32. Call of the Abyss
The profession of Druid is very magical. They mainly rely on natural spells and deformation techniques to fight.
Druids have many different transformations. Even for traditional druids, there are several forms that can be used for combat, giant bear forms that specialize in protection and strength, cheetah forms that specialize in killing and speed, owl beast forms that specialize in arcane and control, tree people forms that specialize in healing and rescue, travel forms that are convenient for long-distance running, aquatic forms that are active in the water, flying forms that are high-altitude reconnaissance, etc.
The power of the druids' transformation technique is that whenever they change their form, they will gain the beastly power of the current form. Even beginners can stand on the battlefield under the beastly power that surges in their hearts. The higher-end druids will study the beastly power in depth, which will make their deformation posture stronger and more deterrent.
In order to better understand the power of wild beasts, some druids will maintain the posture of wild beasts for years or even decades, allowing the beastly nature to change their minds, and even live like wild beasts until they have realized all their power, or are forcibly awakened by their companions.
Another sign of the druids' transformation technique is that their changing beasts are real, not a false illusion of magic. For example, the giant poisonous scorpion of the deer helmet in the ruins of Qila at this time. This huge thing like a hill also has a terrible weight that matches its size. During each move between the deer helmet and the powerful insect general Rajax, the low-level insects around who have nowhere to hide will be crushed.
The changing poisonous scorpion of Deer Helmet was blessed by the wild power of the seed of life, and the shell was covered with thick wooden armor. The dark green venom that surged in the insects could not harm him at all. With the blessing of anger and hatred, the ferociousness of the beast in the spirit of Deer Helmet was truly aroused. He was like a real poisonous scorpion, making a creepy low and deep hissing. Every time the giant claw shining with steel light would ripp up the body of the insect officer around Rajax.
The stinging of the tail nail with green light behind the poisonous scorpion is as fast as lightning. Even the worms wearing strong armor will be pierced by the tail nail that is as sharp as a spear. Those worms who are lucky enough to recover their lives from the poisonous puncture of the deer helmet will be burned and their stomachs will be rotten after a few seconds because of the poisonous poison contained on the poisonous scorpion's tail nails, and they will lie on the side and lose their ugly life while screaming.
No matter how powerful or arrogant the insects are, they are also flesh and blood creatures, and the resistance of flesh and blood creatures to toxins is always limiting.
"Ah! Go and die!"
General Rajax is a brave general of the insect man. He grabbed a strange-looking heavy sword with his sharp claw blade, just like a weapon made of the insect man's horny and some special metal. It relied on its tough shell to bombard the two giant claws of the deer helmet, and used the heavy sword in his hand to keep leaving one wound after another on the black armor of the deer helmet.
This guy is a difficult opponent, one of the most capable of fighting among the Qila Lords, but facing the Deer Helmet that became stronger after a thousand years, its counterattack is fierce. After a few minutes of berserks, after the Qila officers beside him were poked to death one by one, he fought alone, and faced the strongest man of the Withered Druid, he inevitably fell into a disadvantage.
"Clang"
Deer Helmet waved its left claw and blocked the sword that Rajax cut. A broken scar left on its steel-like limbs. It endured the pain. Deer Helmet waved its right turtle between them, like a deadly scissors that were waving in a daze, cutting off the right arm of the ugly insect man in front of him. Amid Rajax's cry of pain, Deer Helmet said nothing, and the huge body of the nightmare poisonous scorpion charged forward, regardless of the Qila worms who had climbed onto his body.
"Bang"
Rajax's body, which had lost his right arm, was hit hard on the broken wall behind him. The black and quaint city wall shook twice in the impact. The bricks and stones splattered everywhere, and the insect general was like a "big" shape and was embedded into the wall.
Lu Helmet's body took a step back, and the huge nightmare poisonous scorpion shook its body and threw the Qilaworm that had climbed onto his body to the ground. The two turtles on the left and right waved wildly, like a sickle sweeping it, and in just a few seconds, overturned the Qilaworm that was in dispersed around.
General Rajax shook his body to move himself out of the crack, but just as it was about to escape, a dark light and shadow flashed by like a spear, and Rajax once again let out a heart-wrenching scream and howl. The general of the insect lowered his ugly head and saw the sharp, poisonous tail vertebrae that pierced into his chest.
It was like a poisonous arrow, nailing it to the wall.
