Wizard: Starting With the Knights Breathing Method Chapter 2843: 579: Maya Joins the Team! The Origin of the Nest!

With an irritated tone echoing around, a crimson-faced figure boasting sharp fangs and clad in scarlet armor that pulsed with peak tenth-level divine might appeared—it was the Blood Fire Dominator himself.

Trailing after him, the members of the Blood Fire Twelve Flags materialized sequentially. They included lesser deities and mid-tier gods alike, but those chosen by the Blood Fire Dominator were far from average.

The Blood Fire Dominator spoke directly to a lean silhouette gripping a lengthy spear, featuring a canine head on a humanoid frame, a minor god:

"Wild Dog God, head back to your Divine Kingdom immediately, send down an avatar, and guide a squad of angels to support the Holy War Army Master. We're at a pivotal juncture, and my faith cannot suffer any setbacks. Should the casualties surpass one-twentieth, you'll answer to me!"

The Wild Dog God, known as Naro, had previously been a tenth-level dominator from the Hunting Dog Clan in the Multidimensional Plane. After loyally serving the Blood Fire Dominator for a hundred thousand years, right on the brink of his end, he received a divine persona, kindled divine fire, and formed a godly physique. In doing so, he skipped over the Star Wilderness entirely and entered the Thousand Hills Countries straightaway.

His domain of authority as a god covers aspects of Hunting and War.

"I understand!"

A sense of discomfort stirred within the Wild Dog God. He realized this assignment was no simple matter, given the Dusk Palace Master's tricky nature, but as a subordinate, he lacked options.

Should complications arise, the responsibility would fall squarely on him! Curse it!

In the Blood Fire Dominator's hand materialized a spear ablaze with crimson flames, the sacred relic known as the Blood and Fire Spear—placed in the top thirty on the Star Realm Divine Artifact rankings. When measured against ultimate treasures, it likely secured a spot in the top ten across the entire Pan-Plane.

What are termed divine artifacts represent extraordinary creations hammered from divine fire and might, using resources from level ten or higher Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures; fewer than 90% of minor gods in the astral realm possess such items.

That said, nearly every mighty god claims at least one.

"Queen Stinging Snake, you've trespassed into my Blood Fire Divine Domain three times already; today, you'll feel the full force of my godly essence! Blood Fire Twelve Flags, come with me to surround and annihilate this monster!"

The Blood Fire Dominator swung his spear high, unleashing a fiery Blood River that thundered across eighty thousand miles, swallowing up vast swarms of the bugs.

The Stinging Snake Queen's form twisted harshly, releasing shrill vibrations; an unseen power dispersed the bloody flame torrent, after which swarms of bugs glowing with ninth-level and even tenth-level strength surged forward.

A fearsome conflict erupted.

Up to now, the mother nest's will has spawned 50 distinct types of elite soldier breeds, with each overseen and reared by an Insect Queen.

These queens align with the mother nest's will, following its directives without question, their prowess spanning from mid-tenth stage to advanced late-stage levels.

Insect Queens draw in and oversee boundless energy via the unparalleled Mother Nest Network, swiftly channeling it during crises to breed forces inside their personal bug realm worlds.

Truly, this stands as an ultimate factory for generating armies!

Back two thousand years prior, during their initial assault, the bugs commanded just 46 soldier varieties, rendering them much inferior to the astral world's elite fighters in raw power.

Yet, through devouring countless gods and astral realm materials, the mother nest's will kept advancing and refining itself, allowing the bugs to grow by introducing a fresh soldier breed every five hundred years.

Without intervention, the mother nest's will would inevitably consume the whole astral world. And that could merely mark the start, as these bugs might then proceed to engulf the entire Land of Darkness.

Across his extensive existence, the Blood Fire Dominator had never encountered such nightmarish beings.

This explains why he pays little heed to Nora these days—the bugs pose a far greater threat, surpassing even the hassle from demons.

It functions as a relentless, cohesive killing apparatus!

Luckily, the Star Ancestor's strength proves sufficient, merging his three forms into one to currently hold back the mother nest's will, though it fails to stop the bug incursions entirely.

Lately, the Star Ancestor managed to banish the mother nest's will from the Land of Darkness; still, it reemerged soon enough.

The Star Ancestor lacks a way to destroy it outright, given the astral world's abundance, which the mother nest's will has savored, fueling its nonstop assaults on this domain.

Through extended battles, the Star Ancestor determined that the Dark Insects didn't spring up from nowhere; they hail from a neighboring universe to the Land of Darkness.

The Star Ancestor dubbed it: Taya Land.

These bugs form the Taya Insect Race.

At first, the pair of universes were meant to exist side by side without clashing, but for unknown causes, the Taya Insect Race carved open a wormhole into the Land of Darkness.

What followed became a grand, universe-spanning conquest!

Yet, the Star Ancestor uncovered fresh complications down the line.

As a being at the supreme tier and the mightiest in this cosmos, he had reached out to select other universes beyond the Land of Darkness before. He left faint marks there at times, but never pushed further inward.

Since every universe follows its own unique laws.

For an entity native to this universe, stepping into foreign ones could diminish his power, reducing him to a false deity lost in mere folklore, making gods seem like objects of ridicule to some.

By all reason, if the Taya Insect Race came from elsewhere, entering here should face heavy suppression, drastically cutting their abilities.

However, the Star Ancestor detected no such restraint on the bugs.

This suggests that, though they appear to come from outside, the Taya Insect Race was actually spawned within this universe... undoubtedly a primal entity emerging after the primordial chaos. The Star Ancestor thought back to ancient chaotic times and pinpointed one being akin to the mother nest's will.

Its title: Evolution Nest.

It manifested as a bizarre, throbbing cloudy mass like a colossal womb, holding a position among the three most dominant primal forces of that era.

The Evolution Nest brimmed with fierce hostility and adaptive drives; it acted as a Ravager, prompting lesser primal beings to unite instinctively against it for protection.

In the end, battered by strikes from two formidable powers—the Star Cluster Brain and the Mother of Darkness—the Evolution Nest shattered, its remnants lost to the void.

In time, after endless cycles, the primal entities clashed savagely, igniting a horrifying war over dominance in the universe forged from the chaos burst!

Resembling a massive free-for-all, more than 90% of primal existences perished, their remains turning into drifting universal Sea Relics and Primordial Relics.

In the close, the Mother of Darkness triumphed, merging with the universe to set its governing principles, as the rest of the strong ones withdrew or escaped.

The mother nest's will most probably consists of the fragmented Evolution Nest, clinging to life across various universes through seven full eras.

And now, it has returned!