Rise of the Zerg in the World of Gods

"Hey, Xu Luo, want to go explore a plane world?" Early in the morning, as he walked into the classroom, his classmates greeted him enthusiastically.

Things were completely different now compared to before.

The elite class students came from extraordinary backgrounds, and some families with deep connections had vaguely hinted that Xu Luo might have become a seed.

That was enough information without saying too much.

It wasn't that these young people were particularly opportunistic.

But just like in Xu Luo's original world, parents hoped their children would hang out with those who performed well academically. In school, unless someone was very introverted, those with good grades usually had decent relationships with others.

And Xu Luo, not only was he good-looking, taking after his mother Li Yan, but he also had a good personality. He only had some grudges with Xiang Xun at the beginning.

After the previous battle, Xiang Xun had specifically come to apologize sincerely, and this unpleasantness between classmates was over.

To be honest, Xiang Xun hadn't really done much, just challenged Xu Luo, and after being beaten badly, he wasn't convinced and came back with his newly acquired Earth Dragon only to be beaten again.

It was actually Xiang Yang who was more malicious, threatening to take someone's Divine Realm over a disagreement.

This matter was considered settled.

Xu Luo didn't take it to heart too much.

With harmonious relationships among classmates, it was also beneficial for him. Now he attended classes and quietly developed his Divine Realm every day.

Recently, he hadn't been going to the plane battlefield much. The medium worlds weren't very useful to him, he had already collected many genes, and he didn't lack resources. He wanted to keep his Zerg to provide large amounts of faith power, in order to produce the Leviathan as soon as possible.

Among the many venues, the arena had become the place Xu Luo frequented the most.

Unlike the actual combat venue, in the arena, he could be matched with opponents from all over, not just from the Ancestral Star, but also from other planets.

The entire arena was specifically divided into city battles, regional battles, planetary battles, racial battles, domain battles, and all-races battles.

One could choose the regional opponents.

In addition, one could select the strength level.

Opponents could be freely matched according to one's own situation.

Moreover, during the battle, no one knew who was who, just focused on defeating the opponent.

Recently, Xu Luo had been battling others in the arena.

Besides training his command of units, he was also improving his own strength.

During the Inter-School League, not only would the strength of units be tested, but also the Gods themselves.

In the early stages, when armies clashed, the presence of Gods wasn't strong, but as levels increased, Gods themselves became powerful forces, even the most powerful forces, and naturally couldn't be ignored.

Previously, Xu Luo had been focusing on improving the strength of his Zerg, but after watching Ying Yingluo's battles, he understood.

Believers always serve their Gods!

This wasn't just a game of conquest after all!

They were Gods, and true divinity meant power residing within oneself!

What Gods needed to do wasn't just stay in the back and cast some enhancement divine spells on their units.

A God who could fight a thousand alone and be invincible was also admirable.

Why were Ying Yingluo's believers so obedient under her command, even Gold-tier and Legendary beings submitting to her?

Besides her personal charisma and their faith in her, more importantly, it was because of her strength.

A God who led from the front, as an emperor, as a deity, leading soldiers to charge into battle, how could soldiers not adore such a leader?

During this time, after specifically learning about Ying Yingluo's deeds, Xu Luo greatly admired this woman.

Not because her surname was Ying, nor because she established a country called "Qin"!

But because she was Ying Yingluo, because of her actions.

Of course, Xu Luo definitely wouldn't admit that it was because her path was similar to his, so he wanted to learn from her approach.

His Umbrella group had just been established, and the number of "protected" targets under him wasn't enough yet.

He wouldn't do things like Ying Yingluo that angered everyone, so it was better to make a fortune quietly.

Those "protected" alien races were too embarrassed to say they were forcibly protected, and many even went on to "protect" other alien races. These people became his community of shared interests, all hoping others wouldn't know, and wouldn't speak out.

When he developed enough "members", he could even build himself into a platform.

Now each civilization had its own main city with its own specialty products, but apart from allied civilizations with good relationships, others didn't interact. It was difficult to buy things from other civilizations.

