The Death List Novel - Chapter 578
Chapter 578 First Battle of the Ruins
The arachnid’s “armor” had several branches. Most of them looked like shovel worms and golden beetles. The common characteristic was that they carried heavy carapaces and were lying on the ground like a giant tank. Only some have pincer-shaped claws in their mouths, while others do not.
Most of the trucks were several hundred meters long, and some were even close to a thousand meters long. Even in the Palanto Plane, where everything had been magnified tens of times, it was still a true colossus.
As for the other colossal creature called the Weaver, it was the kind of insect that looked like a spider, but had spikes on its back that were curved like rhinoceros horns. This thing did not have the smooth shell of a “carriage armor” on its body. Its abdomen and claws were covered with fluffy hair. Its head was half-constricted in its body cavity, and the exposed part was lined with four pairs of sparkling black gemstone-like bug eyes.
Apart from Gan Luo, Apostle also brought along two carts that looked like shovels, two carts that looked like golden beetles, three weavers, and the rest were Napasa worms.
However, unlike the Napasa that Qin Lun and the others had encircled at the edge of the X-352 galaxy, the 20 plus Gan Luo that Napasa had brought along had huge bellies with circles of golden markings. Their mouths and bodies had grown by a circle, and they also had a pair of feathered wings. Clearly, their strength was even stronger.
The eighty-odd Heathmare guardians led by Holy Maiden Ruxin quickly fought against these insects.
The weapon used by Guardian Heathmel was not a physical object, but a spear condensed from spiritual energy.
If it was in the cosmic starry sky, then this amount of psionic energy would combine with the radiation particles in the starry sky to condense into a spear of nothingness, or even an antimatter javelin. On this Palanto Plane, which had an atmosphere, they combined all kinds of ions in the air and condensed spears of lightning, flames, and other attributes.
The crackling lightning spear was as fast as lightning. After it was released, seven or eight golden-striped Napasas were struck and exploded, and the corpses of the insects scattered everywhere. The strong acidic bodily fluids in the insect’s body sizzled on the enormous stairs of the ruins, corroding into craters and pits.
Holy Maiden Ru Xin, led by Guardian Heathmel, was even more terrifying. She did not condense a spear like the other subordinates. Two glass-like catkins stretched forward and threw out two smoke whips. One on the left and one on the right, they each captured a Napasa.
The seemingly ineffectual smoke was only pulled back, and the two golden-striped Napasas quietly fell into two pieces from the sky. The broken sections of their bodies were in a high-temperature glass state, not even bodily fluids flowing out.
However, Napasa, who had been severely injured by the sudden attack, did not panic. The remaining ten or so Napasas drew arcs in the air and landed on the backs of the two golden tortoise armors, curling their bodies into a ball, firmly attached to the shell like a fluffy ball. They did not know what they were trying to do.
The huge and heavy armor of the golden beetle crossed its body with its thick claws. The surface of its body flickered with a sparkling light, and two hemispherical blue shields enveloped all the insects. The elemental spears projected by the Heathmare Guardians sprayed ripples visible to the naked eye on the shields, but they were unable to break through the defenses of these shields.
There were only two “weaving worms”. The fur on their bodies trembled slightly, and a rainbow-colored transparent ripple flashed past. The giant worm’s body merged with its surroundings, and it actually possessed a rare stealth ability.
The other two spade-shaped armors did not release a spherical shield, but raised their heads in a roar. The split claw-shaped chelate limbs were like two opposing cationic and anionic rods, occasionally flickering with irregular electric light. These lightning bolts grew denser and denser, and in the end, they formed a terrifying ball of lightning that shot into the air.
The two lightning balls wrapped in lightning were very large, but they weren’t very fast. However, Holy Maiden Ru Xin’s expression changed as she shouted at her companion, “Get out of the way!”
“Chi la!” As soon as Holy Maiden Ru Xin finished speaking, two lightning balls exploded in the air. The exploding lightning bolts flew around like lightning snakes, and several unavoidable Heathmeier Guardians were immediately struck.
The two guardians who were struck by the thick lightning did not even have time to shout before their bodies turned into a ball of random green smoke. Their spiritual bodies were scattered, and there was nothing they could do to save them.
Apart from the two unlucky ones, there were also a few guardians who didn’t have time to dodge when they were struck by lightning. The parts of their bodies touched by the lightning immediately evaporated, and they let out painful screams.
However, the arachnid’s counterattack was not over yet. After the two golden tortoise armors released the blue shield, the thick carapace on their backs split into countless small pieces that trembled slightly. Several of the golden Napasa that were attached to the carapace were immediately ejected from the shield and shot towards the heavily injured Heathmeier Guardians.
The Heathmeier Guardians around the injured were all shocked. The nearest few people quickly condensed lightning spears in their hands and shot them out, hoping to intercept these Napasa halfway.
