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Ian tapped the screen with his finger, and amidst the flashing silver light, scan data flowed down like a waterfall.

"Tower Spirit, expand the scan range and focus on analyzing that purple target."

"Yes, scan complete. Target is a high-intensity, giant life form, consistent with the characteristics of a Void Mother Nest, located 293 million kilometers away. Flight path calculation in progress..."

On the screen, two dotted lines begin to extend forward.

The dilapidated wizard tower's flight path was erratic and erratic, clearly indicating that it had lost its ability to be controlled stably.

Meanwhile, the huge purple spot of light behind it pursued it at a steady pace, following an almost straight path.

The final point where their paths converged almost completely overlapped with the route from the Tower of Eternity to the Purple Mist World in the distant depths of the void.

Ian's brow furrowed slowly.

Was it a chance encounter with the hive? Or has the Zerg already set their sights on this area of ​​the void?

Have the league's top management noticed anything amiss? Why haven't any warning messages been sent?

Countless speculations churned in his mind, but he quickly suppressed them.

In the void, hesitation is death.

"Tower Spirit, disable all active scanning, activate the blind spot rune array at maximum power, and maintain silent navigation mode."

"Do not connect to distress signals to avoid being exposed," Ian said coldly.

The fine silver patterns on the tower's surface began to undulate, and millions of runes simultaneously adjusted their output frequency.

The kilometer-tall dark silver tower became increasingly blurry against the backdrop of the void.

When the blind spot rune array is fully activated, even the perception of the world's will will be instinctively ignored. This is one of Ian's trump cards, which he personally inscribed over a year.

The images on the screen are still moving forward.

As the distance closed to two million kilometers, clearer images were captured by the passive sensing system.

The fourth-level wizard tower was half broken, and the protective runes on its surface were dim and lifeless. Each spatial jump left a chaotic spatial aftershock behind it.

Pursuing it was a dark purple sphere with a diameter of over a thousand miles, its surface covered with countless twisted insectoid bodies piled up in layers.

Dark purple carapace, wriggling tentacles, ferocious mouthparts that open and close constantly, and huge compound eyes embedded in the fleshy growth.

Each compound eye was slowly rotating, scanning for the fleeing prey ahead.

Level 5 Void Mother Nest.

Ian had seen it once before, across the world barrier, in the world of Exoc, but that time it was only a part of the Mother Nest that had penetrated.

What lies before us is a complete war nest that freely navigates the void.

The good news is that the Mother Nest appears to have made no discovery of the Tower of Eternity.

All its compound eyes were fixed on the dilapidated wizard tower in front of it, and its cold hunting will could be felt even through the screen.

"Their target is also the Purple Mist World; perhaps... there are other secrets there?"

Ian looked at the calculated overlap of the flight paths, a cold glint in his eyes.

The Purple Mist World is located on the edge of the Alliance's territory. This remote and isolated world is indeed an excellent nesting location for the Zerg, allowing them to quietly multiply and grow, turning the entire world into a hatchery.

But the fact that this Morning Star Wizard also appeared nearby could not be a coincidence.

"Avoiding it is impossible; that's my territory!"

Ian slowly rose, walked to the crystal wall, and gazed through the tower into the depths of the void.

The mother nest's flight path intersected with his route. Once the other party arrived in the Purple Mist World first, it would be difficult to clear it out.

Encountering a level 5 Mother Nest in the void is a nightmare for any level 4 Morningstar Wizard.

But Ian showed no fear, only the excitement of the hunt.

The Wizard Tower, which he spent two years building with a huge amount of resources, needs a real battle to prove its power, doesn't it?

"Taling, adjust your course and circle around to the flank of the Mother Nest."

"Maintain concealment and prepare to approach to the optimal firing range of the main gun."

"Weapon system warm-up, Void Annihilation Cannon begins its first charge."

A series of commands were calmly issued, and all the runes in the control room simultaneously lit up with a ghostly glow.

"Yes, Master, the flight path is being adjusted... We are currently detouring. The blind spot rune array is operating stably, and the expected exposure probability is less than 0.3%."

"Void Annihilation Cannon is charging, estimated charging time 27 seconds."

The Tower of Eternity made several short spatial jumps in succession, drawing a perfect arc in the void, silently bypassing the dilapidated wizard tower.

As the distance to the Void Mother Nest rapidly closed, the grotesque details became increasingly clear.

Ian could even see the Zerg bodies piled up on the surface of the hive; some were still slowly wriggling, while others were already shriveled and dead.

The entire mother nest is a gigantic living planet, and with each breath, it spews out a large amount of purple energy mist.

