# Chapter 6: Palpitation and Nightmare
The insect corpses scattered everywhere were dissolved by the semi-fluid substance resembling magma on the ground, and a pungent strange smell permeated the air.
After confirming that Rage Armor's mental fluctuations had subsided, Su Xiao hurried back to his own insect nest base camp. As for the transaction just now with Rage Armor, whether the other party believed it or not, Su Xiao didn't know. In any case, he himself didn't believe it.
Given the current situation, Su Xiao truly didn't think this so-called transaction could be achieved. Of course, if Rage Armor's intelligence was severely lacking and the other party actually waited five days, then he would have nothing to say.
Su Xiao would not pin the hope of smoothly getting through the initial phase on whether Rage Armor was smart or stupid. Moreover, judging from Rage Armor's series of operations just now—using others to kill, borrowing the tiger's might—the other party was truly not stupid.
While pondering, Su Xiao arrived at the base camp valley. On the light green fungal carpet, many Scythe Armors were busy around the insect nest.
Bubu Wang had already gone out. Whether things would go smoothly next depended on its performance.
"Moo."
Amu was holding an insect clan warrior by one hand. This insect warrior was covered in black armor, humanoid in shape, but it had a single horn and a bony long tail. Its breathing pores were located under both sides of its cheeks, like gill lines that could expand.
This black-armored insect warrior was covered in frost all over. Judging by the situation, it should have infiltrated to assassinate Jila, but was killed by Amu.
Amu threw this black-armored warrior onto a pile of corpses nearby. The black-armored warriors it had intercepted had already formed a small pile.
Without needing to think, these black-armored warriors were sent by the insect clan leader, Rage Armor. It seemed the other party also didn't believe in the transaction just discussed.
Su Xiao was already prepared for this. He transmitted a mental command to Jila, telling her to contract the insect nest as much as possible and to retract the insect nest roots that extended several hundred meters underground.
The insect nest didn't need to absorb moisture or such from underground. This structure was meant to maintain stability, preventing the insect nest from tilting after being subjected to high-intensity impacts.
Su Xiao understood clearly now. These native insect clans were typical—beat the son, and the father comes; beat the father, and the grandfather comes. Casually provoking an insect nest occupying a life mineral vein, even if that nest was a weaker fifth-rank, would invite retaliation from its protector.
The spider insect nest they had destroyed earlier was like this. 80% of the life ore mined there was tributed to Rage Armor as protection fees.
Originally, Su Xiao planned to have Jila's tribe develop in this world as ordinary insect clans. But unfortunately, given the social structure of native insect clans, foreign forces had little opportunity to develop. Since that was the case, they would drop the pretense and develop directly as a war insect clan.
As for possibly making the Empire feel threatened and thus being attacked, they couldn't worry about that for now. Here, worrying too much left no room for development; they had to take risks.
Su Xiao's next plan was to move their insect nest to the location of the spider insect nest, devour that nest, and settle their base camp nest on the life mineral vein.
This would eliminate the problem of possible interception during transport. The mined life ore, after being sent up from the underground mine shafts, would be directly absorbed by the insect tide.
As long as this was achieved, even if Rage Armor's combat insect warriors attacked, it wouldn't be a problem. With their fungal carpet, whether it was Demon Beasts or the enemy's black-armored insect warriors, when they died on the fungal carpet, they would be absorbed, becoming biological energy reserves for the insect nest.
As long as Rage Armor couldn't break through their defenses and couldn't destroy their insect nest, they would grow stronger the longer they fought.
The contraction of the insect nest took nearly an hour to complete. The entire nest tightened into a giant sphere, about three-fifths of its original volume.
The 30 Spore Tanks that had been recalled fused together, forming a super-giant Spore Tank. This Spore Tank surged toward the contracted spherical nest, wrapping it inside, with a large number of semi-transparent tentacles extending from its front.
A total of over 2000 Demon Beasts wrapped their long tails around the tentacles of the Spore Tank, then dragged the Spore Tank forward.
