Rise of the Zerg in the World of Gods

[An Invasion has been detected in your divine realm. Do you wish to expel the intruder?]

Just as Xu Luo was considering whether to use his newly acquired evolution points to upgrade his Zerg or increase the number of mayflies to expand his collection team, an alarm sounded in his divine realm.

Someone was invading! Of course, the divine realm had the ability to expel intruders, as long as the power gap wasn't too significant.

"Show me the invader's image!"

Xu Luo remained calm. He upgraded his 10,000 Zerg while checking the invader's image.

"It's him?" Seeing the familiar face on the screen, Xu Luo frowned. It was Xiang Yang from earlier. Just because Xu Luo refused to sell him his divine realm, he decided to invade? "You really think I'm easy to bully?"

Xu Luo ignored it until the Zerg finished evolving, then he deactivated his realm's protective shield.

"Hm? He voluntarily removed his shield?" Xiang Yang, who had been preparing to forcibly break through the shield with items, was surprised, then excited. "Xu Luo, you're asking for death!"

Generally, schools prohibited fights between students, but how could they completely control such incidents?

"Xu Luo, I'll say it one more time. Give your divine realm to me, and I'll compensate you with 10,000 credit points. If I have to conquer your realm myself, you'll be left with nothing!" Xiang Yang spoke arrogantly.

With widespread unemployment, finding a job was extremely difficult, and wages were low. Ordinary people earned only 100 to 200 credits a month, so 10,000 credits was truly a huge sum. However, becoming a professional divine warrior was different.

"Since you won't listen, die!" Seeing no response from Xu Luo, Xiang Yang ordered his followers to attack.

Following his command, a group of goblins eagerly surged towards Xu Luo's realm. In an instant, over a hundred goblins wielding stones and wooden clubs rushed into Xu Luo's divine realm. Although these goblins were poorly equipped, Xiang Yang thought dealing with some insects would be a piece of cake.

"Just a hundred?" Xu Luo sneered, quietly commanding his newly evolved Jumping Zerg and Armored Zerg to hide underground, waiting for the enemy to approach. As for the explosive Zerg, being one-time consumables, he hadn't evolved them.

Although these two types of Zerg were only Bronze Tier 1, inferior to the goblins' Tier 3, they greatly outnumbered them!

Just as the goblins approached the queen without caution, a large number of fist-sized creatures suddenly burst from the ground. The original Zerg were only thumb-sized, but after evolution, they were as big as fists and much stronger.

The Jumping Zerg leapt onto the goblins, each dealing single-digit damage, but with 5,000 Jumping Zerg, the front-line goblins bore the full brunt of the attack.

"What's going on? Weren't your creatures the lowest-level Insects?" Xiang Yang shouted in shock as he saw over twenty of his goblins fall at once, more concerned about his losses.

He had lost so much in just one encounter.

Especially seeing the number of creatures surrounding his goblins, his face turned grim.

The Armored Zerg could withstand the goblins' attacks without being instantly killed; they surrounded the goblins while the Jumping Zerg attacked.

Soon, dozens of goblins were overwhelmed.

"Did I just lose like this?" Xiang Yang stared blankly as his goblins fell one by one, struggling to accept it.

After a while, he noticed that the connection between the two divine realms hadn't been severed.

"What's going on? I've lost, why hasn't the connection been cut?" If Xu Luo knew his thoughts, he would have told him he was too naive. Having encountered such an easy target, how could he let this battle end so quickly?

At this moment, Xu Luo's mayflies were rapidly decomposing the goblin corpses into evolution points; however, he deliberately left a few goblins alive, breaking their limbs and surrounding them, just to prevent them from dying and ensure the battle wouldn't end.

Collecting corpses yielded more evolution points than barren land, and it was faster too.

Xu Luo converted all the newly gained evolution points into mayflies to speed up collection. Then, these small creatures swarmed into Xiang Yang's divine realm.

Earlier, when they connected, Xu Luo had seen a forest and streams there, a much better environment with more resources than his own.

How could he miss such an opportunity?

"My creatures! No! My divine realm!" Xiang Yang suddenly shouted loudly. Although the loss of goblins pained him, he now felt something even more terrifying - his divine realm was shrinking, but he didn't know what was wrong!

The unknown is the most frightening. Xiang Yang didn't dare to gamble. Creatures could be bought again, but if something happened to his divine realm, that would be a massive loss.

"Xu Luo, you just wait!"

Xiang Yang was furious but could only cut off the divine realm connection. Although doing so would cost him the faith power used to build the channel, he couldn't worry about that given the consequences.

"What a pity!" Xu Luo shook his head. If only it had lasted a bit longer!

Originally, in his own realm, 100 mayflies could collect one evolution point per day. But entering Xiang Yang's realm and specifically targeting resource areas, they collected several thousand evolution points in just a short time; however, as the connection was severed, these mayflies were automatically expelled by the other's divine realm.

But thinking of his gains, Xu Luo smiled again.

Now he had 150,000 mayflies, several thousand evolution points, and about 3,000 each of Jumping and Armored Zerg (down from 5,000 due to losses). He also gained new gene templates.

[Congratulations! You've obtained the "Saw Grass" gene template.]

[Congratulations! You've obtained the "Snail" gene template.]

Two new templates, both acquired from the forest in Xiang Yang's realm.

With these new templates, Xu Luo realized his Zerg had new paths of evolution.

[Jumping Zerg + Saw Grass gene can produce Bronze Tier 5 = "Mantis Zerg"!]

[Armored Zerg + Snail gene can produce Bronze Tier 4 = "Beetle"!]

Mantis Zerg: Possesses stronger attack power!

Beetle: Has improved defense!

These two advanced directions strengthened Xu Luo's Zerg;

however, it also increased the pressure to feed them.

Evolving one advanced Zerg cost 10 evolution points, and they consumed one evolution point every two days. This meant that for 10,000 Zerg, feeding them for one day would cost 5,000 evolution points.