Chapter 224: Bitter Battle
"Click!"
With the crisp sound of the carapace grinding, the beetle swarm once again attacked at the call of the beetle leader.
Looking at the shadowy enemy in the dust, Zheng Shu exhaled. Holding the mace in both hands again, he raised it high, and before the enemy could get completely close to the attack, he aimed at a beetle and swung it with all his might.
Swish!
When the mace was swung down, Zheng Shu did a strange act.
Instead of using the extra strength to stabilize his body as before, he let his body rush out with the mace, like Thor in some movie being carried away by his hammer.
Of course, the mace didn't really fly with him, because right in front of him was the black beetle that was about to pounce.
Syllable!
After not needing to maintain the balance of his body and pouring all his strength into the mace, Zheng Shu's blow was much stronger than his previous attacks. The carapace of the black beetle that was hit was completely shattered, and the soft entrails inside were all torn to pieces.
Feeling the shock force coming from the mace, Zheng Shu directly followed this force, making the body that was already close to imbalance move again, and with his own strength, it had already turned before the violent stump slurry landed, and the mace was controlled by him to hit a beetle on the other side.
Syllable!
The same scene appeared again, Zheng Shu repeated his old trick, and used the same method again, following the force of the shock, and exerting his own power, so that the mace drove his body to move.
From the outside, Zheng Shu doesn't look like he is fighting, but more like dancing, his body makes all kinds of incredible movements, and the angle of movement looks like he will immediately fall to the ground, but every time he is about to fall, he will use the mass of the mace to twist the center of gravity, so that his body falls to the other side to regain the balance of the center of gravity.
This is the solution that Zheng Shu thought of, since it will be difficult to fight if he devotes a large part of his strength to maintain the balance of his body on a battlefield of this level, then he simply does not maintain the balance of his body, anyway, the quality of the mace is high enough, and with his own strength, he can easily drive his body of one hundred and ten kilograms.
It turned out that Zheng Shu's decision was correct, after applying the power to maintain balance to the mace, he could almost do one at a time against ordinary beetles, and as time increased, the accumulated power on the mace also increased, and its attack speed became faster and faster, not at all like a state that a heavy weapon could achieve.
Except for a slight mistake at the beginning due to unskillfulness, which slowed down the mace's movement speed, and then after Zheng Shu gradually mastered the technique, his attacks began to form a positive cycle.
In the back, Zheng Shu's whole person was even covered by the phantom of the mace, and it looked like it had turned into a black meat grinder.
Of course, to be able to make such a fancy move, in addition to Zheng Shu's experience in using the power of the king of the earth and mountains in the previous world, he also has to thank the enhanced template of Atalanta that he strengthened before.
The physical coordination that Atalanta's enhanced template gave him was the foundation that allowed him to do it all. Only Atalanta's coordination ability, which can be called a leader in the entire ancient Greek mythology, can support Zheng Shu to complete such a "flower work".
In addition, the success of this method is due to the hard carapace of these bugs.
Zheng Shu didn't know what kind of structure the carapace of these insects was, but its hardness was indeed undoubted, far beyond the so-called steel, and he speculated that some of it was probably affected by magical power.
With such a sturdy fully enveloped shell, coupled with the innate vitality of the insect race, no matter what kind of person is against it, it will be a headache. Even a strength of Zheng Shu's level would feel a tingling in his arm when facing an ordinary black beetle, even with the help of a heavy weapon like a mace.
However, it is precisely because their carapace is strong enough that they can give Zheng Shu enough shock power when attacking. After Zheng Shu changed his combat strategy and did not resist the shock force at all, not only did his arm not go numb, but these huge shock forces became the initial driving force, allowing the mace to be like a pinball under Zheng Shu's control to keep bouncing back and forth in the swarm.
After finding the right way, Zheng Shu looked very comfortable in the face of the attack of the insect swarm, which he led yesterday, and it was precisely because the attack of the insect swarm covered the sky and the ground that he was able to constantly adjust his posture with the help of the shock force.