Originally, the Spore Tank wrapping the nest could only surge forward slowly. With the Demon Beasts dragging it, the movement speed increased significantly. It would take about 2-3 hours to reach the mineral vein location.
Su Xiao was certain that Rage Armor had already placed spies nearby. Would the other party give up this opportunity? The answer was absolutely not. That depended on Bubu Wang's methods over there.
The current situation was: Baha, along with several hundred Demon Beasts, was guarding the mineral vein + 20,000 Worker Scorpions at the spider insect nest. Amu was responsible for escorting their base camp nest and Jila.
Bubu Wang was dealing with Rage Armor's side, while Su Xiao was on guard against a possible powerful enemy.
Night had long fallen. The stars filled the sky, but there was no moon tonight.
One by one, Demon Beasts ran ahead, using their tail blades to sweep down trees and such. Behind them was a large group of Demon Beasts dragging the super-giant Spore Tank, and further behind were Su Xiao and Amu.
After traveling about half a kilometer, Su Xiao stopped and let Amu continue escorting the nest forward.
Before long, the surging sound of the super-giant Spore Tank and the running sounds of the Demon Beasts faded away. The surroundings became quiet. Tonight was dark and windy—a good day for killing.
Su Xiao pressed one hand on his sword hilt, his gaze fixed on the dense forest to his right. An "old friend" was there.
"I didn't expect you could completely kill Gray Gentleman."
A familiar voice came. With graying hair and a kind smile on his face, Priest walked out from the dense forest, holding a book resembling a Bible in his hand.
Clang~
The long blade was drawn from its sheath. Blood energy spread. The plants around Su Xiao, stimulated by the blood energy, showed signs of wild growth and ferocity. Seeing this, Priest raised his hand and tapped his chest, forehead, and other spots, tracing a cross overall.
"We don't have to be enemies. Or rather, we won't always be enemies. In most cases, neither you nor I stand on the side of order or justice. Since that's the case, why kill each other?"
Priest still had a kind smile on his face, and the Bible in his hand faintly emitted an ominous aura.
"White Night, consider this a welcome gift. I'll give you a piece of intelligence this time. Develop your insect clan scale as quickly as possible. Neither of us has much time left. I don't know which bastard..."
Priest stopped mid-sentence, suppressing the urge to curse. Even with his composure, he felt like cursing, which showed the severity of the matter.
"This world, as a whole, is like a miniature solar system. There are probably still a few dozen surviving planets, all revolving around this sun. And further outside, there's nothingness."
As Priest spoke, the smile on his face slowly faded. He continued:
"Normally, we would be teleported to the Alien Battlefield: Pandora Star, using insect clans to develop, competing with other insect nests and even the Empire for resources. But..."
Priest suddenly stopped here. This old fellow had mastered the art of leaving things half-said to death.
"..."
Su Xiao sheathed his long blade. Seeing this, Priest continued:
"The development of events should have been as I described. The problem is, a 'disaster star' has arrived. After this 'disaster star' enters this world, it will cause the 'nightmare' to gradually awaken. Before long, this world will reach nightmare difficulty. White Night, have you ever been to a world with a nightmare prefix? Gray Gentleman and I went together once. He lost ninety percent of his secret puppets, and I lost my origin power. That's why I took the risk to seize the power of an ancient god."
After speaking, Priest sized up Su Xiao, as if asking whether he was that disaster star.
"Disaster star? Nightmare? Nonsense."
Su Xiao's hand returned to his sword hilt. Although he could be 99% certain that the disaster star Priest mentioned was himself, who had entered this world with the "Beginning of Nightmare," he absolutely couldn't admit to this.
From what Priest meant, the current danger level of this world wasn't low, given the existence of forces like the Empire. But after completing the process of "Nightmare Awakening," the danger level of this world would skyrocket, to the point where if one didn't develop their insect nest to a level capable of opposing the Empire, they wouldn't even qualify to continue surviving.
