Their Separate Battles

The Queen's mutation startled the brain bug, too. He had adjusted the Queen's genes partly because it was obvious that something was wrong with her clone, and partly because the Mother Nest was supporting him.

Otherwise, he would never have been able to accomplish the two most crucial steps here. No matter how powerful the brain bug was, he couldn't have come here alone, let alone find one of the few Queen eggs hidden by the Mother Nest.

The brain bug had thought that since the Queen was now under control, transforming her into a powerful modified creature from the Zerg's memories would be no problem.

But he had never expected something to go wrong at the most crucial moment of the transformation.

The Queen had completely changed. Two pairs of insect wings had grown from her back, and her upper body now had six arms.

This was what the Queen normally looked like. It was just that during this transformation, her six arms had changed, becoming much longer.

Before the Queen had finished transforming, her arms quickly braced themselves against the ceiling of the cave, while her missing lower body became a huge mouth.

Her arms held her body against the ceiling, and her head began to shrink until she looked like the clone that had died in front of the Spinning Fate Spider Woman.

"Ha ha ha! I finally have a powerful body! I'm going to eat every one of you!"

The Queen laughed loudly. Four of her arms gripped the gaps in the cave ceiling, letting her move freely, while the other two reached down and stuffed anything they could grab into the mouth on her body.

The moment the brain bug in the cave saw this, he shouted, "Open the second incubation chamber! The Queen has