Just then, a transport bug scattered the energy spores it had collected toward a swarm of Zerg resting in space. The faintly glowing spore balls streaked past like meteors. The Space Zerg, which had been asleep, seemed to receive a signal and began waking one after another, lunging toward the incoming energy
spores.
It seemed to be some kind of ritual. After each awakened Mutalisk caught an energy spore, it stopped hunting and swallowed the spore whole. In just over ten seconds, a cocoon formed around its body, completely enclosing it.
Dozens of minutes later, the writhing cocoons had grown more than ten times larger. With a powerful shudder, a new kind of Zerg burst free, looking like a flying bat.
"They're Nest Lords, the equivalent of cruisers. They can produce Nuclear Swarms, a kind of Biological Nuclear Missile with considerable firepower. They're a major component of the Space Zerg forces," Jackson explained.
Everyone looked over. The so-called broodlings looked like space marlins constantly swimming through the void. They flowed around the Nest Lord's enormous, several-kilometer-long body like a swarm of satellites in a planet's low orbit.
"Energy spores provide the Zerg with the energy they need to evolve. Their bodies contain dormant evolutionary genes, which allow them to evolve rapidly once they have enough energy. The Biological Mother Nests don't need to produce Advanced Tier Zerg directly. They can simply release Zerg in their initial stage into space,
where they can evolve in batches!"
As he spoke, Zerg burst from their cocoons all across space. Nearly a thousand Nest Lords had appeared in the area.
And as the Nest Lords hatched, even more Mutalisks were taking in energy spores and evolving. The efficiency of their production and evolution made the Empire's senior officials aboard the Titan Ship pale.
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