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Chapter 134: Insect Plague, Self-Destructive Attack
Chapter 134: Insect Plague, Self-Destructive Attack
幽湖城.
On the spacious plain in front of the city gate, countless magic puppets were neatly arranged in formations.
In the middle were thousands of stone magic puppets, and on both sides were groups of double-bladed spiders.
The massive iron magic puppets and elite stone magic puppets stood at the forefront of the array, like unmoving reefs in the sea.
On the city wall, Carolina looked at the army of magic puppets below, her heart filled with silent awe.
“The Master is truly the Master, single-handedly creating such a powerful and fearsome army!”
It was simply unbelievable!
The human-faced lions standing behind Carolina were also awestruck, their gazes towards Su Nan’s back filled with reverence.
Human-faced lions were a race that worshipped the strong and the predatory. In the year or so since Su Nan had taken control of幽湖城, they had witnessed its rapid growth, and their initial resentment towards Su Nan had been replaced by reverence.
A strong individual who could command such a powerful army was absolutely worthy of their allegiance.
Su Nan was unaware of the human-faced lions’ thoughts. His gaze went beyond the islands and lakes, into the distance, towards the darkness.
With his spiritual power, he could faintly sense a massive number of creatures rushing towards him from that direction.
Carolina and the human-faced lions seemed to sense something as well, all looking towards the distance with a look of wary vigilance.
Soon, the darkness in the distance produced a series of strange rustling sounds, as if countless limbs were crawling across the ground.
The next moment, many bizarre creatures suddenly burst out of the darkness.
Those creatures were like giant jellyfish with legs, their translucent, pale white bodies seemingly flowing like curtains as their limbs moved rapidly.
They rushed to the shore and jumped into the water without stopping, their bodies buoyed by the water, floating like duckweed on the surface. They connected to each other, one after another, and quickly spread towards the island in the center of the lake.
In no time, a white ‘floating bridge’ appeared between the shore and the island in the center of the lake.
Following close behind, countless insect beasts emerged from the darkness, scrambling to get on the ‘floating bridge’, rushing towards the island in the center of the lake.
These insect beasts looked like giant centipedes, except their heads were replaced by a huge maw filled with sharp teeth, emitting a low, creepy roar.
“It’s the Jellyfish Worms and Giant-Maw Sand Worms!”
Carolina said with a solemn expression, then furrowed her brow.
“Master, something doesn’t feel right. The number of insect beasts seems a bit excessive.”
As far as the eye could see, the field of vision was filled with densely packed insect beasts.
This was just the first wave of the insect beast swarm. The Death Bell Beetles, the main force, hadn’t appeared yet, and the number of insect beasts was already comparable to the most intense attacks in the past. This was definitely not normal.
Su Nan had heard Carolina talk about the insect plagues of the past, and he could also see that the current situation was clearly not right.
But he said nothing, just looked down at the scene below with a solemn gaze.
Seeing the Master remain calm on the surface, Carolina also calmed down and fixed her gaze on the situation below.
The insect beast swarm, charging wildly, slammed into the magic puppet army’s formation like a raging tsunami.
Looking down from the sky, the insect tide was like crashing against unmoving reefs. The Giant-Maw Sand Worms at the forefront were instantly shattered, exploding into a cloud of blood mist. Ř₳₦∅BΕs
On the other hand, the iron magic puppets and elite stone magic puppets at the front remained motionless and unscathed, raising their massive fists to continuously kill the insect beasts.
Unable to break through the blockade of the iron magic puppets and elite stone magic puppets, the insect swarm began to spread to both sides, engaging the stone magic puppets and the double-bladed spiders.
In the blink of an eye, the flat ground in front of幽湖城 had become a blood-soaked battlefield!
The war quickly escalated!
There were countless Giant-Maw Sand Worms, so densely packed that they practically covered the entire stretch from the lakeshore to the open ground in front of the city gate. According to visual estimates, there were at least two to three thousand, and even more Giant-Maw Sand Worms were continuously charging over from the other side of the lake.
In terms of numbers, the insect swarm completely overwhelmed the magic puppet army.
However, the combat effectiveness of the Giant-Maw Sand Worms was a notch below that of the Death Bell Beetles, let alone compared to the magic puppets.
Facing the onslaught of the insect swarm, the magic puppets did not retreat a single step. Like a thick wall, they firmly blocked the tide of insects, preventing them from advancing.
The double-bladed spiders even charged directly into the swarm of insects, wielding their sharp forelimbs and wreaking havoc. Wherever they went, flesh and blood flew in the air.
For a time, the insect swarm, despite its larger numbers, was being pinned down in front of the city gate. No matter how hard they charged, they couldn’t break through the magic puppet army’s defense.
In the distance, at the opening of a giant stalactite hanging from the ceiling of the cave, the Red Widow and the Black Duke looked at the battle unfolding far away, with solemn expressions on their faces.
“Such powerful puppets!” The Black Duke said, his voice filled with apprehension. “I never imagined that a large-scale puppet army would be so powerful!”
