Chapter 1558
Chapter 1558: [Saint Card – Never-Falling Deathrattle]
This devouring lasted for two full wasteland days.
No one knew what was happening in that mysterious space inside the high tower.
All people could hear was a series of crunching sounds, like some monster chewing on raw meat.
The soldiers of Sleyilin were somewhat worried.
After all, the Zerg’s deputy legion commander and their commander, Ye Qiyan, had lost contact at the exact same time.
Obviously, the two were fighting in the hidden space above this high tower.
This chewing sound… did not sound like it came from a human, but rather like the noise only bugs would make.
Had Commander Ye Qiyan already lost?
Some people began to harbor such worries.
However, Raymond, the legion commander of the Sleyilin soldiers, did not think so.
He didn’t know Ye Qiyan very well.
Nor did he know just how famous he was in the current wilderness; he only knew one thing…
Ye Qiyan was very strong.
It wasn’t the kind of strength based on pure power, but a form of power that Raymond had never witnessed before.
Complex, impure, imperfect.
Look at these mechanical parts, look at those demons, and those Calamity Beasts that resembled demons, as well as the endless, madly appearing calamities and scourges…
He had never imagined that a human could Control so many powers simultaneously without any imbalance.
If any of these powers were taken out and grown to their limit, they would surely make someone a Top-Tier Train Captain.
But how many did Ye Qiyan possess?
It was immeasurable…
No one knew how many unknown powers still existed under Ye Qiyan’s command within that [Pride].
Raymond knew even less.
“Have faith in the commander. Besides, didn’t Commander Fan Huo say so too? Commander Ye Qiyan will never lose.”
Fan Huo’s reinforcements had already arrived on the second day.
These materials were neatly arranged together, guarded by a group of Orderkeepers.
They did not participate in the war; even if the insect swarm rushed in, they would never interfere.
[War Card – Absolute Command]
During these two days, Fan Huo had successfully raised his command authority from 50% to 73% from Qiandao Turing.
Even though this kept his brain in a state of extreme frenzy at all times, making his sea of Mental Power boil as hot as a furnace!
Yet Fan Huo did not stop directing the war for even a single second.
He would not interfere with the strong, but for the weak, he had become so obsessively meticulous that he would even correct the prone posture of a single machine gunner.
Qiandao Turing cursed Fan Huo as a madman.
He even said that everyone who possessed a Card Series was a lunatic.
Fan Huo begged to differ.
He felt that within the Emperor Sequence, aside from his habit of smoking too many cigars, he was the most normal one, without exception.
A flash of information streamed past Fan Huo’s eyes.
[“Ye Qiyan… don’t disappoint yourself…”]
Fortress Town, Sleyilin, Megastructure Mechanical Defensive Line, Top of the Tower.
Ye Qiyan picked up the silver-white Gluttony Slime and chuckled.
“Full?”
It rubbed against Ye Qiyan’s finger, seemingly a bit hesitant.
“Over a hundred thousand Stamina is indeed hard to swallow. It really is just a bug after all; without the presence of the Hive Mind, performing Bewitchment on it was incredibly easy.
In fact, because it had been suppressed for too long, simply using Utopia’s power to suppress it made it completely unaware that it was being swallowed alive.
Keeping it unconscious like this was truly exhausting.”
Xienzuo had almost woken up several times, driven by survival instinct.
Especially as a bug, when it was being devoured, even if its Mental Power and will could not resist, its body still wanted to put up some resistance.
During these two wasteland days, Ye Qiyan and his companions had forcibly suppressed Xienzuo, until just a moment ago, when its last bit of Stamina was completely worn away by Gluttony.
Ye Qiyan poked his finger into Gluttony’s body and stirred it.
Before his eyes, the Life Conversion List emerged.
“Fortunately, it was all worth it.”
[Steam King, Goblin Apostle, Goblin Hero King, Hellhound, Mognus… True God: Predatory Skull, Gemulate Xienzuo]
Two True God-level powers.
Although this bug was somewhat inflated in Ye Qiyan’s eyes, the most important purpose of its existence was not for combat, but rather…
“Heh.”
Pride dispersed, the Anchor Point was released, and the outside world could see the scene here once again.
