paranoianovel Chapter 230 Enslaving the Zerg Brood
Chapter 230 Enslaving the Zerg Brood
Chapter 230 Enslaving the Zerg Brood
"Thank you for your guidance, Teacher Orona. I know what to do now!"
Chen Yuanxing hurriedly bid farewell to Orona and immediately returned to his room, opened the Virtual Universe Company's treasure vault, and searched for "Zerg Mother Nest".
With his privileges, these items weren't particularly valuable, and soon the screen displayed detailed information on hundreds of Zerg mother broods.
"The price of a Lord-level Mother Nest ranges from 80 to 500 Mixed Yuan Units."
Chen Yuan clicked on the detailed introductions of each Zerg mother hive, his gaze sweeping over them: "The most expensive mother hives have already reached the threshold of immortality in terms of their understanding of the laws. They only need to invest billions of Chaos Units of resources to have a certain chance of breaking through."
As for those cheap Zerg hives? They can also break through to Immortality, but at a much higher cost.
"From this perspective, it seems that buying the best Brood Slave and then training it into an Immortal is the most cost-effective option."
Chen Yuan pondered for a moment, "No, just to be on the safe side, let's buy three. Anyway, I can afford to support them."
Although breakthroughs in the Zerg hive are not guaranteed to be 100% successful, they have nurtured all three together, consuming billions of resources, so surely one of them should break through.
As for why he didn't just buy an Immortal-level Zerg Mother Nest, the reason is simple—it's not in the Vault, or rather, it's beyond his authority.
It's important to know that the Zerg's Immortal-class Broodmothers don't have any distinction between titles of nobility and kingship.
Any fully-nurtured Immortal-level Queen Mother possesses at least the strength of a peak-level King.
Therefore, the value of an Immortal-level Mother Nest is ridiculously high, and it is simply unaffordable for someone with the assets of a King-level being, so naturally it will not be displayed in the treasury.
In the end, Chen Yuan spent 1700 million Mixed Yuan Units to purchase the three highest quality Zerg mother hives of the World Lord level.
As for the resources needed for cultivation, there's no need to rush. After successfully enslaving the mother nest, the queen can choose the most suitable resources herself.
Because he chose the Divine Kingdom Delivery, just three days later, an immortal god delivered the three mother hives to Chen Yuan's door. Inside the Shiyuan Hall, Chen Yuan took out the three enormous Zerg mother hives, each a thousand meters tall, with a surface covered in pits and emitting a highly poisonous aura.
"Let's go one by one, starting with you."
Chen Yuan released his mental power and entered the nest through the holes on its surface. He quickly discovered the Zerg Queen sleeping at the core.
"Who would have thought that beneath the ugly exterior of the Broodmotherhood, the true core Queen Mother is so beautiful?"
Chen Yuan couldn't help but marvel at the wondrous creation of the primordial universe, but his hands never stopped moving.
He slowly infused his spiritual power into the depths of the Queen Mother's soul, and soon discovered the ten thousand soul origins radiating a faint light.
To successfully enslave the Zerg Queen, one must completely control these ten thousand soul essences.
But this is extremely difficult, requiring not only a high level of spiritual attainment but also a skillful mastery of the secret techniques of enslavement.
Soul masters like Hu Yanbo, who barely reached the Marquis level, were helpless against World Lord-level Mother Nests because their secret techniques were of insufficient quality. They could only put the nests into a deep sleep and slowly look for an opportunity.
However, this was not a problem for Chen Yuan at all.
After all, his immortal-level soul strength plus 80 times soul amplitude makes his soul strength comparable to the peak of the Marquis level. In addition, with the soul secret technique "Illusionary True Codex" worth hundreds of billions, enslaving a world lord-level queen is simply a piece of cake.
Indeed, this was the case. When Chen Yuan began to use the enslavement technique, he instantly broke through the original protective spell on the Empress.
Soothed by the power of her mind, the Queen Mother maintained a peaceful sleeping face throughout, accepting her enslavement without resistance.
A moment later, Chen Yuan withdrew his mental power.
At the same moment, a graceful figure flew out of the Zerg hive. She gently fluttered her wings and landed softly on the ground.
However, this queen is a full 15 meters tall, and Chen Yuan standing in front of her is less than knee-high, so describing the scene as "gentle" is somewhat incongruous.
To avoid the awkwardness of looking up, Chen Yuan simply leaped up and positioned himself at eye level with his mother.
The exquisitely beautiful Zerg queen gazed at Chen Yuan, a hint of reverence flashing in her eyes, and softly called out, "Master."
"Okay." Chen Yuan nodded slightly. "Please wait here for a moment."
