Chapter 781 - Bug Adept Descends
Chapter 781 Bug Adept Descends
Compared to the high morale of the Alliance, Fire Throne was currently engulfed in an atmosphere of sorrow.
Though no losses had occurred among the Crimson adepts, a cataclysmic danger was approaching the clan with the gradual depletion of the tower’s elementium pool.
Fire Throne no longer had the extra energy to maintain the tower’s defensive system. That gave the invaders a reason to attack the tower’s foundations itself. As the thudding continued, the entire tower trembled and quaked slightly.
The windows had now been sealed off with stone blocks, and all remaining magical energy had been converted into force walls and fire barriers to seal the tower’s gates. Consequently, the tower no longer had the power to cast down lightning and thunder to exterminate the enemies swarming about the tower. Still, with the enemy’s crude machinery, they would need a minimum of half a day to create a passage through the three-meter-thick foundations of the tower.
The greatest threat to the tower now was still those Alliance adepts, not these soldiers who were swarming about like ants.
As all the entrances had been sealed shut, the only way into the tower was the gate.
It was almost as if a portal had opened under Billis’ black robe. Swarms of black beetles surged out from within, gathering into groups and taking to the skies as they stormed down the spiral staircases.
The screams of female adepts and the roars of male adepts abruptly rang out from the magical hall. Fortunately, they promptly received a magical message from Mary. That was why they refrained from striking this swarm of insects that was brushing past their clothes and their hair.
“It’s Lord Billis.”
“He has advanced to Second Grade.”
Some adepts who were privy to the situation immediately figured out what had happened.
To think that a powerful Second Grade adept had emerged in this moment of danger. It was a blessing worth celebrating!
The insect swarm circled in the air of the hall before turning into a black arrow and shooting toward the crowd gathered outside the light barrier of the gate.
The Alliance soldiers that had been attacking the force wall with full force were immediately trapped in a black flood. They started to stumble backward, swinging the blades in their hand helplessly as they did so.
The black beetles did not fear conventional weapons at all. Even greatswords could only create sparks when slashing their shells. The beetles would spin about a little, recalibrate themselves before rejoining the swarm and attacking the enemies.
The tens of thousands of black beetles gathered into a flood as if they were a plague of locusts and swept across the crowd. The crunching sound of snapping jaws didn’t cease wherever they went. When the black flood swept past the masses, the only things they left behind were broken bones and shattered armor.
There was only a single swarm initially. However, as more and more beetles surged out of the tower, the hive began to split off.
For a moment, a dozen swarms weaved between the crowd like black ribbons of death, biting and tearing, spreading fear across every corner of the battlefield.
The Alliance army had finally fallen apart!