If other contractors who entered this world found out about this, they would definitely come to fight Su Xiao to the death. After all, developing insect clans to a level capable of opposing the Empire, and only being able to survive after the "Nightmare Awakening"—this intensity was enough to make one's scalp tingle just hearing about it.
"White Night, the person who triggered the disaster awakening couldn't be you, could it?"
Priest smiled kindly, and no one knew what he was thinking at this moment.
"..."
Su Xiao didn't explain. He just pressed one hand on his sword hilt. Unless necessary, he wouldn't act rashly. Priest, this old thing, was too eerie.
"It seems it's not you. See you around."
Leaving these words, Priest turned and walked into the dense forest.
After Priest left, Su Xiao pondered for a moment. Regarding the "Nightmare Awakening" the other party mentioned, he had no clue at all. This kind of hidden world information would never appear in the world introduction.
Since it was unknown, he could only develop as quickly as possible. Su Xiao leaped onto the back of a Demon Beast and issued a mental command for it to head toward the escort team.
While traveling, the cool night wind brushed against his face. Su Xiao opened the world communication platform and scrolled through the text messages. He often did this to understand if there were any major upheavals among the contractors in this world.
There were two pieces of intelligence. The Necromancer Girl had destroyed an eighth-rank insect nest, meaning she had killed an insect clan mother queen. One person being an entire undead legion—the Necromancer Girl was not living off her reputation.
Black Demon was causing trouble on the Company faction's side. According to contractors on the Company faction's side, the Company faction located in the east was gradually putting on a "pain mask."
Other than that, there were no major news. Su Xiao casually scrolled up and noticed a team recruitment message that caught his attention.
The content of this recruitment message was: recruiting space-type, healing-type, barrier-type, and perception-type teammates. No specific details were given, only that it was about escorting Empire citizens to Pandora Star.
This was very confusing. The Empire's home planet, "Oka Star," should be a very peaceful place. Why would Empire citizens not stay in such a good place and instead have contractors escort them on an air rail ship to Pandora Star? This was a battlefield.
With Su Xiao's limited intelligence, he couldn't yet determine what this situation meant. Judging from the attitude shown by the Third Fleet earlier, the Empire's home planet seemed to have no problems. Or perhaps the Third Fleet was deliberately acting this way to avoid being seen through by the insect clans or the Company faction.
Su Xiao temporarily set these thoughts aside. He stood on the Demon Beast's back as it ran at full speed, and their escort team appeared ahead.
Just then, a golden-red light flashed in the northwest direction. The strong light there lasted for a few seconds before gradually dimming.
Su Xiao was all too familiar with this scene. That was what an ordinary Apollo looked like when it exploded at night.
The escort team continued moving toward the spider insect nest. After the sky flashed with golden-red light twice more, Su Xiao arrived at the predetermined location.
Worker Scorpions had already dismantled the spider insect nest, revealing multiple mine shafts leading underground.
The super-giant Spore Tank split open, revealing the insect nest wrapped inside. Under Jila's control, the insect nest slowly crawled to the designated location. After covering the exposed multiple underground mine shafts, the insect nest gradually relaxed and expanded back to its original size. Dark purple tentacle-like structures penetrated underground to stabilize the nest.
After more than half an hour, the base camp nest had returned to its previous appearance. The fungal carpet spread outward along the ground. Scythe Armors and Worker Scorpions became busy, the former maintaining the nest and the latter going underground to mine.
The terrain here was open, surrounded by grassland. Once an enemy attacked, they would assault the insect nest from all directions.
Su Xiao stood atop the 80-meter-high insect nest, surveying the surroundings. After the nest stabilized, the constant feeling of being watched nearby weakened slightly, indicating that some of the observers had left to report back. Without a doubt, these observers were sent by Rage Armor.
Why hadn't Rage Armor sent its insect warriors to attack when such a good opportunity presented itself? In fact, Rage Armor had indeed planned to do so. But just as it was about to order its black-armored insect warriors to set out, Bubu Wang, who was keeping watch over there, chose to detonate an ordinary Apollo in an open area.
