303 Ant Kings Horrifying Migh (1/2)
The battle between man and ant was abrupt and unexpected. No one was prepared for it, and fewer were able to kill the ants.
The black exoskeletal shells of the ants were tougher than the hides of low-level beasts in the Wildlands.
Hundreds of rounds were fired by the soldiers, but not a single ant fell under their barrage.
The ants appeared unscathed, but there were numerous white marks on their black exoskeletal shells with a few cracks among them upon a closer look.
The beast-piercing shells fired by the soldiers were not utterly ineffective against the ants. IF they could concentrate their fire in a single point, they would be able to break through the ant's hard shells.
Unfortunately, there were few skilled marksmen amongst the soldiers to make this possible. They lacked both skills and firepower.
When the ants halted their attacks on the World Tree and began rushing towards the soldiers from the nearby camp, chaos broke out. The soldiers felt despair and the looming sense of death.
Luckily, there were still palace guards and earth spirits present to hold the fort.
”Construct an earthen wall to hold them back! We must contain them! Don't let them break through our line of defense!”
”Dammit! Why are they not attacking the World Tree anymore?! Why are they going for US?!”
”It must be the Ant King giving them the command! The Ant King appears to be more interested in us than the World Tree!”
”Why?! It's not like we were the ones who slaughtered the ants!”
The palace guards spoke to one another as they used their earthen abilities to raise the earth and erect an earthen rampart to hold back the advances of the army of ants that numbered in the hundreds of thousands.
With only 10 palace guards on the scene, they were naturally not enough to construct an earthen wall big enough to cover the entire camp quickly.
Elder Evergreen and his people were able to help with their earth-wood abilities, aiding and reinforcing the earthen rampart.
”Hold your ground and protect the others! I will take care of these ants!” Elder Evergreen spoke with a commanding presence.
After the earthen wall was finished, Elder Evergreen dived straight into the sea of ants from atop the earthen rampart with a heavily slam as rings upon rings of earthen spikes shot out from the ground and smashed into the ants one after another like ripples with Elder Evergreen at its center.
Some ants were directly impaled to death, while others had their black exoskeletal shells cracked badly and launched high into the skies.
One attack, several hundreds of ants, maimed or dead!
”So powerful!”
”Is this the true power of Earth Transcendents?”
Earth-users were not to be looked down upon!
However!
Contrary to what the others were feeling, the elder himself frowned with dissatisfaction. The ripples of earthen spikes only contained a fraction of his power, but it should have been more than enough to kill all the ants targetted.
Unfortunately, that was not the case! His earthen abilities lacked penetrative power! Elder Evergreen had miscalculated. Hundreds of years of inaction had dulled his battle senses.
Elder Evergreen sighed.
The best way to use the earth is to crush all opponents with its sheer overwhelming weight! But while such methods were efficient for killing, it was also crude and exhausting!
Elder Evergreen could not use such a method. The Worker Ants and Soldier Ants before him were just small fries. He had to conserve his power for the Ant King!
Fortunately, Elder Evergreen was not just any Earth Transcendent. He was an earth spirit that had also gained an affinity with the wood element!
On the Grassland Region, where the fields of greens stretched as far as the eye could see, every stalk of grass—No, every blade of grass could be used as his weapon!
A mixture of brown and greenish energy gushed out of Elder Evergreen before seeping into the scattered grass along the ground, destroyed by his earlier attack.
The grass on the ground was all curled up and listless like broken dolls, but after receiving the elder's energy, they all became sharp and erected upright like they had just received aphrodisiac—Ahem, steroids.
Elder Evergreen dispelled the many pillars of earthen spikes with a wave of his hands and sent the countless straight blades of grass flying into the charging ants like he was tossing knives.
In that instance, the blades of grass proved to be incredibly lethal. With the tenacity of wood, the hardening of earth, the blades of grass diced up the ants into countless pieces.
”Incredible! Such Lethality! I can't believe grass can do so much!”
”You are looking at it wrong! It's because Elder Evergreen is already an almighty Transcendent that grass can produce such results!”
”Yeah, although I already suspected it, seeing is believing. Elder Evergreen really could manipulate both wood and earth!”