LIGHTNOVELONLINE Chapter 1: Zerg Overlord
"I got goblins! But, I'm a bit worried, they're only Bronze Tier 3 creatures."
Early in the morning, a slightly boastful voice rang out in the classroom.
"A Bronze Tier 3 creature is already great; You might have a chance to enter the elite class in the future!"
Nearby classmates all discussed enviously.
In Tianhai City, Class 19 of Sixth High School's first-year, high school students were gathered in their classroom.
On the second day of school, students who had used the school-issued activation cards to create their own Divine Realms in the World of Gods couldn't help but brag to their classmates. For students, the type of divine realm they created and the first random creature they received were crucial to their future development, so naturally, they took it very seriously.
Although, goblins weren't high-tier, they belonged to the primate category and had some intelligence. Getting such a species at the start was considered lucky.
"Xu Luo, what's your species?" the classmate sitting next to Xu Luo asked curiously.
"Insects!" Xu Luo wanted to cover his face. It wasn't even the lowest Bronze Tier 1; this start could be described as disastrous.
"What? Insects?" His classmate's voice involuntarily grew louder, resulting in the whole class hearing the news.
Suddenly, the previously noisy classroom became eerily quiet, so quiet you could hear a pin drop.
Then an eruption of laughter broke out. In their view, Xu Luo's life was over. He basically had no chance of developing in the Divine Realm and could only hope to get into an ordinary university and do some mundane job in the future, if he could even find work at all.
Insects were considered the lowest tier among all species. Things like bugs and dragonflies basically had no development potential and little combat ability. Although there were powerful insect species, they weren't something newcomers could obtain in their starter divine realms!
Hearing the laughter around him, Xu Luo felt helpless; It wasn't his fault! He had woken up to find himself in the body of someone with the same name, now fifteen years old, with the divine realm creation already completed before his arrival.
"Come on, don't mock Xu Luo. Although insects aren't great for combat, there are many of them. If all else fails, he can use swarm tactics. Who knows, if he develops well and gains a lot of faith power, he might be able to change to another race in the future!" a sarcastic voice rang out. It was Xiang Yang, who had just bragged about getting a goblin.
"Yeah, yeah, insects are great! They're easy to raise and don't consume many resources. If you had gotten a powerful species you wouldn't be able to afford to raise it anyway!" other classmates chimed in.
Xu Luo frowned, deeply disliking their attitude, but the fact that he had gotten an insect species was undeniable.
"Xu Luo, since you got insects, your divine realm doesn't have much development potential. You know how important the beginning is, and your start is ruined. Your family probably won't support you continuing on this path. Why don't you sell your divine realm to me?" Xiang Yang looked at him with ill intent.
"No, thanks!" Xu Luo refused outright. Without a divine realm, he would just be an ordinary person, struggling to get into university and find a regular job, if he could find one at all. Hearing Xu Luo's refusal, Xiang Yang just smiled coldly but didn't say anything more, since they were still at school.
That day, they learned about constructing and developing their divine realms; Time passed quickly.
After school, Xu Luo took the rail train home, finally escaping the mockery of his classmates.
His birth parents were star-level explorers, specializing in exploring undiscovered planets. It was normal for them to be away for three to five years at a time, so he didn't have to face unfamiliar parents.
During the day's lessons, Xu Luo learned that the World of Gods game was being explored by the entire civilization and held a very high status in human society. If one could ignite the divine flame in the World of Gods and raise their divine realm into the stars, becoming a true god, they could directly become a high-ranking member of the Human Federation.
After returning home and seeing the newly acquired game pod, Xu Luo felt excited. He had been just an ordinary person before coming to this highly technologically advanced place and now had access to such an amazing game.
The World of Gods was created by the Tier 9 civilization, the Tianyan race. After leaving this game, the Tianyan race completely disappeared from this space-time, disappearing without a trace. Many civilizations wanted to explore Tianyan technology and continued to study this game deeply, only to discover that the World of Gods was not simple at all. Countless years had passed, and they still hadn't understood the principle behind its creation.
Humans, as a newly joined interstellar civilization, naturally had to follow the trend and jointly explore this game to have a common language with others; moreover, in the interstellar era, to avoid destruction, war was strictly prohibited. Any disputes had to be resolved in the World of Gods.
Without powerful deities, one couldn't even fight back if bullied.
This was also why the Human Federation strongly supported its people in entering this game.
Opening the pod door and lying down, Xu Luo's consciousness quickly arrived in the divine realm that his original self had just created yesterday. As soon as he entered, Xu Luo knew the situation of his divine realm. It was about a thousand miles in diameter, with no special products or resources, extremely desolate and barren. And his starting species was, insects...
Xu Luo didn't know what to say. With such a start, how could he compete with others in the college entrance exam three years later?
Looking down at the ground, he saw some finger-sized insects crawling around. There were quite a few of them, but they were useless. They had no combat ability, whether for invading others or defending against invasions, and they couldn't provide much faith power.
The stronger and more intelligent the species, the more faith power they provided. Insects, being low in intelligence, couldn't be expected to provide much faith power. Using them, he wouldn't be able to ignite the divine flame and become a deity even after three years of high school.
[Ding!] [System loading, Zerg Overlord template officially activated!]
Just as Xu Luo was about to cry, an electronic voice sounded in his mind.
"System?" Xu Luo was stunned. Was this standard equipment for transmigrators?
[Zerg Overlord template loading successful, newcomer gift package delivered!]
[Obtained Zerg Queen (Bronze)]
[Unlocked 'Jumping Zerg' gene template]
[Unlocked 'Explosive Zerg' gene template]
[Unlocked 'Armor Zerg' gene template]
[Obtained 10,000 initial mayfly creatures and 10,000 evolution points!]
A series of prompts left Xu Luo overwhelmed.
However, with the system allowing continuous evolution of the Zerg, this start wasn't so useless after all.
The Zerg Queen could continuously produce more Zerg. If accumulated enough, it might be possible for ants to bite an elephant to death. The Zerg swarm, regardless of the situation, always relied on quantity to win. With continuous evolution, who knows, they might even be able to destroy heaven and earth.
"Then I'll choose the Zerg as my vassal race!" Xu Luo made his decision. Of course, deities could have more than one faith race, but the vassal race couldn't be chosen casually. Once chosen, it was basically bound to that race, sharing both glory and decline! Few people did this, but those who did were all powerful deities.
For example, the Dragon God, Angel God, and others were the sole deities of their respective races, completely unifying all faith.
