Chapter 1424: Devouring Hope

What monster is this!? What is this!!

Never having seen such a scene, every Alien Species present was shocked to the point of despair.

Since becoming Alien Species, from beginning to end, only they had the share of devouring other creatures; they never imagined they would one day be eaten alive themselves.

Even if they were mutants, they were merely accustomed to tearing at enemies like monsters, not actually eating!

Just like a butcher accustomed to slaughtering pigs and dogs, who, upon discovering one day that his own intestines were ripped out, would likewise be frightened mad.

The sight before them seemed to trigger the primal fear buried in their human genes.

That was the fear they had only ever felt as humans when facing zombies.

No..

Being devoured, being eaten alive—this is a genetic memory etched into their bones!

「Take action!!! Take action, ah ah ah! First save the Overlord!! 」

Fortunately, the Alien Species present were all Fourth Stage; after briefly falling into extreme shock, several Alien Species forcibly suppressed the fear in their hearts and roared as they prepared to act.

And one of the Alien Species seemed to react the fastest, trying to remind the Overlord to cease pouring power into the conversion, directly activating spatial rules to escape!

Although empowered by the core's power could increase strength, against this monster it meant nothing! On the contrary, because they had to keep absorbing this power, they could not leave the vicinity!

Escape first! Talk about surviving later!

Unfortunately, the reminder was useless.

Just as the Overlord suddenly came to his senses, realizing he could completely abandon this place and flee, before he could desperately mobilize spatial rules to teleport himself away.

Lin An, who had been devouring flesh and blood, seemed to also realize that the food in his grasp was about to escape.

The Aberrant Mutant noticed that the originally delicious conversion power was disappearing from the food before it.

Furious!

Pfft!

Only seen, the Aberrant Mutant's not-yet-formed bone wings, like a spider's sharp claws, suddenly pierced through the Overlord's fragile brain tissue.

Like a straw, with a hiss it threaded out from the Overlord's abdomen.

Life vanished in an instant.

Just before death, this poor Overlord finally realized that the monster did not kill him first but ate him alive simply because the conversion power he kept channeling was like whipped cream added as a side dish, making the monster "reluctant" to kill him.

But the moment he abandoned the channeling of that power, his fate was death.

At the same time, the remaining Alien Species that had been preparing to act and restrain, now couldn't help but have their souls scatter in terror!

The Overlord died!!

The Overlord, the strongest defensive force here, has completely died!

There was no time to generate more fear.

In an instant, only the sound of several sharp cracks could be heard.

In its fury, the Aberrant Mutant instantly appeared above their heads, like stepping on an ant, and with one foot crushed their skulls.

「Ho.. 」

「Roar!!! 」

Standing on a field of broken corpses, the Aberrant Mutant once again gathered strange light and roared at the sky.

It is unknown whether it absorbed a portion of the conversion power.

In Lin An's increasingly scarlet eyes, emotions had already appeared several times.

It was as if something was slowly recovering.

After a few seconds, anger disappeared.

Like driven by instinct, the Aberrant Mutant first bent down to devour the Alien Species' brain beneath it, but could not find the desired "taste" to howl; its eyes suddenly locked onto the silently spraying red light column.

The next second.

Only seen, on a expanse of dark corpses, Lin An stood like a newborn baby, bewildered and hesitant.

Eventually, he slowly walked toward the conversion core.

A voice was telling him (it).

Here, is the beginning of everything.

Above the battlefield of death.

Like a teleport, the high-speed flashing king-level Alien Species swiftly crossed the sky.

At a speed almost like nonstop teleportation, he had almost directly rushed from the Alien Species core region within half an hour.

But just as he continually updated the Frontline situation, a sudden, superiors‑sent system message stunned him.

The next second, his expression suddenly changed, as if he had seen some unbelievable news, and he instantly turned around.

「Conversion core... is being devoured!! 」

「A white bone monster has appeared!? 」

「Boom!! 」

Instantly accelerated.

As the king-level Alien Species suddenly realized the gravity of the problem, he at this moment couldn't even spare to support the Frontline battlefield, merely flying madly toward the conversion core.

The reason is nothing else.

Even if the conversion core were destroyed, he wouldn't care, after all such a thing exists in every few Alien Species controlled areas.

But the problem is..

The conversion core is being devoured! It is being drained of power in a way he cannot comprehend!

You should know that aside from the Overlord Alien Species with high-level privileges, who can mobilize conversion power by virtue of their status, the conversion core that connects the whole land of death battles cannot possibly be "stolen".

Even if violently blown open, it would only trigger a super explosion!

The energy stored in the conversion core is the 'power' they accumulated in their hundred-year death battle! It is the 'mother body' of the alien species that they can continuously catalyze!

Even the mutated ones don't know that, after realizing they cannot give birth to a perfect one, the alien species' civilization chose to gather the overflowing power, waiting until it reaches the limit, then let the Sovereign break through the Fourth Stage! Become the Fifth Stage!

One could say, this transforming power stained with the blood of their entire race is an existence more important than their lives!

That is their only, only hope!

But at this moment, hope is fading.