Zerg in the crystal wall system world

The fighting on the front lines is becoming increasingly fierce.

After losing its anti-twist properties, the overall strength of the Zerg fleet has decreased significantly.

This is not just a general weakening of the carapace and claws.

As the earliest and most widely used mutation, the use of swarm-resistant twisted essence has now spread to every cell.

Similar to how terrestrial organisms use antioxidant systems to combat the damage caused by reactive oxygen species, restricting oxygen to cellular energy metabolism and making reactive oxygen a necessary part of biological reactions.

The swarm also derived a series of anti-twist enzymes and anti-twist agents from the anti-twist essence to restrain supernatural powers.

It's not just about binding the soul. Magic, the power of nature, battle aura, soul tempering... the anti-torsion properties play an important balancing role in the application of these extraordinary powers.

The disappearance of the anti-distortion rules means that most life processes related to supernatural powers will either go out of control or become stuck.

Nowadays, most units are deeply bound to at least two or more supernatural powers, and some specialized units even rely on specific supernatural powers for their survival.

If the evolution of the insect swarm hadn't been based on the purpose of warfare, with an emphasis on adaptability and ample functional redundancy, the fate of the current insect swarm would be the same as what would happen to Earth's biosphere without oxygen.

Worse still, based on the Hive's will architecture, such large-scale unit movements inevitably divert most of the attention of high-level command units. Even those individuals who can rely on high-level psionic energy or high-level souls are also constrained.

With problems arising simultaneously at the middle and top levels, the Zerg swarm's forces at the front lines are gradually collapsing.

This problem is not unsolvable.

In fact, using anti-torsion systems to restrain and utilize supernatural powers is simply the most efficient and versatile method under comprehensive consideration.

Even without an anti-torsion system, organisms can still utilize life force through high-level fibrosis; solve the development problem of soul-tempered units through secondary soul tempering; and induce and constrain torsion forces through steel stamps...

These are all mutations that have matured long ago, and the relevant essence is stored in each evolutionary cavity.

Those warship units and colossal units with multiple evolution cavities within their bodies can complete the gene insertion and rapid mutation of all their own cells in just a few hours.

Unfortunately, a few hours was more than enough time for the God of Light's fleet to storm into the pure insect hive...

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at the same time.

Hundreds of worlds away.

The insect hive world.

The massive upheaval affecting the entire swarm did not seem to have impacted the stability here.

The vast fungal carpet is wriggling vigorously, with huge vascular bundles bulging out to transport massive amounts of nutrients and substances to the edge of the carpet.

Here stands a towering wall covered in fungal carpet, reaching into the clouds.

At the top of the giant wall, you can see huge tunnel worms protruding from the side of the wall and spraying slurry in all directions.

The splashed liquid, before it even hit the ground, was caught by an inexplicable force and then drifted and gathered together.

Above the wall, you can see several worker bees, their pincers aimed at the liquid and waving in the distance.

The angle and direction of the pliers' swings were perfectly aligned with the direction of the paddle's movement.

That was not telekinesis.

Rather, it is a supernatural power based on the special connection between the soul and the elements—that is, magic.

These worker bees look rather strange, with their bodies divided into sections. Their entire upper body stands upright, and their huge pincers grow out to the sides of their bodies to form "shoulders," making the whole insect look human-like.

More importantly, it is covered with crystalline structures.

Clearly, this is a worker bee with specialized spellcasting abilities. Under the spellcasting of the crystallizing worker bee, the elemental groups on the surface of the slurry rapidly change their properties, quickly solidifying into a tall solid tower.

This is a pure insect nest.

The biggest difference between this and a normal insect hive is that everything here has undergone special soul tempering, allowing it to leave a projection within the hive's will. This includes elemental particles.

The Swarm acquired spellcasting abilities from Warcraft a long time ago, but has never used them on a large scale.

This is similar to how insect swarms, which long ago possessed the ability to biosynthesize high-explosives and combustibles, ultimately chose acid due to the issue of accidental injury.

Magic, by creating damage through high temperatures, high energy, and high gravity, is incompatible with the combat methods of Zerg ground forces, so it has not been incorporated into the combat system.

Previously, the Zerg swarm primarily used magic on constructed units, such as the incubator's thermoregulation and the Netherwing's gravity chambers... rarely involving active spellcasting. But things are different now. The basic elements have been incorporated into the Hive's will, significantly reducing the difficulty of casting spells.

