[1]
The insect race was defeated in the Imperial War. Their queen surrendered, and their territory was divided.
Before the insect race fell completely apart, they sent all their hopes for the next generation to every corner of the universe.
They hoped the young princesses of the new generation could grow up protected and cherished.
But one egg lost everything on the day it hatched. She had no guards, no people, no subjects.
She had only herself.
Amid death and struggle, Ermang recovered a power lost from the insect race's genes: infinite evolution.
Anything that failed to kill her would only make her stronger.
She could grow stronger through everyday life and training, or hunt monsters to gain their abilities:
Devour them, imitate them, replace them.
The scarlet tentacles in the laboratory, the endlessly mobile fortress, the impostor in the mist...
She would break free of evolution's constraints, rising from a bug scorned by all to a monster feared by all,
and finally, to a natural disaster.
[2]
Ermang was the insect race's disgraced queen. A hundred years ago, she was a tyrant who struck fear into the entire race.
Arbitrary and despotic.
Militaristic and ruinous.
In the end, she died surrounded by rebels. After her death, all her achievements and accomplishments were erased.
A hundred years later, when the usurper abandoned the empire and fled in disgrace, she returned.
Ermang: What happened to my country? Where did my enormous empire go?
She was unchanged from a hundred years ago, but this time
In the endless sea of stars, the tyrant returned to her throne.
"I want all who face my blade to submit. I want the lands within my sight to stretch without end."
Reader's Guide:
1. To avoid debating whether the author's brain or butt takes priority, this story is set in a completely fictional universe. There are only spacefaring humans with spirit forms, and no humans from Blue Star.
2. The female lead is a caterpillar from the start, with less combat power than an adult slipper. Her starting point is so low that the early chapters are a bit treetree.
3. The female lead is a walking tyrant-and-benevolent-ruler combo. She's genuinely both.
4. No arguing, baiting, or making up fake warnings about plot points that aren't in the story. The author will delete comments.
Theme: Don't let hardship change your original intentions.
