Edge of Phoenix.

The loss of locusts from the planes was nothing compared to the number of the entire swarm.

Unaffected by the black crushed cloud of locusts, they flew towards the city without stopping, observing a large number of unguarded prey, and the locusts pounced excitedly, and no living creature on the ground that could move could escape the gnawing of the locust colony.

Evolved locusts have razor-sharp mouthparts that can easily bite through human skin and eat the tender flesh within.

A large number of locusts cling to and biting humans and animals, and the first one is satisfied to come down when they are full, mate with the other locusts and lay eggs, and there are more hungry locusts in the back to make up for it, and eat more conveniently on the wounds that have been torn open.

The locusts eat the flowing water buffet very quickly, and an adult can eat it in less than ten minutes, of course, just gnawing on flesh and blood, and they still can't gnaw on bones.

For a moment, the whole community was plunged into chaos and madness.

People fled to the building, looking for shelter, and those who could not escape were even swept up by a large number of locusts and flew into the sky, and then fell in the struggle, fell to the ground, and endured the bite of the locusts weakly.

In just a few moments, the locusts had produced at least a hundred smooth bones.

However, the official mentality of Phoenix is not as good as New York in the comics, no matter how many big messes have happened, life or death is not to upgrade the equipment of the police.

After several major upheavals, the whole of Phoenix, even the poorest district of Miarko, has changed its guns and prepared a lot of weapons and equipment to deal with all kinds of strange enemies.

The police department has also received several times more funding than in previous years, recruited a large number of new police officers, greatly strengthened the police force, improved police welfare, and often trained police officers to deal with various emergencies.

Of course, this only happens in Phoenix.

Who made this place so troubled?

People who were relatively safe indoors called the police and described the tragedy to the police.

Hearing that the enemy was a large number of locusts, the police immediately followed the plan for dealing with a large number of small enemies, dressed in airtight and tough clothing, picked up flamethrowers and other equipment, and began to go out to expel and kill locusts.

Patches of locusts were burned to death by the flames, and only a small number pounced on the officers, but there was nothing they could do with the fully sealed protective suits.

At the same time, the troops stationed outside the exclusion zone in the Tvina district also began to move.

For security reasons, in order to prevent these locusts from being a ploy for the enemy to divert from the mountains, they kept all the transcendents, and only sent 1/3 of the mobile troops, wearing protective suits, and also carrying flamethrowers.

Although these locusts are numerous, have a strong bite force, and have a perverted reproductive ability, if in ancient times, it would not be a problem to directly eat a country.

But it's modern.

After the initial chaos, most of humanity has calmed down, except for the first to die.

The troubled people of Phoenix are experienced in this kind of sudden attack, and they are nothing more than insects, and they can't even open a big iron door, which is no better than a demon with a sulfur smell, or a rat-man who shouts "yes yes" and scurries wildly.

Everywhere there are confined concrete buildings that make it impossible for locusts to enter, and even if a small number of insects get through the vents, they are trampled to death by the frightened people.

Without a huge numerical advantage, these locusts are no different from ordinary bugs.

The position at the top of the human food chain can be killed with a single sword, and for how to kill efficiently, these locusts are not even one-tenth as strong as the terrifying Homo erectus.

Before Luke arrived, the situation in the city was brought under control, and the locusts, driven by flamethrowers, began to flee wildly, trying to fly into the air to escape.

At this time, another piece of special equipment carried by the police also came in handy.

Dragon's Breath!

Although the close-range lethality of the dragon's breath bomb is extremely high, the magnesium particles it contains are too small, the distance it can fly is extremely limited, the effective range is greatly reduced, and it has no practical tactical value.

In the design of the special plan, its great power, portability, and especially the damage bonus of fire to the general damage of dark creatures hit the heart of the police department leader at once.

Under the alternating attacks of dragon's breath and flamethrowers, the locust population dropped rapidly, and soon, about one-fifth of the locust number was wiped out.

As if some mechanism had been triggered, all the locusts began to shrink rapidly, and even the insects that were still gnawing at the flesh simply put down the delicacy in their mouths, and their wings flapped rapidly at a frequency that was difficult to discern with the naked eye, and flew into the sky.

