Chapter 176 - Termite Battle 3
From above, a second-level spirit beast termite was swooping towards its king. Apparently, the guards protecting the termite king and queen couple weren't seven but eight. And this eighth guard termite was an imminent danger because it could upset the battle balance that Hei and the others had struggled to achieve.
"Shit! Leon! Block it at any cost." He Fen shouted as he waved his two wheels of wind and fire against the guard termite he was facing. At the moment, he, Lang, Fenrir, and Leon were facing one of the seven guards who had now become eight.
"Roger. I will definitely block it." Leon replied as he took off.
Among the three, he was the one with the highest cultivation, and his attacks were also the heaviest, ideal for blocking the advance of the newly arrived termite. Fortunately, it wasn't just the three of them who saw the danger.
"Hu Jie! Block that termite, leave this to Xieren and me." Feng Chen said as he emanated tongues of fire to restrain his opponent.
Hu Jie nodded with his head, and he too took off as well. A smile full of fighting intent was printed on his face. "Fist of the White Tiger!"
Peng!
The flying termite guard suffered the full impact of Hu Jie's punch. A large hollow was created on the body of the spirit beast. However, despite the power behind this attack, the second-level termite continued its advance, making Hu Jie fly to the side after a head-on collision.
"Intent of the Greatsword, Blade of Heavens!"
Leon concentrated all his spirit power on his weapon. Hu Jie's intervention had given him enough time to charge his ultimate attack. On the young man's face, there was a confident expression that he could stop the advance of the termite. But despair and the desire to protect its king had given the guard termite a new strength.
Peng!
Leon's large broadsword collided against the jaws of the guard termite. The spirit power of the two collided with each other as the two fighters tried with each fiber of their body to resist.
'I can't win, but I don't have to. I just have to block the first charge, and the victory will be ours.' Leon thought as he had carefully evaluated the odds of success before attacking. Unfortunately, however, his calculations shattered.
Crack!
Under the pressure of the jaws of the second-level termite and also because of the large amount of spirit power inside, Leon's greatsword broke. The young man stared blankly at his shattered weapon before being blown away by the termite charge.
"Imperial Slash!"
Long Tian had finished loading his technique and was about to lower his two hooked swords on the termite king. His blow would put an end to the clash, decreeing their victory. But the arrival of the new guard termite completely overturned his plans.
Slash!
The guard termite intervened in the trajectory of the blade of spirit power thrown by Long Tian. Although it was one of the guards to protect the king and queen, the eighth termite was also the weakest of the guards. For this reason, it was usually assigned other tasks instead of staying on guard for the royal couple. Yet, this time, this termite showed its king all the courage it possessed and its honor as a guard.
Splat!
A deep cut wound was created on the body of the eighth guard termite. Previously it had suffered the attacks of Hu Jie and Leon, but this time it had to endure the impact of the Long Tian's technique. At the moment, the Imperial Prince had a spirit power equal to a newly advanced spirit master, and consequently, his techniques also contained more power. The guard termite died on the impact, but in the mind of the second-level spirit beast, this didn't matter. It was just happy to have managed to protect its king.
"Screech!"
The termite king was struck by the gesture of that young termite to which it had never given so much credit. Despite the indifference's treatment it suffered, the guard termite had sacrificed itself for it without hesitation. As a king, how could it remain impassive to such an act of loyalty?
Regardless of its wounds, the termite king released every bit of spirit power that remained in its body. It knew it wouldn't come out alive, but at least it would bring as many humans as possible with it.
"HEI," Lian shouted as she pulled the ribbon that tied her to the brown-skinned young man. But it was too late.
Crash!
Hei was blown away by the termite king's attack. The young man lost consciousness in mid-air as he was dragged towards Lian by the silk ribbon that linked him to her.
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"Hei, wake up!" cried Lian, who tried to stop the blood from Hei's wounds. Unfortunately, Ye and Xing were also in bad shape. If it hadn't been that they were together, the termite king's blow could have killed one of them if taken alone.
"Wake up, Hei. I know you're not the type to be beaten for such an attack." Long Tian said as he barely stood. His finishing move had been charged with the intent to end the fight. As a result, he hadn't spared himself in the attack, leaving only a small amount of spirit power within him.
The termite king noted with amazement that Hei and the two spirit beasts, Ye and Xing, were still alive. It wanted to get rid of Long Tian, but it knew that Long Tian wasn't able to threaten it now. Therefore, it would finish Hei first as he was the most dangerous at the moment.
'Big brother, wake up. Please.' (Xing)
'We have to fight. We can still do it, big brother. '(Ye)
"Hei, wake up!"
Hearing the cries of Ye, Xing, and Lian trying to bring him to consciousness, Hei slowly opened his eyes. The blow had stunned him, but inside him, he knew that the situation was more dangerous than ever.
