Chapter 268 Despair

"The swarm of insects actually ran out from behind."

Many people on the ice wall were in a state of confusion, and Eilistraee's face turned even pale.

In the battle just now.

Many unreasonable situations came to her mind.

For example, when the first wave of ice-breaking worms approached the city wall, it clearly had not started to cause serious damage to the main structure of the city wall, but there was a huge vibration under the ice sheet.

Now that I think about it, that shaking feeling was not caused by the attack of the insect swarm on the ice.

The real reason is.

From the very beginning, the swarm did not plan to attack from the front. In their initial plan, the bugs emerging from the ice were just targets to divert attention.

"No, that's not entirely true!" As soon as such an idea appeared, Eilistraee shook her head to deny it.

Although the attack just now was mainly responsible for attracting attention.

However, the pressure brought by the insect swarm is real. The joint combat army was indeed caught off guard by the sneak attack of the brain worms. If it were not for the timely action of a top powerhouse like Nefardicius, the swarm of insects might have broken through from the air.

To sum it up.

The power of the Hive is far beyond Eilistraee's imagination.

These Devourers, who brought catastrophe to Terraria three hundred years ago, have become even more terrifying now.

Even if they only use part of their power, it is still enough to put people like Eilistraee into a desperate situation where they are surrounded from both sides.

The swarm of insects will not leave Eilistraee much time to think.

The ice field behind the ice wall is filled with densely packed logistics personnel like black ants. There are tens of thousands of them, and it is impossible for all soldiers to participate in a large war. In fact, more people are involved as support staff. The same is true for those on the ice sheet. Their numbers are greater and their strength is far inferior to the elites stationed on the front line.

And in the rear base area that was originally the base camp, now there are huge dark ice caves.

A swarm of insects like a black tide.

They just sprayed out, roaring, and under the control of a certain grand consciousness, harvesting all life in front of them with precision and speed.

"Now how to do?"

Along with a stream of blazing fire, the Golden King Nephalidius appeared beside Eilistraee.

His face was no longer as smug and arrogant as before.

The classically handsome face that looked like a sculpture was a little pale, partly because of the lack of physical strength after the heavy exertion just now. On the other hand, after seeing the deteriorating environment in front of him, Nefardicius also felt at a loss.

"retreat!"

Eilistraee felt her eyes going black, and a huge feeling of dizziness filled her brain.

She gritted her teeth.

It was an extremely difficult decision to make.

In less than three minutes, the vast ice surface was riddled with holes drilled by giant ground-burrowing worms. Hundreds of large and small holes were spread across the ice sheet. Brain worms, king worms, flying snakes, Spiny dragons... Countless insect swarm creatures emerged from every ice cave, making loud roars.

It dawned on her.

Why did the insect swarm let her spend a huge amount of time building such defense facilities around her.

During this period of time, the insect swarm was only symbolic. It launched several small-scale attacks, leaving corpses on the ground before retreating.

Think about it now.

It was not because the power of the insect swarm could not affect the perceptual world at that time.

But the swarm also wants to take advantage of this opportunity to wipe out all the resistance in one fell swoop, so that the entire sea will become a hotbed for the swarm.

After thinking about these things.

Retreating is undoubtedly the best method that the coalition can take at present.

As long as enough vitality can be preserved, return to the Malai Islands and join the radiation army that has not yet arrived.

There is still a chance to interact with the insect swarm.

"Gather your strength and prepare to break out!" Eilistraee's chest heaved violently.

Her eyes were red, and at a certain moment she felt that she had become the sinner of the entire sea, the executioner who assisted the insect swarm in massacring her compatriots. It is precisely because of his ignorance and naivety that the situation has fallen into such a dangerous situation.

But compared to self-blame or even self-abasement.

Eilistraee knew better.

The most important thing now is still to lead the army to break out from this ice field, even if it means paying for it with one's life.

Eilistraee looked into the distance, at the end of the ice field.

Huge battleships covered with iron armor are scattered and moored on the dock. Whether on the ice or underwater, there are huge numbers of troops hoarded around the battleships.

For a while and a half.

Even if the insect nest's attack was as turbulent as a dam-breaking river, it could not destroy those huge warships.

"We must seize the time to sort out the army." At the critical moment, Eilistraee forced herself to calm down.