These mists condense into tiny insect eggs in the void, attach to the surface of the mother nest, and are then swallowed and digested by the flowing fleshy tissue, which redistributes the energy.

This involves continuously updating combat units.

Ian's eyes narrowed slightly. The silver dot representing the Tower of Eternity on the screen had moved to the side and rear of the Mother Nest, the distance shortening to 100,000 kilometers.

This distance is practically face-to-face for void travel.

The countless compound eyes of the Void Mother Nest remained fixed on the fleeing wizard tower ahead, completely unaware of the danger on its flanks.

"Tower Spirit, lock onto the area with the most concentrated energy reaction in the Mother Nest core."

"Master, charging complete, Void Annihilation Cannon ready, target locked, estimated hit rate 99.7%."

Ian took a deep breath, slowly raised his right hand, and then pressed it down.

"Fire."

The unassuming silver spikes at the top of the tower suddenly shone with a blinding gray light.

The golden energy of order and the purple demonic energy inside, along with the void energy in the energy pool, all surged wildly into the Annihilation Cannon.

The two polar rules collide within the meticulously designed rune array, transforming into the purest annihilation energy, which then surges forth through the energy-conducting structure at the top of the tower.

A gray beam of light, about a meter thick, silently pierced through the void.

Wherever it passed, space shattered, and the fragments were swallowed up and disappeared by the gray light before they could even disperse.

The beam of light instantly traversed 100,000 kilometers of space.

The compound eyes on the surface of the mother nest, which rotated slowly, only reacted at the last moment.

Tens of thousands of compound eyes simultaneously turned to their sides, staring in alarm at the hazy beam of light.

hiss!!!!

A heart-wrenching scream exploded in the void.

Even through the layers of protection of the wizard tower, Ian felt a slight tremor in his mind.

On the screen, a huge hole with a diameter of more than ten kilometers appeared in the area where the mother nest was hit.

The fleshy tissue, carapace, compound eyes, energy channels... inside the cavity all vanished into nothingness.

It's like someone using an eraser to wipe away the material and rules along with that area.

The dark purple blood gushing from inside the nest disappeared immediately upon contact with the edge of the cavity.

The annihilation beam pierced through nearly a third of the thickness of the hive, erupting on the other side and continuing its trajectory into the depths of the void.

The mother nest's enormous body began to convulse violently.

On the surface of the sphere, which was over a thousand miles in diameter, countless Zerg bodies twisted and fell off in a frenzy, plummeting into the void.

Those compound eyes, which had been slowly turning, were now wide open, revealing disbelief, anger, and pain.

It couldn't understand why it was suddenly attacked when there was nothing around it.

Suddenly, it sensed a wizard's tower a thousand meters high behind it.

The spatial fluctuations after the Wizard Tower's attack were too great, making it impossible to hide any longer.

Ian decided to stop hiding it and openly revealed the wizard tower.

He intends to shatter this heavily damaged level-five void mother nest head-on.

Meanwhile, about 500,000 kilometers away.

Inside the dilapidated level four wizard tower, the control room was in complete disarray.

The energy pipes ruptured, the rune array flickered, and pale blue coolant flowed across the ground.

The Morning Star Wizard Antonio slumped in the control chair, his face ashen, as the Tower Spirit's mechanical alarms continued to sound.

[Warning: The tower's structural damage continues to worsen]

[Warning: Energy reserves have dropped to 18%]

[Warning: The distance to the target behind has been reduced to 450,000 kilometers]

His eyes were already somewhat unfocused; this level-five mother nest had already pursued him for the distance of three entire worlds.

Each space jump consumes a large amount of energy, but the Hive can always catch up thanks to its keen sense of void energy.

He tried to fight back, but the weapons of the level four wizard tower struck the surface of the mother nest like stones thrown into the ocean, not even causing a ripple.

Just when he was almost in despair, the panoramic screen in the control room was suddenly filled with a blinding gray light.

Antonio squinted instinctively, then his pupils contracted sharply.

He saw a hazy beam of light shoot out from the side and rear of the mother nest, hitting its core area precisely.

The massive body of the mother nest looked as if it had been pierced directly by a giant with a gray iron rod, and the screams could be heard even through the screen.

"This...this is..."

Antonio sat bolt upright, wincing in pain as the excruciating pain shot through his head, but he couldn't care less.

He frantically retrieved the detection data, and the screen displayed the analysis results of the attack source.

High-intensity rule annihilation reaction detected.

[Attack Source: Level 4 Wizard Tower]

Distance: Approximately 500,000 kilometers

[Energy Intensity: Exceeds Level 4 Threshold by 1037%]

"A level four wizard tower?"

