Its body was enormous and soft, head to tail spanning a kilometer, four membrane wings longer than its body unfurled like horizon clouds in pale purple and pink sheen. Invisible air currents stroked the translucent veils, rippling like waves—spectacular.
The long insect body segmented asymmetrically, undulating in waves. From mismatched segments extended hundreds of jointed limbs, tips blooming into oval lenses—each a lost world.
The forefront was a five-meter-wide tentacle crown, swaying languidly in the air like a giant jellyfish cruising the deep sea.
Ashley narrowed her eyes, spotting a transparent, tender small body within the crown—utterly unlike human bones and organs. Faintly, forked veins and branch-like fish spines, limbs joined by round translucent cartilage.
The Lost Corridor hadn’t separated from the main body yet, still connected.
The Lord of Insects observed her too, waves of consciousness pulses sweeping over, humming with arrogance and disdain.
However, judging from its form, it resembled a parasitic wasp, lacking a compact and sturdy combat structure or the ability to move a thousand miles in an instant. Its attack methods were probably similar to those of a jellyfish, using tentacles to paralyze prey before dragging it into the tentacle crown to dissolve and absorb it. It wasn’t particularly formidable in combat.
Ashley charged straight at the giant insect spiraling in the sky!
Sensing her action, countless tiny electrical signals swept across the amber-like ground, and the insect eggs swelled one after another before bursting!
Splash!
As the gaunt, towering figures rose with hands on knees, large streams of mucus slid down the knights’ shells, refracting crystalline light.
This batch of Venerable King Knights was clearly different from the previous rabble. Their insect shells resembled medieval knight armor, with a texture like glaze or jade—pure white throughout, sharply angular, and emanating a sacred solemnity.
As the first insect knight flashed toward her, Ashley immediately sensed something was off!
Like a hot knife through butter, the outer layer of fusion beasts shattered in an instant and flew upward, unable to impede it in the slightest!
The Silver Knight slashed forward!
Four-Dimensional Slaughter!
But the Venerable King Knight unfurled its body ahead of time, twisting its slender waist to weave through the gaps in the dozens of slashing lines! Even slight contact failed to breach the incredibly hard insect shell.
Ashley quickly realized this wasn’t Observation Haki—it was a prediction based on computing a four-dimensional model!
Though it wasn’t hard to deduce that the enemy possessed a super brain machine, she hadn’t expected it to be used for calculating projection models that pierced four dimensions into three.
By the moment the Silver Knight swung his sword, the modeling and computation of the path that minimized damage had already been completed and transmitted to the Venerable King Knight in time.
The sword of the Rift City Lord copy was merely a supernatural manifestation, vastly inferior to the original S-Rank Relic “Starshatter.” It faltered immediately once the intensity threshold was exceeded.
“City No. 1 has the most brain machines. The enemy transmits neural signals through the ground as a medium. As long as the insect knights’ feet touch the ground, they can use the super brain to predict our attacks—like an anti-missile interception system.”
Ashley stomped her foot. The jade-like ground was designed to enhance neural signal conduction speed, similar to the role of optical fiber.
At that moment, Rich Loli slipped into the Slanted House and tossed Ashley a deep red seed with a multifaceted, fractured surface—the B-Rank Relic “Strong Mycelium Carpet”!
This was a ferocious slime mold. Once planted, it would voraciously devour all matter it touched, forming a dense and tough mycelium carpet. Spelunkers used it to remove toxic substances from terrain and prevent enemies from launching attacks from underground.
Ashley crushed the seed and threw it to the ground. In an instant, deep red mycelium surged and spread, covering the surface like a massive slab of red velvet cake.
Now, with the Venerable King Knights separated from the main will’s neural signals by the mycelium carpet, their evasion efficiency dropped dramatically. Their shells began to shatter under the four-dimensional onslaught, emitting deafening explosions!
“My god…” Ashley’s little face paled. From the sound alone, she knew the shell’s toughness was like a hundred-ton hydraulic press snapping a high-carbon steel plate!
She began to realize there were traits like supernatural resistance and supernatural toughness—attack intensity needed to exceed a certain level to break through.
Fortunately, once the insect knights suffered casualties, “God’s Palette” swiftly produced fusion knights to fill the gaps in the defensive line.
But upon discovering that the mycelium carpet’s range was fixed, the main will orchestrating from behind changed strategies. It no longer directed the Venerable King Knights to charge but instead had them prowl the periphery.
Ashley’s heart sank. She had planned to grow stronger by recycling kills through prolonged battle, but the opponent remained intelligently cautious. If they got bogged down and trapped here, it would surely disadvantage her side.
Suddenly, the 【Lost Corridor】 in the sky emitted a long insect cry, its echo clear and lingering, rippling in layers.
Then, it slowly descended, sprawling on the ground. The Venerable King Knights retreated like the tide for a hundred meters, parting to both sides and forming a path.
Ashley stared blankly at the figure the knights flanked in welcome. The possibility was minuscule, but it had indeed happened—the King Insect had arrived in person!
