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Chapter 289: Frost Serpent’s Plan
The two Totem-level humanoid insect creatures seemed to have anticipated everything happening before them.
They didn’t even make the slightest evasive maneuvers, merely watching indifferently as the Frost Serpent was blocked layer upon layer by the Low Tier insect race with their flesh and blood.
Watching the insect corpses continually fall from the sky, there wasn’t a trace of pity in their eyes, instead, a hint of cruel excitement emerged.
The Swarm is never short of Low Tier units.
In their resource-deprived homeland, High-tier Insect Race would even order lower units to die willingly, transforming them into pure Energy for their own absorption.
Thus, in their view, this life-sacrificing consumption—
is nothing but a worthwhile investment.
The more Swarm die, the stronger the Frost Serpent shows itself to be.
And the stronger the prey, the more shocking the growth after devouring...
"Why struggle in vain?"
The green humanoid insect creature suddenly spread its arms, its voice cold and mocking.
The dense swarm gathered before it as if summoned, forming a writhing wall of Shade.
"Even if every Swarm can only absorb a trace of your Energy—"
It grinned a nearly ghastly smile.
"But in the face of this endless Swarm... how long can you last?"
The most dreaded aspect of the Swarm is their feeding on Life Force and Spiritual Power.
Once entangled, you’ll end up being drained of everything, turned into a skeleton.
However, the Swarm does have weaknesses.
Individually, their Life Force is extremely fragile, and their power far inferior to other creatures of the same class.
But they never fight alone.
Their endless numbers are enough to cover any defect.
"We, the Swarm, are the most perfect existences in the world!"
The green humanoid insect creature looked at the Frost Serpent trapped layer upon layer by the Swarm, a cold smile playing on its lips.
Even if this Vicious Beast’s power far exceeds theirs, under the Swarm’s grinding, it will eventually exhaust its strength and perish.
The Frost Serpent’s expression was extremely grim at this moment.
Though it was an ancient Vicious Beast, it was the first time it faced such a troublesome opponent.
Each of its attacks could smash a swath of Swarm, but in an instant, the gaps would be filled by new Swarm.
At this moment, it had been completely surrounded by the dark mass of Swarm.
Its vision was full of writhing insect bodies, its ears filled with an irritating hum.
The Frost Serpent’s eyes deepened, suddenly opening a Shade-blue protective shield, enveloping itself—
This barrier was enough to block direct contact with the Swarm, preventing Energy absorption.
Yet the next moment,
its pupils contracted sharply.
The Swarm unexpectedly clung to the shield’s surface, greedily absorbing the Energy of the shield itself!
Though each Swarm absorbed very little, with thousands devouring at once, the shield’s Energy was visibly dwindling...
The Frost Serpent’s heart sank.
At this rate, it might really...
be drained alive here.
What’s more, the two Totem-level Swarm hadn’t even taken real action, watching coldly from the battle circle’s periphery like hunters waiting for the opportunity.
The Frost Serpent was unsure of what abilities they hid, which made it extra vigilant.
At that moment, the thought of retreating arose.
"Crack—!!"
A crisp sound suddenly came, the Shade-blue shield it upheld finally showing cracks under the Swarm’s continuous devouring.
It couldn’t continue this way any longer.
Leaving the Snow Domain at most would slow its growth rate.
Unlike the Snow Maiden, it didn’t completely rely on the extreme cold for survival.
Even if it left, it could continue cultivating by absorbing the Demonic Qi of heaven and earth.
Though it would be slower...
it’s still better than losing its life here!
With this thought, the Frost Serpent no longer hesitated.
The mess here could be left to the Snow Maiden to worry about.
It was not staying!
However, it was also clear that it had been long locked onto by the two High-tier Insect Race, escaping wouldn’t be easy.
Fortunately...
it had a backup plan all along.
The reason it involved the Snow Wolf Clan and those Vicious Beasts was for moments like this.
The Frost Serpent’s gaze turned icy, its aura exploding!
The next instant,
it revealed its true form—
A colossal serpent, hundreds of meters long, suddenly coiled among the battlefield, its body covered in ice-blue, jade-like scales, an icy chill sweeping in all directions.
Revealing its true body meant it no longer withheld any power.
"Roar——!!!"
A serpent’s roar fearsomely rang, sound waves mixed with extreme cold surged out in rings, vast swathes of Swarm instantly shattered, frozen, and obliterated into dust!
In an instant, the dense Swarm was cleared into a temporary vacuum zone.
The two humanoid insect creatures witnessed the Frost Serpent showing its true form and felt no fear; instead, their eyes flickered with greed and excitement.
"Finally willing to reveal your true form!"
They rejoiced inwardly.
While in humanoid form, the Frost Serpent was flexible, but its size was too small, limiting the number of Swarm that could attack it at once, prolonging the war of attrition.
But now, this massive serpent body, hundreds of meters long, meant more Swarm could simultaneously leap on to absorb Energy—
The speed of their victory was bound to accelerate greatly.
Yet they didn’t know, the Frost Serpent had long lost its will to fight.
It gave a cold glance at the two Swarm, the next moment, its massive body twisted sharply, seemingly about to flee—
"You can’t escape!"
The two humanoid insect creatures sneered, having long laid heavy forces on the Frost Serpent’s potential retreat paths, ambushing the Swarm’s elite forces.
Once it broke through in that direction, it would only exhaust its power faster.
But at this moment, the Frost Serpent suddenly turned, not leaving the battlefield, but instead rushing towards the Snow Wolf Clan!
Its goal was not to escape, but to—
force the Snow Guardian to act!
To be a reliance of the Snow Maiden and one of the two dominators of the Snow Domain, the Snow Guardian was certainly extraordinary.
Its true strength had long surpassed ordinary Totem level, merely deeply restrained daily, rarely revealed.
This guardian formed by ice and snow possessed an extremely special ability.
It could instantly unleash all its inner Energy, driving its power to an unimaginable level, even temporarily surpassing the Frost Serpent itself.
This was one of the reasons the Frost Serpent had never actually attacked the Snow Maiden.
But...
the cost of this move was death.
And now, the Frost Serpent aimed to force the Snow Guardian down this dead-end.
And attacking the Snow Wolf Clan was the quickest, most effective method—
As long as the tribe faced a survival crisis, the Snow Guardian would never sit idly by.
Moments later, the Frost Serpent’s mountainous body had already crashed near the Snow Wolf Clan’s position!
Relying on its massive, mountain-like body, it whipped its tail with overwhelming force—
The huge, ice-covered tail smashed down with crushing power!
"Boom!!!!!!!!!"
Just one blow, and the defense line the Snow Wolf Clan had desperately maintained shattered instantly.
Ice chips and snow dust erupted into the sky, the wolf pack’s wails scattered, their once orderly formation torn open with a huge breach.
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