Synthesis Wizard

Chapter 134: Insect Plague, Self-Destructive Attack

幽湖城.

On the spacious plain in front of the city gate, countless magic puppets were neatly arranged in formations.

In the middle were thousands of stone magic puppets, and on both sides were groups of double-bladed spiders.

The massive iron magic puppets and elite stone magic puppets stood at the forefront of the array, like unmoving reefs in the sea.

On the city wall, Carolina looked at the army of magic puppets below, her heart filled with silent awe.

“The Master is truly the Master, single-handedly creating such a powerful and fearsome army!”

It was simply unbelievable!

The human-faced lions standing behind Carolina were also awestruck, their gazes towards Su Nan’s back filled with reverence.

A strong individual who could command such a powerful army was absolutely worthy of their allegiance.

Su Nan was unaware of the human-faced lions’ thoughts. His gaze went beyond the islands and lakes, into the distance, towards the darkness.

With his spiritual power, he could faintly sense a massive number of creatures rushing towards him from that direction.

Carolina and the human-faced lions seemed to sense something as well, all looking towards the distance with a look of wary vigilance.

Soon, the darkness in the distance produced a series of strange rustling sounds, as if countless limbs were crawling across the ground.

The next moment, many bizarre creatures suddenly burst out of the darkness.

Those creatures were like giant jellyfish with legs, their translucent, pale white bodies seemingly flowing like curtains as their limbs moved rapidly.

They rushed to the shore and jumped into the water without stopping, their bodies buoyed by the water, floating like duckweed on the surface. They connected to each other, one after another, and quickly spread towards the island in the center of the lake.

In no time, a white ‘floating bridge’ appeared between the shore and the island in the center of the lake.

Following close behind, countless insect beasts emerged from the darkness, scrambling to get on the ‘floating bridge’, rushing towards the island in the center of the lake.

These insect beasts looked like giant centipedes, except their heads were replaced by a huge maw filled with sharp teeth, emitting a low, creepy roar.

“It’s the Jellyfish Worms and Giant-Maw Sand Worms!”

Carolina said with a solemn expression, then furrowed her brow.

“Master, something doesn’t feel right. The number of insect beasts seems a bit excessive.”

As far as the eye could see, the field of vision was filled with densely packed insect beasts.

This was just the first wave of the insect beast swarm. The Death Bell Beetles, the main force, hadn’t appeared yet, and the number of insect beasts was already comparable to the most intense attacks in the past. This was definitely not normal.

Su Nan had heard Carolina talk about the insect plagues of the past, and he could also see that the current situation was clearly not right.

But he said nothing, just looked down at the scene below with a solemn gaze.

Seeing the Master remain calm on the surface, Carolina also calmed down and fixed her gaze on the situation below.

The insect beast swarm, charging wildly, slammed into the magic puppet army’s formation like a raging tsunami.

Looking down from the sky, the insect tide was like crashing against unmoving reefs. The Giant-Maw Sand Worms at the forefront were instantly shattered, exploding into a cloud of blood mist. Ř₳₦∅ＢΕ𝐬

On the other hand, the iron magic puppets and elite stone magic puppets at the front remained motionless and unscathed, raising their massive fists to continuously kill the insect beasts.

Unable to break through the blockade of the iron magic puppets and elite stone magic puppets, the insect swarm began to spread to both sides, engaging the stone magic puppets and the double-bladed spiders.

In the blink of an eye, the flat ground in front of幽湖城 had become a blood-soaked battlefield!

The war quickly escalated!

There were countless Giant-Maw Sand Worms, so densely packed that they practically covered the entire stretch from the lakeshore to the open ground in front of the city gate. According to visual estimates, there were at least two to three thousand, and even more Giant-Maw Sand Worms were continuously charging over from the other side of the lake.

In terms of numbers, the insect swarm completely overwhelmed the magic puppet army.

However, the combat effectiveness of the Giant-Maw Sand Worms was a notch below that of the Death Bell Beetles, let alone compared to the magic puppets.

Facing the onslaught of the insect swarm, the magic puppets did not retreat a single step. Like a thick wall, they firmly blocked the tide of insects, preventing them from advancing.

The double-bladed spiders even charged directly into the swarm of insects, wielding their sharp forelimbs and wreaking havoc. Wherever they went, flesh and blood flew in the air.

For a time, the insect swarm, despite its larger numbers, was being pinned down in front of the city gate. No matter how hard they charged, they couldn’t break through the magic puppet army’s defense.

In the distance, at the opening of a giant stalactite hanging from the ceiling of the cave, the Red Widow and the Black Duke looked at the battle unfolding far away, with solemn expressions on their faces.

“Such powerful puppets!” The Black Duke said, his voice filled with apprehension. “I never imagined that a large-scale puppet army would be so powerful!”

