Chapter 334: The Dark Age
Nancy put it mildly: the Wind Spirit Queen, as a Queen Insect, was born after a generational break, and her abilities were not weak. However, at that time, the Zerg were surrounded by enemies. Their star systems were full of energy minerals, and the development of civilization could not be separated from energy. Interstellar civilizations had a huge demand for energy. At this time, the Zerg were like a piece of juicy meat, surrounded by wolves.
Growing up in such a high-pressure environment, the Wind Spirit Queen should have become a ruthless queen like Dark Light, but her personality is actually very gentle.
Anno connected with Sevier's consciousness and told her about the Wind Spirit Queen's past.
When the Wind Spirit Queen was born, other civilizations had already begun to invade from the outskirts of the Zerg. Without the leadership of the Queen, the followers resisted the invasion of other civilizations while raising the little Queens.
They only have this one queen insect, so they can't send her to the battlefield; they have to wait until she grows up.
Fengling grew up without the guidance and education of the Ohmu, but fortunately she had her family members by her side who took good care of her. However, she had to face the cruelty of war at a young age. She could not go to the battlefield, so she could only watch as one high-ranking family member after another perished on the battlefield.
Her overly gentle, even somewhat delicate and melancholic personality often caused her to shed tears.
She must stay on the main planet. If something happens to her on the battlefield and a new queen is born, it won't be able to grow up protected by her family like she is now. That would be the real danger for the Zerg.
Whenever they are in this situation, the Zerg will use the lives of their entire race to build a defensive line, retreating little by little from the outermost edge of the star system inwards. They do not launch a large-scale attack, but use this delaying tactic to fight and retreat, giving up their territory to allow the Overlord time to grow. This also allows the Zerg to preserve their strength and leave room for a counterattack.
Although the enemy had occupied their planet, it was their Zerg territory, unsuitable for other civilizations to survive. A counterattack would be a piece of cake for them.
But if we give the planet to those enemies, they will be temporarily blinded by immediate gains. The minerals of just one planet are enough for them to mine for many years, and they will fight each other for the benefits. This is the best strategy for the Zerg.
Everything was for their young queen.
And Fengling finally witnessed the birth of her little queen worm, Darklight.
Wind Spirit was lucky, or rather, the Zerg were lucky, to have produced a small Overlord with stable energy.
Not long after the birth of Dark Light, an event occurred that nearly destroyed Wind Spirit.
The male queen, who had just entered adulthood, died in a sneak attack by an enemy.
Feng Ling thought she had finally made it through the ordeal of the birth of the male insect king, and soon after, the birth of the little queen insects. She thought she had finally made it through. But she didn't expect that at this time, the enemy would realize that the insect race had a male insect king and little queen insects again, and would launch a large-scale attack.
She still cannot go to the battlefield, otherwise all that will remain is the newly hatched Dark Light.
In such situations, an Overlord is needed to lead the battle, and the Overlord effect will greatly increase the strength of the Zerg swarm.
They could no longer retreat; any further retreat would expose the very core of the galaxy. Their only option was to launch a counterattack.
The male insect king won, but only his core returned.
At this moment, none of Feng Ling's high-ranking relatives remained.
The male insect king left his core to Darklight and told Wind Spirit to let Darklight absorb the original energy of his core so that she could gain a stronger physique and power.
As the male king of the Wind Spirits, he knew that Wind Spirit's personality was far too weak compared to other queens. Her personality shouldn't have been born in this era; Darklight was the queen who had the potential to lead the Zerg back to the top. But Wind Spirit had already endured long enough. What weighed on Wind Spirit was the entire Zerg race sacrificing half their lives and their planet in exchange for her growth.
Under such high pressure, her spirit was like a taut string, ready to snap at any moment. She had no parents, and the superior relatives who had accompanied her as she grew up had all left for the war. Even the male insect king, who had only just entered adulthood, perished in the war.
But the fact that she still couldn't take up a knife on the battlefield was what caused her the most pain.
Her existence is limited to simply surviving, stabilizing the race, and waiting for the birth of the next Queen Insect.
