Although he said that he and the hive's will were different, Ian had indeed been corrupted a lot by the other party's spiritual energy.

The only thing that was beyond the Hive's expectations was actually one thing - it merged the memories of the Great Elder and all the people he devoured in the past, and together Ian was not crazy alone.

Although the other party was holding a sword, he looked very rational and objective, calm and indifferent, but this monster had a fear of Ian.

Because of the madness of the other party, it is almost necessary to accomplish an 'impossible thing'.

Through the spiritual contact just now, it could understand that Ian was not lying, and it could also understand Ian's speculation about the Prison Star Prison in his heart...... So much so that I despaired.

But Ian has come out of despair and is still determined to dream.

It's not that Ian and the Hive will are different and can't resonate, it's that the Hive Will finds itself unable to keep up with Ian and can't resonate with each other.

At this moment, all the mist, fluorescent, psionic energy, and guards that lingered in front of the flesh and blood cocoon were all dispelled, and the entity of the hive's will finally appeared in front of the young man's eyes completely.

It was a huge cocoon, over five meters high, covered in a slippery and greasy layer of mucus, filled with a viscous slurry in which a brain-shaped shadow was suspended.

The shadow was constantly unleashing psionic fluctuations, trying to connect Ian's mind and spirit once again.

But just as the body's immune tissues produce antibodies to foreign viruses, the spirit will also have a dull sense of the alien spirit, just like watching too many jokes will not be funny, and if you apply too much pleasure to the body in a short period of time, you will feel pain, and the current hive will spirit energy will not have any effect on Ian.

In fact, the will of the hive is not completely formed, and now it is just a collection of wills that resides in the psychic network of the brain eater, and its physical world entity is the brain in the cocoon in front of it, which sounds like it has created a weakness for itself, but it is not.

The spirit of the Terra world cannot be independent of the physical body, and the supernatural power needs a medium to manifest in the material world, just as the pure psionic creatures like goblins need a core to carry their power, and the will of the hive is naturally the same, it is this brain that gives it the confidence to exert powerful psionic power, but this is not enough.

It wants to create a strong enough body for itself.

It was the Aether Crystal Dragon, and now it's Ian, which is why it steals the Crystalline Dragon's eggs and intends to assimilate Ian.

Of course, it could also be assimilated by Ian, making Ian a hive will.

No, it would definitely be assimilated by Ian - it thought that its obsession was far less crazy and demonic than Ian's, and naturally it could not outperform the young man in the confrontation of spirits.

The other party may be the real master of the fate of the swarm.

They don't care, the swarm just wants to see the stars.

They don't care who is in charge, as long as someone can see it.

It's just that there aren't many stars in this world anymore.

Ian took a step forward, and he felt a wave of familiarity, the thought of the Hive Will reminded him of Isengard, and the Protector Axel looming behind him...... Did His Majesty the Emperor really want to use his grandson as a carrier of his will? Is he also looking for his new body like the will of the hive?

Is it really that simple, really that despicable?

Perhaps—maybe the emperor's family is so unkind...... But he could really so underestimate the opponent he was destined to face in the future...... One of the kings who ruled over the land?

As he got closer, he could see more clearly, and the boy could see that behind the white cocoon, there was actually an armored ...... One has already destroyed most of the pre-epoch armor.

The cockpit of the armor had been destroyed, and it contained a broken skeleton with the roots of a large white cocoon wrapped around it, from which it was conceived, grew, and finally transformed into this.

And the matrix of the crystal cluster and the metal matrix are also derived from this armor - they are all derivatives of the aether hearth in this armor engine!

The fluorescent crystals that spread throughout the hive are 'elemental derivatives' produced by the poor functioning of the aetheric armament, a low-purity elemental crystal doped with a lot of dust and calcare!

And the metal layer is even easier to understand...... All of them are subordinate creations of the aether-armed hearth core ingredient, 'Living Metal Morion Steel'!

It is this self-repairing living metal, guided by the will of the hive with spiritual energy, that continues to grow and spread, so that it can absorb the metal from the ruins of the surrounding water purification plant, mix with local rock formations and crystals, and shape the hive as it is today!

Of course, it is also possible that the Sequoia base system self-checked, noticed that the cooling port was damaged, so it drove the self-repair metal, that is, 'Morion Steel' to carry out automatic maintenance, but it was cut off by the swarm.

Ian seemed to have seen a thrilling battle, and when the Great Elder was fighting against the entire Sequoia base, someone stepped forward and duel him in armor.

They fought and attacked each other, and no one had any pity for their lives, and even couldn't wait to abandon them.

And in the end, the Great Elder lost, and their physical bodies were wiped out, and the Great Elder who lost his physical body could only reside in the Brain Eater Psionic Network and continue to be the enemy of the base.

This also gave the other five elders in the base the opportunity to upload their souls into the psionic network and smash him to pieces.

Thousands of years later, the memories and desires of all the Elders, the five self-sacrificing Elders, and the other Redwoods, reappeared in the long past, and the creeping and ignorant slugs once again turned into terrible parasites and began to build their nests deep underground.

Reinvent the Heart of the Swarm.