The towering Zerg Queen noticed the other two hives in the hall and immediately understood her master's intentions. She did not make a sound to disturb them and stood quietly in place to wait.
Subsequently, Chen Yuan followed the same method and successfully enslaved the remaining two mother nests. As two figures flew out one after the other, they respectfully bowed and said:
"Greetings, Master."
"Hmm." These three queens were all 15 meters tall and looked well-developed. Chen Yuan nodded in satisfaction: "You all have your own names, right? Tell me all of you."
"Master, my name is Mingli," the first queen to be enslaved said softly.
"My name is Skoll."
"The Ghostly Butterfly".
The other two queens also announced their names in turn.
Afterwards, Chen Yuan inquired in detail about the three Zerg Queens' respective specialties in training Zerg warriors.
Mingli: Proficient in water and spatial laws, the Zerg warriors she cultivates are: the Shadow Mantis, skilled in offense, and the Shieldbearer Zerg, skilled in defense.
And the Nightshade Zerg responsible for reconnaissance.
Silkel: Proficient in lightning and time laws, its development direction is: the Lightning Clan, specializing in ranged attacks, and the Heavy Blade Clan, specializing in melee combat.
And the lightning moth used for reconnaissance.
Ghost Butterfly: Proficient in the laws of light and time, its breeding direction is: the Ghostly Dark Butterfly and the Shining Butterfly for ranged attacks, and the Time Emperor Butterfly for high-speed melee combat.
After listening to the three people's introductions, not only Chen Yuan, but also Ming Li and Si Ke'er couldn't help but turn their gazes to You Die.
"Sister Youdie, why are all the Zerg you're breeding offensive-oriented ones? Don't you care about defense or detection at all?"
Mingli couldn't help but ask.
It's important to know that among the three queens, only her breeding model is the most standard iron triangle combination of offense, defense, and reconnaissance, which is also the most mainstream combination among Zerg.
In contrast, Queens Score and Ghost Butterfly clearly took a different approach.
Score is alright, at least she has scout-type Zerg, and her melee Zerg can also serve as a defensive force to some extent. But Queen Butterfly's combination completely breaks conventional thinking. All three units are offensive, two ranged and one melee, and the melee one is the type that pursues extreme speed, without considering defense at all.
Faced with Mingli's question, Queen Youdie smiled gently and said shyly, "This is because in the past, when I teamed up with a few good sisters, some of us specialized in breeding defensive Zerg, while others were responsible for breeding reconnaissance Zerg."
"With the cooperation of my other sisters, I don't need to consider other types of units at all. I can just focus on cultivating offensive Zerg units."
After hearing Youdie's explanation, Empress Mingli suddenly realized, "I see. My sister is so lucky to have met such a good sister who can entrust her life to her."
"I envy them too," Queen Skoll said, shaking her head. "I've hardly met any of my kind since I was born; I've always been a loner."
Queen Youdie smiled gently and said, "But now we all have the same master, and from now on we are inseparable sisters who will depend on each other for life."
"—My sister is right." Empress Mingli smiled and said, "If we hadn't been fortunate enough to become our master's servants, we wouldn't have met here."
"Since we're going to be sisters, who's the older sister and who's the younger sister?" Queen Skoel couldn't help but ask.
"That's definitely up to Master." You Die smiled gently, and as soon as she finished speaking, all three of them turned their gazes to Chen Yuan.
Chen Yuan hadn't expected that the first problem he'd encounter after winning over the three mothers would be determining their seniority. After thinking for a moment, he said, "Let's go by age. The older ones will be the older sisters, and the younger ones will be the younger sisters."
"Master's idea is excellent, I support it." Mingli immediately expressed, "I support it too."
"What the master says is all correct."
The three then announced their ages, and it was finally determined that Mingli was the eldest sister, Youdie was the second, and Sikel was the youngest sister.
Seeing that the three sisters had reached an agreement, Chen Yuan said, "Next, list out the resources you need for cultivation, including the resources needed to break through to immortality."
Upon hearing Chen Yuan's words, the three queen sisters exchanged glances, their faces showing surprise and delight. They clearly hadn't expected their master to be so generous.
So they all gave their lists of resources needed for their daily cultivation, as well as the precious materials needed to break through to the Immortal Realm.
According to statistics, Mingli needs 37.6 billion Mixed Yuan Units of resources and has a probability of about 13% to break through to Immortality, while Silkel needs 41.8 billion Mixed Yuan Units of resources and has a probability of about 14% to break through to Immortality.
Finally, there's the Ghost Butterfly, which only requires resources worth 26.7 Chaos Units, yet has a 17% chance of breaking through to Immortality.
Chen Yuan stared at the lists and breakthrough probabilities handed over by the three mother empresses, lost in thought.