The high-level bloodline card William was holding contained an extraordinary bloodline extracted from a species of Lava Giant Serpents. These Lava Giant Serpents are naturally extraordinary beasts, possessing strong physiques and extremely high fire resistance. When attacking, they can even shoot fireballs to assault their enemies. The power is comparable to a fireball spell, roughly equivalent to the explosive power of a grenade in William’s past life. This is already considered quite a valuable extraordinary bloodline card.

  Most of the extraordinary bloodline cards on the market are similar to the one William holds, extracted from various extraordinary beasts. It’s important to note that creating such extraordinary bloodline cards is not an easy task.

  First, it requires a deity who has ignited divine fire, and this deity must possess the divine imprint of bloodline extraction. Then, a species with extraordinary bloodlines must be found, with a sufficient number captured or bred, before they can be sacrificed for extraction. Depending on the number of sacrifices, different levels of bloodline cards are obtained. A low-level bloodline card requires a sacrifice of 100,000 units of the same extraordinary species. A medium-level card is obtained with 300,000 units, and only after sacrificing more than 500,000 units can a high-level bloodline card be extracted.

  The production cost is considerable, making it a highly valuable resource. The most common bloodline cards in the market are primarily derived from various extraordinary beasts, such as Elf Bloodline Cards, Dragon Bloodline Cards, Angel Bloodline Cards... These are rare resources with values far different from that of a common extraordinary beast bloodline card.

  With the infusion of divine power, the high-level bloodline card transformed into a golden light and rapidly merged into the hatching nest in front of William. As he observed with his divine mind, the gene chains within the nest began to form extraordinary gene tumors due to the influence of the external bloodline. The surface of the hatching nest also began to change, shifting from a dark red to an orange-red hue, with lava-like patterns appearing on its surface.

  William knew that these were the changes brought on by the extraordinary bloodline after it was successfully loaded. If he had encountered the 30% failure probability, the hatching nest wouldn’t have shown these changes. At the beginning of the genetic alteration, the shock from the extraordinary bloodline could have caused the individual using it to explode and die.

  By the next day, the hatching nest had completed all its changes and stabilized. William immediately had the queen ant take control of the special hatching nest and produced a batch of mutated jumping bugs to test whether it could indeed produce jumping bugs with extraordinary abilities.

  When the jumping bugs hatched, they indeed possessed extraordinary abilities, capable of casting fireball spells. Their appearance also underwent significant changes, with the tail originally consisting of a sharp spike becoming extremely thick and growing to a length of three meters, taking on clear snake-like characteristics. The originally 1.5-meter long jumping bugs now had a three-meter-long snake tail, completely losing their former agility.

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  This was the transformation brought about by the extraordinary genes. William couldn't help but feel helpless at this sight.

  Now, the extraordinary genes inside the jumping bugs were like a complete template, similar to a fully packaged chip. He could install this chip into the jumping bugs' gene chain, allowing it to run properly. But, to completely analyze and adjust this extraordinary gene tumor, he couldn’t do it in the short term.

  William temporarily halted the production of the extraordinary hatching nest. Since he couldn’t modify the extraordinary genes, he could only create a new insect unit to adapt to this extraordinary gene. His situation was like a computer assembly factory in his past life that suddenly got a powerful CPU, but this CPU wasn’t compatible with the existing motherboards they produced. Without the conditions to produce the CPUs, they could only make a motherboard that could work with this CPU.

  Having identified the goal, William went back to designing new insect units. Fortunately, he had long ago designed distant units for his insect race, so many genetic templates were already in place. This allowed him to move forward without starting from scratch. With a clear goal in mind, William didn’t feel that time passed slowly.

  After just two months, the new insect unit—Fireball-Casting Spike Serpents—was born.

  Starcraft - Field Manual - Zerg - Fireball-Casting Spike Serpent

  Retaining the fearsome head design typical of the Zerg, there was a large block of high-density bone covering the shoulders and part of the back. The upper half of the body had a humanoid structure covered in high-density bone armor, while the lower half consisted of a thick snake-like tail, highly adaptable to any terrain, also covered in layers of bone armor.

  The muscle mass in the arms had expanded, covered in black scales. The forearms were replaced by massive, scythe-like bone blades, indicating formidable melee combat abilities. The total body length exceeded five meters, with the upper body standing more than two meters tall. Thanks to the extraordinary abilities from the Lava Giant Serpent, they could shoot fireballs up to 100 meters away.

  As long as they had enough magical power stored within, they could fire 50 explosive fireballs in a single battle. Even after using up all their ammunition, these fireball-casting spike serpents could rapidly recharge by absorbing the abundant magic in the environment.

  After testing, William confirmed that the recharge speed of the Spike Serpents' fireball projectiles was one shot per minute, which fully met the needs of the Zerg’s long-range combat units. Their daily consumption was only two or three times higher than that of the jumping bugs, making them suitable for large-scale production, thus filling the gap in the Zerg’s long-range combat capabilities.

  "With the first extraordinary insect unit in hand, the next step is to continue expanding the extraordinary insect species and numbers. Right now, I still have 500,000 divine power from the school, along with an additional 100,000 divine power accumulated over the years, which means I can buy two more high-level extraordinary bloodline cards."

  Thinking this, William teleported to the resource exchange station at the school on the Divine Communication Continent.

  "Hello, I’m William from class 3, grade 12 at Zhonghai No. 2 High School. Here’s my student ID and exchange code..." Upon arrival at the resource exchange station, William wasted no time. He immediately found the staff, provided his student ID, and mentioned the resource exchange code issued by the school after he earned a spot in the city-wide university league. With this exchange code, he could redeem resources worth 500,000 divine power.

  "I need to verify the exchange code. Please wait a moment," the staff said, taking the exchange code and disappearing to verify it. This was the most common way resources were distributed by human civilization schools on the Divine Communication Continent.