Astral Gods

Chapter 7 Force Fusion

Just as they were chatting, the third one crawled out of the cave and sent out a mental signal, calling out that it wanted to eat food made of primal energy.

Looking at the third brother, Lord Zi Li asked, "The eldest and second eldest have already evolved into Zerg warriors, when will the third one evolve?"

Zizhu shook its tentacles: "The third one evolves slowly. I don't know how long it will take. Maybe half a year, maybe a year."

Lord Zili sighed, "This is taking a bit too long!"

For a Lord-level Zerg warrior, a year or two is just a blink of an eye, but for an ordinary Zerg that has not yet evolved, it may be a lifetime.

Just then, the Purple Locust and Purple Artemisia shook their antennae, and the primal force within them surged toward the third brother. The three primal forces merged into one, forming an even larger mass of primal force.

With the convergence of the three primal forces, the primal force continuously flowed into the third brother's body, and its appetite seemed to have increased, as it kept gorging on primal force food.

Purple Locust and Purple Artemisia seemed to be hungry again and started eating Force food again.

"Huh," Lord Zili was surprised to see this, even though he had heard Zizhu mention it before. Could the primal energy of the Zerg warriors be shared?

If that's possible, wouldn't it allow them to help each other evolve?

Previously, Zizhu said that Zihuai and Ziai were absorbing the original power from the third brother's body. Now they are giving back to the third brother. If so, the three Zerg warriors can really help each other increase their age.

Thinking of this, it took down the small gift it had prepared for the little rhinoceros beetle warrior: ten divine mulberries produced from intermediate divine seeds.

The divinely bestowed mulberry is a life-enhancing fruit, produced from a wild divinely bestowed seed of their tribe that is currently only at an intermediate stage. They planted it specifically to prepare for raising young warriors.

Intermediate-level Force food is suitable for newly awakened young warriors, but if possible, it is best to give young warriors basic-level Force food.

However, unless they are small, impoverished warriors without a tribe, most Zerg warriors do not produce Force food in the early stages for fear of hindering their own growth.

It used its mental power to cut a divinely bestowed mulberry in half and give it to Zihuai and Ziai: "Each of you eat half and see the effect."

"Delicious, delicious!" The two insectoid warriors, Zihuai and Ziai, were overjoyed after eating the divinely bestowed mulberries.

Force food consists of two parts: Force and Energy.

The Force is essential for all Force warriors, as it is crucial for their growth and evolution.

Ingesting the Force allows one to evolve; this is a fundamental requirement.

However, the Zerg warriors have a small drawback in this regard: they need to molt to grow at each age. If they only absorb the Force and their bodies are not strengthened, they are likely to die during the molting process.

At this point, primal energy became a necessity for the Zerg warriors.

Original energy is transformed from the original force absorbed by different plants during their growth. Because of the differences between plants, the effects of the transformed original energy are different. Some plants transform original energy into shell strengthening, while others transform it into muscle strengthening.

Consuming foods imbued with various primal forces enhances the Zerg warriors' physical attributes and reduces the risk of evolutionary failure—a necessary step in their evolutionary journey.

Force food is divided into two types: ordinary Force food and divine Force food.

Ordinary Force food is produced by life seeds formed from ordinary seeds nurtured in the life sacs of Zerg warriors.

Zerg warriors have six major evolutionary stages, each with nine ages, and each age can produce one life seed, for a total of 54 life seeds.

Therefore, common life types are numerous, of low quality, and relatively inexpensive.

The God-given Seeds are rare creatures that are born by chance in nature. They do not need to be nurtured by Zerg warriors to possess the Force, can produce Force food on their own, and can even awaken consciousness and become intelligent beings.

The fruit produced between the two is Force food.

There is a certain difference in quality between divinely bestowed Force food and ordinary Force food. At the same level, if ordinary Force food contains the same amount of Force and Primal Energy properties, it is a 1:1 ratio.

The amount of primal energy contained in the divinely bestowed food would be two, three, or even four or five times the total amount of primal energy.

Suppose a newly awakened Zerg warrior needs to consume 100 units of Force to evolve. If the ratio of Force to Energy in ordinary Force food is 1:1, then it can only consume 100 units of ordinary Force food, and the same applies to 100 units of Energy.

However, if it consumes food infused with divine-given primal force, it can build up to 200, 300, or even 400 primal energy units on the basis of 100 primal force units.

Comparing the two, it goes without saying which Force food has a higher probability of evolution.

The Twin-Forked Rhinoceros Tortoise tribe is not very wealthy and cannot provide all the young warriors with God-given Force food for evolution, but obtaining a few types of God-given Force food is not a problem.

Seeing that they had finished eating the divinely bestowed mulberry, Lord Purple Plum immediately fed them another one.

The two young warriors ate quickly, and their internal energy became more abundant. However, what Lord Zi Li found regrettable was that while their primal force flowed between them, their primal energy did not.

If primal energy can also flow between them, it would be equivalent to the primal energy within the three insects being concentrated into one insect during an evolutionary breakthrough, minimizing or even eliminating the risk of evolution.

Even so, the risk of evolutionary failure has been greatly reduced, so it has nothing to be dissatisfied with.

Then it fed the third child two divinely bestowed mulberries to strengthen its vitality.

Lord Zili looked at Zizhu: "The primal forces between Zihuai, Ziai, and the third brother are interconnected. If we continue to infuse the third brother with primal forces, it might accelerate the third brother's evolution."

Based on my estimation, the third one, which would normally take six months to molt, should be able to molt within three months with the help of the purple acacia and purple artemisia. Pay attention to their growth status when you feed them Force food.

"Ordinary novice warriors can advance to a new age every one to three months. In order not to delay the growth of the third one, you can go to my place and get some divinely bestowed primal force food to help them evolve and shorten their evolution time."

Purple Bead nodded its antennae in response: "I understand."

Lord Zili then looked at Zitong: "These three little warriors are quite extraordinary. I'll trouble you for a while longer, taking turns with Zizhu to guard them and make sure nothing happens to them."

"I know."

Then it directed its mental energy at the three little warriors: "Stay put near the nest and don't wander off. There are many insect-eating animals around here. Be careful not to get eaten."

"Understood," the three little soldiers replied obediently.