William didn’t pay the slightest attention to these changes caused by ordinary genes.

  At that moment, he was staring blankly at the Zergling's appearance.

  The Zergling, altered by the Green-Winged Serpent and Stone-Skinned Python extraordinary genes, gave William a strange sense of familiarity.

  Without hesitation, he instantly pulled up a gene template.

  It was an advanced version of the Zergling—a prototype flying Zerg unit that he had previously designed, optimized based on the original Zergling template.

  The prototype gene template of the Mutated Wyvern slowly emerged in his mind.

  William immediately began comparing the current Zergling’s gene template to the one he had just retrieved.

  During the comparison, he directly deleted the massive bat-like wings in the Mutated Wyvern template,

  which had been constructed from ordinary biological genes.

  He quickly made adjustments, leaving specific areas in the template for the integration of the extraordinary gene tumors.

  At the same time, he performed a series of micro-optimizations to address potential chain reactions that could result from the modifications.

  After working nonstop for three days, without rest or sleep,

  William finally completed the initial revision of the Mutated Wyvern gene template.

  Satisfied, he admired the new version, which now had designated integration points for the new extraordinary gene tumors.

  He once again ran a detailed comparison between this template and the Zergling’s modified gene structure—with wings.

  After confirming everything was in perfect order,

  he loaded the gene template into the Zergling's extraordinary hatchery,

  thus beginning the first production run of the extraordinary Mutated Wyvern.

  William had, in fact, attempted this modification before—trying to transform a Zergling into a Mutated Wyvern.

  But the previous versions, assembled using only ordinary genes and the Zergling base template, never met his expectations.

  To lift and freely maneuver a nearly five-meter-long, muscular body in the air

  was impossible without the support of extraordinary powers.

  The flight speed was incredibly slow, and the Wyvern couldn’t stay airborne for long without needing a break or energy replenishment.

  Otherwise, the muscle fibers used for flight couldn’t handle the strain and would tear apart.

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  If he tried to compensate with a stronger body, it added too much weight,

  leading to an even greater energy demand that the creature couldn’t sustain.

  In short—problems everywhere.

  The body structure was completely unsuitable for flight,

  and it couldn’t even manage a proper aerial dive or emergency stop.

  Back then, William had tried issuing a command to force a prototype Mutated Wyvern to attempt such a maneuver.

  The result? The wings, made from ordinary biological gene constructs, couldn’t handle the stress.

  During the abrupt stop, they snapped.

  That brave prototype Mutated Wyvern

  met a “glorious” end with a resounding boom.

  Facing such unsatisfactory results, William quickly halted all research and testing related to the Mutated Wyvern.

  Compared to a Zergling, the prototype Wyvern had no advantages aside from brief flight.

  It consumed more than a Zergling, took longer to hatch, and was utterly incapable of aerial combat.

  It was like a slow-moving flying target—a hot air balloon might've had better performance-to-cost ratio.

  Even in long-distance marches, they had little stamina and didn’t compare favorably to Zerglings.

  And besides, William wasn’t in urgent need of a primary airborne combat unit.

  He already had a large supply of flying Banelings that far outperformed the prototype Wyverns.

  Thus, there was never any plan to mass-produce them.

  But now, with the addition of the Green-Winged Serpent and Stone-Skinned Python extraordinary genes,

  the flying issue of the Mutated Wyvern had finally been resolved.

  In terms of defense, the previous heavy bone armor created from ordinary genes was no longer necessary.

  It could even be partially replaced with large, lightweight, high-strength scales—

  cutting weight while improving agility.

  With this trade-off between addition and subtraction,

  all the previously stuck problems had now been resolved.

  Once William confirmed the extraordinary hatchery had successfully laid an egg,

  he examined the gene configuration inside the egg and nodded with satisfaction.

  “Looks like the integration went smoothly. I’ll check the results in a couple of months.”

  Having completed yet another task, William’s figure flickered—

  and he appeared in another isolated incubation chamber.

  Before him was a large, bloated larva already over two meters in length.

  Its purple skin was etched with fiery orange-red crack-like patterns,

  radiating intense heat.

  The surrounding ground had dried and cracked from prolonged exposure to high temperatures.

  This was one of the eggs laid by the explosive Baneling hatchery after it was merged with the Flame Demon bloodline card.

  More than two months had passed, and based on the explosive Baneling gene template,

  the egg should have long since completed its entire lifecycle—hatching, forming a cocoon, breaking out, and maturing into a full-fledged Zerg unit.

  Yet, the larva within the egg had grown to over two meters in length after two months of feeding,

  but still showed no signs of forming a cocoon, continuing instead to accumulate energy.

  In response, William assigned additional support Banelings to take care of it.

  Looking at the long string of extraordinary gene tumors inside the larva’s body,

  William could only sigh—there wasn’t much he could do.