Chapter 3

The light faded away and in front of was a Zerg Drone. At first I thought of creating the hatchery itself but then I remembered that all Zerg structures were biological in nature.

Why that was important? Because it meant that all Zerg structures were capable of growing in size. Case and point, some Zerg hives were recorded to be kilometres long. Though it would take a lot of time to reach such size, the possibility remained.

The Zerg structures may have a limit to how large they could grow but the fact that the hatchery could grow larger than the cavern was not something I want to witness, still the fact that I could create Zerg Drones, opened up a whole lot of possibilities.

Looking at the Zerg Drone, I had to admit it was a bit cute and yet scary at the same time.

Extending my hand I said "Hey there little guy? I'm Issei Hyoudou, your creator."

The Drone didn't seem to respond at first but slowly it came close and started nuzzling at my hand and was almost purring, I say almost since the Zergs sound nothing like cats.

Not knowing what to say to it, I just said the first things that came to my mind.

"You know I was going to build a hatchery here but then thought that might not be a good idea. So I created you."

The drone seemed to be a bit astonished by that.

"I have to first find a suitable place you know, one that allows the Zergs to truly grow and thrive. Before that I'm sorry to say that you'll be alone for now."

It seemed deflate a bit at hearing that.

"But don't worry I'm here, aren't I. once I find the place you and I can go there together so that you can be your Zerg friends…but since the Zerg are a hive mind calling them your family would be more appropriate."

The Drone just stayed there not making a sound but I could feel that it was excited at the prospect.

"For now this place is your home till I can find a better one for you, and then when I find it will you be will to turn into a hatchery for your future family?"

The drone almost seemed to jump up and down at that, growling happily in conformation. It was the most reaction I had ever seen from it.

"I have to go now, I come back later, Okay."

It seemed to be saddened at the prospect of me leaving, so I tried to assure him.

"I promise to come back so don't worry, I'll be back."

Saying that I left the caverns and returned home, I didn't complete the quest but there was still time and I also found out another level of Hax of my ability. Can't say I'm disappointed though.


Three weeks later

I still haven't found a place to create a hatchery since I had created the Zerg Drone. I considered some place on Earth like Antarctica, The Sahara Desert, and the Amazon Rainforest etc. but with the recent advancement of satellite technology I was not sure I could hide the Zergs on Earth or keep them safe from scientist who might want to dissect them. So it was best I build the Hatchery off planet.

Then there was the problem of getting off world. I could not just create a spaceship and use it to go off planet. No matter how awesome it sounds. Can't risk panicking the governments or secret agencies and not only that, I would have to depend on the spaceship for interplanetary travel. So not going that path till I've found another alternative which I had.

I found the solution to my problem from my light novel that I was reading, Familiar of Zero.

In that series there was a spell call 'World Gate' which allow the caster to open a gateway to other worlds. Neat spell and just the type I wanted I had found it just a week after I created the drone, when I was just tired of fruitlessly searching and just wanted to relax. So I read the light novel and voila problem solved.

Using [Fiction Adaption] I was able to 'download' the information for the universe and it was added to the magic category of my [Multiverse's Science and Magic]. It still took some time to search for the World Gate spell and in between I had gotten the knowledge of the Runes on the four 'Familiar's of the Void'.

After getting the spell I used it to find a suitable planet, I immediately discarded any planet from the solar system that was just asking the world to find about the Zerg. So using the spell I went to a bunch of planets and worlds.

I rejected some of them due to them been too hot, too toxic or just too damn cold. The Zerg might survive and thrive on those worlds but I sure as hell ain't gonna go there. Maybe I send the Zergs there later but for now I needed to find one where the Zerg and I, specifically, would enjoy living there. On a side note I got [Fire Resistance], [Heat Resistance], [Cold resistance], [Ice Resistance] and [Poison Resistance] for my trouble.

I even found some planets that were just overflowing with magma, covered in snow with extremely low temperatures and Toxic planets with both extreme high and low temperatures, and they all seemed to be home to several creatures that had evolved to adapt to the environment. I even got an idea on how fire giants and frost giants might look like when I visited those place, even got a massive boost to my new found resistances, definitely going to return to those places.

