Rise of the Zerg in the World of Gods

"Is it that simple?" Xu Luo's first reaction to this request was to suspect some kind of trap.

"It's that simple," Wang Dezheng nodded.

"The Wang family doesn't want to be your enemy, nor do we want you to be ours. Consider it paying for peace. We do this with every talented and potential individual, not just you."

Xu Luo remained silent.

"I can also offer you a 2 million faith power credit limit. You can shop at any Wang family mall in the Divine Realm capital city. Consider it a gesture of our sincerity."

Wang Dezheng spoke very earnestly.

Xu Luo raised an eyebrow. It seemed genuine. Why not accept it? He wasn't a public official, so there was no issue of bribery, and they weren't asking him to do anything. Why refuse something given freely?

"Then thank you, Uncle Wang. As long as the Wang family doesn't actively target me, I won't be enemies with the Wang family either."

Xu Luo spoke seriously, though he left himself some leeway in his words, contingent on the Wang family not being hostile to him.

"Xiao Luo is indeed clever!" Wang Dezheng laughed heartily.

"Well, since you're here, eat up! The food will get cold if you don't."

With both sides intentionally showing goodwill, the meal was thoroughly enjoyable for both host and guest.

Xu Luo took the opportunity to ask about some information he couldn't access otherwise, learning about the power dynamics in Tianhai City.

After the meal, Xu Luo took his leave.

Wang Dezheng had his butler arrange a car to take him home.

In the living room, only Wang Dezheng and his daughter remained.

"Dad, was it necessary to offer such good terms just because we couldn't recruit him?" Wang Xiaoling asked, puzzled. Not only did they give a 2 million faith power shopping credit, but they also bought 2,000 sets of armor and weapons at market price. It seemed like a loss no matter how you looked at it.

"Do you think we've given too much?" Wang Dezheng smiled.

"If I wasn't afraid of scaring him off, I would have given him 10 million faith power to help him grow immediately."

"What?" Wang Xiaoling was startled.

"Dad, you haven't done anything to betray mom, have you?"

"What are you talking about!" Wang Dezheng instinctively glanced at the door.

"I'm just investing in talent early."

"Investing in talent doesn't require such a large investment, does it?" Wang Xiaoling still didn't quite understand.

"Although I admit he's impressive now, with a Silver-tier Lord creature, this lead is only temporary. Once those guys' Divine Realms develop, their forces will surge immediately."

"That's just what you see," Wang Dezheng sighed.

"He indeed has no support behind him and fewer resources than you all, but he can go and take them!"

"Take them?" Wang Xiaoling's eyes widened.

"Is Xu Luo an invader?"

"Haha, what are you saying? I'm just saying it's a possibility," Wang Dezheng quickly backtracked, realizing he had misspoken.

In fact, his high regard for Xu Luo came from knowing more information.

The Wang family had risen from his father's generation, with two brothers - one in politics, one in business. His brother was now the second-in-command in the Education Department, so he knew many things others didn't.

This was how he learned about Xu Luo's intelligence.

This was the reason for his efforts to recruit Xu Luo, and after failing to do so, his various gestures of goodwill.

"Xiaoling, our family started too late. We don't have much foundation and can't compare with others. Our base in the World of Gods is particularly weak. Therefore, it's never wrong to maintain good relationships with others."

Wang Dezheng advised earnestly.

"Many geniuses may fade into obscurity, but what if one of them rises? What we've invested now is nothing in comparison. It's just casting a wider net."

"I see," Wang Xiaoling nodded, somewhat bewildered.

Wang Dezheng sighed inwardly. His son was a bit incompetent, and although his daughter was considered a genius, she was only outstanding in Tianhai. She wasn't anything special in the larger region, let alone globally.

Xu Luo was unaware of the conversation between the Wang father and daughter, nor did he know that his frenzied invasion of alien Divine Realms was slowly attracting attention.

After returning home, he quickly freshened up, no longer needing to eat the tasteless nutritional meals. He directly lay down in the game pod and entered the World of Gods.

Back in his Divine Realm, he had suffered heavy losses this time!

Of the 25,000 Zerg he sent out, only a few thousand returned.

Fortunately, after so much time had passed in reality, his Divine Realm had accumulated many Zerg eggs.

Adding these to what he had before, Xu Luo rounded up the numbers, replenishing each of the three Zerg types to 30,000.

He then spent a lot of faith power to directly raise their levels to Bronze Tier 9.

The replenishment of the Zerg immediately restored the faith power supply.

However, Xu Luo's original accumulation was almost entirely depleted.

Unexpectedly, the usually inconspicuous Zerg Overlord System sent a message this time.

[Evolution point storage has reached over 3 million, meeting the basic conditions. You can consume 3 million evolution points and 10 million faith power to split the Zerg Queen and create a new Queen.]

This simple message was like a surging undercurrent to Xu Luo.

What did this mean?

It meant the Zerg were about to experience a population explosion.

At first, he thought that with just one Queen producing 1,000 eggs a day, it would be impossible to amass a vast Zerg army no matter how hard he worked.

But now, the emergence of a second Queen gave him endless possibilities.

If a second could appear, so could a third.

As long as he continued to improve, the scene of millions of Zerg overwhelming enemies might not be impossible!

Moreover, although the Zerg were initially weak, they could be continuously strengthened.

Now the Mantis Zerg and Beetle Zerg had been raised to elite level. In the future, strengthening them to Silver tier wasn't impossible.

Unfortunately, although he had enough evolution points now, there was still a significant shortfall in faith power. Even if he did nothing, he'd need to wait two days in reality.

And now with more Zerg, the daily consumption was also a large number. He needed to save some evolution points, otherwise, if he used all 3 million at once, he wouldn't have enough faith power later.

With 90,000 Zerg, their larger bodies consumed more. They needed 60,000 evolution points daily, requiring 600,000 Mayflies to work hard all day just to meet their consumption.

Fortunately, the number of Mayflies in his Divine Realm had reached a million, enough to meet daily consumption and save some.

The damage to the terrain was truly extraordinary.

If he converted the terrain collected by the Mayflies into faith power, the daily consumption was about several thousand.

Although the Zerg only needed evolution points, these points also had to be exchanged for resources.