Chapter 21: Deliverance

"What's that...

Nataya stared at the distant but huge black Roshan behind her.

"It's a natural disaster, and the Great Creator is no longer looking after Zeroth...

The spider-like bug underneath answered Nataya's question with a mental message.

In fact, it is a bit wrong to say that it looks like a spider, because each of its eight large feet is very fat, which is completely different from the slender spider legs.

"Don't you know? It is a well-known legend that when the Creator no longer favors us, black meteors will fall from the sky, and endless tides will cleanse us until the last will is gone.

It's a terrible story, right?

Aha, my name is Ogu, what's your name, dog. ”

Dog worm...

When Nataya heard this, the vortex of mental power trembled...

"My name is Nataya... Isn't the natural disaster that Roshan, what's so terrible? ”

When Ogu heard this, he turned his head slightly and looked at Roshan in the distance.

"It's really not scary... But the race it brings is terrible... The strongest warriors of our tribes have gone on their way, but the news from the front doesn't seem good.

Our Grand Elders have sent a message for us to evacuate as soon as possible, and they want us to take every brother with us as much as possible, including the eggs, because they can be used and transformed into natural disasters..."

Nataya, who seemed to understand whether she understood or not, held the meat worm in her arms and looked at the black meat mountain in the distance. A piece of dust is rising not far from the foot of Roshan, which should be the front line in Ogu's mouth.

On this planet, because of the illumination of two stars, the creatures here have little concept of night.

It's just that there are a few hours of each day when both suns happen to be near the twilight line, and that's when everything rests.

The huge procession came to a halt, and the leaders of the various tribes sat together in circles of large and small tribes, passing messages and reassuring each other.

There weren't many people in Nataya and Ogu's tribes, so the people who sat around them were all small tribes that acted together during the day.

Each tribe stacked the food they had brought with them in the middle, and a long tentacle-like animal with long tentacles distributed it to the leader of each tribe.

Since Nataya's clan members were still all eggs, she was allowed to bring her only clan member, her dog bug child, to the feast.

Nataya picked up a hard-shelled fruit, cracked a gap with a sharp stone, and handed it to the fleshy dog insect "Duoduo" in her arms.

Duoduo is the name given to it by Nataya, a name that once belonged to an equally young puppy in the Laupa Mine Star Administrative Star Orphanage.

"Hearing the news from the elders, the two tribes of the dragon and the hill are about to be wiped out...

A lizard-looking patriarch sat cross-legged on the ground and sighed as he shoved a handful of wriggling worm-like food into his mouth.

"If even the two most powerful tribes of Zelos are unable to resist the Scourge ... It's only a matter of time before we get eaten by them."

The other, who looked like a crab, slid his claws along with the dirt beneath him.

"But doesn't the prophecy say that if we can find the Chosen One, its tribe will lead us to a glimmer of hope in the darkest of calamities!"

Ogu stretched out his front paws, raised them to the sky, and pointed.

"Enough! What a chosen one, it's all bullshit! My tribe was a medium tribe! But just because more than 90 percent of the adults in the tribe are warriors, they are all sent to the front, now you see! My children only have a few dozen eggs left! ”

A praying mantis-looking leader angrily shredded a pile of fruit in front of him with his sharp front paws, and red juice splattered all over it, looking like red blood.

"These legends, whether they are hopes, are just the words of the elders to weaken us with the help of natural disasters, and they are no longer the strongest bargaining chips in their hands, and they will not sit idly by and watch us preserve our strength.

At this time, we still want to protect our ridiculous interests, but we can't unite until now, and it may not be a natural disaster that will destroy Zelos in the end, but our own despicable selfish thoughts! ”

The mantis-like leader turned away after saying this, as if it didn't want to stay here for a second.

"Now, we can only choose to preserve the last strength, no one knows how long the front line can last, one more day is a day, maybe the Holy Mountain can think of some way...

The lizardman leader who had spoken first stopped and stuffed the worm in his mouth, and suddenly turned his head in the direction that the mantis tribal leader had left, and sniffed into the air with a snort.

"Something is wrong with the black mantis, there is a large area of insect eggs coming from the smell of shelling!"

The leader of the lizardmen shook off the long worm in his hand and ran towards the Black Mantis tribe's station.

"Keep up, if it's a natural disaster, it's going to be trouble!"

Several of the small clan leaders sitting around stood up and followed the lizardman leader to the Black Mantis's station.

。。。

"You ... Isn't it my child ... Why... ”

A black mantis leader with his front paws severed was looking sadly at the three mantis that looked almost identical to him on the other side, except that only a scarlet glow remained in their eyes.

"What's going on!"

Ogu was the first to rush to the Black Mantis Leader, and it stretched out its two strong front paws towards the three Black Mantis Guards with red eyes in them.

"I don't know, but when I got back to the station, I found that my guards were catalyzing the eggs, and as soon as I went up to stop them, they attacked me like crazy, as if they didn't know me at all...

There was only one black mantis leader left in front paws, and his heart was about to break... These guards and eggs were almost the last relatives of its tribe, and now it seemed that everything had left it, and it could not bear to kill its last few children with its own hands.

"Look at their eyes, they have been transformed by natural disasters, and if you don't kill them, it will only make more people miserable!"

The Lizardman Patriarch waved his arms as he spoke, and a dozen strong Lizardmen warriors rushed towards the three red-eyed Black Mantis Guards.

Before the dozen or so lizardmen warriors could rush to the place where the Black Mantis Guardian was close, a scorpion-like head unconsciously stretched out from the grass, spewing out a yellow-green mist towards everyone's location.

"Oops... Scourge infected!"

Ogu and the lizardman exclaimed at the same time, but they were already in the fog, and a strong spiritual force was rushing from the scorpion, covering everyone on the scene.

The strong spiritual impact, like a huge pupil, appeared in everyone's consciousness, and the huge pupil continued to emit sharp noisy spiritual waves, like a knife lined with disorderly sawtooth, cutting into consciousness again and again...

Everyone's will began to blur, and endless pain burned in the depths of their souls.

A voice full of bewitchment, constantly chanting softly

"Come on ...

into my arms ...

Do not resist ...

Getting a new lease of life ... ”

The sound was torn apart in pain, like the only rope in the eyes of a drowning man, as if he could be relieved immediately by listening to it and giving up resistance.

"It's a liar!"

A loud shout, at the moment when everyone wanted to give up, broke into everyone's spirit.

The red in Ogu's eyes was receding, and he was the first to come to his senses.

Then, the lizardmen and the black mantis leader also came back to their senses one after another, and the scarlet that was almost full of everyone's glasses just now slowly faded.

They all looked at the unknown insect man with golden hair on his head, and they didn't know when he was kneeling on one knee on the centipede that had emerged from the grass, and one hand was sticking into its head.

And at the foot of the red-eyed scorpion, the dog worm that was still being held in the arms of the golden hairworm man just now was biting the scorpion's left front paw and pressing motionless to the ground.

The lizardmen, the black mantis leader, and the Ogu watched in amazement...

The red-eyed scorpion that once gave them countless nightmares, but the most terrifying infected person in the natural disaster...

In the hands of this red-eyed scorpion, there has never been a survivor, except today ...

"Until the day of the most tribulation, when all things are gone, darkness comes...

The lizardman leader unconsciously came out of the mouth of the well-known legend.

"The one who comes from the darkness of darkness will lead his tribe to drift down with the wind..."

The Black Mantis leader continued.

"It is the back of the fallen, the mortal enemy of evil ...

Resist the cold flames, pierce the rays of despair"

Ogu continued muttering.

"It is ... The Chosen One ... ”