I Am The Swarm

Chapter 377: The New Ji Race

Through repeated testing—at the cost of countless intelligent lives—the New Ji and the alien races came to understand certain aspects of the Ji’s legacy. While some parts were untouchable, others could be modified, requiring further attempts to probe their boundaries.

This was an extraordinarily dangerous endeavor, where a single misstep could breach forbidden ground.

As such, some turned to technology. If the Ji’s technology could be fully extracted and the alien races collaborated for a time to digest and develop it, then perhaps with comparable weaponry and sheer numbers, they could forcefully remove the “tumor” and free everyone from their shackles.

Reality proved otherwise: how could the Ji, who had ruled for hundreds of thousands of years, have such an obvious loophole?

The three tenets of the Ji legacy, while not explicitly mentioning technology, had effectively locked it within strict rules.

Under the original rules, alien races were required to dispatch their own re

Although this system sparked dissatisfaction among the alien races, it was a legitimate law passed by the Council of Elders and, like other such laws, received Lumina’s support.

Resistance was futile, so compliance became the only option.

As a result, when two or more factions competed for control of the same star system, they not only raced to fulfill the overt requirements but also began deploying covert tactics of all kinds.

Hidden tensions and accumulating hatred spread across the alien races.

What was once a relatively united Hundred Races now began to fracture and fall apart.