Chapter 782 - 138: Counterattack
The red ant seemed to have identified him as the key to this war, charging forward without hesitation.
Su Changxing saw this giant creature rushing towards him, simultaneously retreating and drawing the revolver from his waist, pulling the trigger close to the Fate Ant’s head.
Pushing the barrel against its face and firing, that shouldn’t count as a long-range attack.
He thought that shooting at close range would render the Fate ability ineffective.
Click, click—
The trigger of the revolver turned, making a jammed sound.
Su Changxing’s movement didn’t pause a bit. Before the Fate Ant’s attack arrived, he transformed into a flurry of Bai Yu, disappearing from the original spot and reappearing a body’s distance away, dodging the attack from the Fate Ant’s forelimbs.
He was prepared for such situations. A slender scarlet scythe appeared in his hand, and with a swift motion, he struck at the joint on the Fate Ant’s head.
He slashed at the same spot seven times, causing the space around to quiver slightly, sending out conspicuous ripples.
The first slash landed on the carapace, leaving an evident knife mark.
The second slash caused small cracks to appear.
The third slash expanded the cracked area further, causing dark green blood to spur from the site...
Each slash carried similar power, nearing the upper limit of his own attack capabilities, forcibly severing the Fate Ant’s entire head along with part of its body.
However.
The Fate Ant did not die from this. For a creature with such immense life force, a severed head was merely a non-lethal wound.
Immediately after.
He reversed his grip to intercept the Fate Ant’s claw strike, the massive force pushing him back two steps, causing every bone and muscle on his body to tremble from the impact.
Though he had felt it before, only experiencing such overwhelming power in person could reveal how outrageously strong it was.
No wonder this red ant could contend with Mi in terms of power.
In a one-on-one, this red ant couldn’t possibly match him, even with "Fate," an ability that greatly restrained Su Changxing.
Besides the Fate Ant, other insects numbering in the thousands quickly swarmed towards them once Su Changxing’s bullet screen suppression ceased.
Su Changxing felt a tinge of wrongness, the situation was off.
Their speed was entirely impeded, making breaking through the encirclement nearly impossible. The dense swarms of insects enveloped them layer by layer.
"Pastoral Spirit" was ineffective against these insects, their souls seemed encrypted, incapable of being interpreted or wielded.
Thankfully.
Mi exhibited formidable combat power, the numerous tentacles behind it flailing wildly, severely wounding a Bloodhound with a single strike, penetrating their carapace.
Du’an was not in good shape, charging ahead solo, surrounded and attacked by a multitude of Bloodhounds, a mass of wounds covering his ragged body.
This maximized the spread of black meteor fire among the insects, swiftly killing a large number of Bloodhounds within a short time.
This was a battle destined to be arduous.
They might end up dying at the hands of these insects.
Su Changxing swung his scythe again, slicing open the Fate Ant’s entire body from its neck.
This was a fatal blow; once the Fate Ant’s body was split, its life force rapidly drained away.
"Move forward, don’t stop, keep moving forward!"
He shouted, ignoring the half-dead Fate Ant, once again triggering the Perfect Bullet Screen, firing in all directions.
Then.
With a scream, Bruce fell behind, pounced on by several Bloodhounds and quickly dismembered.
"Bruce!"
Kelsey showed a look of grief and anger, but there was no way to stop nor to care for Bruce, as halting even for a moment would result in being overwhelmed by the insect swarm.
Mi single-handedly bore most of the brunt up close, continuously fighting, with an increasing number of wounds on its body. Even the Titan Human physique was nearing its limits.
When enough ants can bite an elephant to death, let alone these quite formidable Titan Insect Race.
Two Fate Ants charged at her head-on.
This time.
She finally could not hold on any longer in the battle, with the over-a-dozen varying-sized tentacles behind her being severed one by one, and seven or eight large and small bloody holes opened up on her body.
Su Changxing saw this and realized he couldn’t wait any longer. If Mi fell here, he wouldn’t be able to withstand the onslaught from these insects alone.
His right eye glowed with a brilliant white light.
Black chains interspersed throughout the surrounding space, while light from the Dusk fell upon them.
In an instant.
