I, Yuhaka, am hungry!

"Youyou? Where is this? And what are those things?"

"It's Youyou's new ingredient! OwO!"

Chapter 1025 [The Savage Beast Dies]

"Ingredients?"

Upon hearing his master's words, Esther couldn't help but take a closer look at the alien insects. Because of their fierce appearance, Esther even suspected that they might be demonic elves that had escaped from the elemental spirit realm. Moreover, because of their appearance, Esther felt that these creatures might not taste very good.

"It doesn't look very appetizing..."

Seeing Estelle's furrowed brow, Yuhaka brandished his Demon-Slaying Holy Sword and said:

"It's okay~ It doesn't look appetizing, but maybe it tastes good =w=~"

Hearing what Yuhaka said, Esther didn't say anything. After all, Esther had also eaten at the banquet held by the Niwei people before. At the banquet, there was an extremely ugly creature. That creature was a delicacy that was hard to find on Pandora. According to Viya, that creature was very rare. Apart from the Monsoon Festival, there was basically nowhere to find such delicious creatures.

After killing the two Zerglings, Yhaka temporarily stored them in his dimensional cave, intending to deal with them later. After killing the Zerglings, Yhaka continued searching for the location of the Savage Beast. As Yhaka stepped onto a fungal carpet, he noticed the sticky substance. He lifted his feet and found that the fungal carpet was sticky to his shoes, which made him feel a little uncomfortable. After all, Yhaka wasn't wearing thick-soled boots, so he could clearly feel the sticky texture.

This led Yhaka to decide to burn the fungal carpet, but before that, Yhaka needed to eliminate the giant creature in front of him.

Before Yuhaka stood a gigantic creature, nearly 30 meters tall, brandishing its sharp teeth and claws, declaring its territory. Yuhaka, upon seeing such a massive beast, wore an "OwO~" expression. Although the beast didn't look particularly meaty, its sheer size was astounding.

It's so big; if the meat is delicious, then it's a complete bargain.

Eyhaka conjured Baradion and the Demon-Slaying Sword, charging towards the beast. The beast, in turn, charged at Eyhaka with heavy strides. Once they were a certain distance apart, the beast swung its massive claws at Eyhaka, almost as if embracing him. If one ignored their size differences…

Despite the seemingly swung giant claw, Yhaka showed no panic. Instead, he quickly stepped onto the claw and used it as a springboard to leap over the beast's head. After landing on the beast, Yhaka aimed at what appeared to be its spine and transformed his two one-handed swords into greatswords, slashing down fiercely. With two strikes, Yhaka immediately discovered that Baladion was actually having some difficulty cutting through it, while the Demon-Slaying Holy Sword easily sliced ​​through the beast's carapace.

Baradion had only cut about halfway through. Seeing that Baradion was having some difficulty cutting through the beast's carapace, Yhaka changed Baradion's structure. The edge of the blade was transformed into a light blade. Yhaka used the radiance to create a blade that flowed like a chainsaw, and Baradion, which was previously having some difficulty cutting through, suddenly cut through the beast's carapace as easily as cutting tofu.

Seeing the sharpness of the new Baradion mode, Eyhaka showed an "OwO" expression, clearly very satisfied with this attack form. However, the Beast was not satisfied. After feeling the little thing attacking from behind, the Beast swayed its huge body to try to shake Eyhaka off. Unfortunately, Eyhaka, standing on the Beast's back, was like a piece of chewing gum, impossible to shake off.

Yuhaka, clinging to the beast's back, grabbed two greatswords and began hacking wildly at the beast's spine, attempting to sever the beast's spinal nerves and paralyze it.

Unfortunately, Yuhaka's plan failed. Although Yuhaka severed the beast's spine and central nervous system, its powerful regenerative abilities allowed it to regenerate replacement tissue within its body, preventing the beast from losing its mobility. Instead, the beast's injuries caused it to go berserk.

In its berserk state, the beast maneuvered itself to crash into the rock wall beside it, while Yuhaka, to avoid being smashed into a pancake, jumped to the beast's feet.

boom!

With a deafening roar as the raging beast crashed into the rock wall, many rocks were shaken off the wall. To avoid the falling rocks, Yuhaka hid under the beast's belly.

Even in its berserk state, the beast was hit a few times by the rocks it had crashed down on, but it didn't hurt it much. After realizing that the little creature was no longer on its back, the beast looked around for Yuhaka, but it didn't see him. Just as the beast was wondering, it suddenly felt one of its feet slip, almost causing it to fall to the ground. Then it discovered that one of its feet had been cut off.

