Chapter 473
Chapter 473 Sting Scorpion Army
Tracking the ogres without sufficient stamina was challenging.
The ogre warriors never stopped after they surged out of their camp. They started running towards the woods in the distance.
Over the past six months of hunting, they were no longer find any large beings that could fill their bellies within a ten to fifteen-kilometer radius of Maulhill. That was why the ogres had no choice but to venture even further out if they wanted to bring back enough prey.
Billis, who knew nothing of the daily habits of the ogres, hadn’t expected this to happen. He brought the seven young sting scorpions with him as they sprinted for over twenty kilometers. It was only then that they found the messy remains of the ogres’ battles.
The first victims were a den of razor boars.
Razor Boars could be considered one of the most common forest beasts in the Black Forest.
They had no elementium powers. They only possessed bulky and muscular bodies and those large, razor-like fangs. Adolescent razor boars were at least a hundred kilograms heavy. The mixture of amber-like tree sap, sand, and stone on their bodies also made it as if they had a thick layer of armor around them.
This time, they lost nine comrades.
At this point, even the ogres knew something was off, regardless of how dumb they were.
Sometimes there were cases of ogres who went out hunting that only returned after two or three days due to traveling too far away. However, these were rare and unusual events.
But now…
There were about that many ogres who had never returned to camp. No matter how they looked at it, this seemed like a conspiracy and assault designed against them.
The number of ogre warriors that had gone missing was far too many. They had exceeded the number of fingers and toes that an ogre squad leader had. That made it impossible for them to calculate how many had gone missing. That was why the ogre squad leaders could only use the term very very many to describe the loss of their numbers when reporting to Two-Headed Ogre Mage Zac.
Zac was also furious at the disappearance of his subordinate warriors and was unusually violent and angry.
The few ogre squad leaders quickly ‘came up with a brilliant plan’ in response to Zac’s enraged shouting. They all pointed their fingers at the Aba Beemen.
The mad expansion of the Aba Beemen had caused their hunting areas to start overlapping with those of the ogres. Conflicts had erupted between both parties numerous times over the contentious areas. They had already fought several battles. Consequently, the ogres first thought of the Aba Beemen after encountering this unknown wave of assaults.
The Two-Headed Ogre Mage Zac also went berserk in a flash under the influence of those squad leaders.
The moment the sun had gone up on the second day, a large group of ogres charged down Maulhill with Zac in the lead. They boisterously marched towards the territory of the Aba Beemen.
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In a damp and dark underground cave.
A dozen bug’s nests forged of blood, wooden splinters, and dirt had been erected in the middle of the cave. Holes the size of a fist could be seen everywhere in these holes. One could very clearly see the crawling sting scorpion larvae in these bug’s nest through these openings. Of course, they could also see the pile of bloody corpses.
Billis had returned to his human form and was standing in the middle of all the bug’s nests. His eyes continually assessed these larvae that were about to become his subordinates.
As the blood in the air thickened, Billis’ body hidden beneath his robe was also undergoing subtle changes.
His human skin was now entirely replaced by a layer of black shell. His human hands had also become a pair of giant claws gleaming with a metallic shine. Three scythe-like limbs were curled up on his chest.
What was even more shocking was Billis’ head.
The continuously swelling bug’s head had split the original face apart. The nose, mouth, and eyes were all slanted to a side, revealing the black and wicked face beneath.
Ghostly green compound-eyes, wicked and frightening mouthparts, two external antennae…
It was evident that Billis was committed and determined to his evolution into a bug person.
There wasn’t much more about his body that was still human!
Moreover, with the increasing extent of his bug transformation, Billis had also silently progressed to an advanced apprentice. He had caught up to the height that Acteon spent sixty to seventy years to reach in a matter of two months.
In fact, an advanced apprentice wasn’t the endpoint of his evolution this time. As the sting scorpions in the bug’s nests continued devouring copious amounts of flesh, Billis’ aura started growing even further.
Twelve bug’s nests. Once the sting scorpion larvae within them had successfully grown into young sting scorpions, they didn’t choose to break out of the nest. Instead, they started tearing at each other.
Young sting scorpions were still too frail for Billis. They were not suitable as a bug army that waged war alongside him. That was why Billis set the goal of this evolution of his bug swarm to be mature sting scorpions after wiping out the few nearby magical creature dens!
The bloody and cruel devouring and evolution process started in each of the twelve nests under his mad and excited gaze.
Each young sting scorpion possessed individual consciousnesses and instincts. Naturally, they were unwilling to allow their barely awakened being to become someone else’s stepping stone to evolution just like that. Consequently, the fight in each of the nest was fierce and bloody. It had even reached a level of insanity.
Under Billis’ strict orders, only the strongest young scorpion that survived in each nest had the chance to grow and evolve. That was why the scorpions used each part of their bodies to attack every single thing around them that could move insanely.
This battle for evolution that occurred in an unseen corner of the world took two hours to conclude.
As the bug’s nests started collapsing, twelve bloody adolescent sting scorpions with incomplete and damaged shells climbed out of the dirt and gathered around Billis.
Billis looked down upon these subordinates of his and finally let out a wild and sharp bug’s screech towards the sky!