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Chapter 729: 729: Insect Nest

Chapter 729: Chapter 729: Insect Nest

The light in the sewer was very dim, but the surrounding walls were covered with light-gray moss. The moss emitted a faint halo. Although it wasn’t enough to brighten the sewer as daylight did, the feeble light was sufficient for ordinary players to walk around. Thieves, the class of players that loved this environment the most, could even thrive here.

Song Jian directly opened his vertical eye in the middle of his brows and the surrounding environment immediately brightened up.

Since the vertical eye naturally offered dark vision, even in a pitch-dark environment, Song Jian could see clearly as if it were daytime. Hence, having clear vision here was certainly not a problem.

The conditions in the sewer were awful. Not only did a strong, stinky odour fill the air, but the ground was also littered with lots of garbage. As a direct consequence of this, the status bar of Song Jian displayed a “Movement speed reduced by 5%” debuff.

Additionally, the sewer was inhabited by many small animals like rats. Though they couldn’t inflict any damage on Song Jian, their incessant squeaking and scampering around were quite bothersome.

Song Jian advanced along a cleared path, not encountering a single monster along the way. It seemed like the players from the City of Hope Alliance had thoroughly cleared this area.

As he neared the area where the two players had perished, Song Jian felt some movement above him. If it were not for his strong mental attributes, he wouldn’t have noticed anything unusual.

Glancing up, he saw, to his surprise, fist-sized beetles crawling frenziedly towards him. Looking back, he saw dozens of beetles like this had already appeared behind him.

“How could there be so many beetles…” Song Jian exclaimed in surprise. Even though these beetles were just normal monsters, they were level twenty-five and were seemingly endless in numbers. He finally understood why the two thieves had perished here.

Even if thieves had strong survival skills, once their escape route was cut off by the endless tide of beetles, there was no chance they could escape.

Wind Sweeping Clouds!

Suddenly, wind gusts stirred up in the sewer channel, like countless wind blades slashing towards the beetles above.

Whizz, whizz, whizz~

The level twenty-five normal monsters could not withstand such violent attacks. For them, Song Jian’s damage output was indeed terrifying.

In an instant, Song Jian had killed dozens of beetles, cleaning out the whole channel.

“This was only with the employment of Wind Sweeping Clouds using a single longsword. I can’t even imagine how much power it would hold if four longswords were used simultaneously!” Song Jian’s excited face revealed his utter satisfaction. The way of killing many enemies at once was always thrilling.

As Song Jian proceeded further, he encountered more and more beetles. Their levels had escalated from twenty-five to twenty-eight, increasing significantly in size. The two large pincers on their forejaws were gleaming like metal, constantly clashing together and shooting sparks.

When Song Jian looked forward using his vertical eye, he noticed a huge dome-like object in the distance that reached the top of the sewer.

“Why does it look like a giant heart pulsating?” Song Jian thought to himself.

Upon getting closer, he was shocked to realize that it was actually a huge insect nest, continually discharging beetles covered in slime.

These beetles were the size of a fingernail at birth, but they grew to the size of a fist within mere seconds. They were identical to the level twenty-five beetles seen before.

Most beetles stopped growing after reaching level twenty-five. However, a few could grow to level twenty-eight. For every hundred level twenty-five beetles, one could grow to level twenty-eight.

But level twenty-eight beetles were not the pinnacle. Among every hundred level twenty-eight beetles, one could break through to level thirty. These level thirty beetles, elite monsters acting as guards, were stationed around the insect nest.

Only the level twenty-five and twenty-eight beetles roamed around, preyed on every creature in the sewer, and even the small animals like rats were not spared. The corpses of these creatures were then transported back to the insect nest to be stored as food.

Looking at the insect nest, Song Jian broke out in a cold sweat. Even if he managed to clear the surface area thoroughly, if he didn’t annihilate the insect nest in front of him, the ultimate task completion rate would still be shockingly low. The insect nest produced a swarm of beetles after a certain period of time. From afar, it looked like a surging black tide. Something like that could frighten a person with agoraphobia into a coma.

Even Song Jian couldn’t guarantee that he could escape unscathed if surrounded by these many beetles.

However, if he didn’t destroy the insect nest, his City Lord’s task would certainly fail. Even if he did manage to complete the task, the rank would still be very low. He might end up with a City Lord seal that had only unlocked 60% of its power. This was something Song Jian completely couldn’t accept.

“Even if I can’t reach the exclusive 110% unlock rate, I have to at least reach the perfect unlock rate of 98%!” Song Jian gritted his teeth and declared inwardly.

The Sword Spirit of the fourth longsword, the Surging Wave Breaking Sword, had been conceived. Song Jian summoned all four longswords and erased all previously engraved skills.

The Sword Spirits were still maturing, thus they could only memorize three sets of sword techniques. Song Jian directly engraved the first two moves of the Ten Thousand Facets Sword Technique onto the four longswords.

Re-engraving the sword techniques consumed a lot of Mental Strength. However, with the help of honey wine boosting his recovery, Song Jian successfully engraved the Ten Thousand Facets Sword Technique onto all four longswords.

“Today, I’ll show you how powerful the combination of the Blizzard Snowfall and the Wind Sweeping Clouds can be!” Song Jian glared at the insect nest and prepared to attack.

With a thought, one of the longswords flew towards the insect nest. The moment it got close, almost all the beetles noticed its existence and immediately let out sharp cries. Thousands of beetles cried out at once, filling the sewer with piercing sounds. Song Jian felt as if countless needles were piercing his eardrums. Even the long sword he was controlling couldn’t help but shudder.

The startled look on Song Jian’s face changed to one of alarm as he watched his Vitality Points rapidly deplete. This shrieking was not a beetle skill, but it was more frightening than any sonic attack skill.

Blizzard Snowfall!

The longsword flying towards the insect nest performed a turn in mid-air and, under Song Jian’s control, executed the first move of the Ten Thousand Facets Sword Technique.

In an instant, the beetles on the ground were nearly submerged in snow. Even the beetles on the ceiling of the sewer had been sliced into halves by the snowflake Sword Qi and fell to the floor.

Then, the second longsword was also released by Song Jian. Immediately, a gust of wind swept through the sewer.

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