Antonio muttered to himself, his face first showing ecstasy, then turning to confusion.

He thought it was the vehicle of Lord Huiyue who was passing by, but the detection results clearly showed that it was only level four.

What kind of level four wizard tower could severely damage a level five mother nest in one blow?

His own wizard tower was also level four, but when he struck the mother hive with all his might, he couldn't even penetrate its shell.

On the screen, the wizard tower that had just finished firing was now fully revealed.

The tower, a kilometer tall and dark silver, is covered with star and moon patterns. The silver spikes at the top of the tower are slowly fading, and black spatial cracks still remain around it.

"What level of stealth rune is this... no wonder I didn't notice it before..."

Antonio's eyes flashed with understanding, but the next moment, his expression changed again.

Because on the screen, the Dark Silver Wizard Tower did not choose to retreat or hide after completing its firing.

The thirty-six secondary cannons on the surface of the tower instantly lit up with a crimson light.

Beams of intense heat, like crimson spears, once again slammed into the wounded area of ​​the mother nest.

The brood mound had just recovered from the excruciating pain and was preparing to lock onto the attackers when the second wave of attacks arrived.

Although the crimson heat beams did not have the effect of the annihilation cannon, each strike blasted craters into the surface of the Mother Nest.

The dark purple flesh and blood were vaporized by the high temperature, the carapace melted and flowed, and the compound eyes burst in the high temperature.

The wailing of the mother hive grew even more piercing, and the sphere, thousands of miles in diameter, suddenly shuddered, with countless Zerg bodies falling off its surface in a frenzy.

The detached insectoids spread their wings in the void, adjusted their posture, and then surged towards the wizard tower like a tide.

This is a true sea of ​​insects.

Every second, hundreds of thousands of Zerg detach from the surface of the hive and merge into the black torrent in the void.

Level 4 Guardian Bugs, Shadowwing Bugs, Bone-Eating Bugs, Raptors, Corruptors... and some powerful units that Ian had never seen before.

The Zerg hierarchy operates perfectly under the oversight of the Hive's will.

Low-level units charge to the front to deplete enemy firepower, mid-level units seize opportunities to advance, and high-level units hide in the swarm of insects, ready to deliver a fatal blow.

This is the Zerg's most terrifying tactic: overwhelming everything with sheer numbers.

As Antonio stared at the overwhelming swarm of insects on the screen, the glimmer of hope that had just risen within him sank to the bottom once more.

"It's over..." His lips trembled, his fingers gripping the broken control panel tightly.

That wizard tower is indeed very strong, but how long can it hold out against a swarm of insects of this size?

The energy reserves of a level 4 Wizard Tower are limited, while the Mother Nest can continuously produce Zerg.

Once the energy is depleted...

Just as he was about to look away and prepare to run away again, the Dark Silver Wizard Tower on the screen did something he couldn't understand at all.

It did not jump to dodge, nor did it try to create distance for guerrilla warfare.

The tower glowed with a silvery-gray halo, forming a spherical force field with a diameter of over 30,000 kilometers.

Gravity shield.

All the Zerg that rushed into the force field suddenly lost tenfold speed, as if they had been plunged into sticky glue, making even flapping their wings incredibly difficult.

Immediately afterwards, the runes on the second layer of the tower body lit up with a pale golden light.

Pale golden purifying ripples spread outwards from the Wizard Tower.

Wherever the ripples passed, the slowed-down Zerg began to emit blue smoke from their carapaces.

The dark purple flesh and blood tissue rapidly dried up and carbonized in the golden light, turning into ashes.

Especially for those Corruptors who rely on energy attacks, the acid sacs inside their bodies burst the moment the purification ripples touched them.

Before the dark green acid could even be sprayed out, it was completely purified into harmless water vapor by the golden light.

But that's far from enough; the sheer number of insects is overwhelming.

Driven by intense pain and rage, the Broodmother has entered a frenzied army-building mode.

On the surface of its sphere, which was a thousand miles in diameter, the fleshy tissue began to shrink violently, and its volume shrank again by a large margin, from a thousand miles in diameter to less than eight hundred miles.

The saved materials and energy were all converted into new Zerg units.

More Zerg detached from the shrinking surface of the mother hive and joined the Zerg horde, and the black torrent surged forth once more.

The thirty-six secondary cannons were firing at full power, their crimson heat beams carving out blank paths through the swarm of insects, each shot capable of wiping out tens of thousands of insects.

But the passage will soon be filled by the subsequent Zerg.

"This won't do! Our energy reserves are about to run out!"

Antonio stared intently at the screen, his eyes bloodshot, his heart pounding with tension.

