Samsara Paradise: Dream Weaver of Connections.

"Boom——!"

The deafening explosion swept across the entire battlefield, and the surging green flames instantly engulfed the densely packed worker insects and low-level units surrounding the insect hive. The scorching heat turned the creep covering the ground into a scorched wasteland in an instant.

But the massive insect hive, despite being bombarded by devastating artillery fire, only suffered the outer shell peeling away and smoke billowing out; its core structure remained intact.

"Tsk, this turtle shell is really hard."

But on second thought, it makes sense.

The hive is, after all, the core fortress upon which the queen depends for survival and development, and its defensive capabilities must be astonishing.

Even the Sun Tribe has a way to withstand the Titans's firepower, so Mag, as a Tier 4 Insect King, will naturally seek out all sorts of rare materials to reinforce the Insect Nest.

Lin Yi's original plan was to strike at the heart of the enemy, employing a "capture the leader first" decapitation tactic to end the battle at the lowest possible cost. However, given the current situation, a frontal assault is the only option.

On the battlefield, the black tide of Abyssal Demon Beasts collided violently with the swarms of Magworms that kept pouring out of their lair.

The scythe of the Blade-Armed Mantis clashed with the claws of the Abyssal Demon, while the Hydralisk's spines fired in dense bursts, only to bounce off the Abyssal Demon's carapace.

The Titan's Son provided consistent damage from the rear, his fireballs raining down like a green storm, exploding across the swarm and reducing large groups of Zerg to ashes.

The battle was extremely intense, and Mag's main body was in chaos, making it difficult for him to conduct effective overall command.

Although her massive swarm of insects was still resisting fiercely by instinct and passive defense commands, it was like a pile of iron sand that had lost its magnetism, each fighting its own battle.

In contrast, Lin Yi's army, under the unified spiritual bond of Ji La, advanced and retreated in an orderly manner, and fought fearlessly.

As time went on, the numerical advantage and coordinated combat capabilities of the Abyssal Demons gradually became apparent, and the black tide began to slowly push Mag's defenders toward the hive.

Just as Lin Yi and Su Xiao were assessing the battlefield situation and preparing to commit more forces to launch a strong attack on the core of the insect hive, a cloud of dust suddenly rose from the horizon on the flank of the battlefield, obscuring the sky!
A massive swarm of insects swept in at an astonishing speed!

Their objective was extremely clear—to strike directly at the flank of the Abyssal Demon Beast army that was besieging the Magworm Nest!
Red E'er has finally stepped into the fray himself!
She didn't come to help Lin Yi; on the contrary, this Zerg queen came specifically to save Mag.

Having witnessed the destruction of the Sun Tribe, Red Ere recognized more clearly than anyone else the terrifying aggression and expansion speed of Thornra.

While Mag is indeed an enemy of Red Calamity, compared to the unscrupulous, orderly plundering of Thornra, whose mass production of troops is driven by nothing but destruction and devouring... Mag's actions appear quite "restrained," even with a predictable "mildness."

If the lips are gone, the teeth will be cold. If Lin Yi is allowed to destroy Mag and devour its insect nest and resources, then the next one to be crushed by this torrent will surely be Hong E.

Lin Yi's eyes narrowed. Hong E's reinforcements arrived faster than he had expected, and their numbers were enormous, estimated to be no less than 300,000.

The arrival of the Red Calamity army was like pouring a ladle of cold water into a boiling oil pan, instantly shattering the delicate balance of the battlefield!

The Abyssal Demon Beast army was suddenly caught in a dangerous situation, attacked from both sides. The front line, which had been steadily advancing, began to crack like porcelain struck by a heavy hammer under the fierce attack launched by Red Calamity from the flank.

"The old fox finally couldn't resist stepping in." Seeing this, Lin Yi showed no panic whatsoever.

The arrival of Hong E's main reinforcements means that her main defensive forces will inevitably be greatly weakened, which is part of the "encircle and attack reinforcements" strategy that he and Su Xiao had already devised!
Lin Yi and Su Xiao made two preparations for this. If Hong E didn't come, they would kill Mag, digest the benefits Mag brought, and then turn around and destroy Hong E.

If Hong E comes and doesn't interfere, that's fine. But if she does, Lin Yi plans to just raid her base.

At Thornra's base, another mobile force composed of elite Titans and spore tanks was already poised to strike, its target the Red Eresh's vulnerable Zerg hive!

The longer they can hold off Red E's main force, the greater their chances of succeeding on the other side.

"Baha!"

"Understood!" Baham, hovering in the sky, flew swiftly towards the core of the Red Evil Swarm.

Its mission is to confirm whether the true form of the Red Calamity is present on the battlefield, and to seize the opportunity to decapitate or interfere with the enemy!
Meanwhile, deep within the Magg's nest.

In the viscous nutrient solution, Mag's body writhed in agony.

The eerie black patterns on her carapace seemed to writhe and spread like a living thing, each pulse accompanied by excruciating pain that tore at the soul.

The power of the abyss transformed into an ice spike, constantly piercing her will and eroding her very essence.

