That Zhang Xiu could feel that terrifying presence without losing his courage was already a tremendous feat.
He bore not the slightest malice toward any existence. He simply wished to reproduce, and reproduction meant consuming matter.
His children were too numerous, and far too hungry.
Zhang Xiu charged forward without hesitation, straight into the Swarm that blanketed the sky.
Under their impacts, Zhang Xiu's skin split and blood sprayed out. Then insects grew from those wounds as well, and after he raised his hand and crushed them, more insects emerged from the scattered blood.
Only the Black Flame of [Preservation] could annihilate them.
But there were simply too many. Even as he constantly wrung out the Path power within his body to fire arrows of flame that could shatter planets, True Stings remained at Zhang Xiu's side, gnawing at his flesh.
At last, things took a turn, though not for the better for Zhang Xiu...
The Swarm Emperor's offspring, the Emanator of [Propagation], the Worldbreaker Swarm, discovered him after its birth.
Its body rivaled a star system in size. No matter how Zhang Xiu looked at it, he could never take in its entirety. The buzzing unleashed by its beating wings made his eardrums burst and heal over and over.
Before he could even approach it, Zhang Xiu had become a blood-drenched figure.
For the first time, the breath of death spread through his heart. His damaged brain had already forgotten that he was inside a simulation.
He charged. Had [Destruction] been there, it surely would have cast a sliver of its gaze upon Zhang Xiu.
Then he died.
Swallowed into the Worldbreaker Swarm's belly, his Path power of [Abundance] was disrupted and contaminated, and then his body died completely.
On the very front lines of the Swarm Disaster, Zhang