Rise of the Zerg in the World of Gods

At this moment, Xu Luo finally had the time to properly examine the situation in his divine realm.

Trial God: Xu Luo

Divine Domain: None!

Divine Rank: Epic (Demigod)

Divine Realm: ...

Followers: Zerg

Faith Power: 0

Believers: Insect Queen (1), Common Insects (10,000), Mayflies (10,000)

Output: 101/day

Evolution Points: 10,000

Looking at his divine realm data, Xu Luo was at a loss for words.

The mayflies didn't provide any faith, and the ten thousand insects barely provided a bit of faith. That hundred points came from the queen!

Igniting the divine flame required one million faith power to condense into divine power. How long would that take? Fortunately, he had the queen. Otherwise, Xu Luo felt he might as well give up on the divine realm path and focus on studying for a regular university.

Insect Queen: Leader of the insect swarm, capable of laying eggs and mentally linking with the entire swarm for control. Rank: Bronze Tier 9 (Lord level) Skill: Egg Laying (100/day)

Although only Bronze tier, the queen was quite large, about the size of a small car. While ugly and not very intelligent, she made up for it with loyalty, her faith level already at the fanatic level. Seeing Xu Luo, the queen showed affection, or rather, reverence.

At this point, Xu Luo fused the newly acquired gene templates with the queen. This way, when she laid eggs in the future, she could choose from these three templates instead of producing just common insects; moreover, the initial ten thousand crawling insects could be evolved into any of the three types at the cost of one evolution point each.

Xu Luo didn't rush to evolve them, as the insects needed feeding, and evolved ones would eat more, increasing the pressure to feed them. With no battles currently, he directly had the queen consume the ten thousand evolution points to produce a hundred thousand mayflies.

Mayflies could collect anything and convert it into evolution points. Although one mayfly could barely collect one evolution point a day, their strength lay in numbers. With patience, the evolution points would accumulate.

Now, with 110,000 mayflies, they could gather about 1,100 evolution points a day. However, as time in the divine realm differed from reality, it would be more in real time.

It was only when the mayflies actually started collecting evolution points that Xu Luo discovered a problem: his divine realm was extremely barren, and not particularly large. Under the mayflies' collection, the entire realm was shrinking. Although not obvious, as the realm's master, he could clearly sense this change.

While a thousand-mile area wouldn't be depleted quickly, such unrestricted collection couldn't last too long.

Of course, Xu Luo couldn't stop them now. Feeding and evolving the Zerg required evolution points, so collection was necessary. However, gathering more resources became a priority. To expand the divine realm's area, there was only one way: destroy others' realms and absorb them into his own.

Did this mean he had to become an invader?

Xu Luo hesitated, not due to moral reasons, but because he currently lacked powerful species. Even if he chose the path of invasion, it didn't seem promising!

[You have received an email!]

As Xu Luo was observing the mayflies collecting resources, a notification came from the divine realm.

Knowing someone's name allowed communication and even trade between divine realms. Although unsure who was contacting him, it was someone familiar; Xu Luo opened the email.

The image that appeared was Xiang Yang, who had been showing off in class earlier that day.

"Xu Luo, since your starting species is just insects, and you have no hope of getting into a divine realm university in three years, why don't you trade your divine realm to me? I'll give you 10,000 credit points, more than you'd earn in several years of work."

Although it was just a message, seeing Xiang Yang's condescending attitude and tone in the video, as if bestowing charity, even Xu Luo, with his two lifetimes of experience, couldn't help but feel angry.

What was a divine realm? It was the foundation for these novice gods to establish themselves in the World of Gods, equivalent to an initial base; Their future as deities, their path as divine warriors, and their chance to change their fate all depended on the divine realm.

Losing the divine realm meant losing the capital to explore the World of Gods.

Cutting off someone's future was like killing their parents. Trying to buy out someone's future with 10,000 credit points was undeniably vicious on Xiang Yang's part.

Meanwhile, in a villa, Xiang Yang's face clouded over after sending the email and receiving no response.

"No reply after so long, this kid probably won't agree easily!"

Despite saying this, Xiang Yang sent another email to Xu Luo.

"Xu Luo, you have no hope of becoming a professional divine warrior anyway, so why cling to a spot? It's better to give your divine realm to me; let me absorb it and become stronger. When I become famous in the future, you'll have contributed! If you don't agree, after school tomorrow..."

Xiang Yang dared to threaten like this because he knew Xu Luo had no family backing, and his parents were just ordinary workers with no influence. Unlike him, the Xiang family was prominent and had several achievements in the professional divine warrior field. Their starting points were on different levels.

"Idiot!" was Xu Luo's only reply.

Not only did he now have promising development prospects, but even if he truly had no hope, Xu Luo wouldn't give his divine realm to someone with such an attitude.

"Bastard!" Xiang Yang was furious after seeing the reply. As the young master of the Xiang family, when had he ever suffered such insult?

"Uncle Zhong, go buy me a locator card. I need it immediately!" Xiang Yang ordered after making a call.

"Ignorant peasant, refusing my generosity. If you won't give it, I'll take it myself!"

In Xiang Yang's view, with his goblin start, he could bully someone with an insect start however he pleased. So without hesitation, he used his family's resources to purchase a locator card to find Xu Luo's divine realm location and invade it.

They were both in the novice divine realm, in the same school and class, so invasion would be very convenient.

As for whether he could win, that thought never crossed his mind.

He believed victory would be effortless.

At this time, Xu Luo was unaware that someone had decided to invade him over a simple disagreement. He first exited his divine realm and used a synthesizer in the real world to create some toothpaste-like nutritional substance. After eating dinner, he logged back into his divine realm.

Newly created divine realms were very fragile and easily became targets for invaders.

Although everyone in the novice divine realm had just started, some people had money. People like Xiang Yang could buy other species or equipment and then invade. The first week after divine realm creation saw the highest dropout rate from divine realm classes.

If he didn't keep a close watch, Xu Luo wouldn't fell at ease.