Within the ascension route originally belonging to the "carbon-based family."
An invasion method of a Calamity civilization was unfolding.
It was a "tree."
In the void of space, the outline of this enormous tree could not be seen clearly, but its branches and trunk were twisted, their non-Euclidean geometry defying intuition as they intertwined and coiled. It had no leaves, only countless fine branches resembling charred nerve endings, spreading into the surrounding space.
The trunk and branches were not smooth. Instead, they had a fragmented quality of "infinite detail."
When one stared at it, one could see even finer branches of the same structure within, recursively extending without end, as though it were a nightmare tree carved from fractal geometry.
The tree began to bear fruit—
The fruits were not round, but various kinds of cubes.
The moment these cube fruits fell, the attack began.
At the edge of the gravitational sphere of the Zerg Swarm Khanate's home planet, "Hive City," space itself quietly boiled and ruptured like water dripping into hot oil.
What slid out of the cracks were not warships, but smooth, pitch-black, featureless geometrical forms—possibly cubes, spheres, or cones.
They were no larger than a mountain peak. Their surfaces perfectly absorbed all light, and even spacetime seemed to warp slightly around them.
The Zerg reacted with unimaginable speed.
Tens of millions of biological warships rose from the orbital "hatcheries" of Hive City. Like a swarm defending its nest, they spewed clouds of acidic spores and biological plasma fire, while their chitinous armor rapidly regenerated under attack.
Some enormous "Leviathan"-class biological ships even opened their gigantic mouths, attempting to swallow the black geometrical forms directly and dissolve them with highly corrosive digestive fluids.
As for the Zerg Overmind, it released an immense psionic shriek—a form of energy capable