I also accidentally travel to another universe using the spell. You heard me, I travel to another universe. It happened during when I was thinking of Fate/Zero when I used the [World Gate] spell and you guessed it I ended up in the Fate/Zero world also known as the Type Moon-verse.

I ended up in Fuyuki City just seven months before the Fourth Holy Grail War even got the command seals to prove it. The seals were like the ones Uryuu Ryuunosuke had and if there is one thing I was going to not let something happen was summon that insane caster or participate in that insane war entirely.

The prospect of summon a Heroic Spirit to fight in a Battle Royal does seem exciting. Still not gonna enter a war to fight for a corrupted Holy Grail, that just a monkey's paw at its finest.

After I calmed downed and thought things through, I realised that the [World Gate] spell allowed me to go to other universes. As if the [Fiction Adaption] was not enough, which allowed me to create fictional powers form fictional universe, I now had the ability to go to those said fictional universe.

Warhammer and any universe created by Lovecraft, none withstanding, don't want the forces of Chaos to come to my universe nor want to meet any of Lovecraft's monsters. I could go to the Korpula Sector, the world of Azeroth and all the worlds my favourite games and novels.

That was just awesome in so many ways. As much as I want to explore them I first had to find a suitable world for the Zerg first, only after that I would start my full exploration.

Still I let my mind wander quite a lot and often ended up in other realities and the few times I didn't, the planet was just not suitable enough. I knew finding a planet with life was going to be hard but I didn't think it would ne this hard. So even after three weeks I still had no luck finding a suitable world for my Zergs.

In between, when I was not going off world to search for a suitable Zerg world, I was restructuring the cavern. It was well lit and as clean as it could be for now. I also explored most of the tunnels and found some smaller caves and even an underground lake. Some of the caves I turned them into rooms for different purposes, what they were going to be I still had not decided yet. But I had made it so that I would have no problem rearranging them.

I even got a whole bunch of new skills, mostly due to [Grigori], as I kept picking skills left and right. I so did not want the [Gossiping] skill and it level up like crazy whenever I am watching some old ladies talk.

I also got the [Stealth] skill, which allowed me to move like a ninja, which was cool yet could not match [Presence Concealment] which I got after I added Type Moon-verse to my Multiverse list. I even got Lancelot's [Knight of Honour], [For Someone's Glory] skills, both were at MAX level however and I was a bit disappointed as well as relived at the same time.

I didn't get any new skills worth mentioning but I was able to tinker and create new rune types similar to that of the 'Familiar's of the Void'.

One of them was a rune, which gave person [Presence Concealment] and the abilities of Gandalfr. Another was one that gave [Knights of Honour] and the abilities of Myozunitonirun. I call the first rune 'Warrior Assassin' and the second the 'Exorcist Knight'. Not the most inspired but they would do for now. The only fault I found with the runes was that like the 'Familiar of the Void' runes they had to be applied on a familiar.

The runes would be incredibly useful when applied on a familiar like the Servants from the Holy Grail War, but like I said I had no intention of participating in that damn war.

I was happy with my result in tinkering with the runes but I still want to see how much more powerful rune I would be able to create. My new skill [Rune mastery] did get a lot of bonus and it was at Lvl.83 due to my [Odin's Legacy] skill and my extensive tinkering with the Void Runes.

Using [Spell Caster] I was even able to find quite a lot of ways to cast my spells, which resulted in it levelling up and the spells in question.

I also levelled up quite a lot and I was currently at Lvl.14 still not worthy of my stats yet. I also got some 85 stats in STR, 148 in AGI and 56 in VIT over the past three weeks due to some running, jogging and some light strength training and my [Body Breaker] and [Heaven and Earth] skill. The gap between my level and my stats just keeps growing every day.

I then spend some time in the library with my parents, my dad came back from his trip with more Legendary class items, and buying some new games, novels and all round spending my free time like I should. Even played with the Drone I created.

That was what I did during the times I was not busy with the quest. Still can't believe my rate of progress.