In front of it, the body of the nightmare poisonous scorpion shone with green light, which quickly transformed into the tall and strong body of Lu Ji. Lu Ji's left arm was trembling slightly, and blood kept dripping from the arm, but there was no painful expression on the face of the big druid, and a hint of revenge was shining in his eyes.
The scorpion body was lifted, and the scorpion tail nail that pierced Rajax's chest also turned into a solid vine, just like a spear of a spiral.
Deer Helmet looked at the insect general in front of him. He stretched out his hand, a dark red vine swayed at his fingertips, and finally formed a strange wooden knife. The big druid said softly:
"When you tore my poor Vastann's body apart, he might have hurt as much as you..."
"Swish"
The dark red sword light flashed, and Rajax, who was paralyzed by the venom rich in vines, struggled and let out a snarling roar, but its only left arm was cut open, and it sprinkled everywhere with strong corrosive green blood, but the deer helmet didn't care. He pressed the wooden knife stained with insect blood on the ugly triangular head of the general of the insect man. He asked in a hoarse voice:
"Did you...know wrong?"
Rajax's disgusting and ugly compound eyes shone with a strange light. Although the insect man had no expression, the deer helmet could feel a "sarcastic" from the light of the compound eyes, which made the fire of anger in the big druid burn even more vigorously. The soul of the creature in front of him was as ugly as its appearance, and there was no repentance at all.
The big druid suddenly felt that talking to such a creature was meaningless, and he would never find the pleasure of revenge in such a guy.
This made him feel distracted, but 1,000 years of hatred drove him to raise the wooden knife. He stopped looking at the insect general. With his arms force, the solid wooden knife shining with natural light pierced through Rajax's compound eyes, pierced directly into its brain, and completely smashed the insect brain.
The black general of the insect man was trembling all over. The terrible vitality of the insect man allowed it to retain its ability to move after his brain was broken, but this could only aggravate its pain, and the deer helmet would not give it a pleasure with pity.
The great druid let go of the wooden knife that pierced the wall, and he looked around. Perhaps because of the reason why Rajax died in battle, the insects around had run away cleanly. However, as a general of the insects, Rajax was considered to be of high authority in the social system of the Qilazang people. It would rather die than surrender in the depths of the ruins, which means that there must be something more important here.
Lu Ji bent down and picked up the strange giant sword used by General Warrior. This thing is extremely sharp and can easily tear open the shell of his changing nightmare poisonous scorpion. Although it was forged with the evil methods of the insects, it is still a rare and good weapon. What's more, this thing has more special significance to Lu Ji.
The Great Druid walked forward for several minutes along the mountain road covered with mushroom blankets and insect corpses. On a cliff, he looked down and saw the dense white insect eggs covered with ditches at the bottom of the cliff. It was almost spread throughout the valley, just like a "worm nest" used by insects to hatch in a concentrated manner.
Deer Helmet's first idea was to mobilize orc fire-breathing soldiers to completely burn these disgusting things. Once these insect eggs hatched, there were tens of thousands of difficult bugs in an instant. But the big druid quickly gave up this idea. He took out a special obelisk from his pocket and placed it on the edge of the cliff. After a few minutes, while the ground was rolling, a black spider demon holding a spear appeared next to Deer Helmet.
The spider demon scout who entered the ruins from the underground saw the Qila insect eggs spread throughout the river valley at a glance. This made the spider demon very happy. It learned human etiquette and made an inappropriate etiquette towards Deer Helmet, and then turned over and rushed back to the ground. Deer Helmet knew that soon, these insect eggs would be completely emptied by the spider demon migrators under the dismantlers.
But those spider demons have also made great efforts in this battle and should also give them some "trophy". What's more, the dismantler Schris has already expressed that he is willing to join the system of the Withered One on behalf of the remaining spider demons, that is to say, these strange spider demons are now the people of the Withered One.
He killed his enemy a thousand years ago with his own hands, which made Lu Ji feel deeply relaxed. On his way back, he looked at the general of the insect man who was nailed to the wall, thinking about the soul of Vastanen. At this moment, a strange and loud howling resounded throughout the ruins of Qila.
"Ao! Ao!!"
It was a strange howling, similar to the roar of a wild boar when it was frightened. This sound made Deer Helmet turn around and look at the center of Qila ruins. He had a premonition that the form was not good. It should be the voice of the demigod Agamagan... But, in this ruin, who could make Agamagan feel so thrilled and... angry?