Sometimes, even at high prices, one simply couldn't buy them.

After he built a platform, he could achieve mutual exchange. Whoever needed something from a certain civilization, the corresponding civilization could buy it.

At that time, he would only need to charge a small handling fee to make a fortune.

This was a good plan, worth trying.

But not now. His current strength wasn't enough; even if he set it up, he couldn't protect it.

Moreover, how many alien races did he have now? Not many. Even if he set it up, it wouldn't have much effect.

Refusing his classmates' invitation to explore plane worlds together, Xu Luo greeted others and sat down in his seat.

"Hey, Xu Luo, why have you been going to the arena so often lately? Haven't seen you go to the plane battlefield," Cha Lei leaned over to Xu Luo.

They were desk mates now and had become more familiar with each other.

After becoming familiar, Xu Luo also learned that Cha Lei, this slightly chubby boy, actually liked Feng Xiaoxiao, but didn't dare to say it. Also, this guy was quite gossipy and had a lot of inside information.

"You don't know, yesterday we explored a medium plane world, and my Kobold army showed great power, for the glory of Douglas!" After shouting the Kobold slogan, Cha Lei mysteriously told about their gains.

"In that plane world, we found a magic crystal mine!"

"Oh?" Hearing this, Xu Luo was surprised. This luck was truly very good.

Magic crystals were very important magical materials, especially for crafting goblin airships and magic crystal cannons. Their market price was not low.

According to plane exploration rules, although this was a school plane, as the discoverers, they could mine for one month, and subsequently have 1% of the magic crystal mine's income for three years.

"That's great, you've hit the jackpot!" Xu Luo sincerely congratulated him.

He didn't have many friends, but his relationship with Cha Lei and others was quite good. Although they were just ordinary friends, knowing they had gained something, he would only be happy for them. He wouldn't be envious just because they discovered a magic crystal mine.

"Hehe, thank you!" Cha Lei rubbed his head.

"If you need magic crystals, just tell me. I'll give you some."

"Okay!" Xu Luo didn't act modest.

Although he didn't need them, since the other wanted to give them, he just casually agreed.

"I'll let you know if I need any."

"Hey, Xu Luo, are you really participating in the team competition alone?" Cha Lei was still puzzled.

"Why don't you join the competition with others?"

"No need, we're just going to gain some experience. I'm just trying it out," Xu Luo smiled.

The Inter-School League was about to begin, and the school took it very seriously. They had already started selecting participants.

One of the events was a team competition where five people could form a team, but Xu Luo hadn't joined a team and chose to be a team by himself.

The school didn't insist on this, after all, for the team competition, these first-year high school students were just going through the motions. Facing second and third-year students, they would all be defeated.

Zhong Tianyue had high hopes for the individual competition.

The individual competition was the one that truly showcased personal strength.

The process of the entire Inter-School League wasn't complicated.

First, each school selected members to participate in the competition, then went to participate in the city-wide Inter-School League to compete for qualifying spots.

However, because Tianhai City was the center of the Eleventh District, the competition was very fierce. The ten qualifying spots here basically locked in half of the qualifying spots for the later regional league.

It could be said that qualifying from the city competition meant a stable qualification for the regional competition.

The more so, the fiercer the competition.

Zhong Tianyue was now placing his bet on Xu Luo.

He knew there was basically no hope for the second and third-year students, so he could only hope for the first year.

When he first applied for the seed quota, he actually wasn't confident about qualifying, but now he felt it was secure.

Regardless of other aspects, at least for the individual unit battle competition, he felt there was no problem.

This was a bonus item. As long as he took first place in this, the rest wouldn't be a big problem.

Zhong Tianyue didn't believe that with a Gold-Tier Monarch brought out, they couldn't take first place.

Cha Lei didn't ask much more.

For the team competition, they were just there to make up numbers. Since that was the case, whether they went up one by one or all together, they would be eliminated anyway, so there really was no difference.