Ian's eyes swirled with a watery glow, and he could see too many shadows in the swarm...... The Great Elder, the five Elders, each longs to go above the earth, to the sea, to breathe in the fresh air, to enjoy the sun, and to look up at the blue sky and the stars.

The swarm is terrible and hateful, but its assimilation of the essence of life is such a beautiful 'desire'.

Haha, he was mistaken. If a wish, a grand plan, a picture of the future is not beautiful, how can it be desirable and make people want to be one with it?

It always has been.

Staring at the enemies in front of him, the hive in front of him, Ian's eyes were filled with countless fragments of the past circling through light and darkness.

In 3319, the alien spaceship 'Obera Tinder' landed on the far side of the moon in Terra.

In 3432, the Federal Lunar Exploration Team found the Tinder spacecraft, which carried an entire alien ecology.

In 3472, the Sequoia Base was established.

In 3518, the Sequoia base carried out a closed operation test, and all thirteen heterogeneous ecosystems were operating well.

Soon after, the Fall of Heaven struck and the Redwood Base was isolated from the surface ecology.

Passed down from generation to generation, sacrificed from generation to generation.

The ecological balance and power structure within the base, as well as the efforts to maintain the Sequoia base and the scientific and technological achievements of the entire pre-era civilization, have finally come to an end.

Ended in the oldest and most insane longing of life.

There will be a dead man who dares to covet eternal life.

- Eternal life, eternal life - Eternal life carries the meaning of everything, so that too many regrets can no longer be regrets, so that too much haste becomes no need to rush.

It's maddening.

"No...... Even crazier than the desire for eternal life should be earthly life, and it should dare to look up to the heavens. ”

"It is only because such a desire is so incredible that human beings can only retreat and use eternal life as a foreshadowing, so that they can see a glimmer of hope......"

Sighing, Ian drew the energy from the Elder Dragon's heart core and provided power to the Sand Armor Apprentice and Fairy Wings as he prepared for the final blow.

At this moment, the outside world was violently shaking, and the roar of the weak dragon chant and the full battle of the White Mist Archbishop could be heard, and the combination of the mother worm and the giant eel was impressively suppressed the combination of the White Mist Bishop and the Aether Crystal Dragon.

He must crush the hive will in front of him as quickly as possible, or he will face defeat.

But in fact, the teenager's heart is never as determined and crazy as the hive thinks.

Under the temptation of the hive, he even wavered for a moment.

Oh, yes. If he can seize the will of the hive and become the real master of the Brain Eater Psionic Network, then how simple it will be for him to develop his power in the future.

Devouring the brains of several key people with brain-eating worms and turning them into their own subordinates, possessing brains can also ensure the loyalty of everyone, and even make all subordinates become saints who are not corrupt, criminal, or selfish, which is enough to build great power and even win every war.

Then continue to cultivate worm nests in the ruins, erode the surrounding demonic beasts, defeat the ether crystalline dragon, and make their own demonic beast incarnation, biological warship weapons; Immediately after that, he slowly reproduced the technology in the ruins, and cultivated the 'core creatures of the ecosystem' that had been quite mature in the previous era civilization.

Coupled with the 'Tinder Engine' he has already obtained, it is a ready-made biological faster-than-light ship.

Under his leadership, the Terra Swarm will quickly break away from the boring land and head to the Sea of Stars to find out why the stars are extinguished.

He could do it—the Foresight told him that a golden future awaited him.

Yes.

Ian's eyes saw no danger from the moment he saw the Hive's will.

What he saw was a sea of gold!

It is like a brilliant golden waterfall where countless stars converge and finally swim upstream, reaching the sky!

【Star Seeker's Hive Will (Dominating Species)】

[First Energy Level, First Birth, Core, Assimilable]

[Through a variety of mutations and soul fragments to build the main consciousness of the psionic network, now has initially formed the Gestalt hive mastermind, through the same emotions, desires and dreams to attract others to merge into themselves, now the lack of a main central soul makes the hive to integrate the will, resulting in sublimation and transformation. It is the first form of the bee colony civilization]

[A new hive civilization prototype that was born in the Terra Star Domain and integrates many other star civilization heritages, but because its development process is too bloody and primitive, it does not meet the 'Tinder Civilization Protection Agreement', and will be handed over to the 'Primordial Life Reserve' for correction and improvement]

【……】

[They are inviting you to be their master]

On the silver chip, such characters are pulsing.

As long as he is willing to resonate with the will of the hive and become the true master of the hive, he can embark on this path of destiny...... Embark on this [Swarm Path] that is civilization by itself!

Bishop White Mist, or rather, the 'Great Calamity' seen by the 'Huaiguang Church' is not a hive at all, but he who chose the path of the hive! It's Ian who chooses to become the master of the hive!

It's just that the prophets influence each other, so that the prophets of Huaiguang Church can't see the truth and mistakenly think it

Ian is the one who can stop the will of the hive.

That is the real truth of the crisis that will threaten the whole world, and it is indeed the disaster that 'only these people present will be enough to stop it'!

But......