Today I was surely going to try to find out a suitable world for the Zerg, I could feel it in my soul. Taking a deep breath I let the familiar sensation of the [World Gate] wash over me and I felt the gate in form before me and take shape. Now the only thing left to do was go through the gate.


One moment I was in the cave and the next I was standing outside with the sun shining brightly in the sky. I was in a forest.

That was a positive point for now, the forest looked quite healthy and well. I extended my senses using [Extra Sensory Perception] and [Eyes of the Soul]. So far I found no Human or any alien life except for the animals of course but none seemed to burn brightly like a sentient life form.

I always use those two skills to survey any area I come across and was always ready to cast [Divine Shield] at a moment's notice. It was useful to determine if I had gone to another reality or one with alien civilization. I used it to survey hundreds of Kilometres in hours and be ready to run away from predators or enemies. Saved my life quite a few times as I sometimes ended up in planets whose star was going supernova or attacked with WMDs. Did not stick around too long nor tried to go back to those places, praise the OP Paladin skill.

I also noted that whenever I used the [Eyes of the Soul], humans and aliens souls shine quite brightly and had a unique colouring to their souls. The colouring always had different ones for every individual and a certain feel to them. Some were like a warm fire, while others felt like a concentrated beam of sunlight or a light in a cool shade. Each one was unique and different.

Still everything was looking good so far the temperatures was moderate had quite a good ecosystem and seem to have enough wide space as well. Still I should survey a bit more.


7 Hours later.

I had completely surveyed the world. It was a large one almost seven times larger than Earth. It took a lot of time to survey the world and I had to even resort to using [Eyes of the World]. That resulted in it levelling up like crazy with the headache being more severe than the last due to its increased range and thus increased info dump on my head. Yet I endured the headaches and continued on. It now had a range of 4000 km radius.

Even with the increased range my progress was going slow and since this planet showed the most promise yet, I wanted to thorough survey the planet and in my haste I used the [Eyes of the Universe].

Now I had not used the [Eyes of the Universe] even once now but if it was anything like the [Eyes of the World] I knew I would get a massive headache, but the thing was it was nothing like the [Eyes of the World].

The [Eyes of the World] like it said let me view the world through its eyes and let me gain information on everything inside its range and that's what the [Eyes of the Universe] also did but the scale was so different and the information I gained so vast with so many new factors that it was completely alien compared to the one who has seen the world.

It showed me the images and gave me information about everything inside 6 light year radius. The planets, the stars, asteroids, meteors and space itself, it gave me information about them. using the [Eyes of the Universe] I was even able to see the core of the sun and stars themselves, see what the gas giants looked like inside, feel the comets as they blaze past the systems in a second and even feel the tiniest dust particles that were in space and feel the void between the systems themselves.

The sheer scale and info that I got was just too much so much that I blanked out when I used the technique for just a sec.

I managed to gain consciousness after an hour and spent two hours more shifting through the information I got.

There was just too much info so much that even if it was recorded into my [Infinite Archive] and broken down into understandable concepts by [Unforbidden Concepts] the sheer amount of info was just too much for my brain to handle even with my ridiculous Intel stat.

I focused mainly on the info for the system, just the basic information, which was much easier than shifting through all the extremely detailed and complex information I got.

The system held 5 planets and 3 gas giants much like Sol. The fourth planet which I was on was the only one with life but the other four rocky planets were also quite capable of life, given enough time.

The sun of the system was also almost half time larger and there were two ort clouds with various exotic materials in them that I had not seen before.

As for the planet I was one, it was almost like Azeroth in its shape but much larger in size. It had three supercontinents each larger than Asia by quite a lot and the surrounding seas and ocean holding smaller islands, one the size of Australia. By my rough estimate I think the total landmass must be around 55% to 60% give a take a few %.

Quite large and had enough space for the Zerg to grow, there were no sentient species as far as I now but it had a lot of variety of Flora and Fauna, some of which were gigantic in sheer size, almost like I was in the era of the dinosaurs.

I had even learnt that the three nearby systems also had planets capable of life and like this one had no sentient species they were some 3 to 5 lightt years apart but I could easily get there using [World Door] as they had been recorded in my archive.