He could guess the predicament the wizard's tower was facing; the pressure on energy reserves from such full-scale firepower consumption was terrifying.

Sure enough, just three minutes later, the firing rate of the Dark Silver Wizard Tower's secondary cannons began to decrease.

The beam rate was reduced from hundreds of beams per second to tens of beams per second.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, the swarm of insects advanced forward, and was now less than 30,000 kilometers away from the tower.

This distance is practically face-to-face in void combat.

Some extremely fast Shadowwing Bugs rushed to the edge of the gravity shield, their sharp limbs beginning to frantically cut through the silver-gray force field, causing ripples to spread across its surface.

"Can't hold on any longer...?"

A look of regret flashed in Antonio's eyes. Just then, the silver spikes at the top of the Dark Silver Wizard Tower lit up with a gray light once more.

The second charge is complete.

"Again?!" Antonio's eyes widened suddenly.

This time, the mother nest was clearly on guard.

On its spherical surface, which had shrunk to eight hundred miles, tens of thousands of compound eyes simultaneously locked onto the gray light at the spire.

At the core of the mother nest, a terrifying fluctuation of soul energy began to brew.

A full-force soul strike from a level five being is enough to severely injure the operators inside, even through the protection of the wizard tower.

A full-force soul strike from a level five being is enough to severely injure the operators inside, even through the protection of the wizard tower.

But the Dark Silver Wizard Tower reacted even faster; the runes on the third layer of the tower suddenly lit up, emitting a peculiar fluctuation.

Another application of blind zone rune arrays is information interference.

The scene seen by tens of thousands of compound eyes in the mother nest simultaneously became momentarily chaotic.

The position of the gray light at the spire shifted slightly, as if viewing an object through a distorted lens.

It was this momentary interference that caused the soul-stirring process brewing in the mother nest to hesitate for a fleeting instant.

That instant was enough for the Annihilation Cannon, and the gray beam of light shot out again.

The mother nest tried to evade, but its eight-hundred-mile-long sphere turned in the void at a snail's pace.

The gray light accurately struck the core area on the other side of the mother nest, creating another cavity with a diameter of over ten kilometers.

This time, the void penetrated directly through the mother nest's energy storage node.

Dark purple energy liquid gushed out of the hole like a waterfall, condensing into strange crystals in the void.

The mother nest's agonizing cries had taken on a despair.

Its massive body began to tremble violently, and countless insectoids on its surface were thrown into the void by the tremor.

It contracted wildly again, shrinking from a diameter of 800 li to 500 li, 300 li, and 100 li.

The mother hive abandoned all its outer defenses and recycled all matter and energy into its core.

It wants to escape.

Inside the wizard tower's control room, he slowly closed his eyes, the skin between his eyebrows slightly bulging and spreading to the sides.

A dark gold eye slowly emerged from between the eyebrows, opening a tiny slit.

This forbidden magical artifact, which also revolves around the clash of two opposing rules, has its power amplified tenfold with the energy support of the Wizard Tower.

Deep within the eyeball, order and abyssal energy collided and annihilated each other, finally coalescing into a single point of blinding gray light.

Ian appeared outside the tower in a flash, the slit between his brows widening suddenly.

"Star Devourer!"

A sharp shout echoed through the void.

The accumulated, hazy beam of light shot out, its target aimed directly at the core of the mother nest, which had shrunk to a diameter of a hundred miles.

The tremors of the mother nest suddenly stopped, and fine cracks appeared on the surface of the sphere, which was a hundred miles in diameter.

The crack started from the point of impact and spread like a spider web across the entire sphere.

Then it collapsed silently.

At the core of the mother nest, the matter and energy that had been compressed hundreds of times began to collapse in a chain reaction under the annihilation effect of the Star-Eating Eye.

Like a toppled domino, the collapse spreads from the inside out.

The mother nest let out a piercing shriek; it was unwilling and could not understand it.

I am a level-five void mother nest, having traversed the void for hundreds of thousands of years and devoured countless worlds.

I never imagined I'd be defeated by a level four wizard tower.

"Human wizard...you just wait..."

After letting out a defiant roar, the sphere, with a diameter of a hundred miles, suddenly disintegrated in the void.

Countless Zerg bodies, fleshy tissues, and energy veins scattered in all directions.

The core of the purple fleshy ball crashed through the void and disappeared.

Ian watched helplessly as the other person escaped, but did not give chase; it was too late anyway.

Each opened void rift leads to a different location, which is what makes the Void Zerg so troublesome.

But it doesn't matter, today's results are already glorious enough, at least we directly destroyed its stronghold.

It would be impossible to fully recover in less than several decades or even centuries.