# Chapter 4: Insect Queen Jila Awakens New Ability: Queen's Majesty (Passive, X) - Such insect-type abilities are always initially at the highest level.
Queen's Majesty (Passive, X): Insect Queen Jila possesses immense deterrence over same-rank insect races, allowing her to unconditionally subjugate insect clans one rank lower than herself.
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[Clan Rank has been raised to Lv.81, improvements as follows:]
[Insect race quantity cap increased by 850,000, all insect race buildings have been upgraded, insect race gene library partially unlocked.]
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The insect race's improvement was substantial. Not only did the individual combat power of insect combat units increase, but each time the "Clan Rank" was raised, the increase in insect race quantity cap was quite formidable.
What exactly is the insect race quantity cap? Simply put, it's the number of insect units the mother nest can sustain, plus the number of insects Jila can mentally command. Only when both of these increase can the insect race quantity cap be raised.
In the past, mass-producing troops would stop at several hundred thousand, not because they didn't want to continue, but because they vaguely sensed the upper limit was approaching, and the world they were in couldn't provide that much bio-energy.
Now being in a ninth-rank world, this improvement was undoubtedly a massive boost to the insect swarm tactic.
Beyond that, the two abilities Jila herself obtained were equally powerful and practical, especially Void Gate, which was an ability that could decide the outcome of a battle.
Su Xiao had Jila send mental instructions to the mother nest, aiming to finish cultivating over 400 fungal carpets before evening today. He checked the fiefdom records and found that Eugin had already begun attempting to attack "Floating Light Island" around noon.
And at this moment, on Floating Light Island within the sea race territory.
Boom!
Solar flames scattered everywhere. A centaur holding a lance burning with solar flame gripped the weapon with one hand, impaling a giant fishman. The solar flame on the lance exploded, blasting the giant mermaid into pieces.
A dark magic sphere dozens of meters in diameter flew overhead with a trailing tail of flame, eventually landing on the beast race's steel warship. Beastmen rushed out from the black flames, but before they could even fall into the sea, they burned into white bones.
Thud!!
A soul energy heavy cannon fired. On the shore, wherever it passed, a hundred-meter-deep semicircular trench appeared in the ground, filled with semi-molten lava. Some physically powerful sea race members, barely alive with broken bodies, tried to crawl out of the trench. On the steel warship that fired the cannon, metal winches clattered as they turned, super-high-temperature air pressure sprayed from the gaps, and the beastmen operating the soul energy heavy cannon leaned aside to avoid it.
Looking down from above, countless beastmen and sea race members were locked in chaotic battle before the great city on Floating Light Island. The sounds of battle cries, screams, and weapons clashing were endless.
On the city wall, the sea race commander who had taken control of this area, Pernero, watched the battlefield below with a dark expression. After a moment, he looked toward the distant steel warship and saw his lifelong nemesis, beast race leader Eugin, who sat casually on a heavy steel throne surrounded by dozens of personal guards with sharp eyes.
"Sir..."
Heizhao hesitated to speak. Sea race commander Pernero patted the shoulder of this man he regarded as a brother. Even if the other didn't say it, he knew what he meant. Floating Light Island couldn't be held much longer. The Fierce Winter Legion was the strongest, most valiant, and most insane beast race legion he had ever seen in his life.
On the steel warship, Eugin, still with bloodstains on his armor, was eating his lunch in large bites. With some displeasure, he ordered his adjutant beside him: "The progress is too slow. We must capture Floating Light Island before tomorrow morning."
"Sir, this is a bit..."
Before the adjutant could finish, Eugin turned his head to look at him, and the adjutant quickly swallowed the rest of his words.
"Do you think the lord gave me authority for no reason?"
"I don't know, sir."
"Not knowing is exactly right. If I don't let the lord see Wolf Grave by tomorrow evening, I'll be in trouble."
Eugin stuffed the remaining roasted beast meat into his mouth in a few bites, even sucking the grease off his thumb. As for his greed for power—was it due to an unfortunate childhood? Or the hardships of growing up? Neither. Eugin was born this way.
The chaotic battle on Floating Light Island was in full swing, but neither side knew that at this moment, deep within Floating Light City near the battlefield, a deep underground vertical shaft descended several kilometers below ground. Here, unexpectedly, was a heavily guarded sealed land.
