Chapter 3509: Clear Division of Labor

Directly above the base camp, a dark hole with a diameter of several kilometers had formed. A layer of translucent mucus sealed it. Even so, one could still see the Corruptors squeezed together inside.

Below, Su Xiao stood on the roof of the wooden building, watching the Nether army brewing in the sky. The Nether side was preparing to repeat the same trick, using the same method to crush the Sun Sacred Nest.

It could be said that this move by the Nether faction was both simple and unsolvable. This kind of spatial technology could be said to have brought the advantages of human-sea tactics to the extreme, omitting the charge stage with the most casualties and pouring down directly head-on.

Inside the base camp, the Son of the World, Leslie, looked up at this scene. His performance along the way had been like that of a cheerful and broad-minded boy.

But at this moment, he looked at the scene above with a blank expression, his eyes filled with undisguised hatred. This morning, everyone related to him had died. He went from grief to despair, and finally, a certain string in his brain seemed to snap with a pop. All grief and despair disappeared, replaced by numbness.

The scene before him made Leslie remember the grief again: his parents desperately shouting while blocking the door, his younger brother paralyzed on the ground at a loss, his younger sister scared silly at the dining table—everything, everything, turned into limbs and flesh all over the ground within ten seconds. His relatives didn't even have the chance to become monsters.

"I... should have died. At that time, why wasn't I at home? Why is the scene in my memory... outside the door."

Leslie had some confusion in his eyes. He tried hard to recall, but the memories were exceptionally fragmented. He vaguely saw the monster that killed his whole family smashing the door, but for some reason, the scene of smashing the door was in the first-person perspective in his mind, and the terrified and helpless faces of his parents, younger brother, and younger sister were also in the first-person perspective.

Leslie looked at his right arm. At some point, cracks had spread all over his right arm, and dark green energy surged within the arm, actually showing a bit of brilliance. What made Leslie puzzled was that he actually... could control this energy.

"I..."

Leslie figured out one thing, which made huge horror appear in his eyes. His pupils gradually turned dark green. He looked at Aisaia on the side for help. The next second, a fist magnified in front of his eyes.

Pop~

Leslie's eyes fell into darkness. As he fell, Aisaia grabbed the back of his collar.

"Bai Ye, he seems to have discovered his Nether constitution. If I'm not mistaken, the Nether forces are so anxious to attack, it's very likely they discovered his existence. I feel that for the Nether forces, this boy is a rare treasure. His body energy combines 'blood of fate' and 'Nether power'."

Aisaia strangled Leslie's neck with one hand until she was sure the other party was completely unconscious before letting go.

"..."

Su Xiao didn't speak, but pointed to the wooden building under his feet. Aisaia immediately understood Su Xiao's meaning: she didn't need to participate in this battle, just ensure Leslie wasn't taken away.

Su Xiao looked up at the sky again. The Nether forces' spatial technology was very strong, especially the construction of ultra-long-distance spatial channels.

This also led to their side's Zerg building, the Lurker, not exerting its due effect. And letting Baja block this dark hole was meaningless; Baja's Magic Eagle Domain had too long a cooldown. Even if it blocked this time, the Nether forces would still attack later.

The current situation made Su Xiao faintly capture a key piece of intelligence: Leslie was much more important than imagined. This boy was the Son of the World who was ordered to take on the task at a critical moment of world danger.

What is certain is that the strength of Laikeli after becoming the Son of the World is definitely not combat power. Isaiah and the Empire's Hand, Rhine Gold, of this world are the ones responsible for combat.

To put it another way, the current situation is the Nether invading this world. The Nether's invasion will definitely cause irreversible damage to this world; otherwise, the world consciousness wouldn't take so many actions.

First, it was the chosen one Kara, then letting Aisaia become the savior, and finally, sparing no effort to create the Son of the World, Leslie.

This series of behaviors showed that the world consciousness of this world strongly resisted the Nether's invasion. Alas, world consciousness is something that is strong when it is strong, and weak when it is weak. If it is a person of this world, once they anger the world consciousness, there is basically no way to live.

Conversely, when facing the Nether forces, the world consciousness instantly had no way.

Analyzing it this way, the world consciousness would lean toward their side. As for why it didn't lean toward the Empire, this was understandable.