In this way, even if the Beetle Commander hid in the swarm and attacked him, Zheng Shu could use the power of the Beetle Commander to reverse accelerate his own speed.
However, this method also has two disadvantages, one is that as the power drawn from the mace increases, the physical strength required and the power to swing and transfer the direction gradually increases, and in the back, it is not so much Zheng Shu who controls the mace to attack, but rather the mace driving Zheng Shu.
Fortunately, his own physical strength was tough enough, the keel pattern was enough for his body to support this equivalent force pull, and there was a steady stream of insects around him who came forward to "help" him consume the power accumulated on the mace, so Zheng Shu achieved a certain balance after the strength on the mace reached a certain threshold.
As for the other disadvantage, it is probably such a fast and irregular rotation of the body, most people will lose the ability to control the body due to severe vertigo after holding on for a period of time.
Even a professionally trained fighter would not be able to maintain his balance under this level of vertigo.
Fortunately, Zheng Shu is not human.
Although the reinforcement template of the three generations is only 30% of the combat power due to the rules of the world, Zheng Shu has actually turned into a giant dragon in essence after strengthening the template of the three generations, and it is a biological weapon specially born for war in the dragon world.
Not only are the bones that can be transformed into dragon bones, but the muscles, blood vessels, heart, nerves, and brain are completely different from those of humans.
A violent spin that is fatal enough for humans, and even a little boring for Zheng Shu.
According to the current killing efficiency, even if the number of insects far exceeds expectations, Zheng Shu estimates that if everything goes well, it will not be long before he can slaughter the entire insect swarm.
Provided, of course, that all goes well.
"Click!"
Seeing that his subordinates were unable to inflict any damage on the "food" in front of him, and even kept losing, after two rounds of tentative attacks found that nothing worked, the Beetle Commander finally began to "think".
With the help of the insects' talent for improving their wisdom by connecting their thinking abilities with magical power, the Beetle Commander quickly saw through the shortcomings of Zheng Shu's fighting style. After a little "thinking" for a while, it gave a new command with the carapace and wing vibrations on its own back.
The other party's steel meat grinder is indeed amazingly powerful, but the reason why it can operate is also because of the constant beetles around him to provide him with anti-shock power.
In that case, then it is enough not to give him strength.
The swarm no longer continued to attack under the command of the beetle leader, but began to slowly retreat, out of Zheng Shu's attack range.
Bang!
Having lost the power to continue spinning, Zheng Shu's body finally lost its balance and smashed the mace to the ground heavily.
The Beetle Commander, who had already been prepared, took advantage of this opportunity to rush forward and stabbed Zheng Shu straight into the chest with his ramming angle.
Clang!
Zheng Shu reluctantly hit the blow with a mace at the last moment, but the whole person flew out with the mace spinning like a spinning top.
"Ahem! Grass! Is this guy really a bug? A little too smart, right?! Zheng Shu stopped retreating after hitting a tree.
He coughed violently twice, and spat out a mouthful of bloodshot from his mouth, indicating that his internal organs had been severely damaged. After all, it was a sneak attack that the beetle commander had already calculated, and Zheng Shu really had no way to completely block it.
There was a huge gap in his chest and abdomen that looked extremely terrifying, this was the damage he received from the blow just now, if it weren't for the dragon bones in his body forming a plate-like bone armor inside his body to block the residual power, Zheng Shu would have been hit through his body by now.
After a few coughs, the dragon's high-speed self-healing ability began to work, and the huge wound on Zheng Shu's body healed at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Unfortunately, the swarm did not give him a chance to adjust his posture, although all the beetles still did not move forward, but they spread their wings and rubbed quickly under the command of the beetle leader.
Before Zheng Shu could completely heal his injuries, all the beetles had already completed the resonance, and then, a high-frequency ripple that was inaudible to the ear but visible to the naked eye converged towards Zheng Shu from the surrounding beetles.
