With this tier increase, the Zerg can now be considered a standard starfaring species.
Their newly acquired curvature flight capability might be enhanced in the future; leaving their home planet is no longer just a dream.
By now, the Zerg armies had slowly occupied more demon cities. However, because every city required a garrison for suppression, their current troop numbers were completely insufficient.
Fortunately, now that the brood lords had been upgraded, the broodlings they produced reached a staggering Tier 8.
This level of strength allowed them to exert significant combat power within the Abyss.
Consequently, a large number of brood lords were given temporary upgrades and rushed to the front lines to bolster the main force.
A few days later, Xia Jin finally captured the birthplace of the demons—an unnamed rift valley.
It was thousands of kilometers long, with an average width of ten kilometers.
Xia Jin stood on one side of the valley, looking down at the dense carpet of bugs below.
“Bugs?”
They were worms of every color.
They were slaughtering and devouring one another.
Some of these worms had already evolved to the point of growing wings.
“Hiss... is this the source of the demons? Why do they feel like distant relatives of my Zerg?”
Xia Jin actually felt a strange sense of kinship.
Lately, she had been feeling an inexplicable closeness to anything bug-like. Was there really something wrong with her?
However, the Zerg would never engage in such internal slaughter.
Even for a Defiler, who needed to rely on the corpses of other Zerg for temporary recovery, it could only be done with the Queen’s authorization.
No Zerg would harm a companion without cause, unless it was absolutely necessary.
“The energy of the Abyss is limited, yet so many new demons are born. Does this mean these guys can only evolve by devouring each other in this manner? Well, I suppose it is an efficient use of resources.”
A strange aura constantly wafted from within the rift valley.
This seemed to be energy coming from beyond time and space, and it was through this that the Abyss grew stronger.
Using an overseer, Brain Bug No. 1 captured images of a sufficiently large area from high altitude.
Through analysis of the energy flow patterns, it was discovered that the Abyss itself was expanding at a very slow rate.
Furthermore, there appeared to be a trend toward developing a second-layer world.
“Now that I’ve occupied this place, I imagine the demons will go insane, won’t they?”
Seeing several new demons complete their evolution to Tier 7 and slowly crawl up from the valley, Xia Jin immediately ordered a zergling to run over and seize one.
After a sharp cry, the demon was dragged before her.
“It’s actually a succubus. She’s kind of cute.”
She looked like an adolescent, drooling slightly.
It completely refreshed her perception of demons.
“Looking at it this way, I don’t need to establish a breeding farm myself. I can just let the Abyss give birth to them naturally.”
Under Xia Jin’s orders, the Zerg began to run along both sides of the rift valley.
Below was the birthplace of the demons, with some areas completely covered in eggs.
Above, the area was slowly being surrounded by the Swarm.
On the distant plains, tens of thousands of Swarm units were charging. Large demon legions launched an assault toward the valley, attempting to reclaim it, but the Zerg had concentrated a heavy force of three million within a 200-kilometer radius.
This place was important to the demons.
It was equally important to the Zerg.
The follow-up was exactly as she had predicted.
As the Zerg army advanced into the surrounding area, massive numbers of demons began to launch attacks toward them.
Millions of troops clashed in battle after battle around the perimeter.
In just three days, over twenty million demons had arrived.
Even tens of millions of low-tier demons who were not part of the regular demon warrior ranks were dragged onto the battlefield.
With such terrifying numbers, even with the Zerg’s fierce firepower, it felt like quite a strain.
On the Zerg side, they initially relied on firepower to whittle down the enemy’s numbers.
Because the scale of the demon forces was too large, simply relying on kite tactics was no longer enough. Xia Jin was forced to send the Zerg to meet the enemy head-on.
An endless black tide engaged in a brutal slaughter on the ground.
Scattered battlefields linked together across the land, forming a continuous black tide spanning hundreds of kilometers.
From skirmishes of thousands or tens of thousands to massive clusters of hundreds of thousands or even millions.
The Zerg eventually committed nearly ten million main force units to this location.
The mutalisks were also concentrated here. They flew through the sky, and with a simple flick of their tails, they could kill large numbers of demons without even needing to aim.
This battle lasted on the plains for three days and three nights.
Ultimately, under the pressure of continuous firepower, the demon army’s advantage turned into a disadvantage, and they were finally repelled by the remaining two million Swarm units.
After this brief but massive war ended, the demons ceased their attacks.
Clearly, the strength demonstrated by the Zerg had struck a long-forgotten chill into the hearts of many Demon Tyrants.
Regaining their senses, some Demon Tyrants realized that the doomsday of the demons seemed to have arrived.
Especially that young girl standing above the rift valley, her long hair and skirt fluttering in the wind, looking like a deity gazing down upon all living things.
Perhaps the Zerg were indeed a god sent to destroy the Abyss.
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