Gluttony began to transform, eventually taking on the appearance of Gemulate Xienzuo, but unlike when it was alive, Ye Qiyan did not keep its head.
A headless half-human, half-spider monster thus appeared beside Ye Qiyan.
“Before that Broodmother can react, let’s give them a little surprise. Gluttony, infuse malice into the Hive Mind! Turn as many bugs into demons as you can!!”
Ye Qiyan’s hand pierced through the heart of this body.
A black Inverted Cross shadow appeared in his eyes, and a pair of burning, flaming demon horns manifested out of thin air.
The Cloak of Evil draped over his shoulders fluttered in the wind.
Found it.
Using Xienzuo’s connection, which had only been forcibly blocked by Ye Qiyan through [Demon Card: Infinity] and [Hyperspace: Void Realm Descent], the Hive Mind actively reconnected to Xienzuo the moment the space was released.
And at the very moment that connection truly began…
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[Zerg – Predatory Empire]
Wearing a full set of angel battle armor, the twelve wings behind her were connected to the [Ring of Heaven], forming a massive halo behind her back.
In the Heaven of Shattered Dreams, countless Faceless Holy Soldiers chanted hymns.
The horn of [Angel Card – Doomsday] had been blown to its absolute limit.
“Sister Nun!”
Angel Tina of [Angel Card – Death-Knelling] rang the vesper bell!
Shaya unleashed her power without holding anything back.
Dark red blood flowed down her wrist onto the Holy Angel Sword.
She had already brought forth all of her past strength, and the new powers she had obtained from her unsealing up until now were also being depleted bit by bit.
Shaya threw a punch, and from high in the heavens, a colossal black-gold Upright Cross crashed down simultaneously with her fist.
“Ha!”
[Exclusive Module – Skyfall!]
“An interesting little girl.”
The Broodmother made no attempt to hide her admiration for Shaya. She did not dodge; facing the strike imbued with [Death-Knelling], she crossed her hands, and a thin, translucent barrier appeared between them, stopping the punch that was powerful enough to shatter a planet.
There was not a single opening in the battle between Shaya and the Broodmother; Shaya even went so far as to actively let herself ‘die’ and then ‘reborn’ just to refresh her state.
But the Myriad Star Path, supporting Shaya from within the stars, knew very well.
Shaya could not win. He had already heard the whispers of fate before she even arrived here.
Even Shaya herself knew this.
No, let alone winning, there was a very high probability that Shaya would suffer a crushing defeat here; even with her unlimited resurrections, she would still be severely injured.
Therefore, their only purpose was to search for that Card Series.
Where was that card?
Myriad Star Path was certain he hadn’t misheard. That newly born Card Series…
…should be right here in the Predatory Empire, or rather… at the place closest to the Broodmother.
However, right at this moment.
A sudden change occurred.
The Broodmother, who had been completely at ease, suddenly frowned. Due to this momentary lapse, the barrier in front of her was shattered by Shaya, who seized the opportunity.
She was shot down to the ground, kicking up a cloud of dust.
“…Ha, hahahaha! How interesting! For the first time ever, someone actually dared to break into my mind to act as a thief, Ye Qiyan!!!”
The Broodmother laughed, laughing extremely wildly, as if she had encountered the funniest joke since her birth.
Because just now,
right within her sea of Mental Power—the Hive Mind!
that Card Series, which had mysteriously been born there and was supposed to be used only by humans, was stolen~
And that little thief had even left a deep imprint in her Hive Mind.
It was a black, Inverted Cross imprint.
[Rebellion – Devil]
Under the influence of this imprint, the Hive Mind connected to billions of insect soldiers glitched, causing them to identify themselves as [Devils].
But none of that mattered.
It wouldn’t matter even if countless of these little bugs died.
What truly infuriated the Broodmother was that stolen Card Series.
That was supposed to be the very first Card Series of the Zerg.
Now,
it was gone.
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“Hiss, there was actually such an unexpected harvest? But this Hive Mind is indeed formidable; I was detected after invading for less than an instant.”
Ye Qiyan couldn’t help but click his tongue as he looked at Xienzuo’s melting body beside him.
This life conversion was essentially ruined.
But he didn’t feel the slightest bit of regret.
Because at this moment, right in his hand, a Card Series hovered.
[Saint Card – Never-Falling Deathrattle]
