Chapter 32: Two Battlefields
Waves of brown insects, flowing like water on the purple carpet of fungus, stained the places they passed a chilling dark brown.
It's been so long since the time passed, but the overwhelming insects are still pouring in from afar, and the speed has not even changed, as if it is endless, no one knows how many insects have entered the battlefield, let alone how many insects are in unknown places, waiting to drown the invaders with numbers.
If only this group of intelligent creatures around them are fighting alone, then the only thing that the high-level mercenaries can see is despair, the endless open area, endless fierce insects, no danger to defend, nowhere to hide, no matter how powerful the warrior is, it will be consumed alive, not to mention that there are a large number of ordinary people around him.
Fortunately, the former enemy has now become a life-saving straw for everyone, and the huge mutant spider mother is like a mainstay in the way, allowing the insect tide to wash away wave after wave, always standing. For a moment, Xiuer even regretted in his heart, why did he do things so desperately just now, and used tricks to destroy most of the little spiders to death, leaving only the strongest dozens of little spiders still surviving, if these dangerous monster groups still have the original size, there are tens of thousands of small spiders, these strange insects, I'm afraid none of them can survive.
However, in the end, high-level demonic beasts are still high-level demonic beasts, and it is not something that these weird bugs can easily offend, even if there are only a few dozen left, they can still make the swarm pay a painful price.
The bugs are no match for the spiders at all.
The surviving little spiders are the strongest silver rank, among which there are even a few gold ranks, the black carapace covered with fluff looks black and inconspicuous, but the hardness is comparable to rock steel, the sharp claws of the insects rub on the carapace, at most they can only scrape off a piece of fluff, leaving a few nicks, which can not cause substantial damage at all, as for the relatively fragile abdomen, the smart spiders always move close to the ground, protecting the weakness very well, so that the insects have no way to start. Even if the insect tide completely submerges the small spiders with their numbers, they can still carry the weight of the insects with the strength of the golden level, and constantly bring damage to the insects from below the insect tide.
On the other hand, the insect tide is not so lucky.
It is true that they also have exoskeletons, or rather, their bodies are all wrapped in exoskeletons, and they may have strong defenses against native creatures. But it's a pity that they are now facing a magical beast from Pavatiga, and it is a high-level magical beast, and in the eyes of the magical beast, the hard exoskeleton of the insects is not a problem at all. Just like the ordinary people of Pavatiga, even if they are wearing heavy armor, they will be easily pierced when facing high-level magical beasts, not to mention that no matter how hard the exoskeleton of the insect is, there is still a certain gap compared to metal.
Eight legs with serrated teeth on the inner edge can easily cut through the body of the insect, a pair of blood-colored jaws, can bite and crush the carapace of the insect, and the sharp mouthparts that pop out of the mouth to absorb liquid can also be used as a weapon, which can penetrate deeply into the body of the insects like a spear, and the carapace that the insects rely on to survive is as vulnerable as paper paste in front of the spiders, and with the strength of the little spiders, even just by moving their feet, they can bounce the insects that are twice their size into the air, and the carapace is full of cracks.
If the insects are smarter, they can grasp the weakness of the little spiders that are too light, only one or twenty kilograms, and use the numerical advantage to overturn them, specifically attack their relatively fragile abdomen, and may cause some damage to the small spiders, but they only have the instinct to attack, and they don't even have self-awareness, they are completely blindly piling up with numbers, and if they want to kill this group of small spiders in a short time, I'm afraid it's not so easy.
What's more, the little spiders are not alone, and behind them, there is a more powerful mother in charge.
Since the mutant spider mother appeared in this world, it has been lying on the ground and not moving, but its remaining six long legs are a nightmare for all flesh and blood. The energy of the Legendary Rank attached to the surface of the foot was simply indestructible, and the long foot covered a range of more than twenty meters around, and with a casual wave, a piece of insect was neatly cut in half.
But this is not the purpose of the spider mother, there is only one purpose of the spider mother.
Eat.
Mother Spider is already hungry.
After more than 4,000 years of sleep, coupled with the continuous attack with energy waves just now, and finally resisting the impact of energy with his body, and protecting the last dozens of children in the explosion, the spider mother consumed too much energy, and the most intuitive manifestation of excessive energy consumption is the unstoppable hunger. If you want to recover your strength and restore the energy in your body, you must eat a lot of food, and the spider mother's appetite can no longer be restrained.
Then the food was delivered to the mouth.
For the huge size of the spider mother, although these insects with a length of nearly one meter are small, they are inexhaustible in number, as long as they are not afraid of trouble and eat them one by one, they can quickly replenish the lost energy.
So, the spider mother began to eat like crazy.
