The brutal slaughter hadn't lasted long, perhaps only ten minutes or so, and the battlefield rapidly shrank as both sides suffered intense casualties, melting away like snow and ice. But the final, slowly clarifying outcome made Fang Senyan's eyes widen: Across the battlefield, spanning over ten square kilometers, only one lone Ultralisk remained, frantically pursuing a heavily wounded Zergling.
It then used its sharp claws to brutally tear out the creature's trachea and blood vessels, devouring its flesh and drinking its blood, finally letting out a wolf-like, piercing howl toward the sky! Witnessing this, Fang Senyan couldn't help but turn to look at that obese insect.
He remembered the last time he saw it, its strength was only that of an Iron-tier Lord, yet the Nightmare Mark notification had just indicated it was now a Silver-tier Lord... If this outcome was deliberately orchestrated by it, then this ability to completely hold the reins of the battle in its grasp could only be described as terrifying!
No wonder it harbored the ambition to replace the Queen of Blades. "We'll know if it's coincidence in the next battle," Fang Senyan muttered unconsciously.
Reef, who had witnessed the preceding events, also said gravely, "I suspect Mother Earth Eywa will finally get serious this time." "Right," Fang Senyan suddenly recalled something. "What about the Scuttler tribesmen?" Mogansha gave a wry smile.
"They fled the moment they saw the beast tide." Fang Senyan stated calmly: "They worship Mother Earth Eywa; upon seeing the beast tide descended by their Elder Mother, they naturally had to flee as far as possible. I hadn't expected creating the Zerg base would trigger a beast tide.
We'll settle this debt later." After speaking, Fang Senyan couldn't help but call out to the Black Spine Brain Bug in the distance: "The next wave will definitely be serious. I'll send you some of the biological data I acquired earlier." However, at this moment, Fang Senyan suddenly felt something strange.
The surfaces of the surrounding organ structures seemed to be emitting a shimmering black light. If the organ structures of the Zerg base were previously like unfinished buildings, they now looked like they had been tiled and decorated on the exterior walls.
Furthermore, he could distinctly feel that the hatching speed of various Zerg creatures and the construction speed of the organ structures had increased to some extent! Immediately following this, the Tier III Overlord's Lair, which was slated to become the main Hive, suddenly swelled again, rising to at least nearly two hundred meters high.
Seven or eight vicious, thick, flesh-red tentacles grew out from its surface, constantly writhing and flailing towards the sky. The purple-red blood vessels on its surface were engorged as if suddenly injected with blood, bulging frantically.
Atop this already grotesque and magnificent organ structure, a strange hexagonal rhomboid body, composed of high-purity Pandora Crystal, slowly emerged! It intermittently emitted rays of light!
Judging by its height and imposing presence, it appeared exceptionally ferocious and terrifying. For a moment, let alone the three-hundred-meter tall Home Tree, only the Tree of Souls, regarded as a "sacred place" by the Na'vi, could be compared to it!
"The Black Spine Mother must have relocated here too," Mogansha couldn't help but observe. As his words fell, the Black Spine Mother's voice echoed in everyone's minds: "My friends, thank you for your assistance.
I can sense a colossal, mysterious power assembling various creatures in the distance, preparing to launch an attack against us." At this point, Fang Senyan suddenly felt a strange sensation. He abruptly turned around and discovered that the gigantic Fanged Wormhole was withering at a visible speed.
He was instantly alarmed: "Black Spine Mother, what's wrong with this wormhole?" The Black Spine Mother stated calmly: "A wormhole connects two coordinate points in space; they are inherently a single entity. If the wormhole over there perishes, this one naturally withers." Fang Senyan urged: "But..." The Black Spine Brain Bug suddenly interjected: "Our base over there has decided to abandon it entirely.
In fact, the mineral vein we occupied can only be mined for another two months at most, but we are being besieged by four whole Zerg clans. If we don't leave sufficient forces to resist, relying solely on defensive Spine Turrets and Spore Anti-Air Cannons, we definitely won't be able to hold out for eight hours." "Eight hours?" Fang Senyan was puzzled.
The Black Spine Mother patiently explained: "Creating a wormhole utilizes temporal-spatial folding technology, leaving a trace in the cosmos. If we cannot delay beyond eight hours, it might be possible to locate us through the space vortex that hasn't fully recovered, thereby finding this paradise-like planet we arrived on.