Her perception of the outside world became blurred and fragmented; she could only vaguely hear the earth-shaking fighting outside the nest and feel the familiar mental fluctuations of Hong E.

“Red Calamity…is here?” Mag gasped in pain, his compound eyes flashing with resentment and a hint of…twisted madness. “Good…good…he’s here!”

The abyss's erosion brought Marg unimaginable pain, but it was also like a sharp carving knife, unexpectedly "chising open" some long-sealed shackles deep within her genes amidst the excruciating pain.

That's an instinct ingrained in the very blood of the Zerg—to survive by any means necessary! Devour everything! Assimilate everything! Crush every obstacle!
"Since...you all want me dead..." Marg's spirit roared silently amidst the excruciating pain, "Then...let's all... perish together!"

She no longer resisted the corrosive abyss that clung to her like a malignant tumor!

Instead, she deliberately opened up her spiritual core, and in a near-suicidal frenzy, actively guided this abyssal power into her body.

She forcibly merged her remaining life force, the bio-energy stored in the insect hive, and the primal instinct ignited by the abyss, transforming them into a destructive torrent that flowed into the insect hive beneath her.

She intends to use the double-edged sword of the Abyss's power to forcibly catalyze an unprecedented ultimate evolution.

Just as Thornra needs a "super-biological crystal core" as a stabilizer to advance to the fourth rank, forcibly attempting to reach a higher rank without a stabilizer has a success rate of less than one in a hundred and will inevitably be accompanied by terrifying distortions.

Mag is now aiming to directly challenge the fifth-tier Zerg Overlord.

Even if it means self-destruction, Mag will drag the enemy down with her.

Inside the insect hive, countless fleshy pipes and energy veins connecting Mag's body suddenly erupted with a blinding crimson light, accompanied by a teeth-grinding "crunching" sound.

Mag's hive resembled a dying behemoth, undergoing its final transformation under the stimulation of the abyss's power.

"What is this? A mutation?!"

Inside the insect hive, the mental fluctuations that had been suppressed to the brink of death by Lin Yi's abyssal power suddenly erupted with unimaginable ferocity and chaos, as if they had been drenched in a mixture of millennia-old ice and hellish lava.

That was no longer Mag's will, but more like the scream of a mad monster utterly corrupted by the abyss, left only with endless destructive desires.

"Crack—snap—!"

The deafening sounds of bones cracking and tendons snapping were like the turning of a millstone in hell. The already enormous insect nest began to expand a second time amidst the teeth-grinding, twisting sounds!

The outer shell of the insect hive was torn and burst open like a fragile eggshell, and the tissue underneath, covered with black, viscous blood vessels and scarlet sarcomas, proliferated wildly, like a blood and flesh balloon that had been forcibly inflated to its limit!
The entire insect nest expanded by a third in just a few breaths, its surface constantly bulging and sinking.

But this is just the beginning!
Even more terrifying, a visible force field, like a shockwave, spread out from the mutated insect hive.

Wherever this force field swept, the Zerg near the hive underwent mutations.

The carapace of a hydra melted and reformed like wax, its spines sprouted barbs and forks, and its eyes burst, leaving only two wildly flashing red lights. The remains of an engineer insect with its legs blown off somehow "stood" up again in the force field, countless tiny, fanged tentacles sprouting wildly from the broken ends, unconsciously gnawing at everything around it!
"Is this what happens to the Abyss after it falls?"

The Maga Abyssification caused aberrations, like the deadliest virus exploding instantly on the battlefield.

The Zerg infected by the distorted force field completely lost any sense of reason and belonging.

All that remains in their eyes is the most primal, destructive desire.

Enemy or ally? Faction? Orders?

These concepts have been completely shattered.

In their distorted understanding, the only command is—to kill!
Devour! Destroy all living things in sight!
“Hiss—!”

"Roar!!"

A frenzied roar echoed across the battlefield.

The scene instantly descended into indiscriminate melee. The previously clear battle lines vanished, and Abyssal Demon Beasts, Mag's remnants, Red Calamity reinforcements, Aberrant Monsters... all units were frantically clashing together!
Attacks come from all directions, enemies are right beside you, and "allies" who were fighting side by side one moment may be infected by the distortion field the next and turn into monsters that tear your throat apart.

The Red Evil swarm was the first to be hit and suffered a devastating blow.

Her swarm of insects had just aggressively cut into the flank of the battlefield, preparing to deliver a fatal blow to the army of Abyssal Demon Beasts.

Before they could launch a fatal attack on the Abyssal Demon, they were met with a calamity more terrifying than death—an overwhelming tide of mutation.

"Pfft!"

"boom--!"

The 300,000 elite insect swarms brought by Hong E suffered over 10,000 casualties in an instant during this sudden backstab.

Her formation was broken, and she was plunged into a chaotic quagmire even deeper than that of the Abyssal Demon Beast.

"Mag—!!!" A violent, furious, and unbelievable mental scream erupted from the core of the Red Calamity swarm, the wrathful will of the Red Calamity itself.

She had planned everything meticulously, anticipating Lin Yi's ambush and Jira's ambition, but she never expected that Mag would launch a surprise attack on her at this crucial moment.