"Okay, I'll go right away."

Nefardicius nodded with a serious expression.

At this time, they also put aside their grudges with each other, and the proud Golden King obeyed the Sea Tribe's sacrifice and went to carry out the order regardless of his face.

However.

It was as if he was teasing her on purpose.

As soon as Eilistraee's order was given, the seawater began to boil violently.

The originally calm water surface slowly rose up like a raised sand dune. The huge ironclad ship was undulating in waves of more than ten meters, and it seemed that it might completely capsize at any time.

"Oh my God, what a monster that is!"

"There's something under the water!"

The pirates stationed on the ironclad ship screamed in terror.

Even the most daring pirate couldn't help but his legs became weak at this moment and he collapsed to the ground.

The water surface rising up like a giant peak exploded, and in the roaring waves, giant insects with scales and armors exceeding a hundred meters in size appeared from the sea in an irresistible manner, like ancient evil gods spreading despair.

Roar!

They let out a loud roar.

The claw in his hand was like a giant hammer forged from fine steel, falling from the sky with strong wind.

boom!

Just a hammer.

Those huge battleships wrapped in thick iron armor, which could be called legends even among Velost, were smashed into pieces out of thin air. Countless steel, scraps, and stumps on the deck exploded under the action of the shock wave, forming a terrifying flower of steel.

Bang bang bang!

There are about a dozen Titan Zergs appearing in the sea.

Those warships that were lucky enough to survive the first wave of offensive began to launch a counterattack. The whizzing shells crossed the water and pierced the waves, landing on the giant Titan insect with a thunderous force.

However, except for a few armor-piercing rounds handed down from the Golden Age, they can cause damage to the Titan Zerg.

The rest of the inferior earth cannons could only leave a thick smoke on the Titan Zerg's thick chitin carapace.

The pain irritated the giant insects.

They are huge, but their movements are not clumsy at all.

The giant steel ships on the sea, with an average length of more than thirty meters, were broken in half by the Titan Insects. Then it was thrown as a stone, and they collided heavily with the desperate eyes of the crew members on the other surviving giant ships.

The sound of steel colliding, squeezing and deforming resounded throughout the sea, and the fire caused by the explosion of the gunpowder magazine dyed the sea surface crimson.

Black smoke billowed from the side of the Titan Insect.

This makes those ferocious and huge Titan bugs as irresistible as Shura's scourge.

Swish, swish, swish!

Dark green tentacles emerged from the sea water. The tentacles with suckers and barbs were more than three meters in diameter, and they wrapped around the Titan worm.

Huge whirlpools appear in the sea water.

A giant octopus with a diameter of more than two hundred meters jumped out of it.

"It's the Storm Octopus!" The pirates shouted excitedly, as if they had seen the savior.

During the voyage on the sea.

The storm octopus is definitely the most dangerous creature in the sea. The size of an adult storm octopus exceeds 200 meters, and its tentacles can cover an area of ​​1,000 meters in radius when fully extended. The huge and soft tentacles only need to be gently stirred under the water to form Huge waves and whirlpools capable of swallowing everything are considered moveable natural disasters.

In usual times.

The Storm Octopus is definitely every pirate's nightmare, and encountering it means death.

but now.

When the Storm Octopus leapt out from under the dark sea and amidst the smoke, all the surviving pirates let out loud cheers.

The Storm Octopus is the overlord of the deep sea.

Its size is several times larger than the Titan bug.

A sneak attack.

Even if the giant titan insect roared one after another, and the poisonous mist of bone spurs emitted from its body, it was inevitably dragged into the deep sea by its tentacles.

Two giant beasts fight beneath the surface of the sea.

The sea was churning violently, and everyone clenched their fists and sweated nervously.

Poof!

The sound of a balloon exploding was heard clearly.

The clear sea turned dark red.

The broken limbs of the Titan bug surfaced in the tumbling sea currents.

"Very good!"

Ice wall.

Rinzi clenched her fists and couldn't help cheering. Many people around her had the same excited expressions on their faces.

Those titan bugs are not invincible.

In the vast deep sea, Mother Terraria gave birth to many incredible lives with her warm embrace. Those giant beasts of the deep have power that rivals or even surpasses the Titans.

But among the crowd, there was no smile on Renguang's face.

