140: Chapter 140: The Sea of ​​Ants

Just as the voice fell, a roar like muffled thunder exploded above the canyon.

"You cannot escape!"

The Rank 7 Troll Demigod roared, its green-faced, fanged visage full of arrogance.

"Don't think you're safe just because you can burrow underground! Last time I let you run, it was to protect the cave. This time, there's no way you'll escape!"

The Troll Demigod slammed its hands downward.

"Imprisoning Circle!"

The earth trembled violently.

The storm of flying yellow sand suddenly ceased, and a semi-transparent, earth-yellow barrier quickly solidified all around.

The barrier, like a giant inverted bowl, tightly enclosed the five-kilometer radius of the canyon, cutting off all exits. If expected correctly, the underground should be trapped as well.

The Rank 6 Bird-woman Demigod's shrill voice followed immediately after.

"Oh ho ho, finally, I can catch you!"

She flapped her wings violently, and a red light glowed on the talons at her feet.

"Tear!"

A giant phantom of an avian talon appeared in mid-air.

Immediately after, the talons of tens of thousands of Rank 6 Bird-men in the sky simultaneously glowed with a scarlet, blood-red light.

The Rank 8 Lizardman Demigod still couldn't believe it; even though he had provided support at the first opportunity, his Rank 8 believers had still lost contact. In all likelihood, they had been wiped out.

"I will strip your skin! Pull out your tendons!"

He pressed his palms together and slammed them against his chest.

A layer of pale blue flowing light, like a thin film, instantly appeared on the bodies of the believers of the three races.

Gu Han stroked his chin.

The Bird-men's red light was clearly a skill that added attack effects. As for the Lizardman's blue light, it was likely some kind of life-saving mechanism.

"Who is surrounding whom is not yet certain!"

"All troops, deploy!"

"Prioritize eliminating those Bird-men in the sky!"

The moment the order was issued.

The ground of the entire canyon churned like boiling water.

Countless burrows broke open simultaneously, and a dense, black torrent spewed out from underground!

Black-Armored Ant-men and Hidden-Armor Ant-Man swarmed into the air, flapping their wings.

With a base of 70 million, even if only a portion were designated as air forces, it was enough to blot out the sky.

The light in the entire canyon dimmed instantly.

The three Demigods felt goosebumps all over; just how many ant nests had been poked!

The Bird-men in the air were all stunned by the cloud-like army of Black-Armored Ant-men before them, failing to notice that the Hidden-Armor Ant-Man had already closed in.

The four arms that the Hidden-Armor Ant-Man had re-evolved had sharp, cone-like tips, which were better suited for piercing through the obstruction of feathers.

They accurately followed the gaps in the Bird-men's dense feathers and stabbed fiercely!

The next second, azure lightning exploded within the Bird-men's formation!

Strong currents instantly pierced through their entire bodies.

Large numbers of Rank 6 Bird-men convulsed, their wings stiffened, and they plummeted to the ground like kites with broken strings.

Black-Armored Ant-men took the opportunity to swarm them, their sharp mandibles biting tightly into the Bird-men's torsos, accelerating them as they slammed into the ground.

Muffled thuds, like dumplings being dropped into a pot, rang out continuously in the canyon.

On the ground, the Ant-Fist Shrimp-Man, which had been waiting for a long time, swarmed forward.

As soon as a Rank 6 Bird-man landed, the Shrimp-man's massive fist, whistling through the air, smashed fiercely onto its forehead.

With the armor-piercing effect present, this punch should have directly smashed the Rank 6 Bird-man's head into a rotten watermelon.

But a bizarre scene occurred.

The moment the fist made contact with the Bird-man, that layer of pale blue halo suddenly erupted with a burst of intense light.

"Sss-la—"

Accompanied by the sound of tearing cloth, the Bird-man's main body slid violently, sliding several meters away from its original spot.

Left behind in its place was a complete, empty skin sac covered in feathers!

And while that Bird-man hadn't died, it had turned into a bald "broiler chicken" without a single feather left on its body.

It was full of terror, lying on the ground with its bare, pink body, flapping its fleshy wings twice, unable to fly at all.

In the sky, the Bird-woman Demigod saw this scene, and she nearly exploded.

"What the f*ck! What kind of nonsense are you pulling!"