However, this cannot be blamed on Mag. Mag can no longer be considered the Insect Queen. She has now been completely assimilated by the power of the Abyss and has become an Abyss Mutant.

Fortunately, the Zerg under Lin Yi's command all possessed Abyss resistance, so the Abyss field after Mag's fall did not have a significant impact on the Zerg under Thornra.

"Take care of this madman first! We'll settle the other scores later." In the sky, Red Calamity possessed a Calamity Butterfly and landed in front of the two.

"Oh? Not planning to backstab this time?" He remembered clearly that Red Calamity's reinforcements had just been attacking his flank.

The Egui Butterfly, possessed by the Crimson Calamity, stiffened slightly, and a red glow, representing emotional fluctuations, emanated from the edges of its colorful wings.

It's a bit pungent, isn't it? It certainly is.

But right now, no amount of shame can compare to the threat that Mag poses!
"Can't you control this?" Su Xiao ignored Hong E and turned to look at Lin Yi.

As the instigator, Lin Yi's Abyss Power was the source of this anomaly.

“If the aberration hadn’t occurred, my abyssal power might have been able to try to suppress or even reverse it. But once the abyssal pollution caused an irreversible aberration… it went completely mad. The abyssal power would completely devour the host’s original consciousness, turning it into an aberrant creature that only knew how to assimilate, devour, and destroy. The current Mag… or rather that thing, has no reason left; it’s just an empty shell driven by the instinct for destruction.”

“Let’s join forces! My remaining swarm can draw the monsters’ fire and create chaos.” Hong’er’s suggestion was simple and direct: use her troops as bait to create an opportunity for Lin Yi and Su Xiao’s surprise attack.

This is currently the only feasible solution, and also the one with the lowest cost—although the cost to Red Eer is extremely high, eliminating Mag is the most crucial task at present.

Lin Yi and Su Xiao exchanged a glance and nodded.

"Alright! Send your swarm to charge the front of the hive with all their might! Make the biggest commotion! Bahamut!"

“Here.” Baha swooped and circled in the sky.

“Find the area where the aberration growth is slowest; that’s probably where the closest thing to Mag is.”

"Understood! Leave it to me." Baha began high-speed, low-altitude reconnaissance around the massive aberrant insect nest.

The Crimson-possessed Eguidie said no more, flapped its wings and took flight, instantly sending a powerful mental command throughout its remaining lava swarm: "All troops, charge! Crush all obstacles!"

The surviving Zerg no longer evaded the attacks of the mutated monsters. Instead, like moths drawn to a flame, they charged fearlessly toward the front of the mutated Zerg nest with a resolute will to die.

Behind the battlefield, the Titan's Sons fully opened their back armor and launched a saturation bombardment on the area of ​​the Aberrant Hive that had not been impacted by the Red Scourge forces, disregarding energy loss.

A torrential downpour of green, corrosive rain suppressed the mutated monsters that were trying to emerge from the side.

On the main battlefield, the black tide of Abyssal Demon Beasts, under the mental command of Thora, was like the sharpest razor, opening a breach as the Red Evil Swarm charged forward.

On the battlefield, a "sandwich" structure was formed.

At the forefront was a blood-and-flesh millstone of the Red Evil swarm, in the middle was a black dam composed of Abyssal Demon Beasts, blocking the mutated monsters surging from the flanks and securing the passage, and behind was the ranged firepower suppression of the Titan's Sons.

"Found it!" Baha's urgent voice came from the sky, carrying a hint of excitement at finding prey. "There's an area at the top rear of the insect hive, about fifty meters in diameter. The flesh and blood regeneration there is more than half as slow as in other places! It's like it's been forcibly 'frozen' or 'slowed down' by something."

After confirming their location, Lin Yi and Su Xiao immediately followed the path cleared on the battlefield toward the distant insect hive.

Su Xiao was already poised to strike. The long sword in his hand emitted a clear, resonant hum. The moment a mutated monster crossed the defensive line, it was torn apart in mid-air by a flash of sword light, turning into two filthy chunks of flesh that fell to the ground.

Neither of them lingered, but instead sped up their pace towards the distant insect nest.

A minute later, the insect hive appeared in front of the two.

Seemingly sensing their arrival, the insect nest in front of them began to wriggle, and then a face resembling Mag appeared in front of Lin Yi and Su Xiao.

"Become a part of me." The giant face, whose outline of Mag was still faintly visible, let out a muffled growl.

The towering insect nest, like a collapsing mountain, carrying a suffocating, foul wind, crashed down on Lin Yi and Su Xiao.

The shadow instantly swallowed up the place where the two were standing. Lin Yi raised his hand and summoned several layers of Hercules Shield to block in front of him.

Su Xiao was quick to act as well, immediately summoning several layers of counterattack shields to try and block the opponent's attack.

The insect hive paused briefly as the two blocked its path, then continued to crash down, but that brief moment was enough for them.

Boom——! ! !
A deafening roar, accompanied by the splattering sound of flesh and bone being crushed, created a deep crater where the two had just stood. (End of Chapter)