Marking the Anchor, Returning

If titles provided you with buffs and assistance in battling the Zerg, then almost every title also offered the benefits of killing Zerg as a form of motivation.

Hunter's Medal was absolutely the best incentive!

Star Weapon quality was essentially the potential limit for all Star Weapons; unless one encountered a massive stroke of luck or destiny, it was simply impossible to improve!

Even upgrading a piece of white-quality trash Star Weapon to yellow would likely cost enough resources to buy a purple-quality Star Weapon!

Not to mention upgrading a higher-quality Star Weapon by a single tier.

This was no longer a question of how many resources were consumed, but whether the opportunity even existed!

Yet now, countless clear opportunities were laid out before him; as long as he could continuously kill Zerg, his Star Weapon quality could keep rising!

Once this legendary title was upgraded, it could even enhance red-quality Star Weapons and beyond!!

If there were a chance to improve that kind of Star Weapon quality, those powerful captains would undoubtedly pay any price to obtain it.

And Hunter's Medal was that opportunity!

Although it was easy to guess that the quality or quantity of Zerg required to be killed would be anything but simple, at least there was a clear path forward.

Of course, besides the Hunter's Medal—which Feng Xiao considered the most important ability—its suppression and targeting of the Zerg were also extremely monstrous.

Beyond enhancing Star Origin's absolute restraint against the Zerg, it could also boost the combat suppression of an entire affiliated force against them!

As long as they were confirmed to be the starship's affiliated armed forces, regardless of their quantity or combat power caps, their overall capabilities would be boosted by 200%!

Zerg Hunter!

It was a legendary title that lived up to its name!

Furthermore, Feng Xiao had a premonition that as the title's level increased, not only would these buff effects grow stronger, but new ones might even emerge!

In that case, my captain talent doesn't seem as simple as it looks on the surface. I probably haven't awakened those important talent effects yet.

Feng Xiao thought about his legendary talent, lost in thought.

Otherwise, given that talents were generally stronger than titles of the same quality, why would he feel that the Zerg Hunter title was far better than the Immortal Ship talent?

A few minutes later, Feng Xiao stood in the control room again, waiting for the hunting time to end, though he still had some final preparations to make.

"Heart of Dawn!"

Heart of Dawn (Repair: 5%)

Detection: Not selected

Lock: Not selected (Function unlocked)

Analysis: Selecting

Remaining functions not yet open.

That's right, for some reason, Heart of Dawn had suddenly unlocked a new ability—in some respects, a powerful, highly practical supernatural power.

It could mark anchor points. As everyone knew, almost all anchor point transits were random; unless special means were used, one could not frequently enter the same alien universe anchor point for operations.

This function allowed Feng Xiao the ability to enter a single anchor point multiple times. There were five marking slots in total; if they were full, one had to be removed to continue marking.

It didn't seem like much, but if one encountered an anchor point that wasn't very dangerous but was extremely rich in resources, or one that possessed special resources, one could use the marking function to return later when unable to acquire everything at once.

As the final countdown ended, Star Origin vanished from the alien universe in an instant.

Not long after Star Origin disappeared, the Li-style Particles lingering near the planet gradually dissipated.

A formless pheromone that had been trapped for a long time instantly radiated outward!

Several light-years away from the planet, tens of thousands of powerful biological warships and dense swarms of Zerg units launched a frenzied charge.

A massive amount of terrifyingly powerful corrosive orbs and biological rays streaked across space, continuously suppressing the human defensive line that relied on six planets!

Thousands of warships struggled to resist, relying on formations and large-scale shields, while from time to time, warships were destroyed by swarms of rays and beams, turning into ashes!

Across a battlefield spanning three or four star systems, brutal slaughter was occurring in almost every corner!

Hundreds of millions of Zerg soldiers occasionally broke through the line, rushing into the defenses to rapidly slaughter nearby human soldiers or individual armored units.

