Chapter 16: Only Dragon Riders Can Counter Giant Monsters
The originally clear weather had, at some unknown point, become covered by dark clouds. No thunder rumbled from within the clouds, only a silence filled with a murderous aura.
The planned three-way insectoid assault on the Kara Hive did not occur. At this moment, the Kara Hive was no longer a collective but a single, massive entity.
Kara possessed a colossal body over 300 meters tall. Its lower half consisted of a ring of thick, armored legs supporting its frame in all directions. Of its eight massive arms, the top two had enormous hands with suction cups in their centers, while the six lower arms were biological cannons capable of firing at all angles.
Not only that, but Kara's back was covered in honeycomb-like holes that could launch tracking living missiles, half a meter long and as thick as a forearm.
The six biological cannons represented by the six massive arms were undoubtedly terrifying in power. The living missiles launched from its back were responsible for clearing the field or dealing with numerous enemies.
Furthermore, over 98.7% of Kara's 300-meter-tall body was covered in thick biological armor. This was no longer a creature; it was a living war fortress.
The biological cannons and living missiles were already difficult to handle, and the huge vertical eye on Kara's head was clearly also a weapon.
For a long time, Brutal·Kara had put on the posture of a home-defending maniac. Now it seemed that wasn't the case. Instead, it had changed its development method, first evolving various insectoid structures to a certain level, then fusing itself, the hive, all insectoid structures, and all combat insectoids into one. Finally, everything was concentrated into Kara itself.
Whether its choice was right or wrong was already obvious. Kara's choice was correct; otherwise, it wouldn't have reached the level of a World-Class creature.
The insectoids in this world were different from those in Su Xiao's understanding. For example, they were at most distant relatives of Jila. One side planned through reproduction, following biological instincts, while the other evolved through war, a pure war race.
Jila had no possibility of evolving into this form. As for Brutal·Kara, if Su Xiao wasn't mistaken, the other party had likely become some kind of unique existence in this world.
To put it in simpler terms, Brutal·Kara was another form of World Child, except it achieved this through its own efforts, which was worthy of respect.
That said, Su Xiao's current goal was to destroy this World-Class creature. Respecting an enemy was one thing, but that didn't hinder him from annihilating it. Only a dead enemy was a good enemy.
As Brutal·Kara launched a large number of living missiles, the Deep Crimson Queen above immediately ordered the Death Wings to retreat. Faced with Kara in this form, the Deep Crimson Queen couldn't help but feel intimidated; she had truly never seen anything like this before.
"Roar!"
Several dozen Sun Flame Dragons swooped forward. Since the incoming tracking missiles had already flown some distance, there was time to react. The dozens of Sun Flame Dragons simultaneously spewed dragonflame, blowing up the incoming living missiles.
Boom, boom, boom...
Muffled airbursts spread, the sound making one's heart ache faintly, showing the power of those living missiles.
Standing in front, Kara took steps forward with its armored legs. The heavy armor scraped and ground together with a creaking, grating sound due to its astonishing weight. With each step of its armored legs, the surrounding ground trembled, and dust on the ground was shaken half a meter into the air.
A kilometer away, the Spider Queen looked up at Kara, her eyes twitching. A bloodline instinct told her to flee immediately, right now. This was not something she could deal with. It was no longer on her level; this was a Dominator-level... no, it was an insectoid that directly surpassed the Dominator level. Although it wasn't as dominant in warfare as a Dominator-level creature, this giant monster was like a war fortress.
After Kara took a few steps, its vertical single eye shot out a scarlet ray. The ray was three meters in diameter and plunged into the ground in front of Kara. As its line of sight tilted upward, this terrifying ray sliced upward.
With a sizzling sound, a scorching red mark dozens of meters wide was cut through the air, just sweeping through the Death Wing group, followed by a series of explosions.
Accompanying the explosions, a gray-black shockwave spread. Anything hit by this shockwave was wrapped in a red crystalline substance, rendering it immobile.
The scene was like spraying fly spray in front of a trash can. A large number of dead flies fell, but what fell now weren't dead flies, but Death Wings covered in crystalline substance.
Hundreds of Death Wings fell like rain. When they hit the ground, although their strong bodies prevented them from being injured by the fall, Kara had already raised its six heavy cannon arms.
These six cylindrical heavy cannon arms glowed with fluorescent green light, charging for about 2 seconds.
Boom! Boom! Boom!...
One by one, biological heavy cannon shells slammed into the ground. Acidic explosions indiscriminately covered the area, even forming fluorescent green mushroom clouds.
In an instant, the hundreds of fallen Death Wings were all shattered by the explosions and corroded into slag.
The Deep Crimson Queen had only brought 1,600 Death Wings. Now, only a little over 800 remained. The disparity in combat power was too obvious. Kara's Crystallization Ray + Biological Heavy Cannons easily dealt with flying units.
Above, Su Xiao stood on the back of a Sun Flame Dragon. As soon as Kara appeared, he felt this giant monster would be difficult to deal with. This was different from fighting a powerful individual; Kara was another type of enemy.
The Eye of All Gods floated behind Su Xiao, attempting to detect Kara's attributes.
[Comparing both parties' Intelligence attributes... Due to the target being a Overlord-level unit, detection failed.]
[The Primordial Mask you possess provides a bonus to this detection. The Eye of All Gods successfully detected 17.2% of the enemy's data.]
Name: Brutal Fortress·Kara
Category: Insectoid Collective/War Creature/World-Class Creature
Health: 125% (World-Class Creature, Health cap increased by 25%)
Ancient Power: 90710/91000 points
Strength: ??? (True Attribute)
Agility: ??? (True Attribute)
Stamina: ??? (True Attribute)
Intelligence: ??? (True Attribute)
Charm: 8 points
Skill 1, World-Class Creature (Passive, X): Health cap +25%, Health +97,000 points. Ignores all control effects. Immune to 24% of physical-type damage. Immune to 27% of energy-type damage.
Skill 2: ???
Skill 3, Indestructible Armor (Passive, LV.83): External armor defense rank +2.
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Skill 8, World's Favor (Passive, X): When the number of enemies around Kara exceeds 100, 300, 500, 1,000, and 50,000, Kara will receive the following buffs from this world.