Chapter 410: The terrifying strength of the Demigod race

"Boom, boom, boom!"

A roaring sound erupted.

Under Park Tae-jun's command,

countless fireballs were launched toward the giant tree.

"Not entirely idiots, then."

Li Miss Jingxi crossed her arms, watching the scene before her.

"At least they know to use long-range probes when encountering an enemy."

Tiger Flame Bugs are different from ordinary swarms.

When the broodmother propagates offspring,

each birth produces a pair of symbiotic insects.

One, the Tiger Flame Bug, excels at long-range bombardment.

The other, the Min Bug, possesses supreme defense and excels at frontline charges.

Furthermore, they do not eat living creatures;

they only consume energy bodies scorched by intense fire.

Before the Min Bugs could even reach the giant tree,

the fireballs had already arrived.

"Boom, boom, boom!"

Explosions rang out incessantly.

Black smoke swirled.

Li Miss Jingxi's expression turned suspicious.

Was it hit that easily?

Could it be, just as Park Tae-jun said,

that the Heavenly Dao allowed them to cultivate swarms,

and as long as they could contract the top-tier S-rank swarms,

they could easily deal with the Demigod race?

No!

It couldn't be that simple!

The strength of the Demigod race had long been deeply ingrained in the eyes of humanity.

From ancient times to the present,

not a single Demigod had ever truly been killed!

Li Miss Jingxi's eyes narrowed,

a layer of azure halo covering her vision.

【Eye of Insight】 pierced through the smoke and dust.

The giant tree

stood safely in place.

Every single fireball

had detonated several meters away from the tree,

sending ripples across a transparent barrier.

There are no weaklings among S-rank swarms!

As if tireless,

the Tiger Flame Bugs released their fireball barrage one after another.

【-928】

【-682】

【-749】

A continuous stream of damage values lit up.

"A shield?"

Li Miss Jingxi murmured in confusion.

The next second, she froze in place.

"What is up with that terrifying durability value?"

As the fireballs bombarded it incessantly,

the long bar representing the shield's durability finally shrank by an inch.

If she hadn't activated 【Eye of Insight】,

Li Miss Jingxi truly wouldn't have noticed that slight reduction!

"This..."

Li Miss Jingxi's face was filled with horror.

Several minutes of carpet-bombing firepower

had caused at least a million in damage.

"Tens of millions in shield durability? Are you kidding me?"

Park Tae-jun noticed Li Miss Jingxi's expression

I had thought she was shocked by the strength of the S-rank insect swarm.

Thinking to show off in front of the Valkyrie,

Park Tae-jun smiled and spoke glibly:

"Miss Miss Jingxi, you haven't seen the Tiger Flame Bugs deal with other A-rank swarms yet, have you?"

"A-rank swarms are already extremely powerful groups, yet they are easily torn apart by the Tiger Flame Bugs."

"Miss Miss Jingxi said this giant tree is a Demigod."

"In my opinion, with this size, its speed must be extremely slow. Forget the Tiger Flame Bugs; even if an A-rank swarm army pressed in, it wouldn't be able to handle it!"

"Besides, the fire element naturally counters the wood element."

"With this kind of firepower suppression, it will be buried in a sea of fire in twenty minutes at most."

"A Demigod, huh? I don't think it's all that."

Just then,

the giant tree suddenly stood up.

It waved its branches, scattering a shimmering green light.

The entire ground began to tremble incessantly.

The next second,

countless plants erupted from the ground.

Grass dozens of meters high shot into the sky.

Countless Tiger Flame Bugs were pierced by sharp blades of grass and impaled in mid-air.

Their bodies visibly shriveled, turning into nutrients for the growing grass.

In just a few minutes,

the surrounding area was completely covered by a field of grass.

Each blade of grass was dozens of meters tall.

In the middle of the grass forest,

visibility was compressed to the limit.

The people from the Kimchi Country, having barely dodged the grass blade attacks, could no longer find one another.

They fell into a state of bewilderment.

Li Miss Jingxi stood on the back of a giant insect.

The giant insect beneath her

was pierced by several blades of grass.

Its body shriveled,

turning into a brittle insect husk.

It couldn't even support her weight.

With a 'whoosh',

Li Miss Jingxi collapsed to the ground.

