Chapter 1 Aftermath

Half an hour later, hundreds of millions of flying ants and nearly a million mutated rats approached Dawn City.

The rat swarm that Chen Luo saw was only the largest of the swarms.

They didn't waste words, but surged over directly, covering the sky and earth.

One direction couldn't accommodate so many creatures, so they surrounded the city from all sides simultaneously.

The first to arrive were the flying ant swarms, blotting out the sun.

Endless flames, freezing cold air masses, violent hurricanes, and dense lightning nets followed.

Each member displayed their unique abilities.

The fire-type members were responsible for the most kills.

Initially, everything went smoothly.

Then the rats arrived to attack the city.

As the saying goes, like breeds like.

Some rats attacked the city head-on, while others temporarily burrowed underground, heading for Dawn City from below.

The rats' teeth were sharp, but they couldn't bite through Dawn City's walls in a short time.

Chen Luo hadn't built very advanced walls; they were useless when the monsters descended.

The members' pressure immediately increased, having to deal with threats from the sky, ground, and underground simultaneously.

If they defended the sky, they couldn't defend the ground.

And there were attacks from four directions at once.

The flying ants were weak, but once they got close, they desperately tried to get into your eyes, ears, and nostrils.

And bite once they got in.

They were all-pervasive.

At the beginning, they were just ordinary ants and rats; those who died were just weak cannon fodder.

The five rat kings watched coldly from behind, deciding that the time was right, and led some rat elites to burrow underground together.

Rats died in droves, and the flames that seemed to never go out and the undissipated electric arcs burned under the city walls.

The stench of roasted meat filled the air.

A silver-white ant queen, the size of a child, flew in, leading a group of elites, attacking from the east.

These elite flying ants were the size of fists and flew close together.

When Shu Yun noticed them approaching, she immediately cast a blizzard, intending to wipe them out in one fell swoop.

But to everyone's surprise, these flying ants, close together, united and worked together to create a silver-white protective shield.

They were immune to the blizzard.

Even flames spewed by seventh-level members couldn't break through the flying ants' energy shield.

These weren't ordinary flying ants, but the queen's offspring.

Their individual strength wasn't great, only fourth-level, but with their hearts linked, thousands of them working together could kill an eighth-level.

Although they were fast, they were still far inferior to seventh-level ability users.

Eighth-level ability users could only run away at the sight of them.

But Chen Luo's order was to hold on tight.

Even if the flying ants' energy shield was temporarily broken, killing some of them, the energy shield would quickly be replenished.

"Everyone, join forces."

Shu Yun issued the order, summoning some of the top seventh-level members, intending to launch a full-force attack to crush these flying ants.

The queen's silver-white eyes flickered, and she emitted a message that humans couldn't understand, and a large number of ordinary flying ants flew like cannon fodder near Shu Yun and the others.

The flying ants were so dense that Shu Yun couldn't see the elite flying ants behind them.

"Ah!"

A member screamed, clutching his head and rolling on the ground.

He issued a warning: "Be careful, it's a mental attack!"

The ant queen was an eighth-level mental type, and its mental attack would turn a sixth-level member into a vegetable, at best.

Shu Yun covered her forehead, also affected by the ant queen's attack, but she was eighth-level, so the damage wasn't great.

Shu Yun gritted her teeth; this ant queen had to be dealt with as soon as possible, or the members would suffer significant losses.

"Cover me."

The members quickly guarded Shu Yun's side. Shu Yun took a deep breath, and slowly, a ten-meter-long ice arrow filled with frost was generated in Shu Yun's hand.

No need for anything fancy, this ice arrow flew straight towards the ant queen's direction.

The same ability costs different amounts of energy depending on who uses it.

Shu Yun was most comfortable with using magic ice arrows.

After the ice arrow flew out, Shu Yun quickly began to condense the next one.

The ice arrow passed straight through the flying ant swarm, and even if it was blocked, it still flew towards the ant queen at top speed.

With a "buzz," the elite ant swarm's shield was shattered, and the ice arrow's energy was exhausted, but the next ice arrow had already flown.

The ant queen wanted to dodge, but the ice arrow would change position according to Shu Yun's will.

The ant queen's eyes were completely covered in silver-white, and Shu Yun's ice arrow forcibly changed position, actually heading towards the ground.

The ant queen's body trembled, obviously consuming a lot of energy.

Intuition told it that there would be danger.

But it was too late. Shu Yun attacked with arrow after arrow, and the ant queen couldn't resist.

Although the sixth ice arrow didn't kill the ant queen, it froze its entire body.

Shu Yun gasped violently. If it was just the ant queen, it wouldn't have been so troublesome.

Shu Yun's face lit up: "Out of the city, be sure to kill it!"

The five rat kings emerged from the ground, and under the protection of the rat elites, quickly bit a dozen sixth-level members to death.

Their teeth were extremely sharp and could also be used as shields.

However, their emergence immediately attracted Su Dazhu's attention. Su Dazhu led his men, surrounded them, and easily killed them.

It's better to offend the King of Hell than a minor devil.

The ant queen and the rat kings were easy to deal with; the difficult part was the large-scale swarms.

Some members were covered in rats, even on their faces.

Ordinary rats were generally only third or fourth level; fifth-level rats were truly elites.

They rarely posed a fatal threat to the members, but being covered in black, smelly rats was really disgusting.

Although there were many ants, they died in swaths.

Various abilities soared into the sky within Dawn City, and battles were taking place almost everywhere on the periphery.

Inside, Meng Yin looked quite excited when she saw some rats emerging from the ground.

"Shooter Legion, kill them all!"

More than three hundred pea shooters attacked the rats with a barrage of shots.

These were mutated plants that Chen Luo brought back. Unexpectedly, Meng Yin successfully modified them and could command them.

It was a pity that the time was still short; otherwise, Meng Yin could have really created a plant army.

There were too many rats; the pea shooters couldn't kill them all. How could they kill more than twenty thousand rats?

The "Shooter Legion" was annihilated.

Meng Yin cried, boo hoo, the army I spent more than a month creating is gone.

On Chen Luo's birthday, Mi Fan's gift of a ninth-level space-type crystal was given by Chen Luo to his dear disciple.

Yin Ling was now eighth-level.

"Spatial Storm."

A new ability that Yin Ling had mastered.

By attracting spatial turbulence, many tiny spatial fissures were created, and violent spatial turbulence was generated within the fissures, like blades.

Its power wasn't great; it wouldn't have much effect against seventh-level enemies, but wasn't it easy to kill third and fourth-level rats with a single blow?

More than two thousand rats died in the spatial storm.

Large numbers of rats and flying ants died.

The mother rat had been hiding in the shadows all along; its size wasn't too large, so it didn't attract much attention.

It couldn't accept that so many of its kind couldn't take down this city.

A cold light flashed in the mother rat's eyes. Then let there be a plague.