Chapter 503 - 242: Cleaning Up the Battlefield, Meeting, Trial Invitation

Chapter 503: Chapter 242: Cleaning Up the Battlefield, Meeting, Trial Invitation

"Just a Low-tier Zerg Swarm of a hundred thousand or so, plus one Early-stage Mother Empress... that shouldn’t let it break through directly to the Tier Three Late Stage, right?"

Lin Feng swallowed hard and asked.

Ling Yi smiled faintly and shook her head.

"No. At most, it will reach Tier Three Mid-Stage Perfection, infinitely close to the Late Stage."

"To ascend to the Tier Three Late Stage, simply accumulating Biomass isn’t enough. The Zerg God must perform a Divine Descent and personally bestow upon it the complete Royal Gene, granting it the ability to create Tier Three Life Forms."

"And the price..."

As she spoke, Ling Yi glanced at the unconscious Jiang Yun’er behind them.

Ling Yi had used a minor Spiritual Means to knock her out the moment they met.

After gesturing toward her target, Ling Yi didn’t hold back and revealed the conditions for ascension.

"The price is a sufficient number of foreign genetic sequences. These help the great Zerg God expand the Divine Power capacity of its Divine Kingdom, which is why it needs to devour a large number of Human Awakeners."

"The Hai City Mother Empress, for example, only completed its promotion to the Middle Stage after breaking through Wu City’s first line of defense and devouring over ten thousand of its defenders—both Enhanced People and Awakeners."

"The price and conditions for advancing to the Late Stage are even steeper, which is why nearly every Mother Empress in the North has set its sights on the Federal Capital."

"After all, millions of human survivors are gathered here. It’s a prime target. Even the scraps would be enough to fatten up a whole host of Early-stage Mother Empresses."

"Take the Mother Empress at Yunxia Ridge before we arrived, for instance."

"If it hadn’t run into us, it probably would have successfully ascended to the Tier Three Middle Stage within a week, becoming the fifth Mid-stage being in the entire North."

After hearing Ling Yi’s explanation, Lin Feng breathed a sigh of relief. He had been worried that his swift decapitation of the Mother Empress would only end up benefiting the Mid-stage Mother Empress in the rear.

’A Tier Three Late Stage being is the pinnacle of evolution on the planet—the strongest existence below Tier Four.’

’With my current strength, even with the Attribute Stacking from my Lv. 33 Reproductive Armor Mecha, I’d have no chance of winning.’

’The gap in our life form levels is just too great. If I went up against it, I’d just be chased all over the place.’

But even if it couldn’t ascend to the Tier Three Late Stage, this Lv. 35 Mid-stage Mother Empress still got a huge windfall.

Now that it has reached Tier Three Mid-Stage Perfection at level 36, its Physique and Spirit Attributes should both hit the limit of 6,900 points. It’s now just one step away from the Late Stage.

’It’s probably on par with the Mother Empress besieging the eastern side of the Capital, the one planning to sacrifice the million survivors inside the city. It could probably rank in the top twenty, maybe even the top ten, among all the Mother Empresses in the region!’

’After this, as long as it gathers enough human survivors, it can initiate the sacrificial ritual, trigger a Divine Domain Descent, and be granted the Royal Gene needed to ascend...’

’...and become a candidate in the running to be a Tier Four Zerg King!’

Unfortunately, the number of troops in Lin Feng’s Salvation Army was limited.

If the Super Fleet were here, the hundreds of Tanks from the Dreadnought Battleships could definitely give chase, maintain a barrage of heavy firepower, and stay right on the Swarm’s tail.

Even if they couldn’t stop it, they could still take a huge chunk out of the Zerg Race.

But now, after more than half an hour of frantic shooting, everyone’s stamina was mostly depleted.

The seventy members of the Tier Two Battle Group had killed four to five hundred Tier Two Zergs, most of which were Samurai Hunter Zergs. Furthermore, the Tiger Armor’s Flight Mode was now on cooldown. Making them pursue on foot would risk them being surrounded by the Zerg.

As for the two hundred Warriors, their condition was even worse than the Tier Two Awakeners’. They were good enough to hold their cannons and defend the city, but they couldn’t launch an offensive.

Without the fleet for transport and protection, the Awakeners’ limited physical size became a critical weakness, restricting their sustained combat ability and, in turn, their tactical options.

Now, only Lin Feng could still give chase by piloting his Reproductive Armor Mecha.

But he couldn’t stop the Mother Empress from leaving all by himself.

In the end, Lin Feng took stock of the Tier Two members who still had some stamina. He gathered about twenty who were in decent shape and led them, gliding down into the city district below to salvage some important materials.

For instance, the Pulse Tail Cannons of the Pulse War Scorpions and the sturdy shells of the Tank Flame Armors...

Among the Tier Two Zerg Race, the Samurai Hunter Zergs had the least salvage value. Their Armor was inferior even to a Tiger Spine Zerg’s Giant Mandible. The only remotely useful parts were the two-meter-long Bone Blades on their four arms.

But all four Bone Blades combined weren’t even a tenth the size of a Tiger Spine Zerg’s Giant Mandible.

Only the resource-starved defenders of the Capital City would bother collecting them for their own use.

Lin Feng had seen many of them in Qin Hu’s vanguard force; they were a key part of their close-combat equipment.

As the Reproductive Armor Mecha entered the battlefield, the Low-tier Zerg Race that the Mother Empress had assigned to collect Zerg corpses scattered and fled.

The two Mother Empresses, now ten-some kilometers away and gradually disappearing underground, didn’t bother sending any troops to counterattack.

They had given up on fighting over the Zerg corpses on the battlefield.

Clearly, they didn’t want to waste any more troops on the Reproductive Armor Mecha.

After this battle, the Mother Empress also understood that unless they joined forces and entered the fray themselves, even an Early-stage Mother Empress couldn’t defeat this enemy.

Thus, Lin Feng and his team were able to smoothly collect the Tier Two orange Biological Materials from the battlefield.

This included over two hundred Pulse Tail Cannons, ten Tank Flame Armor backplates, and two to three hundred pairs of Tiger Spine Zerg Giant Mandibles. With the help of the Warriors who arrived later, everything was transported back to Yunxia Ridge.

The only pity was the two headless corpses of the Mother Empresses. Because they had died deep behind the Swarm, the Mid-stage Mother Empress had already sent a large Red-Armored Beetle Swarm to deal with them. The beetles dug a hole directly beneath the corpses and dragged them into an Underground Wormhole.