The Scale Father was surrounded and killed.
When the spatial disruption bolt fired by Big Potato destroyed its wing covers and sent it crashing miserably back to the bottom of Zero Hive, its gruesome death became inevitable.
Five thousand high-spirited Gray Expeditionary Force soldiers would never let it escape or survive. The NPCs had sealed off the tunnels leading from the hive to every sector, while the psychics and Old Cui Tan had joined forces to lock down the spatial system. This place had become a brutal cage match where only one side could make it out alive.
Every insect in the Gray Desert heard the Scale Father's dying whimpers. They threw themselves at the battle zone with all their strength, causing the Calum Western Border Legion on the surface a great deal of trouble. But even after losing nearly all their Terracotta Guards and half their Flood Dragon Guards, these tiger-brave soldiers still held the line, backed by three Golden Divine Generals unleashing their full firepower.
The warriors of the Far East had bought the players enough time to deal with the badly wounded Scale Father. But rather than say this "quasi-god" had been killed by the players, it would be more accurate to say it had died from its own genetic conflict.
Nine consecutive evolutions under pressure had made the gene bombs released by the entomologists work perfectly. By the final moments, those destructive target genes had already wrecked half of the Scale Father's ultra-complex genetic system, causing it to undergo an uncontrolled tenth evolution as it was surrounded and on the brink of death.
But this evolution was a complete tragedy.
Under the players' all-out assault, the Scale Father had completed its molt by the skin of its teeth. But the tenth form born from the body