As a technological civilization, and an autocratic technological civilization, the Empire would produce a large amount of pollution while developing technology. Facing such a local force, the world consciousness naturally wouldn't like it.

Assuming the world consciousness leans toward their side, can it directly bring help to their side? The answer is, no. Su Xiao and Jila are not natives of this world, and they are both under the notarization of Reincarnation Paradise.

If the world consciousness bypasses the notarization of Reincarnation Paradise and achieves gains for Su Xiao and Jila, then the excitement would be huge. To put it bluntly, this is just the world consciousness of a native world. Directly violating the regulations of Reincarnation Paradise like this, it would definitely become a core on the spot—yes, that's right, it would become a World Core.

Since it couldn't help directly, a compromise way was still possible. The last super-strong assist of this world was letting Aisaia meet Leslie and sending Leslie to the Sun Sacred Nest.

In this way, the importance of Leslie could be imagined. This boy shouldn't be a key figure; the blood of fate in his body was crucial.

Not to mention anything else, the Nether forces attacking so anxiously had lost some of the Great Emperor's dignity. Although he hadn't met him yet, facing the Nether Great Emperor, Su Xiao could always feel the pressure, but this time, the Great Emperor was slightly anxious. This was not the step-by-step approach the Great Emperor had previously shown.

Su Xiao took out a crystalline translucent ring. This ring was light purple overall and was made by Jila using a small amount of her own source blood plus black maple tree charcoal crystal. Jila's ability to squander was truly self-taught.

The function of this ring was very simple: it was equivalent to a signal booster, which could enhance Jila's control range over the Zerg under her command.

It wasn't needed now, but if their side could really counterattack, this ring would be very important. At that time, Su Xiao would carry out a cross-world operation to the world where the Nether forces were located. Without this ring, Jila couldn't control the Zerg units under her command across worlds.

The dark hole above was still brewing. It could be seen that their side's Zerg building, the Lurker, was still useful. Previously, when the Nether attacked the Platinum Capital, the dark hole opened fully in less than a minute. Now, more than 5 minutes had passed, and the dark hole with a diameter of several kilometers above was still in the brewing stage.

The dark hole was within the range of the Titan Behemoth, and the plasma cannon could hit it. Su Xiao didn't do this. Blowing up a large area of that mucus layer would only help the Nether forces attack faster.

Su Xiao controlled a Sun Flame Dragon to fly into the high sky, heading straight for the dark hole. As this Sun Flame Dragon ascended, it reached a few dozen meters below the dark hole. At a distance where it could spray dragon flames, it could burn a hole of a few dozen meters in size in the mucus layer, letting fewer Corruptors leak out, which was clearly easier to deal with.

Whoosh!

The Sun Flame Dragon sprayed dragon flames upward. This was secondary sun flame, not as pure as Apollo, but even so, this was still sun flame.

With a hiss, the translucent mucus was burned with an unpleasant burnt smell, and the Corruptors scorched by the high temperature inside roared continuously.

"Nice."

Morei, watching the battle on the ground, clenched her fists happily. Fate was so wonderful. Before, the three of them hoped Su Xiao would lose because they were the ones being beaten at that time, so naturally, they hoped Su Xiao, as the enemy, would lose.

And now, they desperately hoped Su Xiao would win because they had already paid the money, the 70,000 Soul Coin "accommodation fee." If he lost, the three of them would cry until they fainted in the toilet on the spot.

Dragon flames burned, and the burned mucus area became thinner and thinner, about to break. Just at this moment, dark green smoke suddenly appeared around the Sun Flame Dragon and entered its body.

The dragon flames stopped abruptly, and a powerful will followed the Sun Flame Dragon's mental connection straight to Jila.

This Nether will hadn't reached Jila yet before it was blocked by a ring acting as a relay—it was the purple crystal ring on Su Xiao's index finger.

The Nether consciousness changed its target, intending to impact Su Xiao's soul, and then there was no then.

Su Xiao looked at the Sun Flame Dragon in the sky. Now it should be called a Nether Flame Dragon. This Flame Dragon was eroded by Nether power and was currently being controlled by someone unknown.

The other party clearly thought highly of the Nether Flame Dragon and was preparing to use it as a mount, actually letting the Nether Flame Dragon pounce toward the mucus layer of the dark hole and drill inside.

