Chapter 1940: Wild Ones

One Demon Beast after another pounced on the enemy Zerg nest, green liquid splattered, and the carapace outside the Zerg nest was already pitted. This was a third-stage Zerg nest.

What made Su Xiao puzzled was that there were very many Zerg nests on the inner side of the base camp forest, so many that it was already somewhat abnormal. Pushing all the way here, the Demon Beast army had already wiped out 56 first-stage Zerg nests, 26 second-stage Zerg nests, and 4 third-stage Zerg nests.

This density was too different from the density of Zerg nests near the base camp. In the same area, there were only a dozen or so Zerg nests near the base camp, while on the inner side of the forest, there were at least forty or more.

Multiple signs indicated that Hong'e hadn't lied before. The Zerg nests near the base camp were all released by the Mage Zerg nest. That fourth-stage Zerg nest would clean them up once a year, and then continue to raise them, repeating this cycle.

The current density of Zerg nests was normal. Except for the Totem tribes, Zerg nests rarely had natural enemies. As long as they didn't provoke some extraordinary creatures, they could develop at a speed that wasn't fast.

It was only at this time that Su Xiao discovered that the location chosen for the base camp was somewhat wrong.

Of course, placing the base camp there wasn't without benefits. The early development was relatively comfortable. With the Mage Zerg nest suppressing them, the nearby Zerg nests wouldn't fight each other to compete for limited resources. There were many wild animals nearby, which the Mage Zerg nest had deliberately left for them.

As for these wild Zerg nests now, they often fought each other because of territory issues, but they wouldn't actively destroy other Zerg nests for biological energy. This was the instinct of the Zerg.

Like Jila's Zerg nest or Mage's, they clearly belonged to the outliers among Zerg nests. Jila's Zerg nest developed like this because the purpose of her existence was for war.

As for Mage, she was to resist the attack of the Sun Tribe. If she didn't become a predatory Zerg nest, Mage would have been wiped out long ago.

When the sky gradually darkened, Su Xiao led the Demon Beast army to return. There were many Zerg nests on the inner side of the base camp forest, but the combat power of these Zerg nests was abnormally strong. Zerg troop types were varied, with combinations of long-range + close-combat + defense types, long-range + poison + ground-spike types, etc.

Wild Zerg nests were clearly different from the released Zerg nests. If the Demon Beast army hunted goats before, they had some attack power but the attack methods were single. Now, what the Demon Beast army was dealing with were groups of carnivores, and wild ones at that.

More than 13,000 Demon Beasts, after completing a day's hunt, died more than 5,000! More than 40 elite individuals also died in battle. When dealing with a third-stage Zerg nest, Amu was nearly focused-fired to death by the enemy's long-range Zerg.

A total of 11 third-stage Zerg nests were wiped out. The standing combat Zerg of these Zerg nests were no fewer than 4000, and they all had three to four types of Zerg troop types, cooperating with each other.

Fortunately, the Demon Beasts were comparable to fourth-stage combat Zerg; otherwise, they really couldn't have gnawed down these hard bones.

The death and injury were indeed heavy, but the harvest was even more abundant. This time, the Demon Beast army went on an expedition, wiping out 103 first-stage Zerg nests, 52 second-stage Zerg nests, and 11 third-stage Zerg nests.

Su Xiao felt that if he cleared all the Zerg nests on the inner side of the base camp forest, he would be qualified to have a showdown with the Mage Zerg nest.

Through this bloody battle, Su Xiao realized the shortcomings of the Demon Beasts. When dealing with those released Zerg, the combat power of the Demon Beasts was more than enough, but when dealing with wild Zerg nests, the Demon Beasts that could only fight close-combat suffered no small loss.

The sky was completely dark. Su Xiao returned to the base camp. Groups of Demon Beasts dragged 10 severely overloaded Spore Tanks in front of their own Zerg nest, and the devouring began.

When the Zerg nest finished devouring the spoils, counting the converted Life Stones, the total amount of biological energy reached 2,415,000 points.

The biological energy obtained this time hit a record high, enough to compensate for the more than 5,000 Demon Beasts that died.

The Zerg nest began to breed troops. One Demon Beast after another ran out of the Zerg nest. When the biological energy was consumed, their side added 12,075 Demon Beasts, including 131 elite individuals.

Adding all the Demon Beasts together, the total number of Demon Beasts reached a terrifying 22,530, including 256 elite individuals.

If it was just rolling a snowball before, now there was no such good thing. Dealing with wild Zerg nests was fighting to support fighting. If one wanted to reduce death and injury, one needed multiple troop types.

Wiping out 11 third-stage Zerg nests, Su Xiao obtained a very good "residual individual." That Zerg Queen was initially unyielding, but after consuming 1 point of durability of 【Endless Darkness】, that Zerg Queen agreed to cultivate the "residual individual."

