Edge of the Apocalypse

Chapter 1040: Bug Army

In the second half of the night, it was Alan's turn to be on duty. He sat cross-legged on a moss-clad rock, Red King crossed his knees. Allen closed his eyes and didn't look like he was on duty at all. But in reality, his aura enveloped the entire camp. In the eyes of some exotic beasts that could look directly at Origin Energy, they could see a faint layer of flames shrouding the camp. From time to time, sparks would suddenly appear and disappear within the flames.

At this moment, he replaced his eyes with his perception and monitored every movement around the camp. In fact, Sigu used the complex network of tree roots underground to push this perceptual network several hundred meters deeper into the forest. The edge perception of the network is blurry and gradually clear from the outside to the inside. As for the surroundings of the camp, there was no escape from Alan's perception.

This area was very quiet in his perception, but just as the moon was about to reach mid-heaven, a few blanks suddenly appeared on the western edge. The blanks appeared abruptly, just like Allen's perceptual network had bitten something and peeled it off. Alan focused his attention on sensing, but the empty areas seemed to be empty, unable to sense anything.

This was not normal. It was obvious that something was blocking Alan's perception. Then, these blank areas spread out, and they advanced towards the camp like undercurrents in the deep sea.

Alan opened his eyes and shouted, "Alert, attack! The enemy is coming from the west!"

Almost at the same time that he issued the warning, a large buzzing sound came from the forest to the west. Soldiers immediately threw torches at the western woodland. When the torches landed, they formed a pile of torches that lit up a corner of the forest.

The warriors quickly assembled in the camp to form a defensive line. Alan stood on the stone and looked to the west of the forest. Under the light of the fire, several streaks of black smoke suddenly shot out from the trees. This black smoke was obviously something that could obscure perception. They spiritually circled around the ancient trees, and when they were still a hundred meters away from the camp. The black mist lit up with a scarlet light, and then bats flew out of the mist.

Hundreds of bats flew towards the camp like dark clouds.

"Use the Nitric Oil Fire Lightning to scatter and throw!" Alan shouted.

Instantly, more than a dozen soldiers in the defensive line threw flame thunder in different directions. The flame thunder exploded in mid-air, during which the flame thunder sprayed and ignited again, immediately forming a flame cloud. Flames flashed in Alan's eyes. The flame cloud suddenly darkened from light to dark. The flames surged, instantly causing the salt oil to be completely cleaned out. However, the range and power of the flame cloud jumped by a few levels. Immediately, a large number of bats caught fire and fell to the ground. Before they could land, they had already been burnt into charcoal.

The Nitric Oil Fire Thunder wasn't that powerful, but Alan had used the power of the Fire Sovereign to increase the power of the flames and instantly burned most of the bats to death. At this moment, the roar of the menacing flame rifles resounded from the defensive line. Strands of flames interweaved into a net of fire in the air, intercepting and strangling the remaining bats. However, these night-walking bats were just a prelude, and a strange creak sounded from within the black mist. Then, small but agile figures pounced out of the black mist.

Under the flames, a figure flashed past. The flames lit up its dark green shell. These humanoid little monsters had long and thin bodies and were less than 1.5 meters tall. Scarlet compound eyes of insects grew on the greenish head, and even the mouth resembled some kind of insect's mouthpiece. These bugs moved quickly and flooded over. The Mountain King warriors in front of the defensive line shouted angrily. The shields formed a shield wall in pairs.

The bug-man's frontline smashed into the shield wall like a green wave hitting a rock. Instantly, a row of bugs flew backwards. The bug's shell cracked or even shattered under the intense impact, and yellow-green juice splashed out from within. The bug man retreated slightly and charged forward again. At this moment, the shield wall cracked open, and one Fire Dragon rifle after another shot out.

The guns were purchased from Fatty Peter of Sardinia and were of good quality. Fatty also gave him an extra batch of ammunition. Alan bought these guns to make up for the lack of fire rifles, but he didn't expect that they would come in handy in the Howling Forest.

The insects' vanguard fell down a row and retracted after firing their guns. The Mountain King Warrior pushed forward with his shield and collided fiercely with the bug man. Alan narrowed his eyes and was not in a hurry to play. He observed the insects. These "specialties" of the Screaming Forest were undoubtedly agile, but their shells were extremely fragile. However, the mantis-like forelimbs of the insects were exceptionally sharp and could not be ignored. The armor on the Mountain King warrior's body couldn't withstand their cuts a few times, and it would tear open a hole. It was not simple.

"Nelly!" Alan pointed in the direction of the bug. josei

Nelly and the other Green Dragon Knight immediately understood. The five of them scattered and flashed past the Mountain King warriors and pounced into the bug man. They were all Level 17 or 18 experts, and this battle was like a tiger entering a flock of sheep. In particular, Nelly's Origin Energy flames rose up from her body, and her aura was like a tidal wave, wave after wave taller and taller. The two-handed water vapor condensed into swords. The two-handed swords transformed into two balls of jade light in Nelly's hand, immediately clearing out a blank space in the bug.