Just at this moment, this Nether Flame Dragon roared, and the sun energy condensed in its body was detonated.

Boom!

The Nether Flame Dragon exploded, also blowing a hole in the mucus layer. The Corruptors inside didn't pour down; they grabbed, and even bit each other. This was clearly the controller not wanting this number of Corruptors to fall, leading to meaningless loss of troops.

Inside the Abyss Hole, except for the mucus layer being crowded with Corruptors, further inside, the Corruptors stood densely but were not squeezed together.

This was a vast space filled with dark green mist, as if there was no end in sight, and a dark green full moon hung in the sky.

Behind the numerous Corruptors, soldiers wearing black armor stood in square formations. Their faces were wrapped in head armor, revealing only dark green pupil light.

On a high seat that seemed to be melted from white bones, a figure wearing dark golden full-body armor sat here. Its head armor had feather decorations, a two-handed greatsword was inserted on its left side, and a metal great bow was beside its right hand.

The man on the high seat was named Solaro, a ruthless character among the Four Knights under the King who was granted the name Crow Eagle.

The power structure of the Nether forces was not complicated. The Nether Great Emperor was the absolute ruler, and below were the Four Knights.

Crow Eagle Solaro.

Golden Lion Mu.

Owl Furia.

Magic Snake Gumo.

The Four Knights under the King each had their own strengths. Ranked at the very top was Crow Eagle Solaro. He was the Nether Great Emperor's hunting eagle, not only able to discover prey but also able to kill the prey and bring back the valuable parts.

Crow Eagle Solaro was most trusted by the Great Emperor. Even though he had been fighting abroad for many years, his status on the Great Emperor's side was very stable, and no one dared to say a bad word about Crow Eagle Solaro behind his back.

Among the remaining three Knights under the King, Golden Lion Mu was the Great Emperor's palace guard commander, that is, the commander of the Imperial Guard.

Owl Furia did not command the Nether's army. She was strong in individual combat power. Various means were not used in war, but aimed at individual powerhouses.

As for the last Magic Snake Gumo, it was not certain whether this person existed. The only known intelligence was that this person was a military strategist type.

Because Magic Snake Gumo was too mysterious, people who knew about the Nether forces generally believed he was dead, and the Four Knights under the King were often called the Three Knights under the King.

At this time, standing diagonally behind Crow Eagle Solaro was a figure whose armor style was similar to his, but the armor was very slender. This person's armor was blue-black in tone, without the thickness and shine of ordinary armor, but rather close-fitting and lustrous. Judging from the figure, this person should be a woman.

On the high seat, Crow Eagle Solaro looked at the slightly blurry image in front. This was an overlooking perspective of the Sun Sacred Nest.

"At all costs, take the person of prophecy."

Solaro spoke in an ancient language, and this order was quickly conveyed.

In the center of the vast space, a giant metal circular wheel was built. It was rusty and mottled. With a whip crack, a monitor scolded angrily.

As the shout fell, the giants around the giant metal circular wheel woke up. They were like mules harnessed with saddles, pulling the giant metal circular wheel to move. The friction of the heavy metal made a clicking sound.

Crack!

The giant metal circular wheel fell into the slot. At the same time, the tough mucus that sealed the dark hole broke. All the Corruptors in the Nether space rushed toward the dark hole like a tide.

Directly above the Hive, countless Corruptors fell from the sky. Their dirty, blackened clothes were tattered, their fluffy, messy hair floated on its own, and their dark green eyes, which seemed to choose people to devour, made one's heart feel cold.

The scene before the fall of the Platinum Capital appeared again. The Corruptors falling from the sky formed a black flow pillar several kilometers thick. Shrieks connected together, making one's eardrums ache.

Su Xiao just looked at this scene calmly. This was not the Platinum Capital, and there were no middle-level officials whose reason was swallowed by greed. All the resources their side had obtained previously had been built into 200 Brutal Turrets, and now, it was time for them to show their firepower.

When the black flow pillar formed by the Corruptors invaded to 3000 meters above their side, a total of 200 Brutal Turrets were all activated. Chitinous gun barrels slanted upward protruded, and then, dense missiles were fired from the gun chambers.

Boom, boom, boom...

