Chapter 180: Why Does My Class Panel Have an Anime Art Style?

The Zerg do indeed become absurdly powerful once they finish developing, but they also have one fatal weakness: the Overmind body that serves as their central hub is extremely fragile.

But the Zerg Overmind that Brand had modified clearly no longer had this flaw, and combined with its enormous size, one could tell at a glance that its vitality was terrifyingly strong.

However, after what had just happened, Li Ang had still keenly detected the opponent's weakness.

Brand, who sat atop the Overmind's head, was himself incomparably fragile.

Perhaps because he was so eager to obtain their genes, or perhaps because he felt that with the protection of such a vast swarm of bugs nothing would go wrong, Brand's body was thus exposed for all to see.

Unfortunately, he had never anticipated that Li Ang would have in his hands a spear capable of piercing through the entire battlefield.

After all, in Brand's eyes, it was nothing more than a fire poker.

On the other side.

Seeing the long spear shooting toward him like a meteor, a faint sense of foreboding immediately rose in Brand's heart.

He caught the scent of danger.

'What is that!?'

Before he could think it through carefully, countless bugs had already thrown themselves into the spear's unavoidable path.

'That should be fine now, right?'

In Brand's view, as long as enough bugs were sacrificed, the kinetic energy on that weapon would eventually reach the moment when it was completely spent.

And conveniently, bugs were something he had in unlimited supply.

Just as the City Lord of Pioneer City was thinking this, he saw the bugs blocking the piercing path neatly open a hole, and then the long spear continued toward him at undiminished speed.

A wind named Death blew across Brand's body.

At this moment, time itself seemed to slow its steps, and Brand could see the details on the spear's shaft with perfect clarity.

Nothing could block it, nothing could evade it.

He finally understood what Li Ang's earlier words had actually meant.

'Alchemy'

'?'

The moment this thought rose in his mind, the meteor had already pierced through his chest, leaving behind an empty, gaping hole.

In the distance.

Danika and the other two stared at the limp figure atop the enormous bug and murmured, "... It's over?"

They hadn't expected the battle to be resolved so easily.

And the root of it all—

The three instinctively glanced at the Gungnir that had already returned to Li Ang's hand, and an involuntary chill ran down their spines.

They were wondering what fate would befall them if they faced this weapon themselves.

The answer was simple: an unavoidable death.

Just as the three thought everything had already ended, Li Ang's expression turned Solemn: "It's not over yet."

The instant his words fell, a piercing shriek suddenly erupted from the swarm's mouths.

Screeeech—!

Then, in the next moment, the enormous swarm of bugs went into a frenzy and immediately began attacking one another.

At the same time, the Zerg Overmind in the distance, which had gone still, began to move again, its hill-like body charging viciously toward the four of them.

"Guh! Li-ssss!"

Garbled words spilled from the Overmind's grotesque mouthparts.

Seeing this, Li Ang slightly furrowed his brow.

Without a doubt, his tactic had succeeded—killing Brand's exposed body had indeed grievously wounded this Zerg Overmind.

But the two were fused far more deeply than he had imagined; right now, this Zerg Overmind's body was a mix of a vast hive consciousness and Brand's own mind.

This meant that they still had to deal with that hill-like bug in the distance after all.

Fortunately, the opponent had already fallen into a state of chaos—one could tell that just from the swarm of bugs around them tearing each other apart.

Thinking of this, Li Ang drew a light breath and steadied his emotions: "Everyone, as long as we take down that bug, it's over."

"Is that so…"

Ma Kusi bared his lips, flashing a row of white teeth, as the skin across his entire body gradually began shifting toward crimson.

Mo Di said nothing, simply continuing to activate his ability.

Danika, meanwhile, had already run off to one side—after all, she was just a little newbie who had only just broken through to the Second Energy Level, and at a time like this it was enough for her to harass from the sidelines.

Seeing the frenzied Zerg Overmind drawing closer and closer to them, Li Ang lightly stretched his body.

In the next instant, the three simultaneously left their original positions—they'd have to be fools to stay put and take the opponent's attack head-on.

Having abruptly lost its target, the Zerg Overmind let out an uncontrollable roar from its maw, and several thick tentacles immediately lashed out from its massive body.

Then countless bugs were swept into its mouth.

"Guh! Face me!"

Casually slicing through a tentacle that came sweeping in, Li Ang pushed off with his feet and leaped high, arriving before the giant bug's head.

Whoosh—!

In the whistling wind, the divine spear in his hand pierced through several compound eyes.

A foul-smelling, machine-oil-laced ichor flowed from the Zerg Overmind's head down to the ground.

In its agony, countless tentacles shot toward Li Ang's position, but were intercepted midway by Odin.

At the same time, Ma Kusi and Mo Di also launched their attacks, successfully inflicting some minor wounds on the giant bug's body.

Even though these wounds were utterly negligible, as long as they kept it up, there would eventually come a moment when they ground the opponent to death.

Zaga'gu Brand had clearly realized this as well.

He ignored Marcus and the other attacking him, gathering all his tentacles into one, then surging toward Li Ang like a furious python.

Seeing this, Odin immediately moved to block, but the tentacles split instantly and shot toward Li Ang in midair.

Swoosh—!

Amid the piercing sound of tearing air, Li Ang had no choice but to leap upward to evade.

At that moment, Zajagu Bailandu's voice suddenly rang out:

"Gahahaha!"

"You've fallen for it!"

Along with its voice came a shrill sound, originating from nowhere.

Ziiii—!

Hearing this sound, Marcus's expression changed instantly.

"Get out of the way!"

It was an electromagnetic railgun.

A brilliant yellow beam instantly pierced through the location where Li Ang had been.

Seeing the young man vanish without a trace, Mo Di and the others froze in stunned silence.

They had never expected their overwhelming advantage to collapse so suddenly.

"Guhahahaha!" Seeing his scheme succeed, Zajagu Bailandu's grotesque mouth erupted in manic laughter, "Die die die die! All of you die!"

"You're the one who'll die!"

Yet at that moment, a thunderous roar suddenly came from the sky.

Before the eyes of the three on the ground, a milky-white energy coalesced from the air, then took the form of Li Ang.

Formless in gathering and dispersing—Reverse Birth: Three Layers!

The sudden turn left the giant insect stunned in place, its mouth involuntarily emitting a panicked sound: "Guga?! How is this possible!?"

Before it could react, Li Ang, appearing like a celestial immortal, descended directly into its massive mouth.

His blazing golden pupils burned even fiercer.

Then—

Word-Spell: Sovereign Flame!

The next instant, temperature skyrocketed; a terrifying shockwave shattered Zajagu Bailandu's head into fragments.

Zajagu Bailandu was dead.

Dead with the wish of ascending to the third energy level still in his grasp.

The giant insect's corpse slowly toppled to the ground, kicking up a storm of dust.

Watching the giant insect's life fade before them, Marcus and the others swallowed hard.

Everything that had happened since the electromagnetic railgun appeared had utterly exceeded their imagination.

In their line of sight, a pair of golden pupils emerged from the dust, then a human figure slowly stepped out.

【Major Event: The Falling Star has come to an end.】

【The insect prodigy named Zajagu Bailandu, after destroying a city, ultimately fell to his destined death.】

【You personally crushed the chance of this insect swarm's rise.】

【But before dying, this insect prodigy summoned the Insect Empress drifting through the stars.】

【You may now begin a new journey (9 days, 23 hours, 59 minutes).】