Chapter 230: Bug Girl (1/2)

After consuming a massive amount of heat and energy from Tyler's Giant fireball spell. A little over a hundred Asure dragonflies charged at him, their auras had skyrocketed by more than two-fold and they all simultaneously used a skill.

The psychic buzz attack had almost rendered the Kobolds and Dwarves on the ground unconscious but it had little effect on Tyler and Erin. However, the buzz attack was only the beginning.

All one hundred Azure Dragonflies with increased auras gathered the excess energy on their wings and as though they were a sort of helicopter, their wings immediately halted their assault as it pulled them back and higher after getting closer to Tyler. The energy that had been transferred into their wings was once more transferred into their six claw-like legs which were then swiped at him.

•Fiery Wind Cutter•

Over six hundred razor-sharp wind blades that looked as though the air had been lit on fire shot at them with the same furious intensity as his fireball spell. The insanely wide-range attack had literally changed the temperature in the area as it descended upon the entire settlement like meteorites.

With the addition of Tyler's energy, this was an attack capable of damaging even a demigod. It would seem these bugs did more than just eat his flames. The fact that they were able to convert most of his energy into their power and send it back at him could not be underestimated.

This meant trying to overload them with even the greatest energy would be a waste as they could just release the excess energy before any damage came to them.

While this was indeed a troublesome ability for most to deal with and may have proven to be a challenge for him to handle in the past. That was no longer the case as any projectile attacks were still useless against him.

'Pity.'

Raising one of his gloved hands before him, a crack suddenly appeared on the palm of the glove and a creepy mouth could be seen drooling on it. The mouth immediately began to suck in everything around him and all the flaming wind blades were drawn to his location and devoured in less than a minute. Fortunately, he hadn't even used his mana this time.

”Hmm, y'all seem to be quite proud of your ability to consume flames. Do you really think you can consume any flame? How amusing, allow me to test that theory. Eat this if you can.”

At his words, the air around him suddenly got darker as an oppressive black flames engulf his hand. The flames had an ominous aura and seemed to be absorbing the light around them. The dark flames would consume any and everything it comes in contact with, even light.

Gathering a massive ball of black flames in his right hand, Tyler launched it at the hundred or so empowered Azure Dragonflies and they once again tried to feed on it.

However, although the flames contain heat that could be devoured. The flames were the fire of absolute destruction and had no rejuvenating qualities. Unless one could consume destruction itself, consuming it was a very bad idea.

Therefore, the moment the massive Dragonflies came in contact with it, they have reduced to smithereens as the massive ball of flames continued in its wake and devoured everything in front of it.

However, while he had thought they were mostly unintelligent creatures, Tyler was surprised to see them learn from their mistake and avoid his attack after it had consumed the original hundred Azure Dragonflies.

The massive swarm of over a thousand monster flies had all simultaneously avoided his attack with perfect coordination and his flames had only claimed the lives of a hundred of them.

Tyler's eyes narrowed as he stared at the bunch. They no longer charged at him and it seemed they wanted to retreat but also didn't want to recklessly turn their backs on him.

'Are the Dragonflies in this world of a hive mind? Why are they acting in such unison?'

{Andwer: A psychic wavelength has been confirmed in the area. The Azure Dragonflies seem to be connected mentally and are receiving constant mental cues and commands.}

'Wait what? They're having a chat in the midst of battle? Side note, didn't dragonflies only communicate visually?'

{The signal sensed doesn't seem to simply be for communication Master. There is a 98.5610% chance this swarm is under something's control.}

'Is that so. Makes sense then. A bunch of insects should not be this cautious.'

Tyler's conversation with Uriel usually took less than a second in real-time so he wasn't just standing around having a chat. However, the swarm of Azure Dragonflies didn't wait for very long either.

From what Tyler could tell, they wanted to create a chance for a retreat so they sent a few Dragonflies at him from both sides as a form of distraction. Tyler sighed and was about to use a skill when several dark water bullets suddenly bombarded the incoming Dragonflies to oblivion.

”There was no needed for that you know.”

Tyler turned his head around to look at Erin who had a large black serpentine dragon floating in the air around her.

”I'm sorry Lord Ty, it just seems rude to use such tactics against you. I couldn't help myself.”

”Well, it's fine. Let's just locate whoever is controlling the swarm and Ed this.”

Expanding his perception range, Tyler searched through the massive number of dragonflies in the air and noticed a cluster of them that seem to be surrounding something.

”Found it.”