The police and the people stationed in the army looked up, and if there were a single high-powered weapon such as firing individual rockets, it would have achieved remarkable results, but unfortunately the target was a locust swarm, so they did not carry it.

A few policemen immediately called the police station and asked for heavy fire support, while the rest were looking for a place to hide and observe the changes in the swarm.

Soon, the locusts flew to a height of several hundred meters, gathered together, and turned into a huge sphere.

A burst of black glow emanated from the invisible core, and a large number of locusts on the periphery instantly lost their vitality and fell from the sky, and more locusts continued to compress inward, looking like they were about to evolve from stragglers into a whole.

In a short time, a monster riding a pitch-black horse that looked like an ancient European knight stepped out of the locust swarm, and all the remaining locusts seemed to have run out of life force, and directly turned into black and yellow dust, floating in the air.

When Luke returned from outside the city, he saw exactly this scene.

Is this just in time for the second stage of the boss battle transformation?

Luke muttered in his heart, and before he could fly over, the people below couldn't hold it anymore.

Previously, it was to deal with a dense swarm of insects, and the extraordinary ability was not as good as a fire, and the transcendents stationed in Phoenix City did not contribute much, except for saving people, more time was still fishing, and the people holding flame launchers were the main force of attack.

But the black knight flying in the sky in front of him didn't look like an ordinary police officer could deal with it with a flamethrower.

Most of the transcendents don't seem to have the ability to attack the enemy from a distance, and a few people with physical abilities can casually remove railings and iron balls from their side, and throw them at the knight as hidden weapons, but unfortunately he is extremely agile, and a few swings dodge those flying props.

There are also a few mages, who seem to have been trained by the Flame School, and the casting speed is a bit slow, and the two of them worked on it for a long time before they came up with a "secondary fireball technique".

There is another person, who should be born with a stronger soul, learned the "fireball technique", and after half a minute of guidance, he finally condensed a fireball the size of a basketball.

By the time one of the two fireballs flew into the sky, the locusts had already condensed into knights.

The Black Knight dodged a few times, dodging the impact of the fireballs, but soon the three fireballs continued to chase after him under the guidance of the mage's spiritual power.

The spear in the knight's hand flashed and directly passed through the two "secondary fireball spells" and stabbed them, while the other basketball-sized "fireball technique" flashed past the tip of the spear and smashed directly into the knight's body, and then exploded in an instant.

Before the mage could be happy, a black circle of light opened out from the center of the explosion in all directions, like a black hole, absorbing all the high-temperature flames that exploded, revealing the unscathed knight within.

Then, with a clamp between his legs, the black horse under his crotch leaped quickly in the air, and charged at the mage with four hooves.

The dark horse was extremely fast, and it was only an instant that it came to the mage's side.

The physical ability teammate on the other side of the mage came over in time to help him block the knight's onslaught, but halfway through, he suddenly stumbled with his legs weak, and watched as the spear in the black knight's hand penetrated through the mage and picked him up.

The mage was still struggling, the black knight's body flickered, and a strange attraction was transmitted through the body of the spear into the mage's body.

The struggling mage instantly stopped moving, and his body turned from flesh and blood to an old and withered corpse in a matter of seconds, sliding from the tip of the spear and falling to the ground.

Luke, who was belated, carried a rain of magma from the sky, covering all the knight's escape paths, and the black knight's attributes were also discovered by Luke during the dive.

【Apocalypse:Don't Starve】/【Locust Incarnation】

The mutated and uncontrollable locust colony attracts a wisp of the will of the apocalypse famine, condensed into an incarnation under the stimulation of the outside world.

【Skills】

[Desolation Aura]: Absorbs the energy of all life within a certain range with the power of starvation as the center, and the absorption speed is related to the strength of the enemy and the status of the enemy.

[Mount]: When riding a mount to attack, the individual and the mount will be treated as a unit, and the attributes will be stacked on top of each other.

[Will of the Swarm]: Famine can summon a large number of transcendent locusts and drive them to attack the enemy.

[Killing Evolution]: With the killing of life, Apocalypse Famine will project more will, and constantly enhance the ability of the incarnation, which can be increased by up to 5 times on the basis of the initial form.

