102: Chapter 102 The Birth of the Thunder Titan and Information about the Deep Sea Naga
The cold and cruel curve on Su Chen's lips had not yet completely faded.
The birth of the Dark Templars was the most secret and lethal dagger he had forged to stab at the hearts of the Old Gods and demons.
This was only a part of the plan.
A perfect dagger needs an unstoppable warhammer to smash open the gates of the frontal battlefield.
Su Chen's consciousness withdrew from the depths of the Gene Factory, traversing thousands of miles, and instantly descended upon the far north of his Divine Domain.
Thunder Canyon.
This was the most violent forbidden zone within Su Chen's Divine Domain, shrouded year-round by unceasing purple thunderstorms. Every bolt of lightning contained terrifying energy capable of vaporizing a Tier 6 creature instantly, and they were so dense there wasn't a single gap between them.
But today, this ocean of thunderclouds was trembling.
Not because of the roar of thunder, but originating from a deeper, more primal palpitation.
"Thump—!"
From deep within the earth came a muffled, extreme boom.
It was not a sound, but a ripple of pure physical shockwave that suddenly expanded from the core of the canyon.
High above, the thunderclouds stretching for thousands of miles were forcibly torn open by this impact, creating a massive gap. Countless purple electric snakes hissed in defiance, only to be shattered into pieces the next second.
"Thump—!!"
The second boom followed, heavier and more powerful than the first.
With Thunder Canyon as the center, bottomless pitch-black cracks began to spread wildly across the land; rocks shattered, and mountain ranges shifted. The entire tectonic plate of the northern continent groaned in pain under this terrifying rhythm.
Su Chen's figure hovered ten thousand meters in the air, a golden radiance of divinity forming a thin membrane around his body, isolating him from the chaotic energy storm below.
His burning gaze pierced through the distorted air, locking firmly onto the very center of the canyon.
There, an oval giant egg over fifty meters tall was greedily absorbing all the energy between heaven and earth.
Its surface was not smooth but covered in ancient and profound patterns. Vaguely, one could see wisps of starlight flowing within these patterns; that was the genetic imprint of the Starry Sky Behemoth, the "Star Whale."
To hatch it, Su Chen had invested three months of time and countless high-tier magical beast flesh and blood, enough to pile into a mountain.
At this moment, the giant egg was undergoing its final transformation.
"Thump!!! Thump!!! Thump!!!"
The rhythm from deep underground grew faster and stronger.
Each beat made the thunderclouds in the sky thinner by a fraction and deepened the cracks in the earth by an inch.
Finally, when the last thundercloud was completely dispersed, revealing the deep starry sky behind it, the rhythmic beating from the earth's core stopped abruptly.
Replacing it was a crisp cracking sound.
"Crack!"
The sound was not loud, but exceptionally clear, instantly drowning out the sound of the wind and the roar of collapsing rocks.
Under Su Chen's gaze, a tiny crack appeared at the top of the giant egg.
Immediately after, like a spiderweb, dense cracks spread across the entire eggshell at an astonishing speed.
Boom!
An earth-shattering explosion.
A giant claw covered in metallic-textured carapace and filled with hideous barbs burst out from the shell!
The giant claw did not pause for a second, carrying irresistible, immense force as it slammed heavily onto the cracked earth.
There was no loud boom, only a deathly silent collapse.
With the point of impact as the center, the crust within a ten-mile radius was instantly crushed into powder, forming a bottomless circular sinkhole.
Immediately after, from within the shattered giant egg, a terrifying shadow, vast enough to obscure the starlight, slowly, inch by inch, stood up.
It was too massive.
The mere act of straightening its body caused space itself to groan under the unbearable burden.
Standing at three hundred meters tall, it was like a moving mountain rising from hell. Its entire body was covered in despairingly thick, insulating chitinous armor, and between the gaps of the armor flowed purple bio-electric light.
On its back, two massive bone spikes resembling towers reaching for the sky pointed straight up. At the tips of these spikes, a mass of violent, constantly compressing blue plasma was gathering frantically, emitting a teeth-gritting "sizzle" sound, ionizing the surrounding air into a chaotic state.
[Mythical-tier Creature Born!]
[Name]: Planetary-level Thunder Beast King (Codename: Hyperis)
[Potential]: Demigod-tier
[Traits]: Thunder Sovereign, Planetary-level Tonnage, Moving Calamity
"Roar—!!!"
A roar unlike anything any known creature could emit erupted from Hyperis's chest.
It was not a simple sound wave, but a destructive impact mixed with infrasound and ultra-high-frequency vibrations. Wherever the roar passed, space itself produced visible ripples.
The next second, the bone spikes on its back shuddered.
That mass of blue plasma, gathered to its limit, transformed into a beam of light over a hundred meters in diameter and fired with a boom!
The beam tore through the atmosphere, pierced the firmament, and burned a massive, scorching hole into the pitch-black night sky that refused to heal for a long time.
The dissipated energy melted the rock walls of the canyon below into flowing magma.
"Very good."
"This is my ultimate weapon!"
Su Chen felt that terrifying power, enough to level mountains and evaporate oceans, and his divine core trembled along with it.
This power was completely different from the secretive assassinations of the Dark Templars; it represented absolute, frontal, and all-crushing violence.
With this big guy, on the frontal battlefield, who could stop the Zerg Swarm's advance?
Just as Su Chen was feeling stirred by the newly born war beast, a precise and detailed mental link connected to his mind.
At the other end of the link was the God of Craftsmen, Pierce.
"Great Sovereign, your brilliance shines upon all things."
In Pierce's mental fluctuations, there was a hint of irrepressible excitement.
"Our exploration team has detected a highly peculiar energy fluctuation deep within the 'Endless Great Lake' in the west of the Divine Domain."
"After preliminary investigation, a tribe of 'Deep Sea Naga' with an extremely ancient bloodline is entrenched there! Based on the intensity and density of the life signals, their number exceeds fifty thousand!"
"And..."
Pierce's tone paused, as if he were choosing his words.
"At the bottom of that lake, there is a high possibility of an ancient civilization's ruins!"
"Naga?"
Su Chen's consciousness withdrew from the Thunder Beast King, his eyes narrowing slightly.
With a flicker of his thought, a massive 3D map of the Divine Domain unfolded before him.
His gaze quickly locked onto that vast expanse of blue water in the west.
Endless Great Lake.
The area of this water body occupied almost one-third of the entire western Divine Domain. Since the vast majority of Zerg units were terrestrial or aerial and extremely poor at underwater combat, this had always been a blind spot in the Zerg Swarm's expansion map.
"A Naga tribe of over fifty thousand, generally possessing Tier 3 strength."
"And an ancient ruin..."
Su Chen's fingertip gently traced across the map, but his gaze involuntarily glanced down at his feet.
Hyperis had just completed its initial energy release and was clumsily moving its massive body. Every time it lifted a foot, it triggered a violent earthquake. It seemed full of curiosity about its new body and was frolicking.
A thought emerged in Su Chen's mind without warning.
He smiled.
It was a smile filled with pure mischievousness, the look of someone who had found an excellent testing ground for a new toy.
"Water is conductive, right?"
Su Chen's voice carried a cold sense of mockery.
"Hyperis just hatched, it must be hungry."
"Transmit my oracle: have it go to the Endless Great Lake... and take a bath."
"Since they are neighbors, we should go and say hello in a friendly manner."