167: Chapter 167 The fierce battle between the elves and the insectoids on the front lines, the ointment barrel arrives to provide support!

As these barrels of milky-white spirit ointment were pushed from the Floating Island into the cargo portal...

The elves on the other side of the portal treated them like priceless treasures.

These beautiful female elves, wearing skimpy combat outfits and carrying elven bows, immediately gave orders.

"Quick, take these barrels to the front line! Place one every 500 meters and light it!"

The view shifts to high altitude, looking down from above.

When the Elf Race landed on the Lord Continent today, the system assigned them to the forest region.

Many deep mountains and old forests are uninhabited areas, which are also the elves' favorite places.

However, at the edge of the forest, a large number of Zerg were encroaching upon the woods.

The Zerg's Blade Ants chopped down the trees, and a swarm of Army Ants began to pounce and devour them.

A 50-meter-tall towering tree was eaten clean by hundreds of Army Ants in just a few minutes.

Looking down from the sky, one could see the forest disappearing patch by patch.

The well-fed Army Ants, carrying the food in their bellies, went back to feed the Queen Ant.

The Queen Ant in the cave sprayed out a large number of eggs, acting just like a production machine.

The Army Ants fed the Queen Ant, and the Queen Ant sprayed frantically, mass-producing new larvae.

Another portion of the Army Ants fed the food to the larvae.

These transparent larvae inside the eggs were swelling like balloons at a speed visible to the naked eye.

And these newborn insects were crawling out from underground, flooding toward the forest in a continuous stream.

At the outskirts of the forest, the female archers of the Elf Race were drawing their bows and firing arrows.

They built sentry towers on giant trees, with five people per unit, scattered across the entire forest edge.

The girls of the Elf Race on the trees used all their strength to condense magic into arrows, firing in triple shots, quintuple shots, and rapid fire.

Various arrows condensed from fire, ice, and lightning elements continuously rained down from the trees.

Among them, on a giant tree at the very front line of the battle, five elves were doing their best to fire arrows.

However, the Zerg army had already rushed beneath their tree, and the Blade Ants below were frantically hacking at the tree with their mantis blades.

A female elven archer shouted excitedly: "Sisters, concentrate fire to snipe the Blade Ants!"

The five of them pulled their bowstrings, and arrows fell from the sky, hitting the hard shells on the heads of the Blade Ants.

The five arrows of different elements struck down, but all were deflected by the Blade Ants' hard shells.

Blade Ants are elite units in the Zerg Swarm, possessing very hard shells and two sharp mantis blades as foreclaws.

Although the elves had reinforced the giant tree with mana, it had already been hacked halfway through by the frantic strikes of the mantis blades and looked like it was about to collapse.

"Keep going! We must keep going!"

The elven squad leader desperately encouraged the archers under her command; the five beautiful elven girls worked together with one heart!

Under the continuous bombardment of arrows, the head of that Blade Ant was finally blown apart.

However, before the archer squad could breathe a sigh of relief, a second Blade Ant emerged from the swarm and severed the giant tree beneath their feet with a single blow.

The entire tree began to tilt; the five female elves in the tree fort archer squad let out cries of despair.

Boom!

The giant tree crashed into the swarm, crushing countless Army Ants and splattering green juice everywhere.

The female elven archers who fell into the swarm looked despairingly at the Zerg Swarm rushing in from all directions.

Although they hid inside the tree fort and desperately fired arrows outward...

But the swarming insects reached out with their claws and dragged the female elves out of the tree hollow.

Accompanied by a series of screams, the elven squad leader witnessed her four subordinates being torn apart by the insects.

Her pupils trembled, her mind was on the verge of collapse, and her anger was ignited amidst extreme fear.

Even beautiful female elves were nothing more than food in the eyes of the Zerg.

The four female elves perished, submerged by the dense swarm and devoured until not even a scrap remained.

The female captain in the tree hollow fired fire arrows like a madwoman, making a final, desperate struggle.

If no accident occurred, if no miracle happened...

She and this tree would both become food in the bellies of the Zerg.

A Blade Ant circled to the side and, taking advantage of the captain's distraction, struck fiercely!

The sharp mantis blade directly pierced the female elf's thigh.

With just a light pull from the Blade Ant, the female elf's thigh would be easily sliced off.

Just then!

A barrel was suddenly thrown over, landing outside the tree hollow.

Inside the barrel was a white paste-like substance; once the wick on top was lit, a peculiar fragrance wafted from the barrel.

As the white smoke quickly dispersed, the surrounding Zerg Swarm began foaming at the mouth and collapsing one after another.

Even the elite insect, the Blade Ant, collapsed weakly after inhaling a large amount of the fragrance.

The injured female elven captain was startled at first, then, driven by a strong will to survive, she immediately pulled out a knife and chanted a spell.

"Mother Goddess, protect me!!"

The knife in her hand glowed with green light as she stabbed it into the Blade Ant's head, killing the struggling, foaming creature.

Only then did she observe her surroundings, still shaken.

The elven squad leader now discovered that all the insects around her were belly-up, spitting white bubbles from their mouths like crabs.

Following that, she heard many footsteps—it was the sound of her own people!

"Sophia, are you okay!"

Hearing her companion call her name, the elven squad leader finally collapsed to the ground and relaxed.

She pulled out hemostatic medicine from her pocket, and after pulling out the mantis blade from her thigh, she quickly poured on the powder to stop the bleeding.

Frowning in pain, the elven squad leader's entire face was covered in beads of sweat.

"What's the situation outside? What's inside these barrels?"

The female elves who came to the rescue pointed at the fragrant barrels on the ground.

"These are Insect Repellents Her Majesty the Queen purchased from the Human Race; they can incapacitate the insects and make it impossible for them to breathe."

Hearing this, the squad leader looked shocked: "Buying medicine from the Human Race? Since when is the Human Race so capable that they can produce potions even we don't have?"

The female elf from the rescue team thought for a moment: "I don't know either; we only found out about this when we received the medicine."

"I heard it's the number one Human lord, someone named Xu Xuan I think; only he sells this kind of potion."

The elven squad leader was slightly stunned and murmured, "Xu Xuan?"

She hadn't expected that in her moment of despair, she would be saved by a medicine invented by a Human.

If not for these medicine barrels emitting a special fragrance, she would have been torn to pieces by the Blade Ants and ended up in the insects' bellies long ago.

The rescue team looked around curiously: "Captain Sophia, where are your four subordinates?"

Sophia's face darkened: "They... they didn't hold out until the rescue arrived, they were by the swarm..."

"I see, my condolences."

Sorrow flashed in the rescue team leader's eyes; she reached out to help Sophia up and led her away from the front line of the battlefield.

Meanwhile, the Elf Queen was watching the developments of the entire battlefield.

"It seems that after using Xu Xuan's medicine, we have finally withstood the Zerg's fierce offensive. Can we develop this kind of medicine ourselves?"