38: Fly Tide Leader

After dealing with the dependants, Ye Chen checked his Abyss Power.

This fishing trip netted him another 40,000 Abyss Power; reviving these dependants cost 14,000, and combined with his previous balance, he had 50,000 Abyss Power remaining.

Thinking of the Divine Realm capture tools in the Great World, Ye Chen informed Abyss Will of his idea, attempting to add the tools.

Abyss Will was still reliable, and eight illusory tentacles appeared before Ye Chen's eyes.

These tentacles could extend to capture, firmly bind the Divine Realm, and even pull it back.

He acquired them for 8,000 Abyss Power and installed them on both sides of the Divine Realm.

For the remaining Abyss Power, Ye Chen spent 24,000 points to add a new talent for the Worms.

Combat Instinct: Enhances combat skills, allows for pre-emptive actions in combat, and when facing unfamiliar combat techniques or magical attacks, the body instinctively responds in the most reasonable way. When with companions who also possess the Combat Instinct talent, one's combat experience can be transmitted to teammates in the form of memory fragments.

This talent might not be very useful for Worms with a single attack method, but it is extremely important for Demons.

It can not only enhance combat skills and combat intuition but also allow for mutual communication and the sharing of combat experience.

It can greatly enhance the combat capabilities of Demons.

If, after countless battles, the combat experience of the Demons can be unified, then all Demons will become combat masters.

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After completing all this, Ye Chen, feeling greatly strengthened, had another good night's sleep, looking forward to his performance during the next fishing trip.

Early the next morning, Ye Chen was awakened by an abnormal fluctuation in the Abyss.

His consciousness sank into the Abyss to check the source of the disturbance.

In the second layer of the Abyss, Gluttony was breaking through.

Remembering the commotion from its last breakthrough, Ye Chen quickly threw a pile of Worms as food.

This time, Gluttony's changes were not significant; the originally twenty-meter-long Gluttony expanded to thirty meters, and its slimy skin transformed into tough, hardened skin, looking much more appealing.

After completing its breakthrough, Gluttony was not consumed by hunger; it summoned the flies residing on its body to absorb nutrients from the mountain of food before it.

The flies also seemed to have grown a bit, their mouthparts and legs were sharper, and they gained a new talent for spreading plagues.

The flies inserted their sharp mouthparts into the Worm's body, then began to suck greedily.

In the blink of an eye, a large Worm was completely consumed, yet the flies' body sizes did not change much.

This should be related to their back-feeding talent.

He checked Gluttony's attributes.

Race Name: Fly Nest Leader (Tier 3)

Level: Extraordinary-level Creature (One-star)

Talents: Underground Shuttle, Devour Enhancement, Evolution, Flesh Regeneration, Elemental Resistance, Environmental Adaptation, Combat Instinct, Fly Swarm Symbiosis, Group Coordination, Plague Affinity

Skills:

Fly Swarm Annihilation: Summons a sky-obscuring swarm of flies to destroy the target; energy absorbed by the swarm can be fed back to the host.

Plague Tendrils: Summons several black tendrils composed of plague, which spread rapidly in all directions.

Epidemic Assimilation: Selects an enemy infected with plague; upon skill activation, the leader establishes a plague link with the target. The life lost by the target due to the plague will be permanently added to the leader.

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This breakthrough granted Gluttony some plague-related talents and skills.

Plague Tendrils, needless to say, is a skill for widespread plague dissemination.

The most important one is the Epidemic Assimilation skill.

This is a "Heart of Steel" skill that can permanently stack life.

As long as it's stacked thick enough, it's invincible.

Thinking of this, Ye Chen was eager to try out these skills.

He instructed Gluttony to use the Plague Tendrils skill on the Worms.

Several black tendrils extended from Gluttony's body, touching the Worms.

However, the Worms showed no reaction at all.

The characteristics of Abyss creatures directly ignored the plague.

This made Ye Chen a bit frustrated; he had originally planned to use his endless Worm Army to stack up Gluttony's defenses.

Now he could only look for some ordinary creatures.

However, the Abyss environment is harsh, and ordinary creatures find it difficult to survive there. He needed to find creatures with strong vitality, high resistance, and preferably some recovery skills.

Having made a decision, Ye Chen planned to visit the card shop after school to look for suitable dependants.

The day's classes quickly ended, and Zhou Mingjie once again extended a team invitation to Ye Chen.

Ye Chen, who had originally planned to buy "nutrient packs," could only put that on hold temporarily and once again charge onto the battlefield.

Capturing a batch of dependants to use for now would also work.

In the Great World, the two wandered as usual, waiting for prey.

Ye Chen drifted aimlessly, preparing to find a target to test his newly added tentacles.

Just then, he sensed a Divine Realm emitting silver light floating in the air.

And behind the silver Divine Realm, there was also a 600-square-kilometer brown Divine Realm in contact with it.

At this moment, Zhou Mingjie's excited voice reached Ye Chen's ears.

"Brother Chen, we're in luck! That silver Divine Realm is a random resource point!"

"But someone is currently mining it. Should we go for it?"

Ye Chen did not hesitate; a single word, "Go," decided the person's fate.

Although doing so was a bit unethical, this Ten Thousand Races Battlefield itself operates on the law of the jungle; one can only blame their own insufficient strength.

Ye Chen's Divine Realm prioritized colliding with the brown Divine Realm, though not at a fast speed.

The brown Divine Realm clearly also discovered Ye Chen and issued a warning to him at this time.

"Stranger, stop! Otherwise, I will take action against you!"

Ye Chen naturally ignored him, as he had no intention of settling peacefully.

Seeing that the black Divine Realm showed no sign of stopping, the brown Divine Realm could only cease mining and concentrate its forces within its own Divine Realm.

Soon, the two Divine Realms collided.

The Divine Realm passage opened, and hundreds of black-skinned Goblins with a large group of black spiders attacked the brown Divine Realm.

This cannon fodder unit was Ye Chen's scouting party; if they truly encountered a strong enemy, losing them was no big deal.

In the sky of the brown Divine Realm, a humanoid phantom wearing a dirt-Yellow cloak watched this group of "little blackies" and let out a long sigh of relief.

Originally, he thought that the black Divine Realm's decisive action meant it was a ruthless individual, but he hadn't expected it to be a hothead.

With just these few paltry forces, they wanted to seize a resource point?

It seemed they hadn't experienced the harsh realities of society. Well, let him be the villain then.

Yellow Cloak shook his head helplessly, preparing to give the other party an unforgettable lesson.

Immediately afterward, he issued a divine oracle.

"My people! The tide of darkness has reached our homeland. Dark creatures have infiltrated our Divine Realm. I need a group of brave warriors to expel the darkness and cleanse their sinful world."

Below the phantom was a large group of Desert creatures, including Desert Scorpions, Desert Ants, Desert Snakes, Desert Lizards, Sand Monsters, and so on.

In the center of this group of Desert creatures was a colossal Desert Dragon!

The Desert Dragon is a hegemon of the Desert; its appearance is like a sand-transformed Tyrannosaurus Rex, with two pointed horns on its head, claws and teeth as sharp as daggers, capable of stirring up sandstorms, and skilled in earth-elemental magic.

This was an Extraordinary-level Tier 3 creature, and also Yellow Cloak's trump card.

Compared to other dependants, this Desert Dragon could be called a BOSS-level creature.