Rebirth: The Universe's Hidden Heiress-Chapter 144: Chaos

The Fifth Squad of the Stellar Corps, led by Morris and Vivian, consisted of experienced senior members and others with military backgrounds. They formed a circular formation in collaboration with the Alliance Army, blocking the insectoids on the outskirts from getting close to Kenji, ensuring he could fully concentrate on his standoff with the Queen.

At that moment, Kenji held a mixture of the blue and yellow potions in his hand, resulting in a deep green color, identical to the Queen’s extract. He was somewhat resistant to this color, but upon hearing Yuka say "Ready," he didn’t hesitate to drink the potion.

Instantly, Kenji felt as if he had been electrified, trembling uncontrollably. However, this trembling lasted only three seconds, and he quickly felt an unprecedented surge of strength in his body, with the fatigue from using his psychic powers completely vanishing.

For the first time, Kenji fully unleashed his psychic powers. He felt them like an endless ocean, turning everyone and every insect on the battlefield into mere points. He knew he could connect with them at will.

Kenji targeted all the insectoids, took a deep breath, and then told Yuka, "Go." He also informed all the soldiers of the Alliance Army and the Stellar Corps to prepare for battle.

From that moment, everyone saw the previously ferocious, wounded insectoids, which had been struggling and rushing towards them, suddenly become still, as if they had lost their purpose.

Naturally, everyone seized this rare opportunity. They increased their efforts, attacking more fiercely than before, and quickly eliminated half of the immobile insectoids.

Deep in her nest, the Queen sensed her offspring suffering severe injuries and felt a very uncomfortable psychic power contesting her control over the insectoids. Enraged, she twisted her massive, mountain-like body and countered with a more powerful psychic force.

Kenji suddenly felt a sharp pain in his head, as if struck by a blunt object. He knew this was the Queen’s counterattack. Gritting his teeth, he mobilized all his strength, awkwardly using his psychic power to resist the Queen, trying to regain control over the insectoids.

While Kenji kept these insectoids immobile, Yuka had already rushed into the Queen’s underground nest. Now, she was only a hundred meters away from the Queen.

The Queen, upon discovering the bold yet frail human intruding into her nest, felt a familiar and intensely detestable scent from her—

It was that human.

The human who had almost killed her!

The Queen fell into a rage, twisting her massive body, opening all the pores on her skin, and directly ejecting new insect eggs.

This time, she was determined to ensure the person’s complete demise!

Due to the Queen’s limited energy sources, a small portion of these eggs did not hatch successfully. However, many more insects emerged, densely filling the nest, swarming towards Yuka.

At the same time, Yuka leaped forward, swinging her hammer again, plunging into the new swarm of insects.

Outside the nest, Kenji noticed many new dots suddenly appearing in his psychic realm. He frowned and then opened his eyes wide, realizing they were the insects the Queen had just released.

—And Yuka was right in the Queen’s nest.

Kenji’s heart skipped a beat.

He almost rushed in recklessly to join Yuka against the Queen, but he closed his eyes, calming himself down. He informed everyone that the insects would regain activity and then focused his psychic power on the largest dot.

Yuka’s Stellar Corps squad had already broken through the insect tide. They were about to enter the Queen’s nest to assist Yuka, and what Kenji needed to do now was to stabilize the situation.

Kenji concentrated his psychic power into one point, something he had never done before. This single action nearly drained all his energy.

Unable to steady himself, he fell to the ground, sweat pouring down his forehead, but he had no time to wipe it away.

His psychic power was extremely unstable, at risk of dissipating any second. He couldn’t afford to waste a moment, quickly establishing a connection with the Queen, and tried to invade her mind with his psychic power.

Even if he couldn’t fully control the Queen, causing a momentary confusion and gaining a second for Yuka would be worth it.

The Queen felt the intrusion into her mind and grew even angrier, unable to believe a human could contend with her in psychic power. She hadn’t moved since her growth phase, but now, in her extreme anger, started to slowly move, causing the ground to tremble violently.

Bartland, hiding in the Queen’s nest, had a grim expression. He knew the commotion created by the Queen was to awaken the sleeping Ironback. If Ironback emerged, those hiding in the nest would not escape Ironback’s unfolding attack. Moreover, the entire nest would collapse, burying them underneath.

Bartland, making a quick decision, led his space pirates out of the nest.

Passing by the swarm, he caught a glimpse of Yuka, nearly overwhelmed by insectoids. She tirelessly swung her meteor hammer with one hand and firmly gripped a long knife with the other, slashing at the insectoids lunging towards her.

Insects clung to the legs of Yuka’s mecha, and their mandibles attacked her mecha’s protective barrier, but her movements didn’t pause for a second, single-mindedly advancing towards the Queen.

Bartland glanced at her and quickly looked away. He couldn’t comprehend such foolishness, unable to understand why someone with the power to rule the entire Alliance would choose to be a martyr, attempting to kill the seemingly invincible Queen without regard for their own life.

Just as he and his space pirates exited the Queen’s nest, they collided with the Stellar Corps rushing to support Yuka. Ayoi’s mecha emitted a deafening alarm. She looked up and immediately locked onto the space pirate in the golden mecha.

Bartland.

Without hesitation, Ayoi raised her gun and fired several shots at Bartland, each bullet hitting his mecha’s cockpit, determined to end him that day.

Some space pirates, facing the overwhelming Stellar Corps, thought of turning back to hide in the Queen’s nest, as the insectoids there wouldn’t attack them. In the face of mortal danger, they completely forgot the magnitude of the Queen’s previous tremors and the awakening Ironback underground.

The next second, the earth trembled violently again.