In the twenty-plus-square-meter duty room, an elderly night watchman with reading glasses and a slightly bald head sat cross-legged, reading a newspaper from half a month ago. Before finishing this shift, this was a rare pastime.
Just then, the duty room door opened. A middle-aged colleague carrying a teacup walked in, sat down, and let out a long sigh: "It sounds like a fight is going on up there."
"Let them fight. Whether the sea race occupies Floating Light Island or the beast race captures it, they won't come to disturb us."
The elderly night watchman yawned. Despite his appearance, he had been a famous powerhouse in his early years.
"Yes, the thing we're guarding can't be let out."
The middle-aged colleague showed a smile. Suddenly, he splashed the tea in his hand toward the elderly night watchman. The tea was eerily strange—without giving the other any chance to react, it instantly adhered to the elderly night watchman's body.
Sizzle~
White smoke dispersed. The elderly night watchman didn't feel pain, but his body energy seemed to solidify, unable to be mobilized at all.
Pfft~
A thin blade sliced across the elderly night watchman's throat. If he were in his prime, he could definitely have dodged it. Unfortunately, he was old now. But he threw a counterpunch.
Bang!
The middle-aged colleague was blasted into the wall, blood splattering across the surface.
The elderly night watchman clutched his spurting throat with one hand, staggering to activate the warning device. But the next instant, spikes made of black blood pierced through various parts of his body. He turned his head, looking at the fake middle-aged colleague, and squeezed out a few words filled with hatred through his teeth: "Dark... God Cult!"
With a thud, the elderly night watchman fell dead. The middle-aged colleague, who got up from the ground coughing up blood, peeled off a layer of false skin from head to toe like removing a skin. He licked his sharp teeth with his long, pointed tongue, then licked his thumb tip, leaving black bloodstains on it, and finally pressed it onto his forehead.
"Law Annihilation, I heard you want to find Wolf Grave? We'll help you find something stronger."
The middle-aged colleague—no, the Dark Bishop—pressed both hands to the ground. The black blood corroded deeper underground, rapidly eroding the realm-level sealing spell that had existed for years. When a crack appeared on the spell, the darkness inside surged out, shattering large sections of the spell. Finally, a giant claw reached out, slammed down with a crack, and the entire spell shattered.
At that moment on the battlefield, the beastmen and sea race members locked in chaotic battle suddenly felt the earth tremble. The sky visibly darkened.
Boom!!
A kilometer-thick pillar of darkness erupted from the center of Floating Light Island, shooting straight into the sky, standing between heaven and earth. The scene was spectacular and inspired awe at the might of the heavens.
The chaotic battle gradually subsided. On the high wall, sea race commander Pernero, and on the steel warship, Eugin, both looked up at this sight. They simultaneously gave the order to retreat. What was even more surprising was that both sides were retreating out of Floating Light Island, causing some sea race members to even board the beast race's steel warships.
Eugin ignored his subordinates' reports of such situations and instead ordered all steel warships to set sail immediately, right now, and leave this place.
Looking down at Floating Light Island from above, darkness spread from the island's center, rapidly eroding everything around it. A dark moon hung high in the sky.
In the nearshore waters near Floating Light Island, the steel warship carrying Eugin quickly approached the ship of sea race commander Pernero. Before the two ships could connect, Eugin jumped over. He glared at sea race commander Pernero, about to speak, but found the other also trembling with anger, glaring back at him with the same expression.
"Wasn't it your people who opened the sealing spell?"
Eugin's momentum inevitably weakened slightly.
"Do I have a disease? Letting that thing out."
Hearing sea race commander Pernero's words, Eugin fell silent. He looked toward Floating Light Island, now completely shrouded in darkness, from which the howls of vengeful spirits could still be heard. He knew that neither the beast race legion nor the sea race legion could solve this problem anymore.
The indestructible trait·Abyss Spawn·Wolf God·Shien had been released.
This was once the Silver Moon Wolf who fought in the Abyss, but in the end, it too couldn't escape the fate of being eroded by the Abyss. Even more terrifying was that an indestructible trait·Abyss Spawn was torn apart by this Silver Moon Wolf, which had lost its reason, devoured into its belly, and ultimately the two merged. This resulted in this Wolf God not only possessing the powerful combat strength of the Moon Wolf after being completely corrupted by the Abyss, but also being an immortal and indestructible existence.