Rise of the Zerg in the World of Gods

After resolving the conflict, Xu Luo began to demand his protection fees, no, his service fees.

Then came the appearance fees.

When it came to his own interests, he didn't let anything slip.

No. 11 didn't have that much faith power. Having just fought a battle, his Divine Domain was severely damaged, not to mention the heavy losses of his units. The subsequent reconstruction required a large amount of faith power.

With no other choice, No. 11 could only use the Divine Domain core auras he had on hand to pay off Xu Luo.

Just like that, without any effort, Xu Luo increased the number of downstreams under his "protection" by more than ten.

 

These downstreams had just suffered heavy losses, so when he went to collect protection fees, there would be little resistance.

The more downstreams under his "protection" the better. Xu Luo naturally wouldn't think their numbers were too troublesome.

 

He even hoped for more downstreams, so he could get more protection fees. Wanting to build a Leviathan legion required a substantial amount of faith power, which wasn't something he could achieve in a short time, even for him.

Although the protection fees were considerable, they weren't available at all times. The advantage was in the steady, long-term income source.

Moreover, because the protection fees depended on these people's income, it wasn't as much as imagined.

Sometimes, Xu Luo even thought about whether he should find ways to help them increase their income, leading them towards common prosperity, so that his own income could be greater.

Unfortunately, searching through his mind, he couldn't come up with any good ideas. This matter could only be left unresolved.

Collecting protection fees wasn't an easy task. Some genuinely had no money. Although they had income over a month, it was reinvested in building their Divine Domain, cultivating units, and even encountering invasions, suffering huge losses. Such people truly couldn't produce extra faith power.

Some people's Divine Domains were directly breached.

These people were unwilling to pay the price for Xu Luo to take action, but unexpectedly found themselves defeated, even losing their Divine Domains. By the time they wanted to ask for his help, it was too late.

Encountering such cases, Xu Luo directly sent emails to everyone else, reporting that so-and-so's Divine Domain was destroyed, and for what reason.

Then he urged everyone that when facing danger, in situations they couldn't handle themselves, to remember that he was their solid backing, and to come to him with any problems.

Besides this, there was a third situation: those unwilling to cooperate, not wanting to pay.

Encountering such people, Xu Luo's attitude was very firm, showing no leniency. He directly attacked. If they paid honestly, that was fine. If they really didn't cooperate, there was nothing to say; he directly destroyed them.

Going through collecting protection fees one by one, there were actually quite a few such people.

Some people felt that the reason they weren't as good as Xu Luo last time was that they had already suffered heavy losses. After recuperating for this period, having gained the strength to resist, they naturally didn't want to obey.

Even worse, some had found helpers, wanting to make Xu Luo stumble, preferably snatching back their Divine Domain core auras. Even if they couldn't, they wanted to severely weaken Xu Luo, making him unable to retaliate against them.

As long as Xu Luo's strength wasn't as good as theirs, even with the Divine Domain core auras in hand, he had no way to threaten them.

Because the main function of this thing now was just positioning.

But if the other party wasn't afraid of invasion, invading them would be useless.

Previously, Xu Luo didn't dare to act rashly because he wasn't confident in suppressing everyone, but now the situation was different.

The Leviathan had been successfully evolved, and all he needed to do next was to continuously increase their numbers.

Without the need for evolution, he could save a lot of expenses. Just accumulating a bit would allow for one more Leviathan.

And collecting protection fees could accelerate this process.

Now the number of Zerg in the Divine Domain was increasing, and just the daily evolution points were not a small number, not to mention the huge consumption of newly joined ones.

The number of Creeps was increasing, and similarly, the number of Mayflies could only continue to increase.

Although often the Creeps were empty, without enough evolution points to store, having Creeps would always be useful later.

Not to mention anything else, once Xu Luo's custom-made starships were in place, the Creeps would have their use.

Although he had commissioned someone to build them, the starship construction cycle was very long, especially for his custom-made ones. In the short term, it was impossible to form a structured starship fleet.