A forelimb stretched out, and with a few pokes on the ground, seven or eight insects were pierced through the legs, writhing and struggling in the air, but they could not break away from the barbed legs of the spider mother. If the spider mother has saliva, I'm afraid that even saliva will come out, bring the insects in front of her, pop out the mouthparts, and stab them into the insects in turn, injecting high-concentration digestive juices.
The mother's digestive juices are much more violent than those of its children, and it only takes a few seconds for the muscles in the carapace to quickly dissolve and become the mother's favorite nourishment. Stretching out her mouthparts again, she happily sucked on the food that had been separated for thousands of years, until she sucked up the mushy nutrient solution to the point that there was not a drop left, and the spider mother reluctantly stretched out her legs and shook off the corpses that only had exoskeletons left. As soon as all this was done, the other leg had already brought another group of food to the mouth, and without any delay, a new round of eating began again.
Eat and eat, the spider mother has been eating, the little spiders have been fighting on the periphery, even if there are a small number of insects crawling on the huge body of the spider mother, there are always more than a dozen little spiders crawling around on the mother's body, all the insects that climb on the mother's body will be quickly killed by the little spiders, and will be sent to the mother's mouth for her to enjoy.
The spider mother is eating very happily, but on the side of intelligent creatures, it is not so happy.
Compared with those silver and even gold-level spiders, the strength of intelligent creatures is much worse, most of the defenders are only low-level fighters of the bronze level, and there are more than twenty burdens with no combat power, even with the addition of gold-level powerhouses, in the face of endless insects, everyone is still at a disadvantage, even if it is not long after, the strong people who have been assigned other jobs also join the battle, but in order not to divert the attention of the insects to their own side, Shuer has always restricted the use of a wide range of magic, so the disadvantage has not changed。
Although ordinary mercenaries are only bronze ranks, their attack power is not too bad, and they can easily tear the carapace of insects and cut off their bodies with a single swing of the sword. The problem is that these bugs simply don't have the emotion of fear, they won't back down no matter how much they die, and they don't seem to even feel pain, even if their limbs are cut off, their desire to attack has not changed in the slightest, even if they squirm a little, they have to squirm to the mercenaries and bite hard. What's even more terrifying is that even if their heads are cut off, their bodies can still fight for dozens of seconds, and many injuries on the mercenaries' bodies are left by this headless bug.
There is an endless stream of bugs, completely ignoring losses, but the mercenaries can't, the mercenaries lose one less than one, and they don't have the carapace defense like the mutant spider, so they always shrink back and don't dare to let go of the battle at all. Even if the high-level mercenaries joined, Duck and Saf blocked part of the attack on the perimeter, but there were too many people to protect, the area defended by each person was too large, and the jumping ability of the bugs was also quite amazing, and they could jump over the defense circle casually, so even if most of the fighters had done their best, there were still four ordinary workers who screamed and were dragged into the swarm.
The bugs didn't eat them, but cruelly tore them into pieces and threw them on the ground and ignored them.
Personnel are losing one after another, and the ordinary workers are getting more and more panicked, if it weren't for the insects around it, which brought endless fear, maybe the team would have fallen into chaos, but now it's not much better, because the mercenaries are only passive defense, and the high-level mercenaries are not doing their best, the fools in the ordinary people have a lot of complaints about them.
As the insect tide continued to gather, there were more and more insects around the team, and all they could see was insects hissing and screaming with teeth and claws, and the hellish scene was enough to make people who were not determined to collapse. Fortunately, the battle damage is not large, and it is still within an acceptable range, which will also be a blessing in misfortune.
Shure stood in the center of the line with his hands behind his back, except for the occasional release of healing magic, he never joined the battle, he kept looking at the tragic battlefield with a blank face, even if someone had just been dragged out to dismember, he didn't even move his eyebrows, as if the dead were not a living person.
At this moment, he seemed to have returned to his hometown, surrounded by the guards, standing on a high place and looking down on the battlefield, tens of thousands of family soldiers were fighting in the battlefield, corpses were everywhere, blood flowed like rivers, and the lives that disappeared seemed to have become simple numbers, even if this person was still eating at the same table with him yesterday, and toasting together.
"Wait, wait, wait. In the face of Mia's third inquiry, Shul replied with the same words, but the next moment, his eyes lit up, "Almost, ready to act." ”
Not far away on another battlefield, the mutant spider mother finally had her fill, and slowly stood up, causing the earth to tremble, as if it was used to the feeling of losing its limbs, and with only two hind legs on one side, it could barely ensure that its abdomen would not drag on the ground.
As if getting a signal, the little spiders tried their best to shake off the insects around them, and flexibly climbed onto their mother, and the sea-like insect tide finally found an opportunity and quickly captured the position that the little spiders were guarding.