7: Chapter 7 The Descent of the Gods and the Utter Crushing of the Enemy's Faith
On the battlefield, corpses lay everywhere.
The golden sand was long since covered by dark red blood and shattered limbs, its original color no longer discernible.
In the air, the rich smell of blood mixed with a peculiar, foul odor of insects, forming a nauseating stench.
On the other side of the planar portal.
That familiar, dark and muddy swamp now looked utterly alien in Guldan's eyes.
The smile on his face had completely frozen and shattered, replaced by a distorted ferocity born of extreme shock.
His vertical pupils, burning with greedy flames, now contracted violently, the flames deep within them dancing wildly, almost erupting.
He saw it.
He personally witnessed how his proud Swamp Cavalry, those elite warriors who had followed him in battle for decades, were easily torn apart and devoured by that black tide.
That was not a battle.
It was a feeding.
A bone-chilling cold finally overcame the rage in his heart, savagely surging up his spine from the cold mud beneath his feet, straight to the crown of his head.
His massive lizard body actually trembled uncontrollably.
No!
Rage, in the end, burned away the fear!
“Damned insects!”
A roar, unlike anything a living creature could produce, exploded from deep within Guldan's throat, transforming into a tangible sound wave that made the entire Swamp Divine Realm hum.
“I will make you pay!!”
His massive body lunged forward, almost forcing his head into the unstable spatial vortex.
Divine power, like a breached flood, was madly poured into the planar portal by him without regard for cost!
Buzz—buzz—!
The planar portal, which had already begun to contract, not only failed to close but was forcibly torn even wider under the support of massive divine power.
From within the dark vortex, heavy, heart-stopping footsteps echoed.
Thump!
Thump!
Thump!
With every step, the earth trembled.
Something enormous was squeezing into this world from the depths of the swamp!
Three hideous and ugly giant heads emerged almost simultaneously from the pitch-black vortex.
Their bodies were like moving mountains, covered entirely in a layer of slimy, bumpy dark green scales, from which foul-smelling dark green mucus continuously dripped.
That was his trump card.
It was the War Divine Beast he had cultivated with a century's worth of faith power!
The Tier 3 Highly Venomous Giant Lizard!
“Roar—!”
As soon as the three giant lizards landed, the earth sank sharply. Before they could steady themselves, they abruptly raised their massive heads, took a deep breath, and their chests visibly swelled.
The next moment, they opened their gaping maws, large enough to swallow a Swamp Giant Crocodile.
What they spat out was not fire, not sound waves, but three plumes of green poisonous mist that blotted out the sky!
The poisonous mist rolled and spread, and wherever it passed, even the air was corroded with a
The Steel-Fanged Ant swarm, charging at the very front, plunged headfirst into this domain of death.
Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle...
A dense, teeth-grinding sound of corrosion rang out.
Those indestructible black iron carapaces, which could withstand a full-force blow from a cavalry captain, began to emit wisps of black smoke the instant they touched the poisonous mist.
The surface of the carapace rapidly softened and dissolved, like a block of wax placed under intense flames.
One, ten, a hundred...
In just one encounter, hundreds of Steel-Fanged Ants at the forefront completely dissolved into bubbling pus in this terrifyingly poisonous domain, leaving no bones behind.
The previously unstoppable black Zerg Swarm's offensive stalled.
The tide of battle seemed to be forcibly reversed in this instant.
However.
Above the endless void, Su Chen, seated on his divine throne, overlooked everything.
There was no panic on his face.
Not even a hint of solemnity.
Looking at the three swaggering Highly Venomous Giant Lizards and the Zerg Swarm suppressed by the poisonous mist, a deeply mocking curve appeared at the corner of his mouth instead.
Cold and indifferent.
“Is that all you've got?”
A soft murmur echoed in the vast Divine Kingdom.
“Then let me show you what true... Zerg Will is!”
Su Chen slowly rose from his divine throne.
The moment he stood up, a terrifying will, indescribable in words, traversed the endless spatial distance, descending like a thunderbolt piercing heaven and earth onto that yellow sand battlefield!
“Divine Art: Descent of the Deity!”
“Divine Art: Mass Frenzy!”
Buzz—!
At the rear of the battlefield, the Zerg Queen Mother, which had been quietly dormant like a mobile fortress, suddenly shook.
The next second, its massive compound eyes suddenly burst forth with dazzling, crimson blood-light that was impossible to look at directly!
