Chapter 619
Anyone who dares to touch the Insect Lord shall die!
Chapter 619 Anyone who dares to touch the Insect Lord shall die! (4000 words)
"There are so many people."
In a distant star field, a three-meter-tall woman with a voluptuous figure and alluring looks sat in the pilot's seat of the spaceship, patiently waiting for guidance from the Tian Shu Star Port.
Behind her, rows of rugged-looking, ferocious orc soldiers immediately retracted their claws and scales and transformed into human form the instant they entered the edge of the [Divine Revelation].
"Elder, will the Divine Revelation accept our surrender?" The orc guard who asked the question had confusion and fear in his eyes.
Initially, the Orcish Empire, or rather, most of the Covenant members, did not take the Arbiter and that weak Earth civilization seriously.
Until, led by the mysterious crystal coffin, they silently arrived at the edge of the Star Alliance and launched a surprise attack with lightning speed.
The inexplicable human civilization, the terrifying Zerg, and the Arbiter all combined to leave the Covenant utterly helpless.
In a very short time, they occupied the core of the Star Alliance and renamed it "Divine Revelation." In the name of "Divine Revelation," they issued an ultimatum to all former Star Alliance members.
[Submission or Death]!
The once indomitable Orc Empire faltered after the Divine Revelation Guardians effortlessly annihilated 23 former advanced Covenant civilizations.
The Orcish Empire sent Elder Carter to express their sincerity. Carter was the most beautiful and powerful female in their empire, and could also transform into a male if necessary.
If Carter could win the favor of that lord, perhaps the Orc Empire could continue its glory.
Carter, in the driver's seat, watched everything intently, his expression utterly calm, showing no sign of the humiliation of being given away as a gift.
The first priority of a cosmic civilization is survival.
When a powerful being surpasses all civilizations in strength, they are willing to grovel at the feet of this powerful being, just to win a single glance of pity from the powerful being.
[Divine Revelation] and the Lord have already demonstrated their power to all civilizations in the Star Alliance.
Carter: "Yes. After taking over the core of the Covenant, [Divine Revelation] did not expand as before. They probably don't want to attract the attention of the two great divine kingdoms."
The war between gods intensified, and countless lower civilizations perished as a result.
No single civilization would willingly expose itself to the sight of the two great divine kingdoms at this time.
The orc guards were deeply worried. Did [Divine Revelation] really only want to infiltrate the core of the Covenant?
He looked at the Star Alliance Core, which was completely different from before, and his heart pounded with fear.
At this moment, the [Divine Revelation] domain consists of three parts: the Star Alliance base station, the [Divine Revelation] warship, and the [Temple].
The Star Alliance base station stands in the center of the void, like the starry sky being slowly compressed by a hydraulic system.
Countless silver-gray alloy plates are stacked and interlocked, with a faint blue energy-conducting pattern flowing through each seam.
The base station's foundation is based on a galaxy, extending out with twelve floating arms. The anti-gravity anchor points embedded at the ends of the arms tremble slightly, firmly anchoring the entire giant structure in the folds of the spatial rift.
It is so huge that it would take light four whole years to travel from one end to the other.
What chilled Carter and the orc soldiers even more was that, in the vast vacuum, the Zerg hive hung like a living tumor in the darkness.
It was a dark red and charred black organic structure, its surface covered with ripples of chitinous carapace texture, rising and falling slowly with a deep breathing rhythm.
Thousands upon thousands of tiny pores open and close simultaneously, spewing out a cloud of green spores. This cloud does not dissipate but instead converges along invisible biomagnetic field lines to form a slowly rotating nebula ring that envelops the insect nest.
The structure of an insect nest has no straight lines, only curves, spirals, and fractals.
Each magnification reveals new chambers, new channels, and new pulsating membranes. Dozens of fleshy tentacles, thicker than a starship, hang silently from the outermost edge, their tips slightly curled like the eyelashes of a sleeping behemoth.
"By the Beast God!"
As the Orc Empire's starship passed by the Zerg hive, everyone on board held their breath, their hearts pounding in their throats.
The oppressive feeling emanating from the nearby insect hive was almost crushing them. Even though the fleshy tentacles remained unmoved, the orc soldiers' combat instincts were frantically alarming.
A single tentacle is enough to destroy an entire orcish empire warship in an instant.
Carter stared intently at the bizarre yet incredibly powerful insect hives, his pupils dilating violently.