Now the school was internally selecting twenty participants, and everyone knew some spots had already been decided.

Because the strong ones were concentrated in the elite class, there was no need for a school-wide selection.

Twenty spots could be selected from the elite class.

Among them, Xu Luo, Xiang Xun, Wang Xiaoling, Cha Lei, and others didn't need to be selected. Others also knew they were certain to enter the school team.

A total of fifty people competing for twenty spots, plus some who knew their strength wasn't enough and voluntarily withdrew, there weren't actually many people competing.

Because this time they were representing the school in battle, not just going to make an appearance, if they embarrassed themselves, it would also embarrass the school.

Although the opportunity was rare, causing problems on such an occasion would affect their future. Although they were young, these people considered more than ordinary people.

As a result, the school simply conducted a selection and determined the twenty people to go.

Actually, if it weren't for the regulations requiring so many people to participate, the school didn't want to send so many.

The strength of the first few was okay, but the strength of the students behind was very average, all about the same. They were elite in the Sixth Middle School, but compared to the other dozen or so high schools in all of Tianhai, they weren't impressive.

Like in the First Middle School, apart from the most powerful geniuses crushing other schools, the other students in their elite class were also outstanding. Any one of them could be taken out to be among the top few in other schools. This was the gap.

However, there was still some time before the competition, and Xu Luo didn't take this matter too much to heart.

He normally hatched newly produced Zerg eggs every day, maximizing according to the faith power provided.

Then he collected the dead Mayflies, piled them into Creep, and summoned large numbers of Mayflies, letting them continuously collect evolution points.

During this time, continuously harvesting his own Divine Realm had caused the entire land to shrink by a circle.

The simulation of the Leviathan was also ongoing, but the progress was frighteningly slow.

Xu Luo originally thought that simulation, like before, would just consume some faith power and be completed.

But unexpectedly, this time was different.

Fusing multiple powerful genes and completing the Xenomorph's defects seemed to be very difficult. The Overlord's progress was always slow, constantly consuming large amounts of faith power, but the progress jumped by only thousandths or ten-thousandths.

It was only because the Zerg provided abundant faith power, and recently Xu Luo hadn't been doing anything else, otherwise, it would have worn him down.

But this kind of thing couldn't be rushed, he could only wait patiently.

The number of Zerg was constantly increasing, and the consumption of evolution points was also increasing day by day.

At this point, Xu Luo began to consider a problem.

He already knew that after going to the Continent of the Gods later, when the Divine Realm became a Divine Kingdom, increasing its area wouldn't be so easy.

If he kept gnawing like this, would he be unable to replenish the consumption of his Divine Kingdom in the future?

The more Zerg, the more they could eat. This problem needed to be solved!

According to his plan, he needed to maintain a large Zerg army. This way, the logistics problem must be solved.

It wasn't possible to always gnaw on his own Divine Realm.

Even gnawing on others' wasn't realistic.

Invasion was only a temporary solution, not a long-term method. In the novice Divine Realm, he could drive his Divine Realm to invade others every now and then, hit and run, which was exciting.

But the Continent of the Gods was different. There, Divine Kingdoms couldn't be moved at will.

At that time, the Divine Kingdom would be there, and after attacking others, if they came looking for revenge, there would be nowhere to run.

The main thing was not to fear hitting the small fry, but to fear the big ones coming.

On the Continent of the Gods, the restrictions weren't so strict, and Gods fighting each other was commonplace.

Although Main Gods didn't act casually, it didn't mean they couldn't.

If one was too reckless, it wasn't impossible to be killed by a Main God with one slap.

In this situation, the logistics of the Zerg had to be considered.

Continuously purchasing resources and the like wasn't a solution either.

Although the faith power provided by the Zerg was enough to sustain themselves, this would require a lot of extra expenditure, and more importantly, it wasn't convenient.

If a Divine Kingdom couldn't be self-sufficient and had logistics problems, it would be a fatal flaw if known by others.

Such problems must be avoided starting now.