The reason for detonating it in an open area was that an ordinary Apollo had a 25-second detonation time and, when activated, would cause a strong sense of crisis within a 2000-meter radius. If detonated near Rage Armor's insect tide, it would definitely be discovered.
Bubu Wang didn't think it could blow up Rage Armor's nest. It was demonstrating that if Rage Armor dared to transfer too many combat insect warriors away from its home base, its home base would eat an Apollo.
As everyone knew, night gave Apollo a bonus. Suddenly, a small sun appeared, making anyone's heart skip a beat. Rage Armor was no exception.
Bubu Wang detonated three ordinary Apollos in succession. After a series of Apollo warnings, it bought enough time for their side to move.
Besides the Apollo warnings, Bubu Wang also infiltrated Rage Armor's nest and left in the nest chamber where Rage Armor was located: "Bubuteni was here."
This was actually quite frightening. Rage Armor, as an insect clan leader, was naturally a psychic type and strong in perception, yet it couldn't detect Bubu Wang at all.
Originally, Rage Armor thought to endure it and stabilize. But when it stabilized until around 11 PM, Rage Armor felt that enduring only made it angrier, and retreating only made it feel more at a loss. Today, it would let that foreign insect clan know who was the ruler of this planet... cough, who was the overlord of this area.
In the somewhat dim nest chamber, Rage Armor opened its brownish-yellow vertical pupils and issued a mental command, ordering 21,000 insect warriors, 40 Horn Hounds, and 12 Armored Giants to go to battle. Target: Jila's insect nest.
"Roar!"
The Armored Giants, covered in black shell armor with a large number of black tentacles hanging from their heads, roared. Black insect warriors ran at full speed in one direction. They had large hand claws capable of tearing enemies apart, and their bone tails were also weapons in critical moments.
Boom, boom, boom...
The black-armored giants, over 15 meters tall, strode forward. A total of 12 black-armored giants moved together, accompanied by insect warriors rushing past from their left and right sides. The scene was quite spectacular.
Among them, several dozen Horn Hounds were also running. Their skin was blood-red, hairless, and their body size was slightly larger than an adult lion. The aura of these several dozen Horn Hounds was even stronger than Rage Armor's proudest troop type, the Black-armored Giants.
In the night, Bubu Wang mixed in with Rage Armor's army as they ran. This allowed it to scout enemy movements at any time and was also on the way home.
...
"Hu~"
Su Xiao exhaled a puff of smoke. He sat cross-legged on top of the base camp nest. Through practice, he found that stable development was completely impossible. The insect clans of this world were not purely war races; they had their own social system and were very adept at collecting protection fees.
Dense, heavy running sounds came from afar. Looking out, densely packed insect warriors were charging in.
Bang.
A sonic boom came from a black-armored giant throwing a dark red long cone in its hand. This long cone was nearly 5 meters long, composed of chitin mixed with a corrosive + explosive energy.
Boom!
The dark red long cone hit the upper-middle part of the base camp nest. Su Xiao did not defend against it, wanting to assess the defensive capability of their nest.
The dark purple biological armor layer fell off. The base camp nest's defense was breached. The outer armor was broken through, but it didn't cause too serious internal damage. As long as biological energy was consumed, the outer armor could regenerate.
Overall, with the ranged attacks of those black-armored giants, as long as they weren't given the opportunity to focus fire on the same point, they couldn't do much to their nest.
Of course, this was under the condition that they could defend against the enemy insect warriors. Once the Demon Beasts couldn't hold off the insect warriors, and the insect warriors surrounded the base camp nest to attack, the nest would be destroyed in a short time.
According to Bubu Wang's observations, the enemy nest had a total of over 50,000 insect warriors. At least 20,000 had been sent this time. Rage Armor was truly angry this time. Thinking about it, if its underling was destroyed and it didn't show any reaction, it wouldn't be able to get along in the insect circle from now on.
This time, over 20,000 enemies attacked, and among them were several dozen elite units. Their defensive force, at most, was only 3,956 Demon Beasts.