Only a small amount of mutation is needed to gain tremendous combat power.

Moreover, once "matter" is incorporated into the Hive Will, a faction representing this "matter" naturally needs to emerge within the Hive Will.

It is already foreseeable that the elemental swarm will rise to power...

However, in the pure insect hives of today, the spellcasters are only these crystal bees.

As the towers rise, the fleshy tissue below clings to them. Some nest worms fly and weave silk threads, allowing the fungal carpet to form a thin film based on the fibrous network between the towers, gradually mineralizing to create a bony wall.

If you extend your field of vision further, you will find that at the far distance of the high wall, it connects with two other high walls, forming three standard 120-degree angles.

Further away, one can see that the entire fungal carpet is densely covered with hexagonal grids formed by high walls.

A honeycomb-shaped insect nest.

This is an ancient but classic nest structure. The hexagonal shape has a great advantage in terms of structural stability and material saving. Each cell has a set of building organs with the hatchery as the core, which is also in line with the insect nest's will structure.

However, this is still an outdated structure.

The swarm is not lacking in worlds composed entirely of organic matter; the airdrop hive, the Great Atuin hive, and the dominant pleco hive are all of this type, but none of them adopt this hexagonal giant skeletal structure.

This is because the twisted core and floating cavity adjust gravity, so most of the time there is no need to consider load issues.

The Soul-Forged Skeleton's strength, exceeding the limits of matter, allows it to easily support weight even in the rare instances where load needs to be considered, eliminating the need to construct such a massive wall.

The main reason for using the honeycomb structure is that pure insect hives do not use soul tempering on a large scale; even magic is only used to assist production, not as an important support.

Overall, supernatural powers do not account for a large proportion of this world.

This is certainly not because the swarm anticipated that the Order would erase the anti-distortion rules.

In the early days of the pure Zerg hive, various extraordinary mutations were employed here, and its current form is purely due to environmental factors...

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Just as the bone wall was growing ever higher, a small starquake suddenly struck.

However, this did not cause any disruption to the rules; on the contrary, the "physical rules" were strengthened.

The glint on the crystal bee went out, and the sap suspended by magic fell from the sky, but the tower that was bound together by magic did not collapse—the properties of the elements did not change, only the connection between the living beings and the elements was severed.

Correspondingly, the power of nature disappeared, some small-scale temporary soul tempering collapsed on the spot, and even the operation of the Soul Abyss was momentarily stagnant.

All supernatural powers ceased. Only the most distorted knot at the very core of the world, relying on a large number of high-level souls, forcibly maintained its original efficiency.

This is due to the reverse unfolding of the world's superconscious entities.

According to the goblin theory, the world superconsciousness is a projection of all soul structures in a sub-dimensional space; according to the understanding of traditional witchcraft, the world superconsciousness is the convergence of the desires of all things and spirits, including humans, elves, monsters, jungles, mountains, and oceans.

Regardless of the interpretation, it is a crucial support for the operation of the world. In the era before the birth of stars, it was the world's superconscious entity that maintained the basic material rules.

Or rather, the "ordinary" in the extraordinary and the "reality" in the distorted reality are actually defined by the world's superconscious entity.

How vast is the chaotic collection of the will of all spirits?

It's just that because the reflection of the world's superconsciousness is not in the same dimension as the material world, after the world barrier was dissolved, only a small amount of distorted power fell into the material dimension.

But now, a channel has emerged that connects the real dimension with the world's superconscious entity.

This is also what makes a pure insect hive special.

Whether it's a forbidden spell, a truth machine, or even the most ordinary prophet, the connection to the world's superconsciousness is unidirectional. But the swarm's method of "using the world as a conduit" is bidirectional, not only connecting to the world's superconsciousness but also pulling its power into the material dimension.

Due to its extreme chaos, it is difficult to measure the specific distortion intensity of the world's superconscious entity.

But what is certain at least is that at its peak fluctuation, the distortion intensity exceeded the thirteenth order—the Emperor's soul structure was essentially "comprehended" through observation of the world's superconscious structure.

The thirteenth-order distortion power can ignore the barriers of space and world.

With a little guidance, this "materialistic distortion" can be projected onto any part of the crystal wall system...

...(End of this chapter)