ground was perfectly fine. However, if she used specialized anti-ground units like brood lords to fight in the air, the results were disastrous—they simply couldn't win.

Now, with the support of powerful aerial firepower, countless glaive wurms and acidic spores rained down from the sky.

The demons on the ground were massacred.

Although many powerful individuals could easily strike the mutalisks in the sky, their hit rate was actually very low.

It was like using outdated anti-aircraft guns to shoot at modern fighter jets; once the distance increased even slightly or the speed picked up, the hit rate became pitifully low.

After a full day of fighting, all three cities were occupied.

Under the leadership of the enhanced elf bugs, all resisting demons were wiped out, and those remaining could only submissively accept their new masters.

Once the demons learned that the Zerg had captured four Tyrant Cities in succession, they were completely convinced.

Xia Jin used absolute strength to make them surrender.

As for things like betrayal... the power gap was so vast that such a possibility simply didn't exist.

After this wave of attacks ended, the demons seemed to have spread the news through some means.

Overseers in the sky discovered movements in several distant demon cities.

Of course, having several cities fall within just a few days was a situation no single Demon Tyrant could handle alone.

Seeing different Demon Tyrants contacting each other and preparing to resist the Zerg invasion, Xia Jin only chuckled secretly.

“What's the point? I'm attacking again tomorrow.”

Indeed, the Zerg's production speed was getting faster and faster. On one hand, the progress of laying creep on the moon was accelerating, and on the other, the planet's surface was also being covered frantically.

The result was that the daily output of bugs was increasing.

Bugs specifically meant for producing fodder, like the swarm host, would no longer be increased, and scourges were kept at limited numbers.

Aside from the steady production of the navy, almost everything produced now consisted of the Zerg's main force.