Chapter 1537: The Battle Continues

At this moment,

five minutes have passed since the battle began.

Energy consumption has reached half.

In other words,

the chessboard's enhancement of the chess pieces

has reached an unimaginable level!

Their attributes are infinitely close to the Black Dragon God.

Kai'Sa and Kha'Zix are completely crushing them.

The slaughter has begun.

The chess pieces are turning into blue afterimages less and less frequently.

Conversely,

the Dragon-Blood Magic Insects are falling to the ground one after another.

Watching the scene before him,

there is not a ripple of emotion on Li Yao's face.

Swain should be very clear about his strength.

The combined threat level of these fifteen black dragons

is only slightly higher than the New King.

As he is now,

he doesn't even need the Nashor Dragon to wear them down to death using the chessboard.

Sending them here to die serves no purpose other than adding to his loot.

He had originally thought

that Swain's true form would suddenly appear during the battle to launch a sneak attack.

This is also why he has been standing in place

and not joining the fight.

But now that the battle is nearing its end and it still hasn't appeared, it proves that Swain is indeed very far from here.

Then what was its purpose?

Never mind.

Things will work themselves out when the time comes.

As long as his strength keeps growing,

no matter how many schemes that guy has,

he will cut down every one that comes.

"Devourer!" Li Yao ordered coldly.

Its massive body stepped onto the chessboard, swaggering toward the last surviving Dragon-Blood Magic Insect.

The cooldown for the gourd has ended now.

He could actually collect another chess piece.

These Dragon-Blood Magic Insects have enough strength,

but their bloodlines are impure.

Magic insect blood, demon blood, and the energy of some unknown creature.

A replicable creature born this way,

even if he spent gold coins to raise it to a higher grade, wouldn't have a very high ceiling for strength.

In short,

it's trash.

He doesn't want it.

"Squish!"

The huge mouthparts swallowed the Dragon-Blood Magic Insect in one bite.

"Crunch, crunch!"

Every time it chewed, a large amount of blood sprayed out.

【Void Devourer has completed evolution consumption, gaining 5 billion maximum health.】

【Killed an Overlord-tier creature above your level, Dragon-Blood Magic Insect · Calamity Black Crow, EXP +17% (EXP stored, can be extracted after completing class advancement).】

"All they are is Calamity Black Crows; as Overlord-tier units, they don't even have their own names. Truly trash."

Li Yao deactivated the chessboard domain, his body falling toward the ground.

Landing, he walked toward the corpses.

Some of the Dragon-Blood Magic Insects killed earliest were already beginning to turn into black light spots and slowly dissipate.

Li Yao was slightly stunned.

"The Magic Insect race, can't they digest the creatures they breed themselves?"

"What use is there for them to collect the energy of the Dragon-Blood Magic Insects?"

Li Yao looked up and scanned his surroundings. "As expected, is this an ability inherent to this underground world itself?"

Beside the corpses,

several treasure chests were floating in the air.

This is the reward given by the Heavenly Dao to practitioners.

Other than practitioners, no other creatures can see them.

Li Yao collected them all.

He didn't hold high hopes for this loot.

Among the three great demon races, the Magic Insect race's loot is notoriously bad!

Even for Overlord-tier creatures, there's no avoiding it.

With some being clones, what good things could he expect them to drop?

Li Yao put them into his storage ring.

Now is not the time.

In just this short while,

those Yordles in the distance had all arrived.

One by one, the petite figures stood nearby.

They didn't speak, just stared at him with wide eyes.

It made Li Yao feel a bit embarrassed.

After a long while,

Mayor Lulu stepped forward and reached out to touch Li Yao's pant leg.

"Benefactor."

"Mayor Lulu, just call me Li Yao like before," Li Yao hurriedly interrupted.

"Li Yao." Mayor Lulu paused; words of gratitude would only make the relationship distant, and Yordles would remember it forever in their hearts.

Lulu looked up at the sky, at that large glazed hole, and asked the question all Yordles cared about most.

"Above,"

"what happened?"