Chapter 36: The Awakening and the Arrival of the Empire

Odinxis emerged from the Imperial Palace, his expression slightly dazed.

After the Emperor issued the command for the Zerg extermination, Odinxis was required to undergo a so-called ‘thought modification’ using a special instrument.

This was to ensure that, as the supreme commander, he could fully grasp the intricacies of imperial weaponry and tactical operations.

Odinxis harbored some resistance towards an instrument capable of controlling one’s thoughts.

However, the current circumstances left him no choice. He reluctantly accepted the Emperor’s ‘thought modification’ device.

In that brief period, Odinxis suddenly felt his mind expand, as if he was beginning to comprehend everything.

This sensation persisted for only a short while.

When he opened his eyes again, he saw the Emperor’s smiling face.

“Welcome to a new world.”

“…Yes, Your Majesty.”

Odinxis knelt before the Emperor, a profound sense of reverence swelling within him.

He could distinctly feel his cognitive abilities had vastly surpassed his former, more constrained self, expanding into a broader and more profound understanding.

Philosophical questions that had long tormented and perplexed him now unraveled effortlessly.

All of this had been achieved not through years of study, nor through prolonged purification.

It was merely the effect of a single instrument, yet it had successfully attained such a remarkable outcome!

“You needn’t rejoice too soon. The effects of this device are temporary.

If one attempts to rely on such external forces to gain advanced consciousness and wisdom, the ultimate outcome will only be destruction.

The path of evolution still depends on your own efforts. For now, I have merely given you a direction for development.”

“Yes, Your Majesty’s foresight is profound. Your subordinate pledges lifelong obedience to you!”

“There’s no need for further pleasantries. From this moment on, you are the legion commander of the Imperial brA28 Legion.

Of course, this is only temporary. Once you have eradicated that monster, the legion will automatically return to the Empire.

At that time, you may focus on developing your local region. Your people have now successfully become the Empire’s most impoverished territory. Alas, I truly worry about your development…”

With the Emperor bestowing such high hopes upon him, Odinxis naturally committed to giving his all.

Having confirmed the handover procedures within the imperial army and taken command of the Twenty-Eighth Legion, Odinxis wasted no time.

He immediately led the legion on a journey back to his homeland.

Meanwhile, within Odinxis’s former Alliance Nebula, the entire Alliance had descended into chaos.

People from lower-tier civilizations frantically flocked towards star systems with more advanced civilizations.

Their homeworlds were either already annihilated or on the verge of destruction, rendering them, to all intents and purposes, interstellar refugees.

Such a massive wave of interstellar refugees was not uncommon, yet for it to occur in such a remote region was unprecedented in three or four epochs.

At the Alliance’s headquarters, scientific engineers, dark circles under their eyes, erased yet another star system from the star map based on reports from the front lines.

This marked the eighth star system they had wiped out. The number of refugees had rapidly surged from eight hundred million to two billion.

These two billion people could almost entirely populate an empty ecological planet.

However, in a nebula where the Alliance had developed for so long, all usable ecological planets had long since been utilized.

Consequently, they had no choice but to place these two billion people on several previously abandoned planets.

They then had to reallocate military funds to undertake environmental adjustments.

After all, pirates had completely vanished from this sector of the universe. The remaining military forces were merely a precautionary measure.

The Alliance had made a grave error when the Zerg threat first emerged: they had poured vast sums into military spending.

Yet, reality had proven that their armies posed no threat whatsoever to the creatures.

Presently, the massive insect, having thoroughly understood the lower limits of its offspring’s abilities and the upper limits of human warships’ attacks, grew increasingly brazen in its actions.

One moment, it would devour a low-tier civilization; the next, it would instantly teleport to another star system, commanding its offspring to begin a rampant consumption spree.

In a short span of time, it had absorbed resources from nearly seven or eight star systems, along with vast amounts of stellar energy.

As its own devouring power grew stronger, its offspring also began to evolve towards greater strength.

When the last batch of offspring successfully upgraded to Tier 2, the massive insect suddenly felt its own power elevate to another level.

The speed of its consumption became even more terrifying.

The massive insect had no idea how powerful it truly was now. After all, the strongest human weapons in this region couldn’t inflict any damage upon it, let alone after this latest round of .

The massive insect actually wished for a worthy opponent to test the limits of its current abilities.

However, it was accompanied by so many of its offspring. If it were to engage in battle with someone of equal strength, its children would likely suffer from the collateral damage.

‘Alas, such things can only be dreamt of,’ the massive insect sighed inwardly.

It then continued to direct its offspring to bring all sorts of food for it to consume.

Just as the massive insect was happily feeding, a dangerous ripple suddenly emanated from within this Alliance Nebula.

Upon sensing this fluctuation, the massive insect vigilantly halted its feeding activities and began to analyze the disturbance.

“Ah… is this a quantum fluctuation? But these quantum ripples are far too immense!”

After a brief analysis and comparison, the massive insect suddenly realized that this phenomenon perfectly matched the peculiar ripples generated around itself when it utilized quantum spatial movement.

However, the magnitude of the ripple’s distortion was almost unimaginably vast.

“It seems a big one is coming.”

Comparing it to the fluctuations produced by its own quantum spatial teleportation, the massive insect deduced that the object being transmitted through the Quantum Channel this time likely had a total mass ten to twenty times greater than its own, or perhaps even far more than that.

After all, with the superposition of ripples, this value would only decrease, not increase, meaning the measurement was actually highly unreliable.

“Time to go, time to go.”

The massive insect swiftly swept its hand, pouring all the surrounding food into its mouth.

Then, using a quantum anchor point it had set up long ago, it directly teleported away from its original position.

At this very moment, at Alliance Central.

The imperial army made its appearance!

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