Chapter 212 | Swarm: I Became a Cataclysmic Disaster

“Lisette is leading her forces deep into the enemy base,” Celia whispered quietly, standing atop Behemoth's massive body to escort it.

Lin Miao could also see what she saw.

Lisette recklessly destroyed and scaled the obstacles and barricades set up by the dwarves, closing in on the massive underground ruins where the Stargate was located.

Are we really going to dominate Terra?

In the heat of the intense war, Lin Miao had no time to think about such things, but now, various thoughts began to surface.

This was not his original intention; it was all triggered simply by the Great Devourer he kept in his terrarium passing through a trivial natural rift.

After experiencing the initial confusion of “what on earth is this,” Lin Miao had, before he knew it, trampled the entire world underfoot alongside his rapidly multiplying vassals.

Only when a deity completely controlled a planet would they be recognized as a true god.

If Lin Miao could drive out all competitors and dominate that world alone, then Terra would belong to him.

[Empyrean Council: The Council is recruiting newly ascended deities. Evil Gods are not accepted.]

[Goddess of Mist: This time, we are attacking the forces of the Outer God Cthulhu. Anyone interested in joining the expedition, please come this way. No faction restrictions.]

Lin Miao glanced at the Divine Net forum.

Once he became a complete deity, there would be much more he could do.

He would be able to use his stable home planet as a foundation to project his nurtured power outward as he pleased.

“The outside world, huh,” Lin Miao sighed softly, his expression serious.

Deities would never be satisfied with just one world.

To gain the strength to protect themselves and their vassals, they had to continuously expand outward, increasing their territory and the number of their vassals.

It was the same for Lin Miao's Great Devourer. Even completely conquering Terra would not be the end.

Rather, one could say they were only now completing the preparations for the official beginning.

Among the Dwarven Alliance, the news that the Great Devourer had breached their natural defenses and launched a massive raid was only now spreading.

“The heart of our territory has been breached? How could this happen...”

“Then what exactly have we been fighting for...”

Those fighting to the death on the front lines began to shake violently with doubt.

They were people who had fought single-mindedly to protect the Stargate, forgetting pain, sorrow, and exhaustion.

When that conviction collapsed, their long-suppressed emotions erupted in an instant.

Defensive lines crumbled one after another, and the Great Devourer began its official infiltration into the heart of the Great Mountains.

【Kerrigan mocks that there are only weak and useless weaklings here】

With thousands of corpses beneath her feet, Kerrigan finally breached the fortress blocking the passageway and led her forces inside.

Before Kerrigan lay countless corpses of warriors and knights who had dared to challenge her, only to be brutally slaughtered.

Kerrigan retracted her four swords back into her body, a satisfied expression on her face as she sat on Begrun's shoulder and headed deeper into the Great Mountains.

Celia, along with the flying species, destroyed and suppressed the entire airship fleet that had contested them in the skies.

“You might not care, but you should have at least given your subordinates a choice. There are surely those among them who wanted to live.”

In the end, amid the wreckage of the crashed flagship, Celia coldly addressed the enemy commander who was coughing up blood and struggling, before spreading her wings and taking to the sky once more.

“It's all over.”

Turning his gaze back to the screen, Lin Miao saw the dwarven king, who seemed to have heard the news of the defensive lines collapsing through his communication orb, slump to the ground and hang his head.

In the underground ruins formed around the massive Stargate, hundreds of soldiers, including Lisette, had already assembled.

...

Lin Miao could open several screens to observe at the same time, so he had a general grasp of the situation.

Through the aerial raid, the most crucial defensive line had been breached, and the Great Devourer had dismantled all resistance, finally closing in on the Stargate.

Consequently, the wavering front-line defenses were broken through one by one, and the main force of the Great Devourer was gradually closing in.

This was a defeat utterly devoid of hope.

The high-ranking leaders of the Dwarven Alliance, including the dwarven king, stared at the Great Devourer before them with eyes full of despair and frustration.

“It seems this world will ultimately be swallowed by those monsters. All surviving creatures will become their food, and our lands will be covered by their nests.”

The dwarven king muttered softly, as if lamenting the injustice and grievance of it all.

Several dwarves beside him could not suppress the anger in their hearts, hot tears streaming down their faces.