Screams, corpses, blood, severed limbs...

There were many human corpses, but there were even more Zerg corpses; yet, while the humans were exhausted, the Zerg swarms were still filled with murderous intent.

It was as if their army was endless...

Boom! Boom!

The galactic orbital cannons surrounding the entire fortress planet roared to life!

Terrifying beams of light, dozens of meters thick, instantly crossed tens of millions of kilometers and slammed directly into the Zerg fleet!

The terrifying power killed nearly a hundred biological warships in the blink of an eye, yet even so, the Zerg showed no signs of retreating.

The gaps in the biological fleet were even filled rapidly, as if that strike had no effect at all!

Watching the various energy cannons and missile rains crisscrossing the starry sky, along with the wreckage of warships turning into tragic balls of fire, the old general at the frontline command post was filled with helplessness.

"There are too many... We have already sacrificed half of our able-bodied citizens and even the majority of our elderly to this war, yet we still see no limit to the swarm..."

The old general spoke with turbid eyes, his voice filled with immense agony.

Given the current situation, the extinction of the Spark Civilization was all but a certainty.

The adjutant replied woodenly, "What's worse is that due to the intensity of our resistance, our internal resource reserves are constantly dwindling.

The efficiency of our warship production is declining year by year."

"What does the Alliance Council say?"

"There are no habitable planets within a radius of at least thirty light-years outside the Starfire Alliance, and many regions are already occupied by the swarm's colonial forces.

Even if we attempted to flee, the success rate is no more than 2%. If we continue to resist, we can hold out for at most twenty years."

The adjutant spoke with indifference; in truth, having reached this point, the entire Starfire Alliance was locked in a fight to the death with the swarm.

One-third of the Alliance's population had been devoured by the swarm, and vast swathes of civilization and homeworlds had been razed.

The hatred the Spark humans felt toward the swarm had pushed past its limit.

Yet this was the universe, a naked dark forest system where weakness was the original sin!

However, just at that moment, the massive, terrifying swarm that had blanketed the entire battlefield suddenly began to contract.

The intensity of the battle plummeted instantly!

The old general and the adjutant exchanged a look, their eyes filled with bewilderment.

Somewhere behind the swarm.

Inside a colossal hive, a giant, slug-like Zerg creature radiated immense psychic power, controlling every Zerg unit in the vicinity.

It was the swarm's command unit—the Brain Bug!

At this moment, it was feeling a bit panicked.

"Starships of the Star Sea Human Alliance..."

If one were to ask which enemy had been the most troublesome since the swarm's inception, it was undoubtedly the Star Sea Human Alliance, with its mysterious foundations and vast, cloud-like strength.

Although it was merely one civilization, the countless nations dispersed within it were far from simple.

Many of these nations were equivalent to the strongest civilizations the swarm had ever annihilated, and many were even more powerful—powerful enough to threaten the Overmind itself!

However, the profession the Zerg found most disgusting within the Star Sea Human Alliance was the title-bearing starship. Even a single one possessed terrifying combat power.

It had once been roaming the main universe when, while devouring a civilization, it was attacked by a human starship that called itself a veteran Star-Land Class title-ship.

They claimed that hunting Zerg in the main universe would earn them Star Points...

With just a single shot from a terrifying main cannon, nearly half of all its biological warships at the time were destroyed!

That starship possessed all sorts of abilities that dealt a devastating blow to the entire swarm, and the Brain Bug itself had nearly been killed by a soul-based attack!

If it hadn't used a space-time shift—a move each Brain Bug could only use once—to reach this alternate universe, it would have been finished off by that starship long ago.

Even now, it had only recovered eighty percent of its former strength and had yet to fully recuperate.

"Should I abandon this civilization and temporarily withdraw from this region..."

The Brain Bug fell into deep thought...

It quickly abandoned the idea; only by devouring the resources of this civilization could it fully recover and perhaps even advance further.

Besides, the starship might not descend again.