Can anybody say 'Jackpot' cause I felt like I just won one. Just have to get back now.

Opening a [World Gate] back to the cave I went through it but it flickered and vanished and I stumble and fell.

Ow, it seems the headache caused by the [Eyes of the Universe] still getting me and I'm really starting to regret using it, the headache just not worth it.

I after some ten-twenty tries was able to get to the cave and inform the Drone of my findings. The little guy was happy to hear that it was gliding around the room like a craze loon, just showing how happy it was hearing the news.

I would have taken it to the planet right now but the headache was just too much to bear and so I told it to wait for tomorrow.

That seemed to dampen some of its happiness but it seems that it looked like it could wait for tomorrow.

I opened a [World Door] to near my house in an area where no one would be looking and using [Stealth] I went home. I was thankful I still had enough cohesion to think about that as I simply wanted to directly open a [World Door] to my room and go to sleep. That would have raise a lot of question I did not want to answer.

I went home, had dinner chatted with my parents, washed up and went to bed where I embraced the sweet calling of sleep.


The next day I went back to the cavern and this time the Drone when it saw me almost pounced upon me and started to drag me to the central cavern. It seems that it was quite excited and impatient to see the new planet.

Opening the [World Door] the Drone and I venture in the planet.

The place we entered would have been Kalimdor if we were on Azeroth but unlike its Azeroth counterpart the whole continent was teeming with life, it was filled with forest and oasis. There was no desert no barrens nothing like the ones found in Kalimdor.

I have to think of a name for the planet and the continents but that's for later.

Letting the Drone follow me I took it to one of the nearby cliffs where I would build the hatchery. As if reading my thoughts the Drone quickly went ahead and started morphing into a hatchery at the base of the cliff.

The surrounding area provided good cover with the giant trees and it was open enough to build a full advance Zerg base with space to spare.

The drone started morphing into a cocoon which rapidly stated expanding; I had to take some steps back form it as it was expanding quite rapidly and growing quite large.

In less than 5 minutes the Hatchery was ready and I got the message box saying that I had completed the quest.

That…that was fast, too fast, I thought that I would have to wait for a few hours or so before the Hatchery was completed but the Hatchery was completed in the time it would have in the game.

I could also see it spawning some larvae and they numbered around 14 right in front of my eyes.

I quickly check the message box that I got.

Congratulation, you have completed 'Rise of the Zerg' Quest.
Reward: 1,000,000. EXP, 1,000,000 YEN, control over the Zerg, gained title 'Overmind of the Zerg', gained skills [Zerg Biological Manipulation], [Zerg Hive mind].

You have gained a level! You have gained a level! You have gained a level! You have gained a level! You have gained a level! You have gained a level! You have gained a level! You have gained a level! You have gained a level! You have gained a level! You have gained a level! You have gained a level! You have gained a level! You have gained a level! You have gained a level! You have gained a level! You have gained a level! You have gained a level! ...You have gained a level!
You are now level 56.

I levelled up 42 times just completing the 'Rise of the Zerg' quest. Wow that was a whole lot of xp that I got. I could safely say I was slowly catching up to my stats.

I also felt a sudden intrusion into my mind and I tried to see what it was.

It was like a needle, a string, trying to tie itself with my mind. I quickly deduce that it was the link to the Zerg and grabbed it.

It was like my mind was filled with more space and more thoughts. I felt I could think much clearer now. No, I definitely thought much more clearly and maybe even faster now, must be because of the additional minds that were connected to me boosting my thought process.

I felt the minds of the larvae connected to mine waiting for my command, I even felt the Hatchery awaiting more orders and it felt like it was happy now that it was connected to me. It still must have remembered me from the time it was a Drone.

There were 14 larvae and the hatchery was ready to produce more but was waiting for my permission.

I tested my control over the Zerg and said "Create as many as Larvae as the Hatchery can hold without crowding itself."

The Hatchery seem to have heard my command as I felt more and more minds connect to mine and it kept growing till it reach a limit of 80 minds. So the Hatchery could hold 80 larvae and not get crowded.

I wanted to go inside the Hatchery but now was not the time.