The roaring sound was endless. The missiles fired by their side didn't have fixed targets. These missiles had tracking capabilities. They would track the unit closest to the Hive according to the biological signals given by the sensor tower.

This also led to all the missiles, after being fired, drawing a beautiful arc and meeting the Corruptor flow pillar falling from above.

Their side had a total of 200 Brutal Turrets, each capable of firing 257 missiles per minute, which meant a total of 51,400 missiles could be fired per minute, equivalent to about 857 per second.

What was the concept of firing nearly a thousand missiles per second? The answer was that these missiles, the size of a forearm, would form a tracking-style barrage.

Boom! Boom! Boom...

Explosions came from above. The Corruptors roaring and falling were first shattered by the explosions, and then burned by the liquid flames splashed after the missiles exploded.

A spectacular scene appeared. Above was the black flow pillar formed by the Corruptors, intending to drown their base camp. Their side's 200 Brutal Turrets fired non-stop, and missiles exploded in the sky, creating clouds of flames, forcefully holding up the black flow pillar above.

In the deafening explosion, fire rain fell. This was the remains of the Corruptors, burning with liquid flames attached, forming this scene.

Due to the characteristics of liquid flames, these remains didn't turn into charcoal, but into a kind of gray semi-fluid.

This shocking scene of both sides clashing was just an appetizer. With this kind of offensive, the Platinum Capital held out for 20 minutes before falling. The Sun Sacred Nest could naturally hold out; otherwise, there would be no way to fight.

A low moan like a whale came. A war behemoth, rotten all over, shaped like a whale, and overall a semi-mechanical life form, rushed out from the dark hole. Under the cover of a large number of Corruptors, this Nether Dragon Whale swam down in a diving posture. It broke through the flame clouds and headed straight for their Hive, huge, firm, and with astonishing defensive power.

Missiles bombarded the Nether Dragon Whale. It let out a painful moan, but didn't stop at all, with the posture of wanting to smash the Hive. With its terrifying body size of nearly 300 meters in length and the biological metal layer all over its body, it really might be able to do this.

Just as the Nether Dragon Whale broke through the encirclement and dived toward the Hive, a Titan Behemoth beside the Hive lowered its body height. Its plasma abdomen sac swelled, and the upper half of its body, shaped like a flower bud, became flat. Because the plasma inside was highly activated, it appeared fluorescent blue.

Boom!!

A plasma ball with a diameter of a few meters flew out. Don't think this plasma ball is small; this is a compressed plasma ball. If not compressed, this plasma ball would be at least a hundred meters in size.

With a whoosh, the fluorescent blue plasma ball left a trail of light particles and hit the Nether Dragon Whale in a parabolic arc that wasn't very fast. Plasma cannons are just like this. They don't look fast, but when facing this thing, you will find that its speed is ridiculously fast.

The magnetic storm shock exploded. The Nether Dragon Whale, which had been majestic just a moment ago, was blown to pieces by a plasma cannon. The huge semi-metallic fish eye flew far away and smashed into a distant mountain peak.

Once the plasma cannon came out, the three Nether Dragon Whales that had just swum out turned around and swam back. This kind of semi-mechanical life form eroded by the Nether, encountering plasma weapons, was like encountering a wild daddy.

Su Xiao didn't relax at all because of the current advantage. The Nether forces' combat power was a bit outrageous. He could be sure that the ones attacking now were all local legions developed by the Nether forces in this world, and the core combat power on that side hadn't been dispatched yet.

This intelligence was shared by the Empire. When the Empire was on "Okai Star," they were also first attacked by Corruptors. The Empire had the thought of "Is this it?" at the time. However, after the Nether forces' main army attacked, the Empire resolutely abandoned "Okai Star."

After learning this intelligence, Su Xiao made an estimate. If they could easily withstand the Nether forces' miscellaneous army, then they would have the power to fight when facing the Nether regular army on that side.

The problem now was that the strength of the Nether forces' miscellaneous army was a bit beyond estimation. At least this miscellaneous army was much stronger than when they were on "Okai Star." This was mostly because the Nether forces used their numerical advantage to carry out survival of the fittest.

Living beings on more than a dozen planets in this world were Nether-ized. Even if it was one in a hundred, the number was still unsolvable.

Clearly, the enemy commander optimized the miscellaneous army, which also caused the disastrous defeat of the Platinum Capital falling in 20 minutes.