He had previously sent his subordinates to probe the fighting strength of the magic puppets in the mine. While he had been somewhat surprised then, it hadn’t reached the level of fear.

But now, he suddenly realized that when these magic puppets were gathered together in hundreds and thousands on the battlefield, the combat power they exerted was far more than the sum of their individual parts.

They were a powerful army that obeyed orders and was fearless in the face of death!

With such an army, it was no wonder that the Wizard was uninterested in cooperating with them, and even wanted to counterattack Kasham.

They did have the confidence and strength to do so!

“Indeed, they are very impressive!”

The Red Widow nodded slightly, her beautiful face, rarely devoid of her wanton smile, and her crimson eyes also filled with solemnity.

“We thought we had already overestimated the military strength of幽湖城, but now it seems we still underestimated them.”

The Red Widow took a deep breath and looked towards the deep darkness on the other side of the lake.

“It seems that the cooperation with Kasham was the right decision. We absolutely cannot allow幽湖城 to continue to grow, or sooner or later, Matu and Orsen will be swallowed up by it!”

The Black Duke followed her gaze, and the black flames in his eyes flickered intensely.

Although幽湖城 was currently holding the advantage, they were not particularly worried.

After all, this year’s insect plague was unlike anything they had seen before.

In previous years, the insect swarm was divided into three groups, attacking the three city-states of幽湖, Matu, and Orsen simultaneously, with their strength dispersed.

However, this year, all the insect swarms were concentrated towards幽湖, with a scale approximately three times that of previous years.

The Giant-Maw Sand Worms currently on the scene were just an appetizer.

The real main course was still to come!

Just wait and see!

As if in response to the thoughts of the Red Widow and the Black Duke, a buzzing sound suddenly came from the darkness on the other side of the lake, as if countless wings were flapping simultaneously.

The next moment, a large number of insects that looked like giant bees, with six wings on their backs, a pair of giant pincers, and a sharp tail sting, emerged from the darkness and buzzed towards the city gate.

“It’s the Six-Winged Worms!” Carolina timely whispered. “These worms’ pincers and tail stings are poisonous!”

Su Nan nodded, acknowledging her words.

The poison was useless against the magic puppets, as they were naturally immune to various biological toxins.

However, the Six-Winged Worms’ ability to fly posed a threat to the magic puppet army.

After all, the stone magic puppets and double-bladed spiders could not fly, making it difficult to wipe out the Six-Winged Worms in the air.

Fortunately, Su Nan had prepared for this.

With a thought, an elite double-bladed spider appeared out of thin air on the city wall.

In the stunned eyes of Carolina and the human-faced lions, the elite double-bladed spider’s body flashed with a faint light, and then its massive body took flight, turning into a black streak of light, charging towards the Six-Winged Worms in the sky!

Ssshhh!

Several Six-Winged Worms were too slow to dodge and were cut into several sections by the swiftly moving elite double-bladed spider.

The elite double-bladed spider didn’t stop, it zipped through the void like a black lightning bolt, continuously swinging its blades, cutting down Six-Winged Worms one after another.

In an instant, the sky above the battlefield was like a swarm of dumplings falling from the sky, one Six-Winged Worm after another plummeting to the ground.

On the other hand, the Six-Winged Worms’ poison was ineffective against the elite double-bladed spider, and their sharp pincers were unable to leave even a scratch on the steel body of the elite double-bladed spider enhanced with the Toughness spell, they couldn’t even inflict any damage.

Just a single elite double-bladed spider was enough to make five to six hundred Six-Winged Worms retreat in defeat!

The Red Widow and the Black Duke, hidden in the shadows, had been completely dumbfounded, unable to help but gasp.

“A Second-Ring Legendary puppet!”

“That guy actually has a puppet of this level!”

Both the Red Widow and the Black Duke’s eyes were filled with shock.

They had originally thought that Su Nan’s subordinates might have at most a First-Ring Legendary puppet, but now a Second-Ring Legendary puppet had sprung out.

This was a level of combat power equivalent to theirs!

What level of strength did Su Nan actually have, to be able to create a puppet of this level?

Just thinking about it sent a shiver down the spines of the Red Widow and the Black Duke.

They could only hope that the person behind Kasham could solve Su Nan, otherwise it would be their turn to be in trouble.

“Woo-woo-woo!”

A low sound suddenly came from the other side of the lake, like a horn gently blowing.

Hearing this sound, the Red Widow and the Black Duke were suddenly invigorated.

Here it comes!

The real main force of the insect swarm!

At the same time, Carolina on the city wall also revealed a solemn expression.

“Master, it’s the Death Bell Beetles!”