Facing the insect warriors charging from all around, the Demon Beasts formed a circle on the fungal carpet, establishing a defensive line to protect the nest.
On the fungal carpet, an insect warrior crouched and charged forward. Its two hand claws surged and transformed into two weapons resembling swords and cones, attached to its arms. Against Demon Beasts, this kind of cone sword was obviously more effective.
Clang!
The cone sword clashed with a tail blade. Although both were biological structures, they sparked upon impact.
Looking down from above, the insect warriors attacking from all directions soon became embroiled in a melee with the Demon Beasts forming a circular defense. Insect blood, shells, and severed limbs flew everywhere. Upon landing, they were quickly decomposed and absorbed by the fungal carpet.
On the battlefield, besides the sounds of weapons clashing and the rumbling of feet pounding the ground, there were the roars of the black-armored giants or the angry shouts and miserable screams of the insect warriors. In contrast, the Demon Beasts in battle neither roared nor screamed miserably. They were cold-blooded war creatures to the extreme.
Tail blades swept continuously. An insect warrior suddenly froze in place. The upper part of its head gradually slid off, and it died on the spot.
Nearby, a bloodstained Horn Hound charged at a Demon Beast. The Horn Hound's form rapidly changed, altering its flesh and blood form, creating sharp spikes, or directly turning into a dark red fluid that climbed onto the Demon Beast's surface, devouring the Demon Beast into residue.
The performance of the Horn Hounds was vastly different from the insect warriors and black-armored giants. For a moment, their defensive line was almost breached by several dozen Horn Hounds.
As the battle on the field became more and more tragic, the fungal carpet on the ground decomposed and absorbed the corpses of both sides, converting a large amount of biological energy to the nest.
Su Xiao stood on top of the nest. In the first encounter, their Demon Beasts had died down to only 3,000. But in just this short time, the nest's biological energy reserves reached 19,120 points. This was much faster than mining.
A whole day of mining was not as good as three minutes of battle.
Su Xiao had Jila control the nest to cultivate Demon Beasts. At this stage, the base camp nest's Demon Beast cultivation speed was one batch every 5 minutes, with 1,000 per batch.
Don't think this was fast. This was actually a reduced speed. Back on the Primordial Continent, it was one batch every 2 minutes, with 1,950 per batch. Now, the growth upper limit had been increased. Once it advanced to an eighth-rank nest, surpassing the past was not a problem.
The melee continued. Amu, standing before the main entrance of the nest, held the Dragonheart Axe in one hand, standing there like a war god. It had already killed over a dozen Horn Hounds, and the two black-armored giants that had just charged over were also killed by it.
At this moment, Rage Armor, observing the battle from the shadows, had already regarded Amu as the strongest combat power on Su Xiao's side.
Baha's voice flickered continuously. Every time it space-shifted, it would bring up a spray of insect blood and cause an insect warrior to fall. As for Su Xiao, he remained sitting on top of the base camp nest.
On the defensive line, as Demon Beasts were killed by the enemy one by one, their defensive line began to show gaps. Some insect warriors took the opportunity to rush under the nest and attack it.
At this critical moment, Demon Beasts rushed out from inside the nest. A total of 992 Demon Beasts joined the circular defensive line. The addition of this fresh force stabilized the circular line again.
10 minutes into the battle, over a thousand Demon Beasts rushed out from the nest. This caused the circular defensive line to begin expanding, slowly pushing the enemy outward.
2 hours into the battle, Rage Armor, observing the battle in a mental possession state, discovered a very serious problem: the number of enemy troops seemed to be more than its own, reaching at least over 12,000.
After confirming this, Rage Armor's feelings were extremely complex. There was confusion, shock, and more importantly, a sense of impending doom.
In reality, Rage Armor misunderstood. If it hadn't come to attack Su Xiao's side, due to the characteristics of Jila's group, Su Xiao's side would have needed several days of development to reach its current scale. Jila was a pure carnivore; developing by eating vegetation was slow.
