The abdomen behind her had not yet grown to a massive size at this time, so she was still able to move freely.

  After some time, when her abdomen became enormous, she would no longer be able to move freely.

  She would have to wait until her abdomen fully matured and detached before she could regain her mobility.

  As the Queen Ant raised her head again, a spherical gemstone hanging from her neck was revealed beneath her skull, with colorful fluorescent light swirling inside.

  This was the Psychic Crystal Core, which was known to have no side effects and could enhance mental strength and intelligence when worn for a long time.

  William had fashioned it into a small necklace and placed it around the Queen Ant’s neck.

  The effects were remarkable. In just over a month since she had started wearing the Psychic Crystal Core, William could clearly sense that the Queen Ant’s intelligence had grown significantly.

  At the very least, she no longer behaved like a preschooler, shaking her forehead antennae and eagerly asking him what delicious food he had brought as soon as she saw him.

  "Hmm, it looks like you've made quite a bit of progress recently. Have you finished the homework I assigned you? How are you doing with the first-grade textbooks?"

  As he spoke, William glanced at the pile of books stacked beside the platform.

  These were textbooks from various school grades that he had directly copied from the internet using the Divine Login Pod.

  Ever since William discovered that the Queen Ant’s intelligence was developing after wearing the Psychic Crystal Core, he had taken the time to give her lessons in basic education.

  William released his divine sense and effortlessly found a completed first-grade workbook.

  The homework had been done by the Queen Ant, who used her antennae as a pen, dipping them in ink to write.

  Scanning the contents with his divine sense, William checked her answers—her accuracy exceeded seventy percent. She had made progress.

  "I have already started reading second-grade textbooks, but there are some parts I still don’t quite understand," the Queen Ant immediately responded via telepathy upon hearing William’s question.

  William’s face instantly lit up with an uncontrollable grin upon learning that she had already begun self-studying second-grade material.

  With an encouraging tone, he said, "It's okay if you don’t understand everything yet. You’re already doing great. The more you read, the more you’ll understand. Keep using your brain, and you’ll become smarter and smarter."

  At this moment, William was filled with excitement.

  The fact that she could take the initiative to study second-grade textbooks on her own proved that she was a Queen Ant who loved to learn.

  As long as she continued studying and became more intelligent, she would eventually be able to help him analyze genes once her intellect matured.

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  "I've been working alone for so many years, and I’m finally about to reclaim my position as a leader. At last, I’ll have an employee I can exploit. What a joyous occasion!"

  Quickly pulling himself out of his wandering thoughts, William steadied his emotions before continuing:

  "As a reward for your hard work in studying, I’ve brought you some food. Make sure to integrate the genes after you finish eating and store them in the gene bank—they’ll be useful."

  With that, William reached into his demigod body and retrieved a sealing card.

  Activating it with divine power, a corpse of a Thunder Wyvern Beast instantly appeared on the other side of the cavern.

  With a slight tug on the threads of faith, the patrolling flying Zerg received William’s command.

  They immediately rushed toward the Thunder Wyvern Beast’s corpse, stripping its scales, removing its bones, and dismembering it into eight pieces.

  Following closely behind, the logistics Zerg processed the Thunder Wyvern Beast meat further.

  Before long, a plate of Thunder Wyvern Beast sashimi, paired with fresh green aphid meat, was delivered into the Queen Ant’s mouth.

  Once the Thunder Wyvern Beast’s genes were fully recorded into the Queen Ant’s gene bank, William immediately began analyzing them.

  Eight years later, in William’s Divine Realm.

  Inside a massive, semi-enclosed underground nest, William stood with a solemn expression, staring at a gigantic cocoon before him.

  It was an enormous, horizontally positioned cocoon of purplish-red color, shaped like an ellipsoid and over twenty meters in size, resembling a small mountain resting silently at the center of the nest.

  Thick, web-like blood vessels covered the surface of the cocoon, expanding and contracting rhythmically as if it were breathing, with a faint blue glow coursing through them.

  Suddenly, the previously stable cocoon seemed to react to some unknown stimulus.

  The web-like blood vessels on its surface began to contract violently, the blue energy flowing inside grew brighter, and tiny arcs of electricity danced across its exterior.

  Amidst the crackling of interwoven electric sparks, the cocoon reached its limit, expanding outward violently before finally bursting apart.

  A new and terrifying beast emerged before William.

  Its body exceeded twenty meters in length, making it even larger than the Beast of Thunder.

  Its head bore a striking resemblance to the Beast of Thunder, with sharp fangs and massive mandibles, as well as a blade-like single horn protruding from its forehead, giving it a ferocious appearance.

  A massive, multi-faceted bony carapace extended from the back of its short, thick neck.

  Compared to the Beast of Thunder’s bulky armor, this carapace was more slender and elongated.

  It curved backward, covering the back of its head while also providing protection for a significant portion of its spine.

  However, its body was entirely different from the Beast of Thunder.

  Gone was the heavy, cumbersome build—it had instead taken on a streamlined, dragon-like physique.

  Its muscular body was covered in large purplish-red scales that shimmered with streaks of blue lightning.

  Its four limbs were powerfully built, with jointed areas sporting menacing bone spikes.

  Its enormous claws gleamed with a razor-sharp chill, while a long, spiked tail trailed behind it.

  A pair of enormous wings sprouted from its back, structurally similar to dragon wings, with vicious bone spurs emerging from the joints.

  This was the new Zerg unit that William had spent eight years creating.

  It had taken him more than five years to fully analyze the ordinary genes of the Thunder Wyvern Beast.

  Overjoyed by his progress, he eagerly began designing the gene template for his new unit, only to realize that the difficulty far exceeded his expectations.

  The cluster of extraordinary gene tumors within the Thunder Wyvern Beast’s genetic makeup carried special abilities beyond the three innate magical skills described in the purchased bloodline card.

  This cluster of extraordinary genes also encompassed the Thunder Wyvern Beast’s scale resistance, anti-gravity flight, and various supernatural traits derived from its faint dragon lineage.

  As a result, the template William designed to accommodate this bloodline had far greater requirements and complexity.

  William initially attempted to fuse the existing Beast of Thunder and Zergling gene templates with the Thunder Wyvern Beast’s ordinary genes to create a new gene template.

  However, when integrating it with the extraordinary genes from the bloodline card, the addition of Zerg DNA caused numerous issues.

  This forced him to invest an enormous amount of time, refining and optimizing the design over and over again.