But if we can hold out past eight hours, then even Her Majesty the Queen herself would be unable to find any trace of us." Fang Senyan offered a wry smile. "But...
you also feel that immense and mysterious power assembling creatures to attack. If you don't summon reinforcements through the wormhole, how can you possibly hold on?
Their assault will certainly become fiercer wave after wave, and they will target your weaknesses." The Black Spine Mother replied gently: "That power is indeed vast, and the creatures being assembled are formidable, yet... none of them were brought into this world for combat." For some unknown reason, hearing the Black Spine Mother's final sentence, and suddenly recalling the image of the lone Ultralisk frantically pursuing the Zergling on the previously empty, corpse-littered battlefield, Fang Senyan's heart suddenly relaxed.
The ground trembled faintly, Like the sound of an incredibly muffled drum roll! It seemed as if the very viscera of all living things resonated in terror!
It was the sound of colossal beasts, The sound of mighty beasts blessed by Mother Earth Eywa, The sound of them thundering across Pandora's soil at high speed! This time, Eywa was furious!
According to Fang Senyan's estimation, at least eight Legendary creatures with hundreds of thousands of health points were leading the charge, barreling towards them like thunder!! Behind them were mixed masses of Stalkers, Viper Wolves, and other creatures.
Responding to this magnificent momentum were row upon row of densely packed, hatching eggs within the Zerg base, soldiers standing in formation with a chilling aura of might!!! As the mixed beast tide charged to within a kilometer of the Zerg base, at least thirty colossal eggs, each almost the size of a two-story building, suddenly showed distinct cracks on their surfaces.
Then, with a crash, the eggshells shattered piece by piece, and one massive beast after another, standing at least three stories tall and covered in tough chitinous armor, hatched forth. The moment they were born, they silently advanced along the paths within the Zerg base towards the front line!
Invisibly, a sense of solemn murderous intent emanated from them. The rumbling sound of their trampling hooves alone resonated like a vast army, filled with an atmosphere of desperate, unstoppable ferocity.
The carapace on the surface of these colossal beasts looked like ancient armor—thick and presenting a distinct bronze hue! The most striking feature was the pair of crescent-shaped massive tusks growing from their mouths, each at least half the length of their bodies.
This type of large predator was like a living, giant tank; moreover, its fearsome jaw possessed sharp edges capable of easily piercing the thick armor worn by various troops. This was the Zerg's ultimate ground unit: the Mammoth Beast!
As they charged, numerous other eggs continued to hatch. By the time the beast tide struck within five hundred meters of the Zerg base, the Zerg wave had taken rudimentary form, comprising a mixed formation of Mammoth Beasts, Ultralisks, Hydralisks, and Lurkers.
At the instant the beast tide fearlessly crashed into the Zerg tide! It was as if a piercing lightning bolt flashed between heaven and earth, freezing the entire scene like a camera flash, as if the cosmos itself paused to witness, to deeply engrave this bloody battlefield into memory!!
The Mammoth Beast's enormous tusks plunged deep into the body of a Panopy, spraying blood. However, the Panopy, blessed by Goddess Eywa, let out a piercing roar and reared up, violently shaking its massive, mountain-like body.
The Mammoth Beast's huge tusks were unable to disengage in time; they snapped off with a crack in mid-air, causing it to lose balance and tumble to the ground. Then, the Panopy's front hooves, driven by pain and fury, stamped down heavily.
The one-meter-thick chitinous armor offered no resistance to that immense power. Even hundreds of meters away, the horrifying sound of shattering could be heard.
Turbid red bodily fluid sprayed over ten meters high, then fell like rain. But immediately, three more Mammoth Beasts rushed forward frantically!
Raising their ring-shaped tusks, they deeply carved across the Panopy’s body! The sheer impact force they carried actually forced the Panopy to stumble backward repeatedly!
The Panopy's response was to stabilize itself and charge forward even more madly! It had only one thought in its mind!
Charge forward! This Panopy actually began to run under such circumstances.
The long hair on its back fluttered in the air. As its massive body soared, the mane lay smoothly against the tough hide, and as its huge body descended, the mane billowed out, ethereal and hazy, giving people a complex impression—both gentle and fiercely imbued with strength and beauty.
Countless small black shadows swept across its body! They were the seemingly inconspicuous Ultralisks.
Although their claws could not threaten the Panopy's thick hide, the long, bloody, mangled wounds carved open by the sharp tusks of the Mammoth Beasts became their prime targets for attack!