First Battle Against the Zerg Swarm

As the sun rose and set, another day passed. By the time night slowly descended, Ye Luo and his group had covered only two-thirds of the distance...

Ye Luo's calmness and confidence along the way seemed to have affected Angelina as well, making her quiet down.

After a hasty dinner, everyone rested in the tents they had set up, while Ye Luo's thoughts appeared directly in a forest seventy or eighty li away...

It was an overcast night. The moon was deeply hidden, and even the stars were scarcely visible. The entire land lay shrouded in darkness, which only made the firelight from Hiller's camp outside the forest shine all the brighter.

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh..." With a thought from Ye Luo, his command instantly spread through all the Zerg. Zerglings and Hydralisks silently burrowed out of the ground and stood ready.

Ye Wang floated in the air, gradually approaching Hiller's camp. Through the vision he sent back, Ye Luo discovered that Angelina had not told the whole truth. Based on the thermal imaging in Ye Wang's eyes, there were at least four thousand troops stationed here...

However, perhaps because they were certain they had Morton's main city in their grasp, the camp's defenses were not particularly tight. Aside from around fifty soldiers guarding the north and south entrances, there were not even any patrols. At around two in the morning, the camp was completely silent, and even the sentries were nodding off from exhaustion...

In Ye Luo's mind, a thousand Zerglings formed a semicircle and gradually closed in on the military camp...

Then...

At Ye Luo's command, the Zerglings surged violently out of the forest! Ye Wang faithfully relayed the battle to Ye Luo.

In the pitch-black night, a Zergling lightly leaped over the one-meter fence around the camp. It then spotted a barracks tent and darted inside. Before long, miserable screams rang out from within. Yet in less than ten seconds, the Zergling emerged from the tent with a mouth full of blood and charged toward the next one!

"Aah!!!" Painful, miserable cries rose one after another, instantly shattering the tranquility of the night. The warriors jolted awake from their dreams, only to face an even more desperate sight!

Under the Zerglings' surprise attack, the caught-off-guard soldiers of Hiller suffered an astonishing fifteen hundred deaths in barely a minute...

The camp erupted. Cries, curses, and the sounds of slaughter formed a beautiful symphony of death...

The instant the camp came under attack, the curtain of the central command tent was thrown open. Hiller, disheveled and clutching a sword, rushed out. Seeing the chaotic camp and the lightning-fast beasts in the night, he immediately roared, "Stay calm! All soldiers, gather around me! Officers of every rank, organize the soldiers and gather around me!"

Hiller's roar seemed to give the panicked soldiers something to cling to, and they rushed toward him one after another!

Two Zerglings charged at Hiller from the front and rear at the same time. But a cold gleam flashed through Hiller's eyes. He spun, and the longsword in his hand fiercely carved a circular arc through the air.

"Whoosh! Whoosh!" Two silver sword lights shot forth like arrows, immensely powerful as they struck the two Zerglings directly. Meeting no resistance whatsoever, they cleaved both creatures cleanly in two!

From afar, Ye Luo immediately added another command in his mind, ordering the Zerglings to stay away from this man.

If the Zerg swarm truly took shape, with tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of Zerglings charging forward, Ye Luo would not care if Hiller killed one or two, or even one or two thousand. But that was not possible now...

"Whoosh! Whoosh!" Hiller strode toward the Zergling corpses, intending to see what kind of Demon Beast the killers lurking in the night were. But at that moment, three arrow-like spikes appeared before his chest in an instant, concealed by the darkness!

"Hilt Armor!" At the critical moment, a warning surged through Hiller's heart. Yet by the time he saw the arrows, it was already too late to block them with his sword. He tapped his foot against the ground, and silver battle aura wrapped around his body like mist. In the blink of an eye, the mist dispersed, revealing a gleaming suit of Battle Armor!

"Bang! Bang! Bang!" The three spikes struck the armor viciously. Yet the silver light flowing across the armor greatly weakened their force, preventing them from piercing through it!

Even so, the tremendous force behind the spikes still sent Hiller stumbling back three or four meters!

"Damn it, what the hell are you things?!" Still shaken, Hiller viciously pulled the spikes from his chest. Looking at the sharp spikes made of some unknown material, he was filled with fury.

"Whoosh! Whoosh!" But the distant Hydralisks had no intention of giving up their attack. This time, a full ten spikes flew toward him at once!

"Combat Skill, Gale Slash!" Hiller roared as the longsword in his hand swung forward faster and faster. In the blink of an eye, the space within a meter in front of him was filled with sword light. The spikes collided with the sword lights, producing the clang of metal against metal before being fiercely knocked away or cut down. All ten spikes accomplished nothing!

Hiller withdrew his sword. Using two combat skills in quick succession had left him slightly out of breath. Just as he was about to continue gathering his officers and soldiers, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his chest! His entire body was immediately flung backward!

"Boom!" Hiller's body only came to a stop after knocking down two soldiers in succession. He lowered his head with difficulty, only to see a spike nearly one and a half feet long brutally tear through the defense of his silver armor and pierce his heart with deadly precision!

"No... Impossible... This can't be..." His ambition and desires were reduced to ashes beneath that single shot. Feeling his life force draining away, Hiller's heart was filled with resentment and unwillingness...

"General, General!! The General is dead! The General is dead!!!" The soldier Hiller had knocked down watched with his own eyes as Hiller died in his arms, and immediately cried out in despair.

Hiller's death was like the final straw that broke the camel's back, causing the morale they had barely managed to gather to collapse in an instant. The soldiers who had still been resisting the Zerglings lost all will to fight and turned to flee...

This first large-scale battle between the Zerg and humans lasted less than an hour before reaching its end. Soldiers who resisted might still have been able to contend with the Zerglings, but the moment they turned and ran, their deaths were sealed...

Under Ye Luo's command, all 4,123 men were killed in battle. Under Ye Wang's surveillance, not a single one escaped...

"My Emperor, in this battle, we eliminated a total of 4,123 enemies. Of them, 3,100 were below Level One; 928 possessed the strength of Level One warriors; 80 had reached Level Two warrior strength; 13 had reached Level Three warrior strength; and 2 had reached Level Four warrior strength! Our forces lost 326 Zerglings, most of whom died at the hands of Level Two and Level Three warriors!"

Ye Luo nodded. He was already extremely satisfied with this result. Zerglings excelled at fighting ten against one, crushing enemies beneath endless numbers. Yet today, they had defeated a larger force with fewer troops. Although the ambush had given them an advantage, such a battle record was already exceptionally impressive... "Let the remaining Zerglings clear the battlefield and devour their companions' bodies. Do not leave behind any trace..." After issuing the order, Ye Luo's consciousness returned to his body.