I telepathically order the 14 larvae to turn into 8 Drones and ordered two of them to turn into spawning pools after morphing; I even marked the areas and ordered the remaining six Larvae to turn into Zerglings once the pools were completed.

I saw the larvae morph into cocoons and in seconds turn into Drones and then turn into spawning pools a minute later. They really were morphing at the same speed as they did in the game as I saw the six larvae already morphed into Zerglings.

So for now I had 80 larvae, 6 Drones and 12 Zerglings.

Now what to do? I could order the Hatchery to morph into a Lair, and then order the drones to turn into a spire, evolution chamber and Hyralisks den and then similarly go for an Ultralisks den and all advance Zerg Units and buildings.

I kind of feel lost now that I've completed the quest.

Maybe I could tinker with the Zerg gene and create more powerful Zergs. That seem like a good idea and the Zerg were all about adapting and getting stronger.

So I ordered a Drone to morph into an Evolution Chamber and another into a Hydralisks den. One of the Drone, was able to morph into the Evolution Chamber but the other informed me of insufficient resource?

So I was low on minerals and Vespene gas, who would've thought about that.

Oh well time to use the hax [Creation] spell. Using the spell I was able to create large veins of the mineral crystals found in StarCraft and created around hundreds of small sacs filled with compressed Vespene gas, which had almost triple the amount of Vespene gas than a normal sac that a from carries out from the excavator.

How was I able to create the mineral crystals and Vespene gas simple I was already able to create minerals and metals like iron and steel, and thanks to [Fiction Adaption] I learned the composition of the two when I access the memories I got from StarCraft. Quite neat right.

Still I have to find another method for resource gathering since I always can't keep creating them, I wouldn't be able to expand a whole lot if I have to keep doing that.

I think I should give the Drones, the [Creation] skill. That way they would be able to not only create Vespene gas and the mineral crystals but also create any resource they might need at anytime, anywhere.

With my [Imparter of Skills] it was relatively easy teaching it to the drones and with the [Zerg Biological Manipulation], I was able to make it an inheritable skill, though they had to level it up themselves thus making Drones which were older all the more powerful.

I would teach them a few more skills so that drones simply don't become resource gatherers only. Since his is not a game I don't have to make them balanced in any way and an Overmind's job was to strengthen the Zerg in any way possible.

Hmm, looking at the Zerg Drone its claws seemed perfect for slicing and I wonder what kind of damage it would be able to do with an attack like X-scissors from Pokémon after all that was a bug-type move and Zergs were basically bugs. So I think I would give the Zerg some Pokémon moves or the moves from the TMs and HMs at least since I know how to make them or will be after I access that knowledge.

[Fiction Adaption] so OP, I might just call myself Dr. Hax at this rate.

So many things to do, so much time, experiments to perform, skills to create, DNA to manipulate and a whole race to enhance, maybe if I feel like it even summon a Servant and experiment on it. My summer break is turning out to be quite awesome and a busy one, but where to start, maybe that one element that seem to reduce and increase mass.


AN:- Well with this I've introduce the Zerg and well I'm gonna have a lot of fun messing around with the Zerg and their build. I also open to suggestions to which Zerg should get which Pokemon moves, whether they be attacks, status moves or weather effects go wild and this would apply for the rest of the fic cause why not Zerg are about adaptability so let's see which moves suit them best.

Personally I just want to see Ultralisks shooting Hyper Beams and using Earthquakes and Zerglings using Shadow Claws and Ariel ace and Flamethrowers.

Also if you notice Issei going mad scientist in the last paragraph and being out of character. That's because of one of his skill. I don't know if people have picked up on it or not but he's just acting what a normal person with that skill acts.

I really want to say that when I started this fic I mainly wanted to create an OP main character of couse and I was inspired by Ryuugi's The Game's we Play for the stat bonus skills. Those of you who have read it might notice some resemblance but I've tried not to copy it from him, if there as some skills that I've copied then credit due where credit is due, cause that guys character is just awesome. I wonder which one of our characters would win if they fight.

I think I've ramble enough, no one likes a long Author's Note, not even me. Till next time, see ya.

Date: 25-6-2015