He had previously sent his subordinates to probe the fighting strength of the magic puppets in the mine. While he had been somewhat surprised then, it hadn’t reached the level of fear.
But now, he suddenly realized that when these magic puppets were gathered together in hundreds and thousands on the battlefield, the combat power they exerted was far more than the sum of their individual parts.
They were a powerful army that obeyed orders and was fearless in the face of death!
With such an army, it was no wonder that the Wizard was uninterested in cooperating with them, and even wanted to counterattack Kasham.
They did have the confidence and strength to do so!@@@@
In the startled eyes of the human-faced lions, a vast number of Death Bell Beetles flew out from the darkness on the other side of the lake, flapping their wings and instantly crossing the lake to reach the battlefield above.
The densely packed Death Bell Beetles were like a layer of dark clouds, blocking the fluorescent light shining down from the top of the cave. For a moment, the entire battlefield seemed to be shrouded in darkness, making it even more eerie.
Seeing this, many human-faced lions subconsciously swallowed their saliva, recalling the fear of being dominated by the Death Bell Beetles.
Their proud, sturdy bodies were useless against the Death Bell Beetles’ terrifying sonic waves. A single wave of sound attack could make them feel like their internal organs were being crushed, causing them to bleed from their seven orifices.
Only elite warriors and human-faced lion nobles could withstand the Death Bell Beetles’ sonic waves.
“Woo-woo-woo!”
The Death Bell Beetles quickly launched their first attack.
More than three hundred Death Bell Beetles blew their ‘horns’ simultaneously, and the deafening sound wave swept across the battlefield in an instant!
From a distance, many of the human-faced lions on the city wall couldn’t help but show pained expressions, clutching their chests and gasping for breath, as if they were about to suffocate.
However, to their astonishment, the magic puppets on the battlefield remained unaffected by the sonic waves, continuing to kill the insect beasts as if nothing had happened.
The Red Widow and the Black Duke hidden in the shadows were also stunned.
“These puppets are immune to sonic wave attacks?”
The Red Widow and the Black Duke looked at each other, realizing in an instant that they might have made a serious mistake.
They had never come into contact with a Wizard, and their knowledge of puppets was limited to hearsay. They had no idea that puppets were generally immune to sonic wave attacks, and thus had misjudged the balance of power between幽湖城 and Kasham.
“No, that’s not right.”
The Red Widow immediately realized.
“We don’t know much about puppets, but the person behind Kasham is also a Wizard. He couldn’t possibly not know that the Death Bell Beetles’ sonic wave attacks are ineffective against puppets!”
The Black Duke also came to his senses at this time, nodding in agreement. “That’s right, that guy definitely has other tricks up his sleeve!”
At the same time, Su Nan on the city wall was making similar deductions.
“If there is a Wizard Apprentice secretly controlling the situation behind Kasham, then he couldn’t have failed to anticipate this situation. He must have already prepared a way to deal with it.”
In the sky above the battlefield, the collective sonic waves were ineffective. The Death Bell Beetles didn’t panic in the slightest. They circled for a moment, then suddenly fell from the sky like meteorites, crashing into the magic puppets below.
Boom!
The moment they collided with the magic puppets, the Death Bell Beetles suddenly exploded, turning into a ball of invisible distortion.
The part of the stone magic puppet that came into contact with the invisible distortion instantly disappeared, as if it had been bitten off.
In just a few breaths, the three hundred or so Death Bell Beetles were all wiped out.
And their suicide attacks also took out more than one hundred and twenty stone magic puppets and a dozen double-bladed spiders.
Carolina’s face turned pale.
When did the Death Bell Beetles develop this ability?
Why had they never seen them use it before?
Buzz buzz buzz!
More Death Bell Beetles flew in from the other side of the lake, with an estimated number of no less than a thousand!
Carolina gasped at the sight.
During past insect plagues, the highest number of Death Bell Beetles they had encountered was only five to six hundred.
Even then,幽湖城 had paid a heavy price to barely survive that plague.
But now there were a thousand Death Bell Beetles, and perhaps even more.
It was enough to make anyone’s scalp tingle!
The human-faced lions were also pale, sweating profusely.
Only Su Nan remained calm, even showing a look of ‘as expected’.
“I didn’t expect these Death Bell Beetles to be able to self-destruct.”
“It’s probably by releasing all the sonic energy in their tumor bodies at once, creating a kind of annihilation effect.”
Su Nan, who had dissected Death Bell Beetles before and was very familiar with their body structure, quickly understood the principle of the Death Bell Beetles’ self-destructive attacks.
“This also confirms it. There is indeed a manipulator behind Kasham, and he is a Wizard Apprentice!”
Su Nan couldn’t help but sigh in admiration.
He had thought he was the first pioneer to develop this area, but it turned out that a Wizard Apprentice had already established his own force in this area before him.
And judging from the time of the insect plague, the Wizard Apprentice had likely been in the underground world for decades.
What puzzled him was why the Wizard Apprentice had come to the underground world, yet instead of developing the mines, he had been hiding in Kasham, controlling the insect swarm and hunting everywhere. What was his goal?
(End of Chapter)