Different!
These insect hives are different from the insectoid civilization I once knew.
As she pondered what was different, a powerful and icy spiritual force swept across her mind.
Carter froze, breaking out in a cold sweat. The sense of crisis of being watched by a apex predator made her unable to muster any will to resist.
After an unknown amount of time, perhaps decades, the mysterious powerful figure shifted his gaze away from Carter.
Carter, as if all his strength had been drained, slumped onto the control panel, barely able to speak: "How much time has passed?"
"[Divine Revelation] Duration: One minute."
She forced a weak smile, a bittersweet mix of laughter and tears. Only a minute?!
An unprecedented sense of loss and inferiority almost overwhelmed her. She couldn't help but ask herself, "Would someone as powerful as [Divine Revelation] really care about the Orc Empire?"
Aren't you being a little too presumptuous?
She stared blankly out the window at the ocean of spaceships.
It is boundless and endless; even with mental power, one cannot see the end.
But Carter could imagine what it would be like: the spaceships spreading out from near to far, forming a spherical array with a diameter of more than two million kilometers.
Closest to the core is the Human Alliance's "Ark"-class mothership, its hull flat like a ray, its solar panels resembling some kind of metallic wings when deployed, and its surface still bearing scorch marks left by atmospheric friction.
Their engine exhaust flames were a pure blue, and most of them were in standby mode at the moment, with only the warning lights flickering on the edge of the hull.
Human civilization is a first-class civilization of "divine revelation," not because it is powerful, but because it is favored by that supreme being.
A little further away was the shuttle-shaped fleet of the Soron civilization. Each ship looked like a meticulously polished obsidian arrow, with no portholes or hatches on its surface, only a golden energy bar running through the hull, which was pulsating light at the same frequency.
The arrangement of these spaceships presents a precise mathematical beauty, with perfectly equal spacing between them and perfectly synchronized rotation, like a silent geometric ballet.
They were a subordinate civilization of Jormungandr. Jormungandr chose to betray its own race and civilization, completely surrendering to the "Divine Revelation," and summoning the Thoron civilization from afar.
Thinking of this, Carter pursed his lips tightly: "Shameless Jormungandr, he keeps talking about his mother, he has no dignity as a Domain Lord at all."
Okay, she admits, she's jealous. If that supreme being would let her call her "Mom," she'd announce it to the entire universe.
Ahhh, they're both Domain Lords, so where exactly is she inferior to Jormungandr?
Is the order in which people pledge allegiance to the "Divine Revelation" really that important?
Carter looked at the Star Alliance base station with a sour expression.
Although [Divine Revelation] also divides civilizations into 369 levels, each civilization has a high degree of freedom.
Inside the Star Alliance base station, spaceships from various civilizations can conduct trade exchanges and training sessions after obtaining permission.
Some of these spaceships were as small as shuttles, yet they exuded an energy signature disproportionate to their size; others were ridiculously large, their silhouettes almost melting into the horizon, their existence only discernible through their silhouettes obscuring the background starlight.
Some are wheel-shaped, some are spherical, and some are simply indescribable in shape.
All the ships were moving slowly, but they maintained an almost impossible tacit understanding with each other.
They intersect, interweave, and give way, their trajectories weaving together into a complex and dizzying three-dimensional network of waterways, yet no two ships are ever less than the safety threshold in distance.
The airway itself was illuminated by the gravitational wave beacons of the Covenant base stations, appearing as a faint silvery-white band of light. From a distance, it looked as if countless invisible hands were simultaneously weaving a giant net covering the entire airspace.
Guided by some mysterious force, the starships of the Orc Empire merged into the sea of spaceships.
The moment they received a certain permission, the beastmen were surprised to find that Vacuum had become lively.
Every civilization makes noise in its own way.
The Human Alliance broadcast coordinated signals across the entire frequency band, with electromagnetic pulses as dense as a heartbeat.
Thorone uses gravitational wave communication, and each message creates invisible ripples in spacetime around the spaceship.
The insect hive emits a low-frequency psycho-induction hum that vibrates directly through the skull walls of every creature with a nervous system, rather than through the ears.
"We are..."
Welcome to Divine Revelation. I am your guide, Fuxi.
The rules of divine revelation are as follows...
The tens of thousands of rules left the orcs' heads buzzing.
After racking their brains to memorize these rules, Fuxi surprisingly concluded with the statement: "The final interpretation of these rules rests with the divine revelation."