At this time, the Inch Fire Sagittarius had already cleaned up the harassing bats in the air and began to concentrate on attacking the insects. After a few rounds of firing, the infantry soldiers who had attacked with guns threw away their guns and drew out their swords to bury them. Although there were a large number of bugs, they didn't have any strategic awareness. They only rushed up and killed their enemies by relying solely on their numbers. Allen, on the other hand, had a clear division of arms, covering for each other, with Nelly and Green Dragon Knight as support nodes. Although there seemed to be an endless number of insects, the camp's defenses were extremely tough. No matter how the insects attacked, they wouldn't be able to collapse.

Suddenly, Alan looked up into the depths of the forest. He saw that the ancient trees were constantly falling to the left and right. The earth trembled, and a giant beast was rushing over. Alan took a breath and the flame marks on his body lit up. He exerted the power of the Fire Sovereign to the fullest, and the campfire in the camp shone brightly, illuminating the camp as if it was daytime. Allen raised his hand, and the fire immediately burst out with several pillars of fire, with a frightening momentum.

The bug man was thrown into a mess by the sudden appearance of the fire. Then, in the forest behind him, a few large trees ignited without fire. The fire was fierce, and it was as if a few huge torches had been erected in an instant. The ancient tree was burned to the point of moaning and collapsing, crushing many bugs to death. The flames spread out again, burning the formation behind the bugs into chaos. At this moment, the two giant insects suddenly collided into the flames.

They were like gigantic horned immortals with dark shells. Even if the flames were added to their bodies, they would not burn the insect shells red. It could be seen how thick their shells were. The giant bug had a thick T-shaped horn on its flat head. A row of worm eyes under the giant horn flickered with green light. They charged through the flames and shoveled the worms in front of them like tanks. From the looks of it, they intended to smash apart the camp's defensive line in one breath.

"Laura!" Allen pointed to the giant bug on his left, while he pounced on the one on his right.

Laura had activated her wild summons and displayed her orc posture. When she heard this, she pounced forward with a huge sword in one hand, and her posture was wild and full of tension. Laura didn't even look at the bug man. She directly crashed into the enemy formation. However, the inertia of the sprint and the explosive Origin Energy wrapped around her kept sending the bugs flying. In terms of momentum, it wasn't inferior to the giant bug.

The giant insect seemed to know that Laura wanted to stop him and let out a sharp cry from its mouth. The T-shaped horn lowered, shoveling down the ground and ploughing up dirt and bugs. Just as he was about to make contact with Laura, the T-shaped horn suddenly arched upwards and was about to lift Laura away.

Laura's pupils shrank as Origin Energy roared in her body. She stepped on the ground and a shallow pit sank into the forest floor. Laura jumped up and the giant sword shot up high. With a pull from her hands, she instantly carried the momentum of a mountain that pierced through the air and slashed heavily onto the horn of the giant insect.

A faint ripple exploded, and Laura and the insects around the giant bug continued to pounce around like straw blown by the wind. The horn of the giant insect let out a crackling sound, and then the insect liquid splashed everywhere and the giant horn shattered. Laura snorted coldly, her body spinning twice as she descended. The giant sword stabbed heavily into the head of the giant bug, and then used force to drag it along. The blade of the sword sliced open the bug's body along the way. When Laura jumped off the ground from behind the giant bug, the giant bug behind her split into two with a cracking sound. Her left and right bodies fell, and the bug blood sprayed all over the ground.

Only then did Laura exhale and look at Alan. The battle on Allen's side had long since ended. His giant bug was enveloped in flames, and only a rough outline could be seen. The sound of the shell exploding rang out from the flames, and there was a line of fire between the giant bug and the camp. Within that line of fire, countless insects were killed and wounded.

After the two giant insects fell, the insects began to retreat. Allen didn't plan on chasing after them and just let them leave. When the last insectman disappeared into the depths of the forest, the battle ended.

Needless to say, those bats, bugs, and gigantic insects were definitely beings dominated by the Queen of Fear. Judging from tonight's situation, it was clear that the Queen of Fear did not welcome outsiders like them. However, Alan didn't need it to welcome them, but he couldn't figure out why the Queen wanted to take Regess away. I'm afraid I'll have to personally ask that exotic beast about this answer.

The next day, the team continued to head west. The further west they went, the more they could feel that the entire forest was filled with malice. The creatures dominated by the Queen of Fear had also repeatedly attacked the troops, but they did not form the same size as last night's army. However, there were many more types of creatures. It was like a snake-like monster hiding in an ancient tree with an insect shell. It was also like some strange insects that had suddenly attacked from underground. They were only the size of a blue ball, but had spikes that shot out like hedgehogs and shot out to injure their enemies.

And so on and so forth.

Allen had initially left it to the warriors to deal with, but it was difficult for them to deal with these creatures. Coupled with the fact that these things liked to launch raids, this undoubtedly slowed down the advance of the team. Alan simply took the lead. Red King pointed to the ground, releasing terrifying heat along the way. Skyfire continuously sprayed out from the trees or the ground, either burning the creatures that were hiding in the dark to death or forcing them out.

Just like that, it was noon. The trees gradually thinned out, and suddenly, a bright light appeared in front of Allen's eyes, and a large lake appeared in front of him.

The Queen of Fear's lair had arrived!