In the blink of an eye, Luke was already approaching Famine with the Thunder Spear in hand, and faster than him was the rain of fire that had been summoned in the sky together.

Under Luke's control, the droplet-shaped magma dragged its thin tail and smashed towards "Famine", and before it could get close, the energy in it was weakened by the [Desolation Aura], losing its previous blazing temperature, and smashed into the pitch-black armor of "Famine", making a "zizi" sound, but it didn't cause much damage.

Magma heat is also sucked!

Seeing that the separated magma rain had failed, Luke had a thought to gather the scattered lava into a sphere that followed him closely.

Sure enough, this greatly increased resistance to the [Desolate Aura].

As he entered the range of the aura, Luke also felt that his energy was quietly draining outward, although it was not much, but it did feel uncomfortable all over his body, and the amplitude of Halpie's wings flapped also decreased.

But under the impact of inertia, he still locked onto the opponent at a very high speed and rushed straight away.

The Black Knight's mount under Don't Starve dodged with unimaginable dexterity, and as he passed by, several lenses spilled on Luke's body.

He didn't put the spear in his hand, and continued to charge at high speed, stabbing the spear forward again.

The tip of the spear and half of the body of the spear sank into the mirror in front of him, piercing out of the lens that had just been spilled, and straight into the belly of the black horse.

Luke's upper arm exerted force, and with a sharp push, the thunder spear was pushed further in, and then with a thought, the spear that had not entered the horse's belly instantly disintegrated and exploded, turning into blue and white thunder again, raging in the black horse's body.

The black horse's forelimbs were raised high, almost standing upright, and the "Famine" still sat firmly on its back, showing no signs of being thrown off.

But no matter how good his riding skills were, he couldn't drive a dead horse.

There was already a wound the size of a football on the horse's body, and the wound was even bigger deep in the soft abdomen, and there was basically no good meat that was destroyed, and after the short man stood up, he fell heavily to the ground, turning into pitch-black dust and dissipating.

A wave of offensive has just stopped, and a follow-up attack is imminent.

A large cloud of magma slashed his head and covered his face and poured towards the black knight, ah no, it's the black warrior "famine" now.

After losing his mount, he was slightly stunned, and his mobility was obviously impaired, and it was too late to dodge.

Under the crisis, the black light in his body burst out, and the [Desolate Aura] was opened to the maximum power, trying his best to reduce the temperature of the magma, and at the same time, the spear in his hand was also covered with black light, stabbing straight towards the center of the magma mass.

The temperature of the first layer on the surface of the magma dropped sharply under the action of energy absorption, losing its sparkling orange and yellow, and becoming dull, but as the spear pierced the magma mass, a large amount of lava poured out inside, and some of them climbed along the spear to the hands of "Famine", and part of it turned into a fierce wave of fire under Luke's control, instantly submerging him completely.

Luke steered Halpier into a sharp turn in the sky, and turned back again, the weapon in his hand had been transformed into the most handy decapitating axe.

This axe is not easy to use against agile players, but it is not too cool to deal with large beasts or enemies that are under control.

On the ground, "Famine" resisted the invasion of magma with extraordinary energy, and at the same time continuously lowered the heat of the lava with [Desolation Aura], and in a hurry, the aura overloaded, and the magma around his body instantly cooled, and then solidified, turning into a basalt prison, trapping him in it.

Before he could break free, Luke had already arrived on Halpiere, and with the help of the great axe, he simply cut off the head of Famine.

"Famine" was devastated, but he only resembled a human, and even though he lost his head, he still retained some mobility and did not die completely.

As the head falls, the power of the [Desolate Aura] instantly drops to a minimum.

Luke leaps from the sky, activating the inner layer of magma, and a large amount of lava erodes inward along the wound.

The decapitation axe in his hand is also directly on the head, no, the black knight has no head.

Directly as a neck split.

The sharp axe blade and Luke's slashing with both hands directly broke through the bamboo, splitting the Black Knight "Famine" in half from the middle.

This is a fatal wound even for non-humans.

"Don't Starve" is like his mount turning to ashes, and the Ability Tree draws experience.

Luke was about to turn around and leave when a faint voice came from where the "famine" had dissipated.

"The Second Coming of Christ."

(End of chapter)