Losing a leg is nothing to a savage beast, but the sudden attack caused the beast, which was already in a frenzy, to destroy everything around it as if it had lost its mind. Yuhaka emerged from under the beast's raging belly and retrieved the leg that had been cut off from the beast. Although the beast's leg didn't look like it had much meat on it, its large size meant that the meat on it was heavier than Yuhaka.

While Yhaka was picking up meat, the Savage Beast spotted him. Upon seeing Yhaka, the Savage Beast took a deep breath and then spat a stream of strong acid at him, which Yhaka easily dodged. After thrusters materialized behind Yhaka, he shot into the sky like a meteor. Theresa and the others saw Yhaka flying in the air, but because of the distance, it looked like a dark red meteor rising into the sky.

"Found it! Over there!"

Seeing signs of Yhaka, Theresa quickly directed the Reaper squad to rush towards Yhaka's direction. Yhaka, seeing Theresa and her team approaching, realized that Theresa knew he had secretly slipped out and that he had to quickly deal with the beast, otherwise there wouldn't be time to collect ingredients.

With this in mind, Yuhaka also merged the Demon-Slaying Holy Sword and Baladion into one, preparing to give the savage beast a quick death.

Chapter 1026 [At this moment, Theresa did not notice anything]

High in the sky above Redstone...

Ehaka combined the Baradion Sword and the Demon-Slaying Sword into one, creating a new greatsword. After Ehaka infused it with the power of the Divine Power, the greatsword instantly emitted a dazzling white light, which was very bright on Redstone Star. Theresa and the others, who were flying towards them from a distance, could also see the white light in the distance, which looked like a lighthouse.

Theresa stared in disbelief at the distant light, her jaw nearly dropping in shock.

"My God! What is this?! Has the Honkai energy within that child erupted?!"

Regarding Theresa's question, Stetman on the Hyperion also denied it, saying:

"No, no, no, that's not Honkai energy or psionic energy. It's a completely new and unknown energy source, and this energy is still rising."

Hearing Stetman's words, everyone understood that Ehaka was now using a completely new type of energy, different from the crimson-black energy he used for flight before. This energy produced relatively stable fluctuations compared to the previous ones, and no harmful effects were detected. Of course, this was only temporary...

During the previous operation, Renault and his team saw Yhaka pull out two swords. When they saw this, both Renault and Stargazer were dumbfounded. As far as they knew about Yhaka, they only knew that Yhaka might be a test subject of the Empire's Zerg human experiments. If Yhaka had produced claws, they wouldn't have been surprised.

However, when Yhaka suddenly produced two weapons that looked like medieval one-handed swords, everyone was completely baffled. It was like a Protoss fanatic suddenly pulling out an electromagnetic rifle to fight the Zerg. Faced with this situation, no one knew what to say. Stetman guessed that he might have quantum technology similar to Theresa's, otherwise, how could Yhaka conjure weapons out of thin air?

Most importantly, Stetman felt that Yhaka's weapon didn't seem like something created by humans or Protoss. It was even less likely to be created by humans. Stetman even suspected that the weapon in Yhaka's hand might be something from Theresa's world.

After all, Yhaka possesses Honkai energy, and it's possible that the Empire has obtained something from another world.

...The scene returns to Yuhaka's side...

After gathering its divine power, Yuhaka's weapon emitted a dazzling white light, as if freezing the surroundings. The savage beast below, seeing Yuhaka high in the sky, also sprayed high-pressure acid at Yuhaka, preparing to knock him down. Because there was no insect queen controlling it, it had become wild and, in its berserk state, it was determined not to leave until it had eliminated all the enemies around it.

Yuhaka paid no attention to the high-pressure acid sprayed by the savage beast. He swung down his weapon, which glowed with white light, and a huge crescent-shaped sword aura flew towards the beast. The high-pressure acid, hit by the sword aura, instantly turned into frost and spread towards the beast. After the sword aura hit the beast, it was frozen into a huge ice sculpture, motionless, and the surrounding scenery looked like an iceberg.

After landing on the beast that had turned into an ice sculpture, Yuhaka also felt that the life force in the beast's body had disappeared. However, there was a problem. Looking at the beast that had turned into an ice block, Yuhaka scratched his head. How should he dismantle this big guy now?

After a few minutes, Theresa and the others arrived at the place where Yuhaka and the savage beasts were fighting. Looking at the surrounding area, which had turned into a frozen wasteland, Theresa and the others were dumbfounded. Theresa was a little better off, since anything could happen in that world, but the Reapers had never seen anything like this before, so they were naturally terrified.

The snow-capped mountains standing out amidst the volcanic landscape, and the massive ice sculptures of wild beasts erected on the ice field, inevitably evoke images of humans frozen into icicles in disaster movies.

Dressed in Biscotti's warrior attire, Yuhaka stood atop a giant ice sculpture of a savage beast, wielding a massive, ornate greatsword. He exuded an aura of power, like a hero slaying a colossal monster, his cloak billowing in the wind behind him.

