Chapter 329: The General's Insect Crystal Core

Chapter 329: The General's Insect Crystal Core

January 16, 2025

Knowing that the Ancient Insect Plague would not erupt in the short term, Sunan paid little attention to it.

Leaving the affairs of the Star Alliance to Lizai, he continued to dedicate himself to the comprehension of the Law, only occasionally taking a break from the Realm of Truth to attend to the upgrading and renovation of the Floating City.

Time passed, and years went by.

As Sunan immersed himself in cultivation, the scale of the ancient insect invasion gradually expanded.

In the year 4988 of the Starlight Calendar, a swarm of ancient insects numbering over five million appeared in the Sky Sea Plane. Within just half a month, more than three planes were overrun by the insects, and over a dozen planes were simultaneously invaded.

The Deep Blue Alliance immediately dispatched their Floating City to exterminate the invading insects.

In the year 5020 of the Starlight Calendar, a massive group of ancient insects, numbering in the tens of millions, launched a large-scale invasion of the Shadow Throne. They pushed their attack all the way to the main plane, the Moonshadow Plane, but were eventually repelled by the forces of the Shadow Throne.

Over the next decade, other wizard factions, the Deity-inhabited Thousand God Plane, and even the Dragon Realm Plane, home to a large number of dragons, all suffered invasions by the ancient insects.

Despite the factions' prompt deployment of large armies to exterminate the insects, they failed to repel the swarm. More and more insects emerged from unknown sources, and the war not only failed to be contained but also showed signs of escalating.

The entire multiverse gradually became aware of the terrifying power of the ancient insects and began to take this peculiar race seriously.

Starlight Calendar 5520.

Sunan concluded his cultivation and returned to the Starlight Continent from the Realm of Truth.

After seven hundred years, he had finally exhausted the divine essence of the Fire Mane King, and his Gravitational Law had grown to over 300 levels.

With his dual Law domains and Law Core, Sunan now had the confidence to challenge even a 6th Rank True Spirit Wizard.

Upon his return to the Starlight Floating City, he had just entered the Central Crystal Tower when Lizai approached him.

The moment they met, Sunan immediately sensed the more pronounced Law aura emanating from Lizai.

He raised an eyebrow and smiled, "It seems that our Star Alliance will soon have another True Spirit Wizard."

"It's all thanks to your Light Awakening Potion," Lizai replied with a slight smile.

With an ample supply of the potion, her comprehension of the Starlight Law had progressed smoothly, far surpassing that of an ordinary 3rd Rank Wizard.

At her current pace, she would achieve the True Spirit Wizard rank in less than a thousand years.

After a brief exchange, the two quickly got down to business.

"How's the situation with the ancient insects lately?"

"Just as you said, the scale of the war has been expanding," Lizai said solemnly. "The number of ancient insects is beyond imagination. According to statistics, they are currently invading over a thousand planes simultaneously, and they have occupied a considerable number of planes, almost all of which are inhabited by intelligent races."

"It's too early to be surprised," Sunan said, his eyes glinting slightly.

Only he knew that the current situation was not yet the most intense phase of the war.

The ancient insect invasion of the multiverse was still in the initial stage of casting a wide net. It was only in the later stages of the war that they would gradually shift their primary offensive targets to the planes with the strongest resistance to their invasion.

In other words, they would focus on the well-known factions in the multiverse.

Only then would the war reach its climax.

"Here's the latest battle report," Lizai handed him a document.

Sunan took it and carefully reviewed it.

The report listed the losses suffered by various factions since the appearance of the ancient insects.

The data clearly showed that Deities and Wizards had undoubtedly suffered the most significant casualties.

This was understandable, as the territories of Deities and Wizards were the most extensive in the multiverse.

Even the dragons couldn't compare in this regard.

Due to the Deities being on the opposing side, their intelligence gathering was relatively crude, so Sunan set that aside for the moment.

He focused on examining the situation within the wizarding world.

Overall, almost no wizard faction could remain unaffected by this war; all had suffered to some extent from the ancient insect invasion.

As of now, seven third-rate wizard factions and one second-rate wizard faction had been annihilated by the invading insects.

Most wizard factions were in a less than ideal state.

Even the major wizard factions were struggling to cope with the insects.

Among them, the Shadow Throne had the worst luck.

Throughout the multiverse, they faced the most intense invasion.

In just five hundred years, nearly one-fifth of the Shadow Throne's territory had been overrun by the insects. Even with the intervention of the three Great Throne Wizards, who had been in seclusion for many years and had not appeared in a long time, they could only barely stem the tide, unable to turn the situation around fundamentally.

It was foreseeable that once the ancient insects gradually focused their attacks and transferred their main forces over, the situation in the Shadow Throne would become even worse.

Sunan was quite pleased with this development.

"No wonder the Shadow Throne hasn't taken any action regarding the deaths of Jude and the others all these years. They've been too busy dealing with their own problems to seek revenge."

Sunan couldn't help but feel a sense of schadenfreude.

In comparison, the Star Alliance was in the best position.

Thanks to Sunan's advance warning, the Star Alliance had been prepared and had made sufficient preparations, so they suffered relatively minor losses in this war.

The situation was still under control for now.

After Sunan finished reading the report, Lizai spoke again, "Our people have captured some peculiar ancient insects that I think you might recognize."

"Peculiar ancient insects?"

Sunan became interested and accompanied Lizai to the Magic-Proof Prison.

Inside the prison, adorned with densely packed runes, were over a dozen ferocious insect beasts.

These beasts were not particularly large, only three to four meters tall, which was considered average among the ancient insects. Their appearance was also unremarkable, except for a sharp, horn-like crystal cluster on their heads that drew attention.

"This type of ancient insect seems to serve as a commander within the swarm. Every swarm with a thousand or more insects has at least one of these."

"I dissected a few in the lab, and without exception, I found this."

Lizai extended her hand, and in her palm was a stone-like object the size of an egg. It looked ordinary, but upon closer inspection, one could see that it could actually draw upon the Law power in the surrounding void.

A glint of interest flashed in Sunan's eyes as he took the stone and carefully sensed its power. He discovered that within a hundred-meter radius around the stone, the activity of some Law power had noticeably increased.

The attributes of the Law Power within this portion are quite extreme.

Slaughter, destruction, and devouring—almost all negative Laws!

"This ancient insect is called the Marshal Bug, and its status among the ancient insect clan is akin to a marshal, responsible for commanding ordinary ancient insects in battle during wartime. They possess higher intelligence and only obey the orders of the Queen Bug."

"Queen Bug?" Lizai furrowed her brows in confusion. "Queen?"

Sunan nodded. "More or less. The Queen Bug itself doesn't have much combat power, but it can simultaneously command tens of millions of insect swarms in battle. It's the royal family of the ancient insects, and there are probably not many Queen Bugs in the entire ancient insect clan."

If the Queen Bug is the commander of the insect swarm, then the Marshal Bug is their general.

The former is responsible for commanding large-scale wars, while the latter leads regional, small-scale battles.

After hearing Sunan's explanation, Lizai suddenly understood. She glanced at the stone in Sunan's hand and asked, "Then what about this one?"

"I'm not quite sure, but it should be some kind of crystal core."

Sunan shook his head. His knowledge of the ancient insect clan was limited; he only knew about the existence of the Marshal Bug and the Queen Bug, but more detailed intelligence was beyond his reach.

This was also the first time he learned that the Marshal Bug had a crystal core capable of invoking Law Power.

(End of Chapter)

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