Chapter 574 - 267: Mother Empress’s Might, Dark Destiny, Purge

Chapter 574: Chapter 267: Mother Empress’s Might, Dark Destiny, Purge

[Mother Empress’s Reproductive Armor Lv. 33/39, Golden Quality]

[Upgrade Points 0/4, Life Value 3.5k, Physique 3k, Spirit 3.5k]

[Extra Attributes: Synchronized Overlap, Self-Extraction, Mass-Energy Shield, Guard Mode, King Zerg Control]

[Synchronized Overlap: Synchronizes and stacks with the bound pilot’s Attribute Values, granting combat power that surpasses its current Level.

(Note: This Attribute is only effective when the pilot’s own strength is equal to or higher than the Reproductive Armor’s Level.)

Self-Extraction: Upon killing members of the same race of an equal or lower tier, it can rapidly seize their flesh and Life Energy to repair damage and replenish consumption.

(Note: Against Life Forms of a different race, this Attribute’s effectiveness returns to normal levels.)

Mass-Energy Shield: The central medullary processor releases Spiritual Energy to form an outer Shield, capable of withstanding an attack equal to 150% of its own Spiritual Attribute. Current charges: 3/3.

(Note: This Attribute can be applied to nearby life forms, providing remote support and protection. It consumes its own Spiritual Energy based on the Shield’s intensity.)

Sentinel Mode: Within the range of their Spiritual Ability, the pilot can remotely control the Biological Reproductive Armor in combat. If pilot commands are lost, it will enter an autonomous guard state, automatically locking onto and counter-attacking any nearby threats that inflict damage.

King Zerg Control: An Attribute derived from the Mother Empress’s flesh and blood. It creates a natural pressure on the Low-tier Zerg Race with a potent effect. When combined with the pilot’s Realm Power, it can achieve the Absolute Control effect of a Zerg Race Mother Empress.]

[Note: Pilots of the Mother Empress’s Reproductive Armor are limited to those possessing the Mother Empress’s bloodline or Mixed Blood Species with Mother Empress genes. Furthermore, the pilot’s Spiritual Attribute must not be lower than the Attribute Value of Tier Three.]

[Evaluation: This is a biological organism born from a High-tier Zerg Race Mother Empress, representing a trade-off between individual flexibility, Life Force, and control. It inherits the innate talents of the main Zerg Race lineage while compensating for the shortcomings of individual combat strength.]

As the group ventured deeper into the cave entrance, Lin Feng observed the Mother Empress’s Reproductive Armor beside him through his own Prototype Biological Reproductive Armor.

He used Identification to reveal its various Attribute Values and abilities.

Its Synchronized Overlap Attribute was grayed out. Because its pilot, Jiang Yun’er, was only at Tier Two Peak, the Attribute Stacking could not be activated.

In comparison, the Mother Empress’s Self-Extraction ability was greatly enhanced, allowing it to rapidly recover Life Force, much like a Mother Empress absorbing its own Swarm.

In battles against the Zerg Race, this granted it more sustainability than the Prototype Reproductive Armor.

The other two Attributes remained unchanged, with the final addition being King Zerg Control. This came from the cells of a High-tier Mother Empress and was similar to the Might of the King Zerg Attribute on Lin Feng’s own Golden Armor.

However, the Might of the King Zerg was merely a superficial deterrent that kept the Low-tier Zerg Race at bay and made the Tier Two Zerg Race retreat in fear.

It was far inferior to the absolute suppression a Mother Empress exerted on a genetic and Mental Realm level.

Especially under the direct command of a Mother Empress, a Tier Two Zerg could completely overcome its fear of the Might of the King Zerg and continue to attack its target.

But the Mother Empress’s Reproductive Armor’s King Zerg Control could achieve the same level of control as a real Mother Empress.

This meant that unless they were facing Zerg of the same Tier, such as right outside the Nest of a Mother Empress, the No. 2 Machine, the Mother Empress, could completely seize control and directly command any nearby Low-tier Zerg Swarms and Tier Two Zerg Race members.

This Attribute wasn’t very useful on the open surface, but in the cramped environment of an Underground Hive, especially within the tight confines of a Wormhole tunnel, being able to control a nearby Swarm to clear a path was far more effective than killing them and blocking the passage.

At that moment, looking through the eyes of his Biological Reproductive Armor, Lin Feng saw the back of the Mother Empress unit that Jiang Yun’er was piloting. Besides the three pairs of Membrane Wings—half as many as his Prototype—three long, multi-segmented, centipede-like tails grew from its lower back and waist.

Just like the mutated tail segments that had appeared when Jiang Yun’er had entered her Assimilation State and activated her Genetic Control Realm, the multi-legged tips on each side of the tails shimmered with a faint golden light.

That was the Realm Power being activated, a clear sign that it was controlling the other Low-tier Zerg Race members.

Ling Yi called them Beak Limbs. They resembled the arthropod centipedes from Blue Star, but with twenty-three segments each, they had one more segment than a normal centipede.

They actually belonged to the Tier Two Nymph stage of a High-tier Mother Empress, which was what a Zerg Race Mother was.

As a Zerg Race spy infiltrating humanity, the Mother would also hatch parasitic larvae of its offspring.

After parasitizing a human and devouring their brain, they would replace the original nervous system, turning the host into a puppet.

And the tail segments a Zerg Race Mother used to hatch its offspring were precisely these Beak Limbs on the latter half of its body.

Once the third one grew, it signified that the Nymph was fully mature and could directly release Spiritual Power through the Beak Limbs to remotely control its offspring.

It only needed a King Zerg or Zerg God of Tier Four or higher to grant it a complete promotion sequence and Realm Power, and it would then undergo a monstrous evolution into a massive Zerg Race Mother Empress.

Jiang Yun’er, as a Genetic Mother, was fundamentally no different from Genetic Warriors like Qin Hu. One simply borrowed genes from the main Zerg Race lineage’s Mother Empress, while the other borrowed warrior genes from the branch lineage’s Spine Zergs.

And at this moment, the three Beak Limbs growing from the small of the Mother Empress’s back were even larger and longer than the ones that had mutated out of Jiang Yun’er during her assimilation.

Boosted by the Mother Empress unit’s capabilities—which were comparable to an Early-stage, Level thirty-three Mother Empress—and its impressive three thousand five hundred point Spiritual Attribute Value, their effectiveness had skyrocketed several times over.

It was like an amplifier for Spiritual Ability.