The main issue was still a lack of money. If he had money, he could directly place orders with multiple manufacturers; there would be plenty of people who could build them.

But the previous faith power was used to evolve the Leviathan, and after hatching three, there wasn't much left. He wanted to place more orders but lacked the means.

Moreover, Xu Luo now wanted to try the newly appeared evolution function, which also required a large amount of faith power.

The functions of the Overlord system were becoming more numerous and richer, providing even greater help to Xu Luo.

Apart from the initial functions of recording gene templates and purchasing Mayflies, there was also a function to detect things beneficial to Zerg evolution.

The newly appeared function was to evolve the Zerg's evolution direction.

In Xu Luo's view, this was a terrifying ability that could greatly enrich the variety of species.

In his opinion, the types of Zerg were still somewhat monotonous, but with this function, along with the various strong and weak biological gene templates he had collected, he could freely evolve and combine various Zerg. This way, when encountering different creatures in the future, he would have ways to deal with them.

The evolved Zerg might be useful, or they might not be of much use, but they would definitely greatly enrich the variety of species.

Now, collecting protection fees one by one, those who cooperated had no complaints; those who didn't cooperate were dealt with directly, without a second word.

With three Leviathans taking action, few could stand against them.

If the other side dared to mobilize large-scale armies for encirclement and annihilation, Xu Luo's side naturally sent over the Zerg army.

At this time, the Leviathans were still disguised as flying dragons, not revealing their true forms.

As a newly appeared species, they had no place among known species. Xu Luo didn't want people to specifically study his units, adding them to new species textbooks for people to learn how to counter and deal with them.

Disguising them as flying dragons avoided this problem. At most, they were just a bit more powerful, which wasn't an issue.

The dragon race had many branches. Besides various true dragons, there were also many sub-dragons.

Even sub-dragons had the possibility of becoming Gold-tier, or even Dark Gold above Gold-tier.

Collecting one by one, although he had just gained more than ten new underlings from No. 11, Xu Luo's original number of encodings had still decreased a bit.

Apart from those whose Divine Domains were invaded and destroyed, the rest were all dealt with by him personally.

This also greatly replenished his own forces.

With several Gold-Tier Monarchs leading the charge, it truly played out a scene of flying dragons riding faces.

If anyone was dissatisfied, flying dragons were dispatched, followed by the rush of numerous Zerg armies.

Worth mentioning is that after the Leviathan appeared, although the Queen's level didn't increase, it could be forcibly upgraded by spending evolution points and faith power.

At the same time, the option for division appeared again.

This was also the reason for Xu Luo's urgent shortage of faith power.

The Queen advancing to Gold-tier and simultaneously dividing into eight, these consumptions were not small numbers.

Even though Xu Luo had destroyed quite a few Divine Domains, the faith power directly obtained wasn't much. Various resources still needed to be processed before they could be exchanged for faith power.

At this time, Xu Luo increasingly felt he lacked an agent.

Wang Xiaoling and others could certainly do these things, but he didn't want to mix these interest conflicts into their relationship.

Processing these resources and then purchasing what he needed was a very tedious process. Someone not specifically doing these things couldn't handle it.

Xu Luo himself only had one person. Every day, besides classes and competitions, there was a lot of training and external warfare. He didn't have time to deal with these trivial matters.

Everyone's Divine Domain development direction was different.

Some people weren't very strong and focused more on developing various life-oriented aspects, such as various manufacturing.

Some people developed towards farming.

Not farming to strengthen themselves and crazily explode troops, but truly developing various agricultural and related industries.

After all, there were connections between various Divine Domains.

Some people lacked weapons, some were poor at construction, and some had insufficient output. They could forge weapons themselves but lacked food.

All trades and industries could be found in the World of Gods, just like a miniature of the real world. There were even more professions available than in reality.

If you could afford the cost, you could get what you wanted in the World of Gods.

Even the novice Divine Domain and novice main city were just simplified versions of the God's Continent, but they had everything they should have.