Su Chen's consciousness completely took over this massive war machine.
A violent, bloodthirsty, and utterly insane mental ripple, centered on the Queen Mother, instantly swept across the entire battlefield!
“Hiss—hiss—!!!”
Piercing hisses, sharp enough to almost rupture eardrums, erupted from the mouths of every Steel-Fanged Ant!
The Zerg Swarm, which had shown some disturbance due to the poisonous mist, instantly fell into a frenzy upon receiving this mental ripple.
Their compound eyes, in an instant, changed from deep black to furious crimson!
Their bodies seemed to swell by a circle, muscles bulging beneath their carapaces, full of explosive power.
Their movement speed increased threefold!
What was originally a swift charge now left trails of black afterimages on the sand!
Highly corrosive poison that could rot flesh and bone?
Poisonous mist capable of melting steel?
Before the will of the Supreme Overlord, all of this became insignificant!
They no longer evaded, no longer hesitated.
They charged at the three mountain-like giant beasts, enduring the deadly cost that could turn any creature into pus, enduring the excruciating pain of their bodies melting inch by inch, madly and fearlessly!
A Steel-Fanged Ant rushed into the poisonous mist, its carapace melting halfway, but it still bit down fiercely on a scale on the giant lizard's toe with its bloody mandibles!
More Steel-Fanged Ants, treading on the melting corpses of their comrades, pounded against the giant lizards like black waves, layer after layer.
Some bit its toes.
Some climbed its thick thighs.
Some had already rushed onto its broad back.
Even more, however, swarmed frantically and desperately into its body through its huge eye sockets, ear canals, and nostrils—those vulnerable, unprotected areas!
“Roar?”
One giant lizard sensed something was wrong. It painfully shook its head, trying to dislodge the tiny insects that had burrowed into its nostrils.
But it was futile.
“Roar!!!”
The next moment, its roar transformed from an angry bellow into an utterly agonizing shriek!
It began to roll wildly on the sand, its massive body creating crater after crater, trying to crush the insects that had swarmed all over it.
But there were too many insects.
Crush one batch, and more had already burrowed into its body.
The other two giant lizards soon let out similar screams.
Their massive bodies became their most fatal weakness.
Just three minutes.
Three minutes later.
Accompanied by three earth-shattering roars that made the ground groan.
The three Tier 3 giant beasts, which had been so arrogant just moments before, collapsed with a crash.
Their screams abruptly ceased.
Their internal organs, along with their brains, had been completely devoured, leaving only an empty, giant hide wrapped around stark white bones.
On the other side of the planar portal, the Lizardman Warriors, who had just regained their confidence, witnessed this scene firsthand.
The fighting spirit in their eyes was instantly replaced by a fear called
“Devils...”
“They are devils!!”
A Lizardman warrior dropped his stone spear, let out a desperate cry, and turned to flee into the depths of the swamp.
His collapse, like a Plague, instantly infected everyone.
They dropped their weapons, crying and screaming, scrambling on all fours to escape back through the portal, to flee this desperate land shrouded by black devils.
Above the Divine Throne in the void, Su Chen's cold gaze watched it all.
“Trying to leave?”
“Too late.”
A cold, ruthless divine decree echoed in the Zerg Swarm's will network.
“Counterattack.”
“Go, destroy that false god’s altar!”
The black Zerg Swarm, without the slightest pause, stepped over the warm carcasses of the giant beasts, over the bodies of the Lizardman Warriors, and surged majestically into the still-flashing planar portal!
The slaughter would cross planes!
Half an hour later.
Guldan's Swamp Divine Realm.
In the very center of the Divine Realm, beneath the hundred-meter-tall giant lizard idol, which symbolized his divine power and faith.
Countless Steel-Fanged Ants were clinging to the surface of the idol, madly gnawing at the hard rock that formed it with their indestructible mandibles.
Crunch... crunch...
Cracks spread across the base of the idol.
Finally.
“Boom—!”
With an earth-shattering roar, the massive idol, which had stood for hundreds of years, utterly collapsed, shattering into countless specks of dust under the gnawing of the Steel-Fanged Ants.
At that moment, Guldan, rigid and frozen at the edge of the Divine Realm, clearly heard something collapsing and shattering deep within his soul.
That was his faith.
That was his Divine Kingdom.
That was his everything.