Most of the Company's high-level officials were alive, bringing a lot of materials and technology to the Empire's New Star City, which made Su Xiao feel deeply sorry. If they had come to his side, the number of Brutal Turrets might have doubled. Don't underestimate the Company's financial resources; they were as rich as they were greedy.

Caesar didn't come to the Sun Sacred Nest because he didn't want to bring the Abyss Jar to add pressure to Su Xiao. The main purpose of the Nether forces' invasion this time was to seize the Abyss Jar. This "Daddy-level" artifact that others feared was the treasure the Nether forces wanted.

Caesar went to harm the Empire's forces. Alas, a Son of the World who fused Nether energy and blood of fate came to Su Xiao's side, causing the Nether general Crow Eagle Solaro, who was originally prepared to hammer New Star City, to change to attacking their side.

The burnt smell and bloody smell permeated from above, and the roaring sound continued to enter his ears. Su Xiao looked at the Corruptors still pouring down from above. Now they were fighting for endurance, seeing whether their side's missiles would be broken first, or the Corruptors would be pushed back.

This clash between cannon fodder and firepower continued for ten minutes, and the enemy commander in the Nether space above revealed his second card.

Don't forget, the Platinum Capital had already been captured. The Nether forces used that place as a base to open a more stable spatial channel, continuously transporting Corruptors into the city.

The vibration came from under Su Xiao's feet. He frowned, first leaped onto a Host, then floated through the Host, and leaped to their side's highest Zerg building, the Thorn Star Spiral Tower.

The roaring above didn't stop, and the fire rain never stopped for a moment. Su Xiao stood on top of the Thorn Star Spiral Tower, over 200 meters high, and everything around was in full view.

Looking around at the horizon, a "black wave" was surrounding their base camp. The number of enemies was too difficult to calculate. Just seeing a pitch-black area gradually covering the surrounding land, the army of hundreds of millions of Corruptors had arrived.

First, an air raid to hold back their main firepower, then surrounding from all 360° around. The enemy commander wanted to drown their base camp with human-sea tactics and then devour it.

"Roar!"

Corruptors rushed to the city wall. They didn't climb the city wall at all. One stepped on another. In just a few seconds, the Corruptors used their not-so-bad running speed to pile up slopes around the city wall and rushed onto the city wall. Some, because they rushed too fast, flew up like waves hitting reefs. The adjective "human-sea tactics" looked exceptionally vivid at this moment.

Boom! Boom! Boom...

Missiles exploded one after another. Most of the Corruptors who had just formed slopes outside the city wall were blown up. With the shift of the missiles' firepower, the Corruptors around the city wall were blown to pieces in large areas, but the Corruptor flow pillar falling from the sky was getting lower and lower, only about 2000 meters away from the Hive.

Jila's mental power was fully opened. She had to lock onto the position of every Corruptor and then adjust the firepower of the Brutal Turrets according to the degree of danger.

"Damn, damn!"

Baja's eyes were almost too busy to look. Alas, at this time, its participation in the battle had no meaning, and instead, it would be accidentally injured by the missiles.

Above, in the Nether space, Crow Eagle Solaro watched the situation on the battlefield through the phantom in front of him. He looked at Su Xiao in the picture, his gaze gradually becoming solemn.

"This seems to be a Law-Breaker?"

Crow Eagle Solaro's tone was a bit suspicious.

"My lord, the Law-Breakers have already passed away."

The slender female warrior standing slightly behind the high seat spoke, her voice serious but with some tenderness, limited to her tenderness toward Crow Eagle Solaro.

"No, he is a Law-Breaker, that's correct. The era of Law-Breakers has indeed passed, but it doesn't mean that new Law-Breakers won't appear. Even in the current era, after obtaining the inheritance, it is possible for a Law-Breaker to appear."

Crow Eagle Solaro's fingers rested on the armrest, his index finger tapping the eagle head on the armrest one by one.

Seeing this, the female warrior on the side bowed slightly and asked: "My lord, shall we stop?"

"No, we must respect him, and then defeat him, giving him a death with the highest respect. No matter when, Law-Breakers are worthy of respect, even if they are enemies. However... only dead enemies can make people feel at ease."