The figure of Deer Helmet quickly turned into a storm crow, flapping its wings and rushed into the sky like a swift. Agamagan was the biggest trump card for the coalition forces to fight against the insects, and he had no choice but to worry about it.
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On the other side, on the stone steps leading to the Qila Temple, a fierce war is underway.
Perhaps because the most important gathering place for Qila Zombies behind, the guards are all elite soldiers and winged insects, and there are also giant insects with huge sizes, sharp claws, brute force like siege hammers, and ground-digging insects that can move quickly underground, move silently, and easily dig out huge passages.
The ones commanding them are real insects, no longer those inferior insects with only insect form, but some high-level insects who have truly entered the transformation of human form. They... or "they", they are like General Rajax, between humans and insects, but undoubtedly have higher intelligence, especially those brain insects.
They have strange and huge mental power, just like the center of commanding the army. In the range covered by their mental power, the insects have become progressive, just like the soldiers who know how to cooperate best. Among the layers, there are many insects that cooperate almost perfectly. Even with the help of the demigod Agamagan, the soldiers of the coalition still feel the obscure and difficulty of the battle.
Compared to the refreshing expulsion battle outside the Beetle Wall, the battle here reminded the human veterans of the scene when they fought against the difficult Dan Blade Legion in the northern border.
Fortunately, these insects are more fighting hand-to-hand combat, and do not have super-strong arms equipped with the Dan Blade, otherwise the coalition might have been defeated at this time...
"Architecture! Shoot quickly against the enemy's rear!"
General Halver's armor was stained with green insect blood, and the strong plate armor was corroded and bumpy, but the general had no time to sort out his appearance. He stood in front of the line-up artillery positions. Seeing the wild boar demigod just broke through the defense line of the army worm legion, the command knife in the hand of the human general immediately waved forward.
"Boom boom boom boom boom"
The thunderous bombardment sounded across the ruins platform, not scattering, but covering and shooting in the front area. The air waves and flames generated by a round of shell explosions swept away the soldiers and insects that fell to the ground. The wild boar warriors who had been prepared rushed forward, and the orcs, taurens and human infantry followed behind these chaotic warriors and used flamethrowers and machine guns to clear the surrounding single insects.
After encountering elite insects, the coalition forces used this typical "cannon bombardment, infantry charge" tactic to seize most of the positions of the large platform from the insects bit by bit. The insects' counterattack relies on the invincible charge of the demigod Agamagan, which was extremely powerful, and they would be completely defeated every time, and the victory was just around the corner.
The artillery soldiers in the back row seemed very hard under the scorching temperature of Qila Ruins. Each of them had gray-black sweat on their faces. Some simply took off their armor and clothes, and were naked and cooled the cannons quickly with special coolant. Under the current circumstances, the continuous bombardment of the God of War was definitely not stopped. Otherwise, relying on the number of insects, as long as the coalition forces were slightly insufficient, the position ahead would be taken back in an instant.
Just as the big platform was about to completely fall into the hands of the coalition forces and the key to the Qila Temple was about to be obtained, a strange spiritual force suddenly came from the entrance of the underground "city" of the hill behind the insects, like a strange and precise net, covering the head of Agamagan who was running wildly among the insects.
The chaotic power, which exudes endless aura of decay and corruption, suddenly pierced into Agamagan's mind like a needle, and made the demigod, who bullied the insects, stop suddenly, knocked away several unexpected Anubis giants and plowed out a terrifying passage of flesh and blood in the insect swarm.
The wild boar demigod suddenly raised his head, and his small eyes shining like blue stars stared at the entrance deep in the ruins of Qila. The mental power provoked its thoughts like a seductive bait. What's more, it was not the first time that Agamagan has come into contact with this dangerous force.
In the thousands of years of sleep in the Emerald Dream... it has smelled this power more than once. Its friend, the soul of Usok, the giant bear spirit, went crazy after being exposed to this power for a long time...
"Aoao! Aoao!"
The wild boar demigod turned around and roared a few times at the coalition forces following it, then turned around. A trace of hatred flashed in the blue eyes. It raised its four hooves, and the real power of the demigod enveloped its huge body. The next moment, it was like a sweeping halo of green city walls, easily crushing all the insects blocking the road in front of him into pieces.
The demigod rushed into the temple of Qila fearlessly. It felt the threat. It no longer regarded this war as a game. Now, it was about to rush out of the cage before the threat...get it completely!
Chapter completed!