【Corrupted Wing (Free translation, Zerg pronunciation is Nobuya, a pterosaur that strikes lightning)】

Speed: ★★

Destructive Power: ★★★

Defense: ★★★

It could be said that the comprehensive quality of the Corrupted Wing was very good. It was a long-range Zerg troop type, which was a combination of animal genes and Zerg genes by that Zerg Queen.

The dragon species in this world wasn't a Void dragon species, but a biased ancient pterosaur. As for prehistoric overlords like the Tyrannosaurus Rex, Su Xiao didn't see a single one, and there were no similar dragon species. In this world, there were only pterosaur species that flew in the sky, which evolved from birds. A few days ago, Su Xiao even encountered one.

Su Xiao didn't look down on the simple Corrupted Wing at all. He hadn't cultivated long-range Zerg troop types before, mainly because he was somewhat reluctant to use Demon Power.

A few Demon Beasts threw a huge biological tissue ball into the opening of the Zerg nest, and the devouring of the "genetic individual" began.

Su Xiao entered the Zerg nest, took out the 【Demon Jar】, and let Jila absorb Demon Power, strengthening the genetic individual of the Corrupted Wing through Demon Power.

Xiang Bubu Wang and Baha rested for a while and then took 20,000 Demon Beasts out to hunt. Now they couldn't split their troops anymore. Even if 20,000 Demon Beasts besieged a third-stage wild Zerg nest, the counterattack of that wild Zerg nest was very strong.

In a certain war before, an enemy third-stage Zerg nest actually had a self-detonation ability. If Su Xiao hadn't interrupted the self-detonation with a few slashes, he might have been blown into serious injury, and not a single Demon Beast within half a kilometer would have survived.

Inside their own Zerg nest, after Jila absorbed the Demon Power, she fell into a dormant state. She was letting the Corrupted Wing fuse with the Demon Power. Once successful, this long-range Zerg that could fly would become a great help to their side.

Just as Jila was modifying the Corrupted Wing, a dozen giant Egui butterflies flew over. It was Hong'e who came to trade.

The transaction process went very smoothly. Hong'e still fissioned a clone through lower-level Zerg. The residual individuals of the Demon Beasts had long been prepared. When the transaction ended, Hong'e looked at the few test tubes in her hand with full eyes of doubt.

She was somewhat unable to figure out why this human was suddenly so generous. With full of doubt, Hong'e left 32 high-purity Life Stones, equivalent to 320,000 biological energy.

At five in the morning that night, Jila finished the modification of the Corrupted Wing. The modification was only 80% successful. As the price of partial failure, some ability of the Corrupted Wing would decrease.

【Zerg Nest has obtained new genetic memory: Son of Titan.】

Seeing the prompt from the Reincarnation Paradise, Su Xiao was somewhat puzzled. Corrupted Wing + Demon Power = Son of Titan? No matter how you look at it, Son of Titan was a giant Zerg.

After checking, Su Xiao learned that the cultivation cost of each Son of Titan was 1200 biological energy, which was very expensive. The combat power assessment provided by the Witch before was very good, and Su Xiao had been using it.

【Son of Titan】

Speed: ★

Destructive Power: ★★★★ (Super)

Defense: ★★★★

The movement speed of the Titan was very slow, but its destructive power was far stronger than that of the Demon Beast. Although it couldn't compare to fourth-stage top-tier troop types, it was long-range.

Su Xiao ordered Jila to cultivate a Titan.

The process of cultivating a Titan was similar to cultivating a Spore Tank; both were external cultivation. The Zerg nest could cultivate at most 20 Titans at a time.

Soon, a Titan was cultivated. It was six meters high and over eighteen meters long, with eight elephant-like round legs, covered with heavy carapaces. The torso was huge and had wings, but those wings didn't look like they could fly at all; they were completely skeletal structures, looking more like a stabilizing frame.

On the back of the Titan, there was a biological cannon nearly two meters thick and fifteen meters long. The cannon barrel rested on the Titan's head, and it could adjust its orientation by moving its head through it.

Looking at the somewhat exaggerated biological giant cannon, Su Xiao ordered the Titan to fire a shot into the forest.

The two bone wings of the Titan stabbed downward, stabbing deeply into the mud. Its head raised, and its abdomen expanded rapidly.

Boom!

A wave of air spread with the Titan as the center point, and a cyan-blue fireball with a diameter of two meters flew out. This fireball not only had strong kinetic energy but also powerful corrosiveness.

Cyan-blue firelight exploded from afar. Su Xiao rubbed his ears and ordered Jila to use all the remaining biological energy to cultivate Titans.

Su Xiao sat in the wooden shed. There were eight days left until the world coordinate formed. When this batch of Demon Beasts returned, he would start breeding Titans + a small amount of Demon Beasts.

After completing the next troop breeding, Su Xiao would be prepared to clean up the Three Paradise Alliance. He had no interest in going to attack (act) again.

Tomorrow, a final showdown. ===== CHAPTER 1941 =====