However,

she had no time to worry about this giant insect right now.

As the contractor of the S-rank Tiger Flame Bugs,

she could sense that

the growth of the grass field before her

had swallowed at least thirty percent of the Tiger Flame Bugs!

What kind of concept is this?

After these days of the Kimchi Country professionals developing their swarms day and night,

the number of Tiger Flame Bugs was at least over a million!

With just one move,

it had wiped out three hundred thousand of the swarm?

Li Miss Jingxi's eyes were sharp, her expression ugly to the extreme.

How were they supposed to fight this?

Tens of millions in shields,

a massive area-of-effect skill?

Could an S-rank swarm not even manage to injure a Demigod?

"Ho ho ho!"

A strange, eerie laugh rang out in Li Miss Jingxi's ear.

"I can tell, you are the leader of these humans, right?"

Li Miss Jingxi whipped her head around.

The grass parted, revealing a massive tree face.

Withered, shriveled,

with a beard made of leaves.

If one didn't know the identity of the tree face,

they would think it was a kindly old man.

In Li Miss Jingxi's eyes, however, the smile on the old man's face was incredibly sinister!

"Ding!"

A metallic clanging sound rang out.

Li Miss Jingxi drew her thin sword

and charged straight at the tree face.

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"Bang!"

Before she could even get close to the tree face,

Li Miss Jingxi was repelled by a transparent barrier.

"Swish!"

She swung her long sword,

and a golden halo slashed directly at it.

【-】

The shield's durability didn't budge at all.

And the tree face just watched her.

That look—

Li Miss Jingxi knew it well.

It was like a human child observing ants,

a curiosity toward a weak creature.

A 'rustling' sound arose.

The surrounding grass broke open,

and countless Min Bugs arrived at the scene.

Li Miss Jingxi shouted coldly:

"Attack!"

"Ho ho ho!"

The tree face let out a grotesque laugh and slowly floated into the air.

"It's getting taller."

Li Miss Jingxi looked up into the sky.

The nutrients of countless swarms were converging on this Demigod.

This towering giant tree had grown twice as tall!

"Little Daisy, come out and play with them."

"Boom!"

The ground shook.

A stone statue hundreds of meters tall appeared out of thin air,

covered in vines,

resembling a green giant.

"A summoning-type monster?" Li Miss Jingxi wondered.

【Eye of Insight】 was still active.

Li Miss Jingxi noticed at a glance

that there was a gray bar similar to a durability gauge on the green giant's head,

and it was slowly shrinking at an extremely gradual pace.

"The Tiger Flame Bugs haven't even launched an attack yet."

"Why is the durability decreasing?"

"Could it be..."

Li Miss Jingxi's eyes lit up.

"This isn't a physical summon, but a duration-based summon?"

Li Miss Jingxi instantly pulled out a dark yellow amber,

squeezed it in her hand, and gathered energy.

She shouted loudly:

"All swarms, retreat!"

"Do not engage the stone statue head-on!"

"Drag out the time as much as possible!"

Li Miss Jingxi's voice naturally couldn't escape Ivern's ears.

"Ho ho ho!"

"Did you figure it out?"

"My Little Daisy has a duration."

"As expected of the leader of the human professionals."

"Too bad, you can't retreat."

Ivern raised his arm,

his body bending as if he were shooting a basketball,

and threw a ring of light.

The ring touched the grass area and instantly expanded.

In an instant,

it grew to an exaggerated size that covered the entire grass field!

The next second,

Li Miss Jingxi froze in place.

【Affected by 'Rooted in Enmity' attack, Strength check in progress.】

【Check successful! Strength attribute is lower than the caster's Strength attribute, suffering 652 seconds of Imprisonment status!】

It wasn't just Li Miss Jingxi;

within the grass, all professionals and all swarms

fell into the Imprisonment status.

As the Valkyrie of the Kimchi Country,

Li Miss Jingxi's Strength attribute far exceeded the other professionals.

Even she was imprisoned for ten minutes!

The imprisonment time for the swarms and other professionals would only be longer!

And what horrified Li Miss Jingxi even more was that

between the targets in the Imprisonment status and that green giant,

it was as if a transparent thread was pulling them.

The green giant could appear in front of the imprisoned target in an instant.

With a swing of its stone fist,

under its massive size—