90: Chapter 90 Joining the Top 100 Demigods
Su Chen smiled.
It was a cold smile, like someone looking down at a chessboard, with everything under control.
With Andra's breakthrough in the heat of battle, the last shred of suspense on this battlefield was completely crushed.
The newly promoted Legendary Rank saint transformed into a silver bolt of death.
Every time he streaked across the sky, it was inevitably accompanied by the fall of a high-tier Dark Elf combatant.
Those once arrogant Arachnid Matriarchs were as fragile as thin paper before him; they were either decapitated by sharp bone blades or torn to shreds by the terrifying kinetic energy of his supersonic impacts.
The efficiency of the slaughter was outrageously high.
The torrent of battle was coming to an end at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The so-called Dark Alliance, under the dual crushing force of the Zerg Swarm and the mechanical catastrophe, was no longer a military formation, leaving only desperate wails and futile attempts to flee.
More than ten minutes passed.
When the last Dark Elf was submerged by the swarming Dragon-Armored Zerglings and torn into scattered flesh, the entire battlefield finally fell into dead silence.
Half an hour.
From the beginning of the war to its end, it had only taken half an hour.
The charred earth was covered with a thick carpet of corpses, broken bones, carapaces, and green fluid, emitting a pungent, metallic, and sweet, bloody stench.
"Boom!"
With a dull boom, Theodore forcibly tore the huge head of the last undead Bone Dragon from its spine.
The eerie blue soul fire inside that head was exposed to the air, trembling and contracting as if it had a life of its own, trying to escape.
A stream of data flashed across Theodore's cold electronic eyes.
His other huge mechanical dragon claw reached out, fingers closing to precisely grasp the soul fire, which represented the core of the Legendary Rank undead life, in his palm.
No matter how the soul fire struggled, it could not shake the steel cage in the slightest.
He opened his massive maw and shoved the orb of energy inside; the psionic energy conduits deep in his throat emitted a satisfied, low hum.
Beneath his feet, the remains of the other three Bone Dragons were scattered about; every single bone had been thoroughly dismantled, and the death divine power within them had long since been devoured.
These Legendary Rank undead, which had once given countless demigods headaches, were truly just "rations" in front of Theodore.
At the other end of the battlefield, the killing method of the Psionic Queen Kerrigan appeared more elegant, yet crueler.
Three Legendary Rank Arachnid Matriarchs were currently bound tightly in mid-air by countless translucent psionic energy tentacles.
Their proud psionic shields and divine spell resistance were stripped away and disintegrated layer by layer before Kerrigan's kingly psionic energy, as if being swept away by a storm.
One of the Arachnid Matriarchs had completely lost the will to resist; her massive head hung low, drool of unknown meaning flowed from the corner of her mouth, and her eyes were hollow.
Her spirit had been completely destroyed.
The other two were still making their final struggles.
"Monster... you monster! The Mother Goddess will not let you go!"
"Let me go! I am a noble..."
Kerrigan's purple eyes remained calm; she only slowly raised her hand and pointed her slender finger from afar at the Matriarch who was clamoring the loudest.
Countless psionic energy tentacles tightened instantly, piercing into her divine body.
"Aaaaaahhh—!"
The shrill screams were no longer born of anger, but of fear and pain from the depths of the soul.
Kerrigan's voice carried a strange magic, echoing directly in their minds.
"Look into my eyes..."
The next second, the bodies of the two remaining Arachnid Matriarchs shuddered violently, and the last light in their eyes rapidly dissipated and extinguished.
The ferocity and resentment on their faces were replaced by an absolute, fanatical adoration.
The psionic energy tentacles slowly loosened.
The two Arachnid Matriarchs knelt obediently on the ground, burying their heads deep into the scorched earth, becoming new captives of the Zerg Swarm.
The entire battlefield had only one enemy left.
The Corrupt Matriarch Spider.
She stood on the half-collapsed throne of flesh and blood, the shock in her eight eyes having long since turned into pure, bone-deep fear.
Run! Must run!
This was the only thought in her mind.
Her divine power surged wildly, and a complex and ancient divine domain teleportation array rapidly took shape beneath her feet.
Just one second! No, 0.5 seconds would be enough! She could escape back to her divine kingdom!
However, just as the array was about to light up, an indescribable, terrifying pressure descended from the nine heavens!
The "rules" of the entire world seemed to be forcibly rewritten at this moment.
Space solidified.
Not metaphorically, but physically solidified.
The air became like amber, the light appeared strangely distorted, and the divine domain teleportation array about to complete beneath her feet flickered twice before "poofing" out completely.
The last hope was shattered.
The Corrupt Matriarch Spider stiffly raised her head and saw the figure sitting on the throne of bones, who had not moved from the very beginning.
Su Chen's will crossed space and descended upon her.
"Want to leave?"
The cold voice, devoid of any emotion, carried the majesty of a deity.
"Stay and become a part of the Zerg Swarm."
The moment the words fell.
"Hum—!"
Hundreds of Prism Mantis legions simultaneously locked onto the Corrupt Matriarch Spider.
The three-lobed carapaces on their heads opened, revealing the crystal cores containing terrifying energy within.
The next moment, hundreds of high-energy lasers, brighter than the sun, tore through the solidified space and converged in a crossfire.
Pfft!
The Corrupt Matriarch Spider could not even let out a scream.
Her massive divine body, along with the divine power shield attached to it, was instantly cut and vaporized in that airtight laser network.
In less than a second, only a charred humanoid outline remained in place.
The divine body was decomposed into thousands of pieces.
[Divine War Victory!]
[Calculating battle results...]
[Obtained loot: Divine Power x35 drops, Shattered Spider Divinity x1, Undead divine portfolio fragment x1...]
[Obtained special loot: Arachnid Gene Sequence (consumes Divine Power and biomass, can unlock new unit: Burrowing Spider)]
A series of system prompts rang out one after another in Su Chen's mind.
Meanwhile, in the center of the distant City of Deities, on the huge ranking stele that connected heaven and earth, a name began to jump upwards crazily at an incredible speed.
From its originally unknown rank of over three thousand, it broke through with unstoppable momentum!
1,000th...
500th...
200th...
Finally, in a golden divine light, that name steadily settled at a position that would make countless demigods look up in awe for a lifetime.
[Demigod Leaderboard: 148th]
[Title: Swarm Overlord]
Su Chen's gaze swept over the system panel in front of his retina; looking at the glittering golden ranking, his heart remained calm.
148th?
Not enough.
His gaze crossed the devastated battlefield and cast towards the Zerg Swarm behind him, which was vast and silent, dormant like a black ocean.
Further away, in the synchronous orbit of the planet, the Void Psionic Mothership, so massive it blotted out the sky, was drawing the light of the star into its core main cannon at the bow, slowly charging.
"The moment the leviathan truly takes flight..."
"Who else but me could be number one on this divine leaderboard?"