Chronicles of Primordial Wars

[A bonus chapter provided by the author]

The meeting point between the desert and the ocean on the other side.

Since Shao Xuan disappeared into the ocean, Sapphire and its army would check for Shao Xuan’s return at the coast after dealing with the portion of the Golden Guards.

It was difficult for the people of Sky Wheel City. They had to flee every time the patrol team encountered the beetle army. This had happened a few times. They already knew that the beetles were carnivores, of course they’d run away or they’d be bug food. There was a sea of them!

Sapphire sensed that Shao Xuan was getting further and further away too, as the days passed. Fewer people visited the coast due to the insect swarm, even wild animals barely passed this region to avoid them.

Since food was scarce and they could not swim, Sapphire had to lead its army somewhere else for the moment. However, it still wanted to stay close to meet Shao Xuan if he returned.

The desert was now desolate after the war. The first city to fall was White Stone City, followed by others. Unowned slaves fled to other places to avoid being killed. As the desert was vast and the slave masters were busy at war, they could not spare more resources to recover the slaves. The slaves were too worthless to be worth spending resources on.

Kill? How? It didn’t seem like they could escape, they were surrounded!

However, one of the elders was suddenly very emotional when he saw the blue beetle. He picked up a beast his son had hunted and ran into the ocean of beetles. The rest had not reacted in time to pull him back.

They were all stunned to see him run into the swarm as if it was suicide.

Sapphire had come here once. Why were there so few beasts here? Because the beetle army had been here before. Anywhere they had passed would be desolate for a while. This was also why the refugees could live such a peaceful life here.

Sapphire saw a human running over. It was about to wave a limb when the human knelt about ten meters away from it. He knelt towards it, then even tossed an animal towards them.

Since Sapphire wasn’t moving, the rest didn’t either, even though they wanted the meat.

It sauntered over and looked at the animal on the ground. It sliced a sliver of it and tossed the meat to its subordinates. It did not fancy meat like that.

The beast was suddenly covered by a wave of beetles. The person who gave the offering was stiff as if all the blood in him was frozen.

After tossing the animal aside, Sapphire looked at the person kneeling in front. Hmm, not aggressive, not violent. After some analysis, it made a conclusion– not delicious!

At this moment, Sapphire sensed a battle happening somewhere far away. There was no time to deal with this person. It quickly called all the other beetles over to hurry to the battlefield, even leaving its ball behind. If they were too slow, the food left behind would be eaten by other animals!

The swarm of beetles followed it one by one and soon, the place was back to a piece of desolate desert and a dry bone. That was the animal.

There was another huge ball as tall as a human left behind, that was pushed over by the big beetle.

When he was sure they were gone, his blood thawed and he could move again. A young man rushed over to pick him up. When he got up and looked at the ball, they realised there were useful things in the ball!

Knives, swords, spears, animal hide clothing, bones, branches etc.

When the elder saw these, his eyes welled up in tears and he knelt in prayer once again. He felt like this was the reward given to them by the blue beetle.

They found a lot of good weapons and armour to protect themselves. Branches, bones and tarp were used to block out the weather.

The elder carved a drawing using one stone knife on the highest wall of the oasis every day as an offering.

The drawing was a beetle, standing upside-down. Above the beetle was a ball.