Above The Sky
Chapter 317 - 317 298 The Fate of the Star Seeker 54 15k update the ruins are essentially over_2

317: Chapter 298: The Fate of the Star Seeker (5/4, 15k update, the ruins are essentially over)_2 317: Chapter 298: The Fate of the Star Seeker (5/4, 15k update, the ruins are essentially over)_2 This also gave the five other Elders in the base the opportunity to upload their own souls into the Spirit Energy Network and violently smash him to pieces.

A millennium passed by, and whether it was The Great Elder, the five self-sacrificing Elders, or the other Redwood People, everyone’s memories and desires mixed together, re-emerging over the long stretch of time.

The ignorant, wriggling slugs once again transformed into fearsome parasitic creatures, beginning to construct a Worm Nest deep beneath the earth.

To reshape the ‘Heart of the Swarm’.

Ian’s eyes swirled with an aqua-colored halo, as he saw too many shadows within this Swarm… The Great Elder, the five Elders, each soul yearning to go above the underground, to the seas above, to breathe fresh air, enjoy the sunshine, and look up at the blue sky and stars.

The Swarm may be terrifying and abhorrent, yet the core of its nature, which assimilates life, is such beautiful ‘longing’.

Ha-ha, he had been mistaken.

If a wish, a grand vision, a picture of the future is not beautiful, how could it be so alluring, making one want to become one with it?

It has always been so.

Gazing at the enemy before him, the Worm Nest before his eyes, Ian’s eyes carried countless fragments of the past, shifting between light and dark.

In 3319, the alien spaceship ‘Obra Spark’ landed on the far side of the Terra Moon.

In 3432, the Federation Lunar Exploration Team found this Spark spacecraft, which carried an entire extraterrestrial ecosystem.

In 3472, Redwood Base was established.

In 3518, Redwood Base began its closed-system operation trials, and all thirteen heterogenous ecosystems operated well.

Soon after, Calamity of Heavenly Fall struck, isolating Redwood Base from the surface ecology.

Generations of heritage, generations of sacrifice.

Efforts by successive leaders to contemplate ecological balance and power structures within the base, as well as to maintain Redwood Base and the achievements of pre-Era civilization technology, ultimately came to an end.

The end lay in life’s oldest and most insane longing.

At last, there was one who dared to covet immortality.

——Immortality, immortality——Immortality carried all meanings, making too many regrets no longer regrets, turning too many hurried moments unnecessary to rush.

So it drives one to madness.

“No…

even more insane than coveting immortality is the life above ground that dares to look up to the Sky,”

“Because such a longing is so incredible, Humans can only take a step back, setting immortality as the foundation, so that a glimmer of hope can be seen…”

Sighing, Ian drew energy from the Ancient Dragon Heart Core, while also providing power to the Sand Armor Apprentice and the Fairy Wings, preparing for the final strike.

At this moment, the outside world trembled violently, and he could hear the feeble Dragon’s Chant and the Archbishop of White Mist fighting fiercely.

The combination of the mother creature and the Gargantuan Eel had somehow managed to temporarily suppress the combination of the White Mist Archbishop and the Aether Crystal Dragon.

He had to destroy the Will of the Worm Nest before him as quickly as possible, or else he would face failure.

But in reality, there was nothing in the young man’s heart as firm and as mad as the Worm Nest believed.

Under the seduction of the Worm Nest, he even wavered for a moment.

Yes.

If he could seize the Will of the Worm Nest and become the true overlord of the Brain-Eating Parasite’s Spirit Energy Network, how simple his future development of power would be.

By using the Brain-Eating Parasite to devour the brains of a few key figures, turning them into his subordinates, the Attached Brain would ensure everyone’s loyalty, even turning all subordinates into saints who wouldn’t be corrupt or commit crimes or act selfishly.

This would be enough to establish a great power and even win every war.

Then continue to cultivate Worm Nests in the ruins, erode the surrounding Magical Beasts, and defeat the Aether Crystal Dragon as well, turning it into his demon-beast avatar, a bio-spacecraft weapon; then slowly replicate the technology found in the ruins, cultivating the ‘Ecological Core Organism’ that the pre-Era civilization had already matured.

Paired with the ‘Spark Engine’ he had already acquired, he would have a ready-made bio-light speed spacecraft.

Under his leadership, the Terra Swarm will quickly depart from this boring land and head for the Star Sea to explore the reason behind extinguishing stars.

He could do it—he has been told by the Foresight View that there is a golden future waiting for him.

Yes.

In Ian’s eyes, ever since he saw the Will of the Worm Nest, he saw no danger.

What he saw was a golden ocean!

A resplendent golden waterfall that seemed like countless stars converging, eventually flowing upstream and reaching straight to the Sky!

[Will of the Seeker’s Nest (Dominant Species)]

[First Energy Level・Birth of Core・Assimilable]

[The primary consciousness of the Spirit Energy Network formed by an accumulation of various mutations and soul fragments is now beginning to shape into a gestalt Nest Brain, attracting others to join through shared emotions, desires, and dreams.

Currently lacking a central soul to integrate the Will of the Nest, provoking an evolution and transformation.

This is the initial form of a Swarm civilization]

[Merged with numerous other Starfield Legacies, born within the Terra Starfield, it is the nascent form of a brand-new Swarm civilization.

However, due to its exceedingly bloody and primitive development process, it does not comply with the ‘Spark Civilization Protection Protocol’ and will be transferred to the ‘Primitive Life Reservation Area’ for corrective improvements]

[…]

[They are inviting you to become their sovereign]

On the Silver Chip, such characters pulsed.

As long as he was willing to resonate with the Will of the Worm Nest and become the true sovereign of the Nest, he could step onto this path of destiny…

embark on the [Dao Path of the Swarm] where one could become civilization itself!

The White Mist Archbishop, or rather, the ‘Church of Haiguang’ saw not the Nest as the calamity, but him, who had chosen the Path of the Nest!

It was Ian, who had chosen to become the sovereign of the Worm Nest!