Throughout the history of the Zerg, there have been many exceptionally capable queens, but Wind Spirit is the most ordinary one. In a prosperous era, she would have been a qualified queen, but she was born during the most chaotic and terrible period for the Zerg. She did not have enough courage and temperament to lead the Zerg to defeat the enemy when there was only one Queen.
She can only seek stability; a tribe with shared consciousness can also know which type of rule and management suits their queen.
If the male queen were born earlier, it might make up for her shortcomings in personality, but during this period, there are always the most unexpected events.
Seeing his mother constantly shedding tears, An Guang picked up a knife early on and threw himself into training to help his mother with government affairs.
She never met her deceased male insect king. Strictly speaking, the male insect king who died young was not her father. She was already in the insect egg before he reached adulthood. She was born from the union of her mother and a high-ranking relative.
The retinue is not worthy of being called father by the Ohmu.
The genes of the Queen mainly come from the Queen. Other members of the family and the male Queen provide very little gene. Even without providing gene, the Queen can still be born.
The birth of a queen beetle is just one of the ways in which queen beetles are born.
Darklight grew very quickly. Even in her infancy, she was able to command battles. In order to get to the battlefield as soon as possible, Darklight spent almost all her time training, except for short rests and handling government affairs.
Every time Feng Ling saw her covered in wounds, he would hug her and cry.
Darklight never hugs his mother, but he also never pushes her away.
Because her mother only had her left.
The male insect king left a message for her in the core, hoping that she would be more patient with the wind spirit and tolerate her weakness.
He said, "It is both a blessing and a cruel thing for the King Worm to have emotions. It is even more cruel to tear them apart after having them. Feng Ling endures this cruelty. Please allow her to be weak."
Darklight understood, so she wouldn't allow herself to have such feelings.
Because this is the worst of times, she must lead the Zerg to repel the enemy, reclaim their territory, and make the Zerg so powerful that they have no more enemies.
In this way, the Queen Mushrooms, like mothers, can enjoy a prosperous era and stay in a time that suits them.
Not all Oomu can be ruthless and cold-blooded.
Millions of years of evolution have implanted emotions into the Zerg's genes, in order to make them a more advanced civilization and give their civilization meaning beyond mere survival.
Since that's the case, let her guard this meaningful existence.
What Feng Ling can't do, let her do.
Her existence is to protect the King Insect, Feng Ling.
Before she even reached adulthood, Darklight went to the battlefield, leading her tribe to defeat the enemy time and time again, thus earning a fearsome reputation among them.
Seeing a capable and ruthless empress rising in the future is something the enemy doesn't want to see.
They had to suppress them, knowing full well that if the Zerg were to rise again, they would surely retaliate fiercely.
The enemy had meticulously prepared a hunt for Darklight. At that time, she had only recently entered adulthood, and no matter how strong her abilities were, she was still too young.
In this hunt, she narrowly escaped death, and the entire legion she led was wiped out.
Her family did everything they could to save her, and she drifted in space for several days before being found by the Zerg.
She recuperated in the abyss for a year. When she awoke, she no longer heard her mother Feng Ling's cries or her ever-worried face.
Upon returning to the palace, her retinue presented her with a crown, and a sea of people knelt on the ground.
She could not sense her mother's core presence, the throne was empty, and the enormous palace was like a man-eating beast that was about to swallow her whole.
When she woke up, she learned that her mother had been on the battlefield all year, guarding the front lines she had fought to win. The enemy thought they had killed her and continued to attack like mad dogs.
Just three days ago, in order to protect an important line of defense, the Wind Spirit Queen detonated her core, turning her and her enemies into cosmic dust.
She was the most ordinary queen in the long history of the Zerg, yet she used the most heroic death to protect the Zerg and her daughter in her only way.
Darklight gazed at the high throne for a long time. Finally, she took the crown, put it on herself, and stepped onto the throne with a determined look in her eyes.
Thus began the Dark Light Era, which struck fear into the hearts of enemies.
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