Without her reminding him, Su Nan also guessed that the main force of the insect swarm had arrived.

This was the real beginning of the insect swarm’s offensive!

In the startled eyes of the human-faced lions, a vast number of Death Bell Beetles flew out from the darkness on the other side of the lake, flapping their wings and instantly crossing the lake to reach the battlefield above.

The densely packed Death Bell Beetles were like a layer of dark clouds, blocking the fluorescent light shining down from the top of the cave. For a moment, the entire battlefield seemed to be shrouded in darkness, making it even more eerie.

Seeing this, many human-faced lions subconsciously swallowed their saliva, recalling the fear of being dominated by the Death Bell Beetles.

Their proud, sturdy bodies were useless against the Death Bell Beetles’ terrifying sonic waves. A single wave of sound attack could make them feel like their internal organs were being crushed, causing them to bleed from their seven orifices.

Only elite warriors and human-faced lion nobles could withstand the Death Bell Beetles’ sonic waves.

“Woo-woo-woo!”

The Death Bell Beetles quickly launched their first attack.

More than three hundred Death Bell Beetles blew their ‘horns’ simultaneously, and the deafening sound wave swept across the battlefield in an instant!

From a distance, many of the human-faced lions on the city wall couldn’t help but show pained expressions, clutching their chests and gasping for breath, as if they were about to suffocate.

However, to their astonishment, the magic puppets on the battlefield remained unaffected by the sonic waves, continuing to kill the insect beasts as if nothing had happened.

The Red Widow and the Black Duke hidden in the shadows were also stunned.

“These puppets are immune to sonic wave attacks?”

The Red Widow and the Black Duke looked at each other, realizing in an instant that they might have made a serious mistake.

They had never come into contact with a Wizard, and their knowledge of puppets was limited to hearsay. They had no idea that puppets were generally immune to sonic wave attacks, and thus had misjudged the balance of power between幽湖城 and Kasham.

“No, that’s not right.”

The Red Widow immediately realized.

“We don’t know much about puppets, but the person behind Kasham is also a Wizard. He couldn’t possibly not know that the Death Bell Beetles’ sonic wave attacks are ineffective against puppets!”

The Black Duke also came to his senses at this time, nodding in agreement. “That’s right, that guy definitely has other tricks up his sleeve!”

At the same time, Su Nan on the city wall was making similar deductions.

“If there is a Wizard Apprentice secretly controlling the situation behind Kasham, then he couldn’t have failed to anticipate this situation. He must have already prepared a way to deal with it.”

In the sky above the battlefield, the collective sonic waves were ineffective. The Death Bell Beetles didn’t panic in the slightest. They circled for a moment, then suddenly fell from the sky like meteorites, crashing into the magic puppets below.

Boom!

The moment they collided with the magic puppets, the Death Bell Beetles suddenly exploded, turning into a ball of invisible distortion.

The part of the stone magic puppet that came into contact with the invisible distortion instantly disappeared, as if it had been bitten off.

In just a few breaths, the three hundred or so Death Bell Beetles were all wiped out.

And their suicide attacks also took out more than one hundred and twenty stone magic puppets and a dozen double-bladed spiders.

Carolina’s face turned pale.

When did the Death Bell Beetles develop this ability?

Why had they never seen them use it before?

Buzz buzz buzz!

More Death Bell Beetles flew in from the other side of the lake, with an estimated number of no less than a thousand!

Carolina gasped at the sight.

During past insect plagues, the highest number of Death Bell Beetles they had encountered was only five to six hundred.

Even then,幽湖城 had paid a heavy price to barely survive that plague.

But now there were a thousand Death Bell Beetles, and perhaps even more.

It was enough to make anyone’s scalp tingle!

The human-faced lions were also pale, sweating profusely.

Only Su Nan remained calm, even showing a look of ‘as expected’.

“I didn’t expect these Death Bell Beetles to be able to self-destruct.”

“It’s probably by releasing all the sonic energy in their tumor bodies at once, creating a kind of annihilation effect.”

Su Nan, who had dissected Death Bell Beetles before and was very familiar with their body structure, quickly understood the principle of the Death Bell Beetles’ self-destructive attacks.

“This also confirms it. There is indeed a manipulator behind Kasham, and he is a Wizard Apprentice!”

Su Nan couldn’t help but sigh in admiration.

He had thought he was the first pioneer to develop this area, but it turned out that a Wizard Apprentice had already established his own force in this area before him.@@novelbin@@

And judging from the time of the insect plague, the Wizard Apprentice had likely been in the underground world for decades.

What puzzled him was why the Wizard Apprentice had come to the underground world, yet instead of developing the mines, he had been hiding in Kasham, controlling the insect swarm and hunting everywhere. What was his goal?

(End of Chapter)