Discovering that the enemy was growing stronger the more they fought, Rage Armor decisively stopped the attack and ordered all insect warriors to retreat.
As the saying goes, coming was easy, but retreating was not so simple. The Demon Beast force left 3,000 to guard the base camp, and the remaining 9,753 all went to pursue the enemy.
Seeing this, Su Xiao leaped down from the nest. During his descent, he suddenly disappeared. Along with him, Bubu Wang and Baha also disappeared, leaving only Amu, who had swum through a world's ocean and arrived in this world as fierce as a war god, to guard the home.
2.3 kilometers west of the base camp nest, the retreating insect warriors were fiercely pursued by the Demon Beasts. Along the path both sides took, insect blood and warm organ tissues were everywhere. The smell of blood and the stench of organs assailed the nostrils.
Screams continued incessantly. The insect warriors fought while retreating. Rage Armor, witnessing all this, knew this wouldn't do. After hesitating repeatedly, it decided to send 10,000 insect warriors to support this remnant force in retreating.
Beside Rage Armor's nest, insect warriors that had received the order rushed toward the battle location. As a result, the combat insect warriors guarding Rage Armor's nest were reduced to just over 20,000, falling into unprecedented emptiness.
One kilometer from Rage Armor's nest, spatial fluctuations appeared. Baha opened a different space. The first to come out was Bubu Wang, who had blended into the environment, followed by Su Xiao and Baha.
Su Xiao looked at Rage Armor's nest ahead. He had come alone to this place to make a big score.
As the saying goes, a horse won't fatten without night grass. If he could destroy Rage Armor's nest, with this startup capital, Jila could not only advance to the "Mother Queen Level" but also have a large surplus of biological energy.
The life mineral vein beneath Rage Armor's nest was a large-scale vein, not comparable to the small-scale vein they were currently mining.
In short, destroy Rage Armor, and Jila would take off immediately.
Su Xiao drew the long blade from his waist. Alone, with one sword, he walked toward Rage Armor's nest. A feeling of being perception-locked appeared. It was a sensing-type insect clan building of Rage Armor's nest.
Dong~
A fluctuation spread out. All insect nest warriors near the nest entered combat mode. Ignoring the fact that they might trample their companions, they surrounded Su Xiao in a frenzied manner.
Su Xiao disappeared from his spot. When he reappeared, he had used Dragon Shadow Flash to move 50 meters forward. He appeared among many insect warriors, so close that he could smell the stench of these humanoid, black-armored combat insects.
'Blade Path Sword: Super Ring Break!'
After a very brief buildup of power, Su Xiao drew his blade and slashed. A light blue circular slashing wave spread outward.
Puchi, puchi, puchi...
Insect warriors within 200 meters around were either cut in half at the waist or, in a crouched charging posture, had their chests and abdomens slashed open, with both arms also severed.
'Blade Path Sword: Blood Blade.'
In the encirclement, Su Xiao suddenly transformed into a blood shadow. After ultra-limit speed assaulting a great distance, he also slashed out three blood rays. The power of these three blood rays had undergone a qualitative change compared to before. The blood-colored slashing waves cut through the insect warriors' defensive line and then plunged into the nest behind them, cutting through the nest.
Taking advantage of the surrounding insect warriors being cleared by Ring Break, Su Xiao rushed forward at full speed. But before he could go far, the surrounding insect warriors surrounded him again.
'Blade Domain.'
Slash marks appeared all around. With Su Xiao at the center, all insect warriors within 100 meters were cut into sugar-cube-sized pieces. It could only be said that this was indeed a godly skill for bullying the weak. Activating it for just 1 second produced this lethality.
Su Xiao disappeared again. After using Dragon Shadow Flash to move 50 meters and rushing forward at full speed, he was surrounded by insect warriors again. He activated Blade Domain, still only for 1 second before closing, leaving behind a large area of falling bloodstains.
'Blade Path Sword: Blood Blade.'
'Blade Path Sword: Ring Break.'