The sword held tightly in his hand, the sword left by the teacher, and the heat flow from the heart core, made the white-haired boy sober up a little.

Ian recalls the brilliance of the chip.

It is a rainbow of countless colors coming together, bright and shining, dreamy and magnificent...... [rainbow] brilliance.

Iridescent.

- yes.

Gold, not the highest level of light mist.

On top of it, there is a rainbow-colored 'future'!

"Let me be greedy for once—"

The corners of his mouth pulled an arc, causing essentia to burn on the surface of his body, and then poured into the long sword in his hand, Ian said calmly: "This is the greed of the prophet, because he can see the future, he can't help it, he can't help it, he can't help it...... forever"

"I can't help it, I want to reach the best future!"

He raised his head and stared at the hive will in front of him, peering out the weakness of the other party, while the brain inside the cocoon agitated uneasily, it sensed pure hostility, and countless crystals and metals were pulled by it and covered in the cocoon as a last defense.

After a while, the frenzied mother worm will break free and come to protect it, and it just needs to hold on for a little longer.

But it still invites the boy to become his master, to become the true heart of the swarm, so that they too can reach the heavens.

But Ian ignored the psionic tentacles that were searching for cracks and openings in his spirit, and he had once again strengthened his heart, once again his desires.

——The insect nest in front of you has a thousand-year-old origin, and the ruins with it are created 1,600 years ago.

The glorious base of civilization in the past is now only the bones of the bones.

The towers of the former civilizations reached the void, but now only ruins remain.

In the past, civilizations could go to the biosphere of the other land, but now only the screams of beasts remain.

All the desires, wishes and dreams of the past are now scattered, and only empty relics are left for future generations to look at.

And now, some of the people gathered here are in pursuit of eternal life, some to get out of the cage, some to kill their loved ones, some to be involved in accidents, and some to follow the prophecy and come here to destroy the great evil of the future.

There are aristocrats intrigue, and there are soldiers who continue the strife.

The prisoners of this world are bound by gravity.

Raise your head, even in the depths of the earth, still look up at the heavens.

Ian clenched the long sword in his hand, and the heavy abyss iron sword seemed to be covered with a layer of light golden illusory crystals, and then cyan essentia was wrapped around it, like veins of water.

The six sublimation structures in his body worked in unison, the cyan halo in the young man's eyes shone brightly, and his swordsmanship and inscription skills made him see a huge gap in the many crystal iron armor suspended in the giant cocoon in front of him.

"I'm no different from them, just to fulfill my wishes...... I am hostile to you, but I am also afraid that I will promise you. ”

"I can swing a sword......"

Before he could finish speaking, he jumped up, flew up, and condescendingly slashed at the hive will that was squirming wildly and creeping backwards!

The sword light was blue-gold, tearing through the dim fluorescence, it was just an ordinary oblique sword, but it cut through all the armor that protected the will of the hive.

It's hard to describe in words the swordsmanship that Ian is using at this moment, maybe it's not a swordsmanship, because the trajectory of the young man's sword swing at this moment is not just a sword technique, but a prophetic sword that is enough to cut off the psionic tentacles, cut through the flesh and blood of the hive, and reach all the enemies' vital points-

This sword light was like lightning, quickly shattering all other things that blocked its edge, but in the perception of the will of the hive, this sword was extremely slow, as if thousands of years of time had slipped on this sword bit by bit, it was like the condensation of the thousand-year-old history of the redwood base, and finally turned into that dim arc of light, cutting through the flesh and blood cocoon, and directly hitting the fragile pale swarm brain!

Even the Brain Eater, the Giant Eel, the Aether Crystal Dragon, and the White Mist Bishop, as if they were still trembling outside, all seemed to sense something, and they couldn't help but turn their heads sideways to look at the center of the hive.

Even Patrick, who had just woken up and had lost half of his body, looked at the sublimated sword light swung by the young man under the gaps with a complicated expression.

[We are one kind...... Why...... Why don't you let us out......]

[We just want to break free of the cage, we just want to, look at the stars......]

Rumble!

Thunder exploded underground, and Ian could clearly feel the cocoon being torn apart by himself, and a psionic slurry containing extremely high radiation splattered on him.

But he didn't hesitate, and still swung his sword light forward, until the heavy sword momentum like a meteorite completely shattered the pale brain that seemed to want to say something and resonate with him.

The shield of psionic energy and the resistance of flesh and blood were meaningless, and they were all found to be flawed under Ian's best observation of his psionic energy, shattered with one blow, and reduced to nothing.

Yes, the Hive Will is right, it may indeed be the same kind as itself, and together they may be able to reach the heavens as quickly as possible.

The path of the insect swarm may be the most suitable and efficient path for him, a stranger who has awakened the memories of his previous life.

But he wielded his sword—

Standing on the cocoon of flesh and blood that was on the verge of shattering, falling apart, slowly crumbling, Ian gathered his sword and stared at the cerebral slurry beneath his feet, as well as the fragments of the hive's willish psionic energy that had completely drifted around him and would take no idea how long it would take to recover in the hive.

The Prophet sighed softly as he gazed at a path of fate that had been cut off by himself.

"Just for a better future."