Lord of the Sky City

Chapter 738: Chapter 701: Mother Worm!

In these thousands upon thousands of cocoons, there were actually Flying Demons…!

This outcome, unexpected by everyone including Rocky, after some thought, seemed also to make sense.

Flying Demons were a new breed of demon, and people knew far too little about them; thus, it didn’t seem strange for these demons to have hatched from the cocoons. Moreover, considering the recent demon attack, new problems arose.

In the recent massive demon attack, Backhill Village was also a target. Among the demons that attacked Backhill Village were tens of thousands of Flying Demons. Now, looking at the cocoons scattered throughout the Dissolving Cave revealed the origins of those Flying Demons. They hadn’t appeared out of nowhere; they had hatched from this cave.

If the timeline were shifted back to the wartime period when the Sky Alliance and Kafka Empire first encountered Flying Demons, Rocky had been there. He remembered clearly: while both fleets engaged in fierce combat, tens of thousands of Flying Demons flew out from the demon-occupied Tulip City. Now, thinking about it, beneath the occupied Tulip City, there likely was a vast Dissolving Cave incubating tens of thousands of Flying Demons as well…

Having pieced all this together, Rocky now understood what was happening at the Cave of Blood Cries—it was a major base for hatching Flying Demons!

“Rocky, what should we do?”

As Rocky furrowed his brows, Liliya asked from his side.

With so many cocoons before them, all containing Flying Demons, how were they to deal with this?

Ignoring them was not an option, because anyone could realize that if the thousands of cocoons hatched, they would inevitably release tens of thousands of Flying Demons, whose next target would definitely be Backhill Village, as they had already attacked it once before.

Therefore, these demons—or rather, these cocoons—had to be destroyed.

But the problem arose: with so many cocoons, how could they be completely eradicated?

If these cocoons were located somewhere on land, Rocky only needed to gather his fleet for a bombardment. With the powerful combat capability of the Rune Battleships, eradicating the tens of thousands of cocoons would be an easy task. However, the cocoons were in the Dissolving Cave, deep underground at a depth of hundreds of meters. Such terrain meant that neither warships nor the Guard Corps and Void Magic Corps could be of use. Not to forget, to reach this depth, they had to get past the attacks from beetles and Mantis Demons. With the military force at Rocky’s disposal, confronting so many beetles was impossible.

“First, let’s inspect the area; give me a moment to think.”

Liliya’s question was precisely what Rocky was pondering over, but unfortunately, he had yet to find an answer. With their limited manpower, eradicating all the cocoons was simply impossible, and he couldn’t think of any other way…

Just then, as Rocky was deep in thought and the others were about to look around, a sudden, violent shaking occurred within the cave, accompanied by a loud boom!

The boom and the shaking arrived simultaneously, immediately drawing their attention and disrupting Rocky’s train of thought. As they looked towards the source of the noise, they saw something moving in the deepest, darkest part of the cave.

Boom…

Boom…

Boom…

The sound of enormous footsteps made all four of them look towards the deepest part of the Dissolving Cave; soon after, aided by the faint light emitted by the cocoons, they saw a massive figure emerging from the darkness.

The appearance of this figure made everyone gasp in shock!

Because the figure was so tall—at a glance, it stood dozens of meters high in the darkness, massive like a small mountain, each step causing the entire Dissolving Cave to tremble.

Soon thereafter, the immense figure stepped out of the darkness and revealed its true form in front of the four.

It was a creature as large as a Moving Fortress, resembling a spider!

To say it resembled a spider was because the creature had eight legs and its body was like a huge sphere, making it appear spider-like, but a closer look would reveal it was not a spider at all. Its massive belly looked like a huge cocoon; no, it was exactly like a cocoon, covered in thick blood vessels and emitting a faint red light.

And in the instant they saw this huge creature, everyone immediately knew what it was—it was a Mother Worm!

Although Rocky and his companions did not understand the reproduction of Demons, just one look at this creature made everyone realize that all the cocoons scattered around the Dissolving Cave must have been produced by this monster. So even though they didn’t know what this massive creature was called, they were certain it was a Mother Worm, a First Level being among the Demons.

“Kill it!”

The moment Rocky saw the enormous Mother Worm, he made a judgement—it absolutely must not be allowed to live.

Although there were thousands of cocoons in the Dissolving Cave, destroying them would be useless as long as this Mother Worm-like creature existed. It could produce even more Flying Demons no matter how many he destroyed, so the only way to prevent further trouble was to kill this Mother Worm!

This logic, understood not only by Rocky but also by everyone else, required no further explanation. The moment Rocky soared into the air, Liliya and the other two followed him into the sky, and immediately flew towards the Mother Worm.

“Hiss! Hiss!”

The instant they took flight, the Mother Worm, moving its massive body, also emitted a series of hissing sounds, clearly having noticed Rocky and his group. However, due to its immense size, even as it hissed, the fastest among them, Rocky, had already charged close to it!

Although the Mother Worm was as large as a Moving Fortress, a colossal creature Rocky had never encountered before, his combat experience was rich, and he instantly spotted the Mother Worm’s weakness—it was too massive. Therefore, after approaching it, he spiraled in midair and swiftly closed in on one of its legs, then fiercely slashed it with his Scythe!

Against such a colossal creature, the best strategy was to sever its limbs to restrict its movement. Once its movement was restricted, the giant creature was no different from a live target.

Thus, upon approaching the Mother Worm, Rocky aimed a blow at its leg, but as he swung the Magic Fang Scythe down hard, there was a clang—the infallible Magic Fang Scythe was unexpectedly blocked by the hard shell on the leg…!