Su Xiao transformed into a blood-red afterimage and assaulted among the insect warriors. The slashing wave of Ring Break spread outward. From the start of the battle until now, the insect warriors hadn't had a chance to attack Su Xiao.
After clearing the surrounding enemies, Su Xiao made his final assault, arriving in front of the nest. He activated Blade Domain for the third time.
Clang, clang, clang...
Insect blood splattered everywhere. When this scene appeared, among the surrounding insect warriors, a few actually retreated half a step. This was the disadvantage of insect clan units having individual consciousness—they would fear death.
Sugar-cube-sized pieces fell to the ground. This time, not only were the insect warriors within 100 meters cleared, but even the nest was shattered into a large piece.
From beginning to end, the enemy's defensive-type insect clan buildings hadn't been activated. This was Bubu Wang's great achievement. Otherwise, those insect clan buildings would have been very difficult to deal with.
Su Xiao dodged into the main passage of the nest. A crystal layer immediately appeared behind him, sealing the entrance.
Several auras came from ahead. These auras were not to be trifled with. They should be Rage Armor's most capable elite subordinates.
A total of five black-armored warriors charged over. Their armor, composed of shells, had golden lines distributed on it.
Seeing five enemies, Su Xiao's aura condensed. When all five enemies rushed to the front.
'Blade Path Sword: Time.'
Dong~
The impact of Time spread. Everything around slowed down, including the five elite black-armored warriors ahead.
Su Xiao's left hand pulled the Dead Silence Extinction from the air. He raised the muzzle and aimed at the forehead of an elite black-armored warrior.
Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang.
In the environment where everything around was slowed down, Su Xiao pulled the trigger one by one. Extinction bullets shot out, one by one plunging into the heads of the five elite black-armored warriors. The bullet holes on their heads first weathered into ash around the edges, then most of their heads turned into residue and scattered down.
Su Xiao continued forward. As he walked, the elite black-armored warriors on both sides fell to the ground one after another, dead.
Five minutes later.
Bang!
An insect warrior was kicked into pieces. Its body, like shotgun bullets, blasted a several-meter-sized hole in a wall composed of biological tissue.
Su Xiao walked through this hole into a spacious nest chamber. Blood dripped from the tip of his blade. He looked at Rage Armor, who was sitting on a flesh and blood throne opposite.
Rage Armor's form was humanoid. It had four arms and was covered in gold-black bone armor, with sharp edges and clear lines.
"Human, you are too arrogant. How dare you... stand before me."
After Rage Armor spoke, its eyes glared wide. A visible mental impact spread outward. A cone composed of mental force shot straight toward Su Xiao's forehead, intending to forcibly control Su Xiao.
"Not good!"
Baha, who had followed, exclaimed in surprise. Whether it was an insect clan mother body or an insect clan leader, both were precious rare plug-ins that could expand the gene pool reserves of their insect nest. But at this moment, Rage Armor was trying to commit suicide.
Once Rage Armor attempted to control Su Xiao with mental force, it would be nullified by the Blade Grandmaster. After Su Xiao's control was nullified, his passive ability "Soul Gaze" would activate.
The mental cone plunged into Su Xiao's forehead. He had no reaction at all, standing there expressionlessly. Although "Soul Gaze" was a passive ability, it was still his ability, and he could control it freely.
"You..."
Rage Armor looked at Su Xiao, its eyes full of confusion.
Su Xiao ignored Rage Armor's confusion. He strode forward. Seeing this, Rage Armor opposite made as if to release a second mental impact.
Bang!
Su Xiao punched Rage Armor's head, almost flattening it. This made him frown. He really hadn't expected that the other party, covered in bone armor, would be so fragile.
To be safe, Su Xiao took out a recovery potion that was about to expire and injected it into Rage Armor, lest this precious plug-in die.
[Prompt: You have controlled the insect clan leader, Rage Armor.]
[Due to your actions, you have caused Rage Armor to feel immense anger, yet be powerless.]
[Your reputation value -270 points.]
[Current reputation value: -320 reputation points.]