Click! Click! Click!
The ripples swept the sky like electricity, Zheng Shu had no room to dodge in the face of such an attack, and the moment he touched the ripples, with a fine click, many cracks suddenly appeared on the scales on his body.
"Hmm...... Ahem, ahem! ”
Zheng Shu's body, which was originally trying to stand up, immediately fell to his knees, opened his mouth and spat out a large mouthful of blood, although the damage caused to his body surface just now was not very great, but the internal organs that had already been injured and had not had time to completely heal were almost shattered under the resonance of the ripples.
"Buzz...... Click! ”
Seeing that his tactics were useful, and the "food" in front of him was already at a disadvantage, the beetle commander immediately made different noises and commanded several beetles to come out of the ranks, and under the cover of the buzzing sound of other beetles, he rushed straight towards Zheng Shu.
"Blanch!"
Zheng Shu endured the pain in his internal organs, picked up the mace next to him, and swung it upwards violently, smashing a beetle rushing in front of him and sending it away.
It's a pity that the injury of the internal organs still affected Zheng Shu's strength, and the beetle that was sent out did not die immediately like the previous bug, although the carapace on its body had been shattered, it still got up and continued to charge after struggling for a while.
Boom!
And taking advantage of the opportunity of Zheng Shu to attack the beetle in front of him, several beetles from several other directions took the opportunity to attack him. Dragged down by the injury, Zheng Shu only had time to knock it all the way out, and then he felt that he had been hit hard in the waist and abdomen and back.
To add insult to injury, seeing that Zheng Shu had revealed a flaw, the beetle commander immediately seized the opportunity and smashed it towards Zheng Shu with the big crow in his mouth.
“!!!”
Zheng Shu, who couldn't dodge in mid-air, suddenly opened his mouth and shouted a series of incomprehensible words from his mouth. The language was so majestic and powerful that even the Beetle Commander couldn't help but pause.
Although the Beetle Commander only paused for a moment, and the next moment adjusted his attack to relaunch, Zheng Shu had already finished chanting the spirit of speech.
The realm of words and spirits opened, and Zheng Shu's whole person was wrapped in the flames that suddenly appeared.
Countless crimson points of light appeared out of thin air, quickly converging from Zheng Shu's mouth, and in just an instant, the power contained in the ball of light in Zheng Shu's mouth had reached an appalling level.
Rumble!
Crimson flame rays erupted from Zheng Shu's mouth, and the translucent pillar of light was like a giant divine sword slashing through the air, cutting off the big crow on the side of the beetle's mouth with just a split second of hit.
If it weren't for the beetle commander who hid relatively quickly, he might have been split in two by now.
Zheng Shu didn't waste the remaining strength, and with the rotation of his head, a crimson pillar of light cut through the sky, and the black sky that was originally covered by beetles was like being cut by a divine sword, revealing its original color.
The terrifying force swept through the sky, leaving a trail of ash in its path, destroying almost all the insects in its path.
"Hoo ......"
Exhaled a cloud of hot air with white smoke from his mouth, and taking advantage of the fact that the insect swarm had lost the opportunity to resonate due to the interference of the power of the spirit of words, Zheng Shu immediately used high-speed healing to fully recover the injuries on his body.
"One more ......" Zheng Shu felt the energy stored in his body and calculated silently.
The suppression of the power of words and spirits in the Moon World is too strong, and this blow would have destroyed a reinforced concrete skyscraper in the Dragon World, but here it only caused some minor damage to the swarm.
In addition, the power required to release the spirit of speech was also extremely terrifying, and Zheng Shu had not used the physical strength consumed by using high-speed healing to heal injuries all over the body many times before, but not as much as the power consumed by this attack.
According to his own calculations, his remaining physical strength would probably only be able to do one more such attack.
(PS: There is another chapter today)
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