"It's coming, isn't it?" Hei asked. He was lying on the ground and, therefore, couldn't see the termite king approaching their position.
"Yes." Lian replied before continuing, "I will take you out of here. I can't let you get killed."
"No, Lian. If you take me out of here, it will be the end for the others. Do me a favor, support my body with your ribbons. I can't move, but if you're in charge of my body, then I can attack." After saying this, Hei screamed at Long Tian, "Long Tian, block it. I just need a minute, and we'll win."
The Imperial Prince smiled at those words and replied, "I wasn't expecting anything else. Kill the termite king and put an end to this fight." After that, he used his last strength to use his real secret weapon. A weapon that he would have preferred to keep hidden but which he now had to release.
"Concept of Authority, Law of Earth, Authority of the Earth - Embrace of Mother Earth!"
Blood began to flow out of Long Tian's mouth and eyes. However, the Imperial Prince paid no attention and continued with his attack. A massive pressure of spirit power rose above the termite king, pushing him towards the ground. At the same time, the earth beneath the feet of the third-level spirit beast began to crumble as it made the termite king sink.
'Damn human. You again?! I will kill you! I will kill you all!'
The termite king tried to free itself, but Long Tian's technique was stronger and more intricate than the ones he had previously used. There was no way for the termite king to free itself quickly. And so, the minute that Hei needed was finally created.
"Law of Poison, Intent of the Spear, Triple Poison Spider Lance!"
Hei, without sparing a drop of his spirit power, used everything he had available as well. His two arms, in combination with his spear, were infused with all the spirit power he possessed thanks to the Battle Formation to which he added the Law of Poison. Lian, meanwhile, had removed the ribbon tied to Long Tian, and with both her ribbons, she was holding up Hei's body, holding his arms still at the same time so that they could target the enemy.
Stab!
Lian pushed Hei forward. The young man just had to worry about focusing his spirit power and attacking. His triple attack generated three deep holes on the head of the termite king, and from these holes quickly spread Hei's poison throughout the body of the spirit beast.
Screech!!!
The termite king stirred like a wild beast, rolling on the ground. Long Tian was finally unable to maintain his technique, thus letting go of the spirit beast. But it no longer mattered. The three wounds left by Hei were too deep, and even without the poison, the termite king would have died anyway. And, after almost a full minute of agony, the termite king took its last breath.
"We made it. Pant ... Pant..." Long Tian said before falling to the ground, exhausted. His body was full of wounds, both external and internal. Despite the Battle Formation of the Imperial Family, he remained a spirit soldier. It was a miracle that he had managed to resist so far without losing consciousness.
"Yes. We made it." Hei was also exhausted. Fortunately, there were Lian's ribbons to support him, or he would have fallen to the ground too.
With the fall of the termite king, the other battlefields also ended. The five lords of the forest killed their respective opponents, and so did Feng Chen, Huli Xieren, Hu Jie, He Fen, Lang, Fenrir, and Leon. The latter, however, even if they had won, didn't have a happy expression. Within them, they were rethinking everything that had happened and their mistakes. If it weren't for the battle talent of Hei and Long Tian, things could have gone very differently.
At the same time, even in the main battlefield, where the bulk of the first-year students and the subordinates of the forest lords were facing the armies of the termite king, the situation was now about to end. The death of the termite king had been felt by all the spirit beasts of the area. With no longer, the fear for that terrifying being, the creatures forced to submit to it were freed from its control. Therefore, they had no more reason to fight and ran away in the most remote corners of the forest.
The battle was over, and the victory belonged to the coalition of humans and native spirit beasts of the forest. The number of lives lost was impressive, at least for the humans who had participated in the conflict. Most of them had battle experience, but they were just not noteworthy clashes, at most against a small group of enemies. Never before had they participated in such a large-scale battle and certainly seen so many people die all at once.
However, the excitement and euphoria of the victory had made everyone forget a little detail. No, to call it a little detail was a euphemism. After all, the third-level spirit beasts weren't one but two. The termite queen was still alive and was now full of sadness and resentment over the death of its partner.
'Oh, my king. You left me alone even though you promised to stay with me. Stay assured. I'll join you right away. But I will avenge your death. No, I will let our children do it. Oh my king, thank you for choosing me as your queen.'
These were the queen's last words before she resorted to a desperate measure. A barbaric practice that was considered extreme even for most spirit beasts.
From the cave not far from the fighting site, an unusual buzz was becoming increasingly loud. At the same time, an incredible amount of spirit power was spreading outside.
When humans and spirit beasts who had fought against the termite king and its guards watched this scene, they were initially confused. The termite queen was pregnant and was in the late stages of pregnancy. Therefore, it wasn't in a position to fight even if it wanted to. Yet something was happening inside that cave, and soon Hei and the five lords of the forest understood what.
"Overeating," Hei whispered as he paled at the thought of such a scene.