She pointed at the Lizardman Demigod and cursed.

"I told you not to use your crappy skill! Don't you have a brain? They have no feathers! With bare bodies, how do you expect them to fly!"

The Lizardman Demigod defended himself.

"I'm saving you! If my [Molting Escape] hadn't blocked that fatal blow just now, your big bird would have been gone long ago! Don't worry about how it looks now, just tell me if I saved it or not!"

Gu Han, in the tunnel, heard this argument and nearly burst out laughing.

"This life-saving skill is really a bit troublesome, but unfortunately, a bird that can't fly is worse than a chicken."

He quickly issued commands in his consciousness.

"Air force, continue the suppression! Beat them all into bald, slippery chickens for me!"

"Ground troops, crush them!"

The Bird-men who had lost their ability to fly were in chaos on the ground, their bare bodies rubbing against the sandy ground, looking miserable to the extreme.

Seeing this, the ground troops of the Lizardmen and Trolls immediately wanted to step forward to provide support.

But what awaited them was a rumbling sound.

Tens of thousands of Shield-Armored Ant-Men linked head-to-tail, curling up and assembling into super-giant shield-armored spheres.

Taking advantage of the canyon's terrain, they charged forward like heavy road rollers!

"Rumble—"

Wherever the giant spheres passed, sand and stones flew.

The Rank 6 Lizardmen and Rank 6 Trolls rushing at the front couldn't dodge in time and were violently hit and crushed by the giant spheres.

"Bang!"

The blue light flashed again.

The [Molting Escape] skill was passively triggered.

Large numbers of Lizardmen and Trolls forcibly shed a layer of skin, using the effect of the skill to slide backward.

But the charge of the Shield-Armored Ant-Men did not stop at all.

After the first wave hit, the second wave of giant spheres followed right behind to crush them!

The situation in the canyon instantly turned into chaos.

Originally, the allied forces of the three races numbered 600,000, and they had hoped to rely on their high unit Ranks to directly surround Gu Han.

Now, however, it had turned into a black sea of ants surrounding them in turn, with the offensive like layers of giant waves engulfing the allied forces, leaving them absolutely no chance to catch their breath.

With a quantity of 70 million, plus a 50% armor-piercing rate, the Ant-man Race's advantage was amplified to the extreme within this enclosed canyon.

No matter which direction the Lizardmen and Trolls retreated, they were met with the fearless Ant-Fist Shrimp-Man and the rampaging Shield-Armored giant spheres.

Can't kill them with one punch? Then two! Three!

Finally, the Rank 8 Lizardman Demigod realized something was wrong.

"It's armor-piercing! This kid's skill is armor-piercing!"

The Rank 6 Bird-woman Demigod also panicked; her Bird-men were decreasing the more they fought.

"We cannot fight them in this terrain! There are too many bugs; they can wear us down to death!"

The Rank 8 Lizardman Demigod gritted his teeth; he also saw that only those short Ant-men were dealing damage.

"Retreat! First, exit the canyon, increase the distance, and fight slowly. They are no match for us at all!!"

The three Demigods simultaneously issued the oracle for retreat to their believers.

The believers of the three races felt as if they had received a pardon. This battle had a suffocating feeling of being bitten by countless mosquitoes, yet being helpless against them. These Ant-men were endless; they simply couldn't be killed off.

They turned around and fled desperately toward the outside of the canyon.

The ones running at the very front were the Rank 8 Lizardmen, looking like they were about to rush out of the canyon entrance.

"Thud!"

With a dull, loud thud, a massive reactive force bounced it directly back, slamming it heavily into the Lizardmen behind.

The semi-transparent, earth-yellow barrier rippled in the air.

The boundary of [Imprisoning Circle] had firmly blocked their own way out.

The Lizardman Demigod turned its head, staring fixedly at the Troll Demigod, the muscles on its face twitching wildly.

"You f*cking… hurry up and cancel the skill!"

The Troll Demigod's expression instantly turned incredibly dark, and it fumbled frantically in the void.

"This skill... it has to be maintained for half an hour before we can enter and exit freely! The time hasn't come yet..."

"No! Dude! How did I end up with two pig teammates like you!" The Bird-woman Demigod, hearing this, was so angry she nearly vomited blood.