If this hero didn't have that "OwO" expression on his face, he might look more like a hero...

Yuhaka, looking at the dumbfounded Theresa and the others, proudly put his hands on his hips, grinned at Theresa and the others, revealing his cute little tiger teeth, and said:

"Youyou beat Big Meat!"

"what?!"

Upon hearing Yhaka's words, Theresa stared at him with wide eyes in surprise. Although Theresa knew that Yhaka was probably the one who froze the beast into a giant block of ice, she was still surprised to hear Yhaka call the beast "Big Meatball." So you really do eat Zerg?!

Regardless, Theresa was quite angry that Yhaka had sneaked out this time. After realizing what was happening, Theresa put her hands on her hips, looked up at Yhaka's little head, and shouted:

"Youyou! You little idiot, get down here!"

Hearing Theresa's words, Yuhaka tilted her head in confusion and looked at Theresa, because she saw that Theresa looked a little angry. Could it be that her secret hiding of meat had been discovered?

Thinking about all this, Yhaka looked a little guilty. Theresa interpreted Yhaka's guilty look as a sign that he had secretly run away to hunt beasts alone and had been caught, and that he was feeling ashamed. Thinking about this, Theresa couldn't help but feel that she still had a little bit of authority after all =w=~

Thinking about it this way, Theresa felt she shouldn't blame Yuu. After all, Yuuhaka's intentions were good, and she herself had disobeyed orders before. Recalling her past actions, Theresa coughed slightly and said to Yuuhaka:

"Alright, I won't blame you. After all, your intentions were good, but it's really worrying that you're acting alone!"

"·－·?"

Hearing Theresa's words, Yuhaka was also confused. After all, Yuhaka didn't quite understand what Theresa was saying. Before, Yuhaka thought Theresa was coming to question him about secretly hiding Zerg meat, but now, it seemed that Theresa didn't know he was hiding meat. Yuhaka showed an OwO expression, thinking that he didn't have to worry about Theresa knowing that he was secretly hiding meat.

Chapter 1027 [Cleansing the Insect Nest (Part 1)]

After Yuhaka dealt with the savage beasts in the southwest, Stetman on the Hyperion also disembarked by transport plane. This time, the savage beasts made Stetman want to study them to death. Because the savage beasts are very rare, it is almost impossible to find these terrifying behemoths. Even if they are found, these behemoths are playing the role of siege warriors among a large number of insect swarms. Basically, the places where these behemoths can be seen are also full of alien insects. Collecting samples of these behemoths is not such a simple matter.

"Oh my god! Is it really that cold in here?!"

Stetman, who had just disembarked from the transport plane, was also taken aback by the cold he had been expecting. He had thought that Redstone would be warmer, but as soon as he stepped off the transport plane, the icy air around him made Stetman wonder if he had come to the wrong planet.

But Stetman soon discovered that the white area he had just left was actually a volcanic landscape. Seeing this, Stetman had several question marks on his head.

"Dr. Stetman?"

However, after Theresa reminded Stetmann, Stetmann came to his senses and asked Theresa:

"Uh, what?"

Theresa had just noticed that Stetman seemed a little distracted, and guessed that he was shocked by the scene around him. After all, such a sight was rare, and most people would be completely bewildered.

Remembering the beast, Stetman asked Theresa about its location, and Theresa pointed it out. Soon, Stetman saw a beast frozen into an ice sculpture. Upon seeing this, Stetman adjusted his goggles in surprise and said:

"My God, what's going on???"

Seeing the beast frozen into an ice sculpture before him, Stetman was utterly shocked. He couldn't fathom what kind of technology could freeze a colossal creature tens of meters tall into a giant ice sculpture in a volcanic climate. Theresa, standing nearby, looked helpless upon hearing Stetman's question. Earlier, Theresa had asked Yuhaka how he had done it, and Yuhaka had responded with onomatopoeic sounds like "thump," "crack," and "whoosh," which only added to Theresa's frustration.

"Um... I suggest you ask Youyou about this..."

Hearing Theresa's words, Stetman noticed the helpless expression on Theresa's face and felt a little puzzled. However, Stetman didn't pay too much attention to it; his focus was entirely on the beast. After a brief examination, Stetman found that the frozen beast had lost all life force and said with a puzzled expression:

"That's strange, why is this beast showing no signs of life?"

Regarding Stetmann's question, Theresa, who was standing to the side, looked at Stetmann with a puzzled expression and said:

"What's wrong with this?"

"Of course not. Zerg are extremely resilient creatures. It's impossible to freeze them to death, let alone Zerg like the Savage Beast."