"This is not enough..." He said to himself. There is only one Storm Octopus, but Titan Insects can be produced in batches.

individual strength.

It cannot change the course of this war.

Even the evolvers of the third life level, on such a battlefield with tens of thousands of people, still appear as fragile as an epiphyllum.

"We must find a way to take these children away!" Renguang said secretly.

as expected.

What happened next was just as he expected.

An inconspicuous black current appeared in the sea, and the current attached to the huge body of the storm octopus and wrapped it.

The storm octopus was showing off its might just now.

At this moment, sharp infrasound waves burst out that were difficult to distinguish with ears. Although they could not hear it, everyone could feel the pain that the deep sea beast was experiencing.

The pirates looked far away.

Only then did he realize that what was attached to the Storm Octopus was not sea water.

Instead, it was a beetle with only a metallic feel and the size of a small fingernail. Their mouthparts are extremely sharp, and their tiny limbs cling tightly to the soft tentacles of the storm octopus, desperately eating the flesh and blood of their prey. The creepy rustling sound echoes in every pirate's mind.

In an instant.

The huge body of the storm octopus resembles a sand sculpture at high tide.

Under the gaze of everyone, he disappeared in a way that was visible to the naked eye.

"this…"

The pirates' smiles froze.

Before they had time to react, they saw the Zerg Titans swimming towards them at an alarming speed.

…

Boom!

It seems that he is tired of playing.

It may also be that they still feel that the sea tribe and the human alliance are not desperate enough.

The pitch-black wormhole surrounded by the ice wall once again burst out with infinite power, gray radiation crisscrossed the area, and a thick carpet of bacteria actually sprouted on the ice.

A large number of insect swarm elites emerged from it.

The spiny dragon spread its wings and its iron-like body hovered upward.

Hundreds of king worm brain worms flew up from the abyss like huge balloons, with a ferocious mocking smile on their ugly human-like faces.

On the ground, cricket demons crowded one after another, and their bodies, large and small, completely covered every inch of space. Behind him, some insect nest warriors who were no less powerful than the third life level waved their blades and strode forward.

All the swarms are rioting.

The battlefield was divided into dozens of fragments, and almost all coalition forces fell into siege.

…

"Go quickly, don't stop!"

With the unconscious Sang Zhan on his back, Renguang raised his hand and punched the insect nest warrior in front of him into pieces.

Their response time is very fast.

When you realize that things are going bad, you are ready to retreat.

In addition, although the number of people coming from the Moon Kingdom is not large, almost all of them are elites. Even the weakest monk is an awakened one like Sang Zhan.

Only then were they able to escape from the swarm of insects.

Renguang charged forward and was responsible for opening the way.

The sisters Tsukimi Sakura and Tsukimi Rin, who were second only to Nikou in the team, were guarding the rear, and the entire team was like a shuttle passing through the swarm of insects.

The wooden boat moored on the pier is not far from here, it seems because the boat is too small.

The inconspicuous wooden boat did not attract the attention of the insect swarm.

And at this time.

Renguang and his group were less than three thousand meters away from the wooden boat.

As long as we can get there...

Renguang's eyes were firm.

However.

Click!

There was a sudden violent vibration on the ice sheet.

Ren Guang suddenly stopped on the smooth ice in a posture that went against his inertia, and his expression became quite ugly.

On the ice sheet.

A huge dark crack suddenly appeared less than half a step ahead.

The dark rolling sea water splashed down and stained Ren Guang's cloth shoes.

Tsukimi Sakura looked along the direction of the crack extension, and was shocked to see that the thousand-meter-high glacier in the middle of the ice field had collapsed, and the earth-shaking violent force directly caused the ice field to crack out of thin air.

The cracks in between are thousands of meters wide.

"What can we do?" Looking at the turbulent sea water in front of him, Renguang was stunned for a moment.

Behind him, Tsukimi Rinko felt her chest feel hot. She reached out and took out the piece of iron. She saw that the surface of the iron piece was covered with golden lines and shimmered with dazzling light.

In the sky.

I don't know when a black cloud appeared, and a flying dragon with huge wings made a sharp chirp.

And in the sky further away.

Amidst the thunder and hurricanes in the sky, a magnificent steel city appeared in the sky overlooking the earth, and dense meteor fires fell from the city.