Chapter 333: A Turbulent Era
With the time for Anno to go to school in Tianyun fast approaching, Sevier and Augsis had already made all the arrangements for her, and her family members had packed her luggage. They were just waiting for her to arrive.
Because of the protection of the Holy Tree and the Holy Spirit, Tianyun did not set up a jump point in the star system, and also activated a powerful shielding magnetic field, preventing people from other star systems from entering the star system through spatial abilities. Anno and his group could only go there by spaceship.
The day before heading to the Tianyun Galaxy, Anno went to the Treasure Hall again.
She grew increasingly curious about the Dark Light Queen. Beyond her curiosity, she could sense from her mother's stories about her past that her mother harbored resentment towards her own mother.
Nancy was still by her side this time. She had secretly met with Sitar last time, which was considered "disobeying" her mother's orders. Her mother wouldn't do anything to her, but she could deal with Sitar and his retinue. She decided to stop while she was ahead and not meet with Sitar secretly again.
Cough... Actually, when she came to the Treasure Palace, she secretly climbed over the balcony to the room next door, where she spent a long time with him and was already quite satisfied.
She still tastes Sital's flavor on her lips...
"Your Highness, shall we go in?" Nancy asked Anno, who was standing at the entrance of the Treasure Hall.
Anuo snapped out of her daze, touched her still slightly flushed cheeks, and said somewhat awkwardly, "Go...go in."
A hint of a smile flashed across Nancy's eyes as she helped her push open the heavy, ancient door.
This palace is vast and built of hard ore. Because it has been built and passed down for tens of thousands of years, the architecture carries the heavy history and artistic characteristics of the Zerg. Time has been constantly settling in this palace. Whenever Anno walks in the palace, it is as if he is passing through the ancient torrent of time and seeing the past masters, who also stayed in the palace day after day.
I felt an almost endless loneliness.
The palace is so large, with so many palaces, many of which are empty. Only the King Mushroom can live in the palace. Even though the servants can stay with the King Mushroom at night, they still have to return to their own places to live normally.
Anno often went to a long corridor platform on the west side of the palace, stood in the middle of a huge column tens of meters high and looked out. In front of her was an endless mineral field. The two planets that were close to each other, in the environment of eternal night, were like her looking at the moon from Earth, but closer.
She often thought that the Zerg, especially the Overlords, were not emotionless creatures, and she did not consider herself an exception among the Overlords.
However, the Ohmu is able to control its emotions well because it is powerful and carries the weight of its entire race.
All Zerg servants are loyal to the Lord, but due to their unique social structure, the servants are always subordinate to the Lord. The servants have no secrets from the Lord, and their consciousness is interconnected.
Biological processes are constantly evolving, especially when civilizations reach a certain level, requiring continuous trial and error and change.
In the past, the Zerg's familiars did not have the strong sense of self that the familiars have today; they were more about carrying out orders and were powerful tools.
Even in Anunu's current era, this is still the case for most lower-ranking members of the family; those below the second-ranking members have the weakest sense of self.
The Zerg's self-awareness and emotions are constantly being strengthened, but they are concentrated on their higher-ranking members.
In this social structure, the Overlord is one of the few Zerg creatures that possesses emotions.
This is why there are male insect kings; they are the greatest emotional comfort and spiritual sustenance for the queens sitting on their lofty thrones.
Anno felt that the palace was already enormous, given that everything could be communicated through the consciousness network and there was no need to go out to patrol, not to mention that the Zerg also possessed such a large star system.
If it were her, without the company of Sitar and the other family members, she would definitely feel lonely if she stayed alone in the palace for several years.
But the Dark Light Queen has been doing this for all these years.
Anno looked up at the portrait of the Dark Light Queen in front of him, feeling deeply moved.
She hadn't seen all the queen portraits in the Treasure Hall last time. The Darklight Queen was the 156th Zerg Queen in the New Zerg Calendar. Her mother, Seville, didn't have a portrait yet. Excluding the Zerg Queens who didn't leave portraits, there were still 130 queen portraits.
More than twenty queens did not leave behind portraits. These queens were mostly from a very turbulent period for the Zerg, and their reigns were short-lived, or they died young before even reaching the larval stage.
Only by successfully handing over the throne to the next ruler can a portrait be left in the Hall of Treasures, because the successor can be written in the portrait.
Anno wanted to find a portrait of the 155th Queen, the mother of the Dark Light Queen, when Nancy's voice rang in her ears: "Your Highness, the Wind Spirit Queen left no portrait."
She turned to Nancy behind her and asked, "No portrait was left? What's the reason?"
Nancy paused for a moment, then replied, "The Wind Spirit Queen died in battle. She detonated her core, turning into cosmic dust along with tens of thousands of enemy soldiers."
Anno was shocked: "Not even the core was left behind?"
Each deceased queen's core is enshrined in the temple and exists there for many years, gradually transforming into energy and reintegrating into the planet over time.
Anno: "What about the Wind Spirit Queen's mother?"
Nancy shook her head: "No portrait was left behind either. The Wind Spirit Queen had no mother. Her predecessor, Queen Agaya, died before reaching adulthood, leaving very few records. The Wind Spirit Queen was born after Queen Agaya's death."
Anno fell silent after hearing this. The birth of the Queen Worm was not so easy. In a relatively peaceful era, like her mother Sevier's time, her birth was already considered early. That's why her mother cherished her so much, and even though her energy was unstable, she tried her best to keep her alive.
In cases like Queen Agaya's early death, when an Overlord dies, a new Overlord will be quickly born in the absence of another Overlord. In order to maintain the Zerg's rule, this Overlord's energy will be very stable.
The Wind Spirit Queen was born under such circumstances; the era she lived through must have been an extremely turbulent one.
Whenever the Zerg experience the premature death of their Overlords, other civilizations become restless and eager to attack them, as this is when the Zerg are at their weakest and the best time to strike.
Anno calculated the time; from Queen Agaia to her mother, Queen Seville, four queens had reigned, and more than three thousand years had passed.
Nancy looked at the portrait of the Darklight Queen with reverence. "The Darklight Queen maintained her rule for nearly two thousand years, pulling the Zerg out of the most dangerous situation."
After hearing this, Anno said with some surprise, "The Wind Spirit Queen lived in the most chaotic era, but her reign was not short either."
She circled around in her consciousness network and was able to learn some information about the previous queens. After all, the era wasn't that long ago, and some memories didn't need to be searched in depth to be known.
Nancy turned around and carefully chose her words, saying, "The Wind Spirit Queen is slightly weaker than the Dark Light Queen."
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com