After hearing Stetmann's answer, Theresa nodded, and then, as if remembering something, she looked at Stetmann and said:

"Oh, I see. But if that's the case, how did this beast die?"

"I don't know. I need to investigate this question. Perhaps Youyou killed the beast with that strange energy."

As he spoke, Stetman began to order people to cut up the carcasses of the savage beasts and transport them to the Hyperion. Because the space inside the transport plane was limited, the savage beasts had to be cut up to fit them into the transport plane.

Moreover, it was Yhaka who did the cutting when dismembering the beast's carcass. After all, the sacred sword in Yhaka's hand, a combination of the Demon-Slaying Sword and Baradion, could easily cut through the beast's hard shell and bones. Stuartman was greatly surprised to see the sacred sword in Yhaka's hand slice through the beast like a cake. Although the Protoss's psionic blades could also cut through the Thunder Beast's shell, Stuartman felt that the weapon in Yhaka's hand didn't seem like a Protoss weapon.

However, Stetman didn't care too much. He needed to study the beast first, and he would deal with the matter of the Yuhaka weapon later.

After Stetman left with the beast's corpse, Theresa found a batch of collected crystal ore at the original beast's lair. Although she didn't know why there was collected crystal ore there, it didn't stop Theresa from collecting it.

After dealing with the savage beasts, we can now send people to mine the crystal veins in this area. If we build a fortress on the high ground near the savage beast's lair, we won't have to worry about being attacked by alien insects.

After Yhaka and Theresa left, Theresa began preparing to conquer the southern Zerg hive.

As mentioned before, the Reaper squad will flank and sabotage, while Theresa and her team will draw fire from the front. Once the Zerg hatchery and worker bees are destroyed, there's basically nothing to worry about, because the Zerg nest has lost its ability to hatch Zerg and will no longer send out swarms to attack.

To prevent Ehaka from running around like before, Theresa kept Ehaka by her side. Although Ehaka was strong enough to easily eliminate the beast, facing a large group of Zerg was not the same as facing a single beast. Zerg would attack her from all directions, which was a very dangerous situation.

After preparing the troops, Theresa and her team set off. Upon arriving at the entrance to the southern Zerg hive highlands, Theresa positioned the Firebats and Marauders at the front of the formation. Their CMC power armor was thick enough to withstand most Zerg attacks, and both were relatively effective against Zerg swarms. Behind them were the Marines armed with riot shields and electromagnetic rifles, and a little behind were the medics.

After the attack team was ready, Theresa commanded the troops to advance. As Theresa and her team moved, the Overlords in the air also spotted them and immediately gathered the swarms in the hive to launch an attack. For the swarms, there is no concept of defense.

The Zerg's most basic offensive and defensive tactic is to overwhelm the enemy with an endless swarm of Zerg.

Chapter 1028 [Cleansing the Insect Nest (Part 2)]

"Roar--!"

As Theresa and her group launched their attack, a large swarm of Zerg emerged like hornets whose nest had been disturbed and began attacking their ranks. The sight of such a menacing horde of Zerg rushing towards them was indeed overwhelming, but Theresa was not worried. After throwing out Judah's spears, many of them fell into the swarm and killed numerous Zerg.

The Marines in the ranks raised their electromagnetic rifles and opened fire on the Zerg swarm. The Marauders and Firebats at the front of the ranks also launched an attack. The Firebats sprayed flames onto the Zerg creep, instantly igniting it. The burning creep spread in all directions, and the Zerg burst out of the flames and charged towards Theresa and her group. The Firebats stepped forward and raised their twin-barreled Destroyer sprayers, blasting flames at the first Zerglings that charged forward.

The scorching heat of the flames swept towards the leaping insects like a fire dragon, instantly igniting them. The burning insects quickly twisted their flaming bodies and rolled on the ground, trying to extinguish the flames, but unfortunately, the flames spewed by the fire bats were not so easily extinguished.

Meanwhile, the Hydralisks and Roach attacked the Firebats and Marauders from a distance using their spines and acid. When the spines hit the Firebats and Marauders, some of them ricocheted off the curved parts, while the rest embedded themselves in the power armor. Of course, they did not harm the armor users of the Firebats and Marauders, because their armor was much thicker than that of the Marines, so they were not too worried about the spine attacks.

Unless the spines hit a weak spot in the armor, they cannot cause any damage.

As for strong acids, the armor on the firebats and raiders has undergone new modifications to make it more acid-resistant, which can reduce the corrosion of the interlayer armor by strong acids. However, even so, it cannot completely eliminate strong acids. If the interlayer is corroded or damaged and cracked, it will still corrode the armor on the firebats and raiders. Under normal circumstances, there are two or three layers of such coating inside the armor. Yes, these things are not very durable.