They seemed to truly believe they had failed to save this world, so their sense of loss was bound to be immense.

“How ridiculous.”

Hearing this, Lisette finally could not help but speak up.

In Lisette's eyes, the claim that “after the Great Devourer's victory, the entire world will become a dead land with no surviving life” was clearly a ridiculous fabrication.

Of course, it was not surprising that such misunderstandings existed in the past.

After all, there had indeed been instances where they ruined land with toxic gas for invasive nesting, or destroyed ecosystems to gather nutrients.

But since then, the Great Devourer had not stopped developing for a single moment.

They had diversified and developed their nutrient supply systems, refraining from the indiscriminate destruction that would stifle their own vitality.

Invasive nesting was now only carried out when necessary.

They possessed the power to bring about the end of the world and erase everything, but because Lin Miao was controlling them, the result was that countless lives survived and continued to live. Lin Miao felt this was a very good choice.

Initially, it had just been out of a sense of moral unease, but as the Great Devourer repeatedly pondered how to execute Lin Miao's orders, the diversity of their growth and evolution had also greatly increased.

“N-No, impossible! You evil monsters!”

Hearing Lisette's words, the dwarven king fell into shock, shouting desperately in a trembling voice.

“It matters not if you refuse to believe it, but it is an undeniable fact that the god you worship only thought of sacrificing you to win the war.”

Lisette did not bother to argue with his denial of reality.

After all, the premise of all the Great Devourer's actions was to ensure that no deity other than Lin Miao remained on this land.

Those who believed in and followed other gods were, by their very existence, spies and dangerous elements.

For someone like the dwarven king who was already too deeply involved with a deity, the chances of survival were slim to begin with, so his denial was only natural.

“Destroy the Stargate.”

Lisette bared the blades extending from the backs of her hands, aiming at the target. Unwilling to say any more, she charged forward along with the Great Devourers.

The dwarves gathered near the Stargate put up a final resistance, but it was trivial.

With no special weapons or heroes, only a few personal firearms and a handful of bombs, this was the entirety of the dwarves' resistance.

A few bombs exploded and stray bullets flew, but the Great Devourers effortlessly knocked them to the ground, dragging them away to clear the area around the Stargate.

“Cough, cough...”

Seeing that Lisette was completely unaffected by the bomb he had thrown and was walking straight toward him, the dwarven king gritted his teeth.

He fired the gun in his hand, but the bullet was naturally deflected by her barrier.

Several dwarves hurriedly blocked her with swords and axes to protect him, but Lisette cleaved through their bodies in just a few slashes.

“It's over.”

Lisette stared down at the disheveled and pathetic dwarven king slumped on the ground, then looked at the humming, massive Stargate behind him, and began to gather her strength.

Elise's plan was to first destroy this Stargate, which was clearly connected to the opposing deity's home planet, and then absorb its technology to rebuild it.

“Destroy it.”

Inside Lin Miao's terrarium, Elise also issued the command without hesitation, telling her to destroy the Stargate.

Just as Lisette and the Great Devourers were about to destroy the Stargate.

“...Hmm?”

Accompanied by a violent tremor, the Stargate began to emit a blinding light.

Lisette flinched back at the sudden, intense flash of light.

Lin Miao himself was startled for a moment, his eyes widening as his body froze.

“It's too dangerous for you to go alone, it hasn't been fully calibrated yet...”

Lin Miao clearly heard several highly anxious voices suddenly echoing out.

But the sound was muffled and incomplete.

Filled with static and intermittent noise, it was incomprehensible not only to Lisette, the dwarven king, and the others present, but even to Lin Miao, who was observing from the side.

“How annoying...”

Just then, the brilliant light particles coalesced, and a figure suddenly emerged from the rift formed by the Stargate.

When Lin Miao first saw it, he was reminded of the space marine powered armor from sci-fi movies.

In the battle just now, some dwarves had showcased steam-powered armor. If that technology were refined to its absolute limit, would it feel like this?

Clearly, the person wearing this equipment looked like a dwarf, though it was a bit hard to tell just by looking at their face.

The powered armor encased their entire body, with several metal arms extending from the back spewing steam and tightly gripping weapons that resembled firearms.