Chapter 19 Change

Bang!

The immense body of the Sandworm, several times larger than a subway car, slammed heavily onto the ground.

The insect nest units on its back clung to the gaps in the Sandworm's back armor with barbed limbs, maintaining balance and preventing themselves from being thrown off.

These insect nest units primarily utilized grenade launchers, acid cannons, and flamethrowers.

The grenade launchers resembled autocannons, firing heavy spherical bullets that detonated on impact, tearing apart tentacles.

The acid cannons sprayed acid that effectively corroded the flesh of carbon-based lifeforms.

As for the flamethrowers, they emitted a jellied, flammable substance as viscous as lard. Once it adhered to an object, it would not come off, burning continuously on the ground until the jellied flammable substance was completely exhausted.

In addition to these, the insect nest units also used chainsaw blade ejection devices, toxic gases, and other means to extinguish the tentacles that covered the area.

Boom boom boom boom!

From the walls on either side of the rear of the battlefield, four more giant sandworms emerged in succession, and hundreds of thousands of insect nest drones poured in through the tunnels opened by the sandworms.

The subsequent four insect nest units cleverly chose their "landing sites" at the rear of the battlefield,

Far from the center of the Wild Lion’s divine power influence, to avoid being infected and assimilated.

They cleared the tentacles from a distance, slowly advancing forward,

At the same time, hundreds of heavily armored insect drones lined up in the rear, unleashing artillery fire at the Wild Lion and Dan Chenzi—in order to avoid the Wild Lion's divine power assimilation, this time the heavily armored insect drones fired,

Were no longer biological shells,

But metal shells made from machine beasts and metal wreckage.

Observing and analyzing the opponent, formulating targeted tactics based on weaknesses, specializing and evolving, allocating insect nest unit ratios, and crushing the enemy with superior numbers, quality, and logistical advantages, devouring and evolving,

That was the insect nest.

Trying to drown the opponent with endless numbers alone was merely the behavior of mindless beasts.

The long-dormant insect nest units entered the scene, and the situation changed again.

The tentacles at the edge of the battlefield were swept away, and the tentacles in the center of the battlefield, after several rounds of artillery strikes, were no longer as lush as before—

The napalm, mixed with special ingredients, scorched the ground into a sea of fire, the soil softened and sunken, and some areas showed a glass-like luster, becoming extremely hard, making it impossible for tentacles to penetrate.

The artillery fire, did not fall on us...

Hypochondriac looked up at the sky, at the dense artillery shells streaking across the sky, listening to the continuous whistling sound produced by the shells cutting through the air, and was shocked.

The firepower of the insect nest's heavily armored insect drones deliberately avoided all Earth players.

The images captured by the system detector might be very chaotic due to the fire obscuring the view,

But for the transcendents on the scene, it was not difficult to notice this.

The insect nest was indeed reinforcements.

"Good job."

Hypochondriac said, temporarily suppressing the thought of surrendering and withdrawing from the competition.

The pale face of the Ant King, hidden under his armor, wore an indescribable expression.

In the dark, he vaguely felt a dark net was descending from above, and he had no strength to resist or escape.

Now, even if he withdrew from the competition on the spot, he would not be able to clear his suspicion...

"Roar—"

The Wild Lion fought against Michael, Uncontrollable, Side of Truth, and others, without falling into a disadvantage.

To be precise, the divine power barrier it created completely blocked Michael's Flame Sword and the attacks of others.

And when it furiously swung its lion claws, the Earth players could only be forced to maneuver and dodge, preventing themselves from being chased and touched by the blue-black divine power.

Where did these insects come from?

In the Wild Lion's painfully throbbing mind, a vague feeling of doubt emerged.

It seemed that a demon had reported earlier that traces of insects had been found above the thirtieth floor, but the Wild Lion and the church had not paid attention to it, thinking it was a biological weapon raised by Earth players.

After that, the battle gradually intensified, and demons and practitioners from Liweishan and Jingnian Temple successively disappeared.

Their intelligence gathering channels were blocked,

In addition, the Wild Lion had to concentrate on promoting the ritual with the church, and had no time to take care of other things, until now did it realize the threat of the insect nest.

...Soul, it hurts so much.

The soul fusion process of the apotheosis ritual was equivalent to shattering and reshaping the Wild Lion's soul. The entire process was several times more painful than slow slicing.

Even the Wild Lion, as the leader of the demons, could not spare much reason to think about the insect nest problem at the moment.

Since you are trying to stop the apotheosis ritual, then let's all be destroyed together.

"Roar!!!"

The Wild Lion roared angrily, and the surrounding blue-black divine power condensed into giant tentacles, waving and lashing out randomly.

Zheng——

Michael's Flame Sword blocked the tentacles, but she herself was also knocked away, her four wings regressing to two wings, and the flames on the halo above her head were also extinguished by half.

Fighting continuously with powerful enemies, even Michael was somewhat unable to hold on.

Kacha!

Hohenheim's Klein bottle was hit by a tentacle and completely shattered. The *Sand Arts* in his hand released a slowing spell, which stopped his flight.

"Where is your goat?"

Under Celsus's cover, Hohenheim retreated rapidly and asked Side of Truth, who was walking alongside him, in a hurried voice: "Can you summon it again?"

...You say it so easily, do you know what price you have to pay to summon the goat Baphomet demon once?

Side of Truth suppressed the urge to complain and said coldly: "You can only summon it once per script."

Hohenheim's eyes widened slightly, "Then what's the use? It's not as good as ordinary summoning."

From under Side of Truth's hood, a low, helpless sigh was heard, as if he wanted to curse.

...If you hadn't instigated us to besiege Michael together before, consuming too many trump cards, we wouldn't be so passive now.

The detector did not capture the conversation between the two.

A blue-black tentacle shadow, condensed from divine power, smashed towards the Sandworm in the center of the battlefield and the countless insect nest units on its back.

Seeing that it was about to hit, the back armor of the third section of the Sandworm's back suddenly opened, and a hideous creature of red and white colors rushed out, its size far exceeding ordinary insect nest lords.

Shua——

The creature rose into the air,

Two of the six arms waved giant bone knives six meters long,

The divine power contained within the bone knife resisted the tentacle shadow, and in an instant, relying on the sharpness of the blade, it cut through the tentacle shadow.

The shadow immediately dissipated.

The insect nest tyrant, or rather Li Ang, who was wearing the 【Anti-Dragon Madness Helmet】 to resist detection methods, ejected blue flames from the jet ports on his back, providing thrust and assisting him in slowly descending.

Dong!

The insect nest tyrant fell back on the Sandworm's back, looked up at the Wild Lion, which had expanded to the size of a high-rise building.

The eight slender red eyes under the carapace lit up.