Chapter 51: Savior or Archfiend?

  The sudden appearance of the Zerg caught humanity off guard, treating them as a formidable enemy. Various precautioaken, and news about the Zerg was rampant in civilian life. Initially, people dared not approach the Zerg too closely.

  However, o was discovered that the Zerg seemed to pletely ighem, some dariers, relying on their quick feet, actually took cameras and headed to the front lio film the Zerg!

  When Alex saw the news on his phone, he was astonished.

  These reporters were truly reckless!

  He had ordered the Zerg not to attack humans, but there had to be a limit to their recklessness.

  Despite their risky behavior, the reporters' firsthand footage caused a global sensation. Through their cameras, they detailed a battle between the Zerg and the mimic alieures.

  Predictably, the alieures were utterly crushed by the wave on-dogs. From beginning to end, the Zerg pletely domihe mimics.

  Whether the reporters inteo showcase the Zerg's might hlight their threat, the video depicted the Zerg as incredibly fierce. Those mimic alieures, feared by humanity, were shown as helpless as chis before the Zerg—an accurate portrayal of reality.

  Following the video's release, public opinion split into ts, just as Alex expected. One side saw the Zerg as humanity's saviors, arriving to elimihe mimic aliens.

  Their non-aggression towards humans suggested that, despite their terrifying appearahe Zerg were allies. The other side, however, believed the Zerg were as dangerous as the mimics.

  They specuted that the Zerg ignored humans only because they deemed them too weak to matter, fog instead on the mimic aliens.

  Ohe mimics were gone, humanity might face extin at the hands of the Zerg.

  Both sides had valid arguments, leading to frequees. Alex, with time on his hands, browsed these debates and found the split to be roughly 40/60, with a slight majority seeing the Zerg as a threat.

  Regardless of their stance, both camps agreed ohing: these creatures were not of Earth. Their anized as suggested a civilization parable to humanity's—an assessment that wasirely wrong.

  What Alex didn't expect was the sudden "ding" of a system notification while he was watg the debates. To his surprise, a system prompt appeared before him.

  [Activate Fa Quest: Bd White]

  [Justid evil are never bd white choices. As a dimension mage, you must uand the immense power you possess. Every a you take will have far-reag impacts—choose what you believe is the right respohe oute of the quest will determihe fa summoned.]

  "What the hell!"

  Seeing this quest prompt, Alex almost dropped his phone. What did this mean? His as would determihe fa he could summon? Did this mean if he acted like a saintly Mary Sue in this world, his summon would surely be an angel?

  He really wanted an angel right now!

  For a moment, Alex sidered rushing out to act. Fortunately, a shred of reason held him back. He furrowed his brow, beginning to think carefully.

  So far, he hadn't done anything wrong. The quest was limited to this world, and he hadn't harmed human is here.

  Although Tom Cruise had died, it was strictly a sequence of his own bad habits, not Alex's fault.

  Aside from that, Alex had maintained a distance from humanity in this world. As for those few thugs he killed… well, that shouldn't t, right? After all, that was before the quest was issued. You 't judge the past by the present's standards.

  Though somewhat uneasy, Alex decided it shouldn't impact the bigger picture. After all, he was defending himself. At most, it could be sidered excessive self-defense. Even monks who abstain from violence practice exorcism…

  Alex didn't know if expining this to his Dimensional Codex would help, but sidering the stakes of his summon being an angel or a demon, he decided to be cautious.

  Though he currently had no dimensional points, they could be accumuted. Opportunities for fa-limited summons, however, were rare. If his summon turned out to be a demon, Alex would be devastated.

  This mission, while important, was temporarily put on the back burner by Alex. As long as humans didn't e looking for trouble, Alex po take the core of the alien boss and then immediately withdraw with the Zerg. There shouldn't be any issues with this pn.

  However, the war against the alieures required Alex's careful sideration.

  After several battles, Alex finally uood why the aliens in "Edge of Tomorrow" were called "Mimics." It turned out they could ge their form and mimic their enemies! In subsequent battles, Alex even saw Mimi the forms of Zerglings and Mutalisks! This almost made Alex ugh out loud.

  He couldn't uand how the Mimics' minds worked. While the Zerg were powerful, they relied on swarm tactics. Mimig Protoss might have been w, but mimig the Zerg was suicidal. Zerg could ter each other to some extent, but a Zerg versus Zerg sario was just a numbers game.

  Unfortunately, the Mimics were just that—mimics. They only copied the surfaot the Zerg's expoial growth.

  sequently, they were repeatedly defeated and forced to retreat. The Mimics likely didn't uand why they were losing. Holy, Alex found it hard to believe that humanity had beeen by such foolish alieures.

  Despite seeming to make great progress, the Zerg's advance was slower than Alex anticipated. The reason was that, although the alieures' bat effectiveness was negligible against the Zerg swarm, their save-and-load ability was a signifit . Through iigation and bat, Alex finally figured out the aliens' strategy.

  The aliens had three types: the ordinary soldiers, the unique Mimics (like the oom Cruise "gloriously" took down), and the core boss. If the core boss was the main server, the unique Mimics were like t devices, ected to the main server and to the other soldiers.

  These ts activated the save-and-load meism, allowing the core boss to perceive exters and initiate the save-and-load ability. The core boss itself seemed to be the energy source for this ability, with certain limitations, uo manipute time freely.

  Although Alex ehe fights, they were incredibly tedious. He had to ensure each "t" was dealt with to prevent the core from reloading the timelihis made capturing these aliens a signifit challenge.

  It was like trying to capture Zhao Yun ihree Kingdoms era; soldiers khey o capture him alive, but Zhao Yun didn't. Fortunately, the Zerg had the numbers and were fearless, allowing them to achieve their objective at any cost.

  Most of Alex's efforts went into this task, which was quite thrilling. Several times, he thought he was about to be reset, but mao pull through in the end.

  Now, the Zerg had advao Paris, and Alex was ready. He khe alien boss core was submerged in a pool beh the Louvre. All he o do was capture Paris arieve the core, and his mai for this world would be plete.

  But before that, Alex received some news from Mirren.

  A group of humans had entered Zerg territory… and they seemed to want to unicate with the Zerg?

  (End of Chapter)

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