After Crow Eagle Solaro finished speaking, dark green flames ignited on the high seat under him. Along with this, the dark green in the eyes of all Corruptors became more obvious, and their bodies became stronger and taller.

The changes in the Corruptors caused the defensive pressure on their base camp to increase sharply. The army of hundreds of millions of Corruptors around, as well as the flow pillar formed by the Corruptors above, all took a step further, as if they would drown their base camp at any time.

The shrieks of the Corruptors were endless. Sun Flame Dragons sprayed dragon flames outside the city wall. The high pressure of the dragon flames rushed up a large group of Corruptors.

A shocking scene appeared. The Corruptors grabbed each other, actually forming a black palm, fiercely grabbing a Sun Flame Dragon.

If another Sun Flame Dragon hadn't sprayed dragon flames to rescue it, this Sun Flame Dragon wouldn't have lasted more than 30 seconds before being torn and gnawed into a skeleton by the Corruptors. The teeth and claws of the Corruptors, due to the bonus of the Abyss passive, had attack capabilities far exceeding other cannon fodder.

No one noticed that their side's creep was expanding rapidly. The creep that originally only reached the city wall was now spreading more than 2000 meters.

Inside the Hive, Su Xiao walked quickly along the main passage to the core of the Hive, coming to the Hive core that looked like a huge heart.

Through experiments, their side's creep could indeed absorb Corruptors and extract biological energy through the flesh and blood of the Corruptors!

This was undoubtedly good news. Now that hundreds of millions of Corruptors were besieging the city, and the Corruptor flow pillar continued to pour down from the sky, it meant that as long as the creep's efficiency could keep up, a massive amount of biological energy would soon be obtained.

At that time, they could continue to build Brutal Turrets and cultivate Titan Behemoths, thereby expanding the base camp area and strengthening the city wall defense, and the situation would become better and better like a snowball.

But all of this had to be realized after solving one problem: while their creep was extracting biological energy from the flesh and blood of the Corruptors, it would also extract Nether energy.

To separate the two, it must pass through the Hive's energy filtering organ. This was unique to their Hive and was a symbiotic organ of the creep.

The problem was that after separating the Nether energy, this energy was uncontrollable and very difficult to remove from the Hive. In other words, while the creep was absorbing biological energy from the Corruptor corpses, the Nether energy accumulated in the Hive would become more and more, which was simply a slow death.

Nether energy is "negative attribute energy" amplified by the power of the Abyss. The difficulty of removing it can be imagined, not to mention that their Hive was constantly filtering out Nether energy. This situation was a bit unsolvable.

Su Xiao looked at the Hive core in front, which was already showing dark green. As for how to solve the current predicament, there was really a way, but this way... it was hard to say.

Su Xiao took out the Ancient Mask from the storage space. This reserve "Daddy-level" artifact had become increasingly difficult to sense recently, and its demand for Abyss products was getting larger and larger. Because Su Xiao hadn't fed it black maple tree branches for several days, it seemed to be preparing to run away from home.

He had just taken out the Ancient Mask when the Ancient Mask sensed the Nether power in the Hive core. This energy originating from the Abyss was naturally also on the Ancient Mask's menu.

With a pop, the Ancient Mask stuck to the Hive core and merged into it. In the blink of an eye, the dark green on the Hive core disappeared, and the Nether energy stored in the Hive was swallowed up by the Ancient Mask.

In this way, the division of labor was clear: the creep absorbed the life force mixed with Nether energy from the Corruptor flesh and blood, then this mixed energy entered the Hive, the Hive separated it, the life force was converted into biological energy and stored, and the Nether energy was given directly to the Ancient Mask, letting it swallow it at will.

The number of Corruptors outside was countless, and the Nether energy that could be absorbed would definitely be very huge. At that time, to what extent would the Ancient Mask be upgraded? Promoted to a new Daddy?

If they could eliminate the Nether forces and all the Nether energy was absorbed by the Ancient Mask, this "Daddy-level" artifact would definitely become a very strong existence.

For some reason, after Su Xiao thought about the Ancient Mask being promoted to a "Daddy-level" artifact, he suddenly remembered the Devil Race. Last time, the Book of the Dead was taken over by that side. This time, there would be a new "Daddy-level" artifact appearing, and he didn't know if that side would be interested in taking over again. ===== CHAPTER 3510 =====