Xu Luo had thought about finding a professional manager to specifically handle these things for him, but after thinking about it, he realized the things he did weren't convenient for a stranger to know.

Although professional managers had good professional ethics, it wasn't that difficult to make someone violate their own ethics.

He didn't want to take risks.

Especially with the precedent of Zuo Tianyao being betrayed by his own people, he didn't dare to be careless.

For safety's sake, even if it was slower, it was fine. The current situation was quite good.

He had actually considered Li Dong, as he had had contact with this person, and his personality and other aspects were fine. However, after consideration, he abandoned this idea.

After all, he didn't have much interaction with Li Dong.

The current impression was based on their few meetings and what the other party had shown. Without deep communication, no one could say for sure what kind of person he really was.

"Wow, what a grand setup!"

Once again sending troops over, Xu Luo couldn't help but exclaim. The other party's operation was truly very grand!

At this time, all three Leviathans had been restrained.

Even the light pillar formed by the transmission channel was fixed by a mysterious force. Xu Luo could feel that even if he wanted to actively close it now, he couldn't do it.

"Interesting idea!"

Seeing his Zerg rush over and fall into the encirclement, while the other party's forces continuously surged towards his Divine Domain.

The other side wanted to counter-invade and directly take him out!

The Zerg wanted to squeeze out, the other side wanted to squeeze in. As soon as they made contact, they started fighting.

Although the three Leviathans were surrounded and attacked by multiple Gold-tier units, they showed no fear at all. Instead, they recklessly continued to absorb the attacks of other Gold-tier units, then transformed them into chaos power for attacks.

However, the targets of their attacks weren't other Gold-tier units, but the vast number of other units covering the ground.

In this No. 213's Divine Domain, besides Xu Luo's transmission light pillar, there were more than a dozen other light pillars standing there, connecting heaven and earth.

So many units were also transmitted from other Divine Domains.

After fixing Xu Luo's transmission light pillar to prevent him from destroying the channel, the other side began to analyze and locate, wanting to directly determine Xu Luo's location so they could open a reverse transmission channel.

They had prepared for so long, gathered so many forces, just to take out Xu Luo in one go and seize the resources he had on hand.

The Umbrella model was good, and many people wanted to continue doing it.

But the premise was to become Zero themselves.

And for these people, Xu Luo's attitude was naturally: No!

It was okay to want to branch out the Umbrella.

Even if you developed a thousand or ten thousand downlines, it wasn't a problem.

Xu Luo even raised both hands in approval.

But there was one point: they couldn't kick him out.

Whoever wanted to kick him out and go solo, he would destroy them.

This was the bottom line, with no room for negotiation.

At this time, the destruction caused by the three Leviathans was too severe. The other side had to find a way to use teleportation magic to move them from this side of the channel to the other end of the Divine Domain.

They let other Gold-tier units run over to restrain them, not letting them come over here to cause trouble.

Without the suppression of the Leviathans' strong combat power, the landing speed of the other side accelerated greatly.

However, when they scattered the Zerg units and ran into Xu Luo's Divine Domain, what they saw wasn't resources everywhere, nor were there various buildings in orderly rows.

An ordinary landscape with no resource points appeared before these invaders.

If there was anything unusual, it was at the location of the transmission channel light pillar, where rows of colorful butterflies were flying.

This welcoming ceremony was quite unique, probably something these alien races had never seen before.

Even the commanding generals were a bit dazed.

Then the next moment, a silent ripple swept across in all directions. All creatures lost consciousness.

Some would never wake up again.

The soul impact simultaneously cast by numerous Gold-tier soul butterflies wasn't something ordinary creatures could resist.

Mage-type units with strong souls could resist a bit more easily, but it was different for warrior-type units. They basically had no resistance to soul impact, and the result was predictable.

Many became vegetables on the spot, their souls scattered.

This timing was perfect, directly blocking at the edge of the transmission channel, just waiting for them to emerge, giving them a head-on blow.

Just this one strike was enough to give the other side a hard time.