Orcs...
Does that mean divine revelation allows you to do whatever you want?
They had no objection to that, after all, strength reigns supreme in the universe, but wasn't Fuxi's actions a bit pointless?
They dared not speak, dared not ask, and even their expressions had to be exceptionally sincere.
The Orc Empire starship was docked at Covenant base station Z-019358, patiently awaiting the summons from the [Divine Revelation] warship.
The [Divine Revelation] warship is actually a vast star field containing the Arbiter, the Ruins of Return, the [Temple], and more. Only first-class civilizations like the [Divine Revelation] are allowed to enter it.
For an orcish empire like theirs, being allowed to dock at a Covenant base station is already quite an achievement.
Carter patiently waited to be summoned, hoping that Melina, considering their past encounter, would elevate the level of service provided by the Orc Empire.
Melina, whom she expected to be very busy, was currently in the heart of the insect hive, asking a question every day.
"Little Black, is there any news about the Lord?"
Blackie disliked the Arbiter for being too small, so it split off a clone of itself, leaving the clone on the Arbiter while its main body rebuilt the hive.
Its fiery red body was almost black in color. The enormous insect-like body lay sprawled on the core platform of the insect hive, its imposing presence growing ever more terrifying.
Her completely black eyes stared at Melina: "No."
Melina sighed inwardly, sitting down next to Little Black's forelegs, a rare look of weariness on her face: "Little Black, time is a terrible thing. These days, I keep thinking about the Giant Whale, about the old Kyushu Star. Am I getting old?"
Xiao Hei coldly said, "No, it's that the Stardust Human Civilization has reached a bottleneck. The long lifespan has dulled your emotions. This is a common problem among long-lived species. To solve this problem, the Jormungandr and their race choose to sleep periodically, the Whales choose to slow down their growth cycle, and the Zerg choose endless killing and devouring."
Xiao Hei tried to be gentler, but it didn't seem to work: "Back when the primordial black hole existed, you and ordinary human civilization were separated and embarked on two different development paths. Even with various technological means, ordinary humans can only extend their lifespan to a few hundred years, which is nothing more than a blink of an eye for you."
"You enjoy a longer lifespan and richer life experience than ordinary humans, but ordinary human civilization is like a mayfly in the universe, short-lived but more vibrant."
Melina leaned lazily against Xiao Hei: "Perhaps. Xiao Hei, I found a book about convergent evolution in the ancient library of Guixu Star. It uses a planet as a sample, where unrelated species, under the selective pressure of similar environments, will evolve into organisms with similar functions but different structures. If we expand this sample to the entire universe, would this theory also hold true?"
Xiao Hei's eyes flickered: "No, you're not like us Zerg..."
Before Xiao Hei could finish speaking, its two antennae suddenly stood up, as if receiving some kind of cosmic wave.
Before long, the pulse deep within the insect hive suddenly became disordered, Little Black's tentacles convulsed and lashed at the void, and scarlet fluorescence seeped from the cracks in its carapace. A series of infrasonic roars swept across the entire [Divine Revelation].
The spore cloud exploded into a blood-red color, and every living being with a nervous system felt the fury emanating from the insect hive.
Anyone who dares to touch my insect master shall die!
Facing this rage, Melina's mind went blank for a moment. After a while, she heard Xiao Hei's cold voice: "Xiao He is in trouble! The Yuan Shen Kingdom has sent three high-level Domain Lords to ambush outside the Node World. I'll send you the coordinates of the Node World."
As soon as the words were spoken, familiar ripples appeared below the insect hive, which then converged into a river that cleaved through the entire space.
Melina immediately stood up and, in a few swift movements, leaped outside the insect hive's territory.
"Mother, is the Lord in danger?!" Weasley noticed the unusual activity in the hive and immediately dialed Melina's communication.
Under the watchful eyes of everyone, the insect hive seemed to carve a passage in the vacuum of space and disappear from its original spot, leaving behind only that star field that was even darker than the surrounding area.
Melina quickly explained the situation and decisively gave the order: "Weasley, you personally lead the [Divine Revelation] Guard to provide support. The Old God will definitely have backup plans around the Node World, and the Lord is in danger. I will stay here to protect the Crystal Coffin."
If the Primordial God Kingdom sent people to ambush the Venerable Lord, wouldn't they also send people to steal the Divine Heir's body?!
"Yes! We'll set off immediately!"