The surrounding environment changed dramatically, as if they had arrived in another place, a space filled with mist, darkness, and stillness.
He infused a massive amount of faith to activate the domain, which immediately underwent qualitative change, with its rules self-completing, tending towards a complete small world.
This domain was vast, covering thousands of meters, causing all movements, including theirs and the surrounding insects, to slow down.
Such a large domain seemed useless and didn’t change anything.
Everyone slowed down, which meant that everyone didn’t slow down, and they were still on the same level.
However.
There was one thing that was not affected by the domain, which was the plague he carried.
This thing, like a bug, was not affected by the domain and continued to spread and erupt at its original speed.
When everything around slowed down, it meant the plague’s spread speed increased, becoming extremely fast.
This indiscriminate domain release was actually easier, equivalent to replacing the original rules of this area with new ones.
Maintaining a domain that covers part of the space was instead more difficult, because it was inherently incomplete and could easily be torn apart by force.
In high-dimensional space, expanding a domain was quite a difficult thing to do.
The space here was too stable, and the rules deeply rooted, making replacement a labor-intensive and thankless task, better to battle directly.
However, using faith to activate it easily solved this problem.
Faith was a natural adhesive, seemingly a rule itself, allowing the domain he released to closely fit with the space here.
Correspondingly, the domain released in this way could not be flexibly controlled, only largely released to replace part of the simple rules.
Under the overlay of the two domains, everything slowed down, even the most basic thoughts becoming sluggish.
Everyone, including the insects, noticed this abnormality.
This did not stop them from attacking, and they still launched attacks methodically, knowing Su Changxing was the instigator, putting more power on him.
Earlier, when tidying the battlefield, Su Changxing had spread a large amount of plague in the surrounding ruins.
As long as these insects approached, they would become infected and spread among them.
These insects were so densely gathered around, that it had already spread to every one of them, just not yet reaching the outbreak time.
The domain could delay until the time when the plague erupted, which would be the time for a desperate counterattack.
Very soon.
Green fluorescence appeared on the shields of these insects, continuously spreading. Because of the plague, they gained paralyzing and chaotic effects, physical paralysis and mental chaos.
However, chaos had little effect on these insects, with their spirits connected to the mother bug, and the mother bug possessing extremely terrifying spiritual power, such a degree of chaos was completely unshakable.
The paralyzing effect of the plague was quite effective against these insects, making their movements stiff, like rusted joints.
The fast-running Bloodhounds slowed down significantly; some even fell heavily during fast running due to not adapting well to the paralysis, breaking the joints of their limbs upon falling.
Like a small world, the domain didn’t stop until Su Changxing couldn’t hold on.
Under the influence of the plague, the speed of these insects slowed greatly, with their shells becoming more fragile.
Su Changxing could smash through a Fate Ant’s shell with a single scythe, and even Kelsey could fight seven or eight Bloodhounds alone.
"This is plague!" Bai Shan recognized what the green on these insects was.
A divine spirit controlling the plague?
She looked at Su Changxing with a sense of terror, for a divine spirit spreading plague would certainly be an evil god, even a demon!
After the plague covered the entire battlefield, the situation instantly reversed, leaving the insects bewildered by their attacks.
Su Changxing’s bullets were like a giant scythe, swiftly reaping the battlefield.
The insects, realizing the situation was bad, began to retreat in all directions.
He pursued them relentlessly, with no intention of sparing any of the insects from any angle.
Moreover, for each insect killed, there would be ten black coins and millions of points.
However.
He didn’t completely wipe them out, letting some insects escape from the battlefield.
They carried the plague, which would spread widely back in their nest if they returned.
Logically, a Titan Insect Race that reproduced for tens of thousands of years would surely have means to deal with plague, or these insects might inherently have high plague resistance.
However, his plague didn’t care about that, able to corrode even a high-level demon’s body, let alone these low sequence Titan Insect Race.
The remaining insects all fled, leaving only piles of insect corpses around, the air filled with a stench unique to the insect blood, like a pungent mix of gasoline and ammonia.
Kelsey patted her head with a tentacle and relaxed slightly after seeing the insects completely gone, exclaiming in delight:
"We actually won. This is unbelievable, big brother, I now believe you truly are a divine spirit."