If titles gave you boosts and assistance when fighting the Zerg, then nearly every title also offered rewards for killing Zerg as an incentive.
Hunter's Medal was undoubtedly the best incentive!
A Star Weapon's quality was almost always the limit of its potential. Unless you had some tremendous stroke of fortune, there was simply no way to improve it!
Even raising a piece of white-quality junk to yellow would probably cost enough resources to buy a purple-quality Star Weapon!
And that was nothing compared to raising a higher-quality Star Weapon by one level.
It was no longer a question of how many resources it took, but whether you even had the chance!
Now, countless opportunities lay right before them. As long as they kept killing Zerg, their Star Weapons could keep growing in quality!
And once this legendary title was upgraded, it could even improve red-quality Star Weapons and above!!
If there were a chance to upgrade Star Weapons of that quality, powerful captains would do whatever it took to seize it.
And Hunter's Medal was that chance!
Though it was easy to guess that the required quality or number of Zerg would be no small matter, at least the opportunity was clear.
Of course, aside from Hunter's Medal—which Feng Xiao considered its most important ability—it also imposed an outrageous degree of suppression and specialization against the Zerg.
Besides giving the Star Origin itself an absolute advantage over the Zerg, it could also boost the combat strength of an entire affiliated force against them!
As long as a force was confirmed to be an affiliated armed force of the ship, its combat effectiveness would be increased by 200% across the board, regardless of its numbers or strength!
Zerg Hunter!
A legendary title, without a doubt!
Moreover, Feng Xiao had a feeling that as the title's level rose, not only would these boosts grow stronger, but new ones might appear as well!
"So my captain's talent might not be as simple as it seems. I probably haven't awakened its most important effects."
Feng Xiao thought of his legendary talent, deep in thought.
Otherwise, given that talents were generally stronger than titles of the same quality, why did the Zerg Hunter title feel so much better than the Immortal Ship talent?
A few minutes later, Feng Xiao was back in the control room, waiting for the hunting period to end. But he still had one last bit of preparation to do.
"Heart of Dawn!"
[Heart of Dawn (Repair: 5%) Probe: Not selected Lock: Not selected (Function unlocked) Analysis: Selecting Remaining functions temporarily unavailable.]
That's right. For some reason, the Heart of Dawn had suddenly unlocked a new ability—an extremely powerful one, and highly practical in certain ways.
It could mark anchor points. As everyone knew, nearly all anchor-point jumps were random. Without special means, there was no way to repeatedly enter the same alternate-universe anchor point to operate there.
This function allowed Feng Xiao to enter a single anchor point multiple times. He had five marking slots in total, and if they were all filled, he would have to erase one mark before creating another.
It might not seem all that useful, but if he found an anchor point with little danger and abundant resources, or one containing special resources, he could use the marking function if he couldn't collect everything in one trip, then return later.
As the final countdown ended, the Star Origin vanished from the alternate universe in an instant.
Not long after the Star Origin disappeared, the Li-style Particles spread around the planet gradually dissipated.
A long-lingering, invisible pheromone burst forth in an instant!
Several light-years from the planet, tens of thousands of powerful biological warships and swarms of Zerg units launched a frenzied charge.
Countless devastating corrosive orbs and biological beams streaked through space, constantly suppressing the human defensive line formed by six planets!
Thousands of warships relied on their formations and massive shields to hold on. From time to time, ships were struck by barrages of beams and rays, destroyed and reduced to ashes!
The battlefield stretched across three or four star systems, and the brutal fighting raged in almost every corner!
Hundreds of millions of Zerg soldiers occasionally broke through the defensive line and rushed in, swiftly slaughtering nearby human soldiers and infantry armor units.
Screams, corpses, blood, severed limbs...
There were many human corpses, but even more Zerg corpses. Yet as the humans grew exhausted, the Zerg were already seething with murderous fury.
It was as if their army were endless...
Boom! Boom!
The orbital cannons encircling the entire fortress planet roared to life!
Terrifying beams, dozens of meters thick, crossed tens of millions of kilometers in an instant and slammed straight into the Zerg fleet!
Their devastating power killed nearly a hundred biological warships in the blink of an eye. Even so, the Zerg showed no sign of retreating.
The gaps in the biological fleet were swiftly filled, as if the attack had done nothing at all!
Watching energy cannons of every color and waves of missiles streak past one another in space, along with the wreckage of warships burning like tragic flames,
the old general at the frontline command center felt utterly helpless.
"There are too many... We've already sent half of our working-age citizens and most of our elderly into the war, but we still haven't seen the limits of the Zerg..."
The old general spoke in anguish, his eyes clouded.
At this rate, the destruction of the Spark Civilization was all but certain...
The adjutant said woodenly, "Worse still, our reserves are dwindling because of the fierce resistance.
Our warship production rate is dropping year by year."
"What does the Alliance Council say?"
"There are no habitable planets within at least thirty light-years of the Starfire Alliance, and Zerg colonization forces are present in many regions.
Even if we flee, our odds are only 2%. If we keep resisting, we can hold out for at most twenty years."
The adjutant spoke dispassionately. In truth, things had reached this point, and the entire Starfire Alliance was already locked in a fight to the death with the Zerg.
A third of the Alliance's population had been devoured by the Zerg, and vast stretches of its territory and countless homes had been destroyed.
The Starfire Humans' hatred of the Zerg had reached its limit.
Unfortunately, this was the universe, governed by the naked law of the dark forest. Weakness itself was a crime!
Yet at that moment, the enormous, terrifying Zerg forces spread across the entire battlefield suddenly drew back.
The battle's intensity plunged!
The old general and his adjutant exchanged glances, their eyes full of confusion.
Somewhere behind the Zerg forces.
Inside a vast hive, a gigantic Zerg creature, shaped like a slug, radiated immense mental energy, controlling every nearby Zerg unit.
It was the Zerg swarm's commander—the Brain Bug!
At that moment, it was a little panicked.
"A Star Sea Human Alliance starship..."
If there was one enemy the Zerg had encountered since their birth that was the hardest to deal with, it was undoubtedly the Star Sea Alliance, with its mysterious foundations and countless powerful forces.
Though it was only one civilization, the countless nations within it were far from ordinary.
Many of those nations were on par with the strongest civilizations the Zerg had ever destroyed, while some were even more powerful—powerful enough to threaten the Overlord!
But the Star Sea Alliance's most infuriating weapon against the Zerg was its starships with specialized titles. There was only one such ship, yet it was terrifyingly powerful.
It had once roamed the Main Universe. While devouring a civilization, it had been attacked by a human title-bearing starship that called itself a veteran Star-Land Class vessel.
The humans had claimed that hunting Zerg in the Main Universe earned them Star Points...
With just one terrifying main-cannon blast, nearly half of all its biological warships had been destroyed!
That starship had all kinds of other abilities, too. It had dealt a devastating blow to the entire swarm, and it had nearly been killed by a soul attack!
If it hadn't used the space-time transfer that every Brain Bug could use only once to reach an alternate universe, it would probably have been killed by that starship long ago.
Even now, it had recovered only eighty percent of its former strength. It still hadn't fully recovered.
"Should I abandon this civilization and withdraw from the area for now...?"
The Brain Bug fell into deep thought...
It quickly dismissed the idea. Only by devouring this civilization's resources could it fully recover and grow even stronger.
Besides, there was no guarantee the starship would show up again.
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