When Holy Maiden Ruxin saw this scene, a warning from an elder suddenly flashed through her mind. Her apricot eyes immediately widened and she anxiously shouted, “Don’t … Be careful ~”
The guardian who shot out the lightning spear was slightly stunned. He turned to look at Holy Maiden Ru Xin in confusion.
Right at this moment, a ripple suddenly appeared in front of them. A long and narrow spatial rift split open in the center of the ripple, and several grey curved spikes shot out, piercing into their bodies.
At the same time, in a certain corner of the armor worm shield, two “weaving worms” abruptly revealed their figures, and the spikes on their backs were missing a small piece. They could no longer maintain their invisibility when attacking.
The Heathmeier Guardians who had rescued them trembled slightly and their bodies collapsed into smoke. The lightning spears they had forcefully condensed lost their soul guidance and also disappeared into the air.
After Napasa shot out of the shield, his curled-up body stretched out once more, and his long needle-like mouthpiece glowed with a green light, piercing towards the enemy like a spear.
The guardians who were heavily injured by the lightning ball were the least injured. They avoided the attack of the Golden Rune Napasa. The others were all pierced through by the sharp mouthparts of the Golden Rune Napasa, and their bodies stiffened slightly before dissipating into light smoke.
Of course, the few Napasas who had escaped the shield only had the power of this attack, and were then torn into pieces by the furious guardians with their lightning spears.
No matter what, the arachnid’s counterattack had also killed more than a dozen Heathmeier Guardians, and the damage ratio had actually been reduced to one to one. Compared to the fertile bugs, the guardians of Heathmeier were harder to nurture. Moreover, there was a huge disparity in strength between the enemy and us. In this round alone, it was absolutely a failure for the people of Heathmeier.
Holy Maiden Ru Xin gritted her teeth tightly, feeling extremely embarrassed and indignant for a moment. The warnings of the elders of the clan once again resounded in her heart. Most low-grade insects weren’t intelligent, but high-grade insects were different. They weren’t inferior to any intelligent lifeforms at all.
Now, it was clear that they had underestimated their enemies. The Heathmeier Guardian’s battle prowess was formidable, so it didn’t matter if the armor of the chariot cooperated with Napasa’s lightning ball. This was the usual tactic of the Zerg race.
However, the [Weaver] ‘s sharp spikes weren’t enough to kill the Guardians. The reason for this was because the Guardians had quickly condensed their lightning spears to save their companions and drained the defensive energy within their bodies for a short period of time.
Ru Xin turned around to look at her companions and secretly sighed.
The Arachnids and the Heathmeier had been entangled for tens of thousands of years, until the two races were driven out of the Gith Galaxy by Giese at his peak and migrated to the Scorpion Galaxy. Judging from the two races’ completely different civilizations and tens of thousands of years of war history, it was hard to imagine that they were the same origin and were the successors of the Angel Race.
The cessation of the war gave the two races time to recover. However, the new generation, who had never experienced the war, similarly did not have the battle experience of their predecessors. However, compared to the guardians of Heathmeier, the arachnids were not afraid of death and were not affected by emotions. They were destined to adapt to war faster. This was a natural fighting race.
“Don’t rush in. Use the elemental spear to slowly consume the armor insect’s shield. They won’t be able to defend it for long.” Ruxin took a deep breath and lost her relaxed expression. An unbelievable thought even appeared in her mind.
Just a few insects had cost them more than ten companions. What would happen if they encountered the arrival of the arachnids in Apostle? Should we notify our own side of the arrival of Apostle and let them come down and act together?
“No!” As soon as this thought appeared, she immediately shook her head. She had just tossed aside Qin Mei and the others to descend on Apostle. Now, if she went back to ask for help, where would the dignity of the Heathmeier Clan go?
“At the very least, we need to see the strength of the enemy, Apostle!” Ruxin bit her lower lip and made a decision in her heart.
Ruxin’s choice seemed to be careless and stupid, but in reality, it was not strange.
Currently, the four teams that entered the Gospel World, Chaos and Holy Light, were all aiming to defeat the Inspector Team. Not only did he have a high-level Apostle leader, but his team members were also not mediocre. They had a complete set of combat professions, including output, assistance, and healing.
Robin’s team of inspectors, apart from not having a high-level Apostle, were all elites. Their members had great potential and had their own characteristics. Apart from Qin Lun, there were two Guild Leader-level Apostle that could command the entire regiment, Robin and Bahrain.
The team led by Qin Mei was different. This team was a mob that Qin Mei had forcefully pulled in. Their qualities were uneven, and their combat profession was not complete enough. If Qin Mei’s strength hadn’t increased the evaluation of the guild, they wouldn’t have been able to enter the gospel world at the peak of the Middle Demon realm.
This was also the reason why Qin Mei had planned to not participate in the X-352 Galaxy’s Four Battle Clusters.
In the early stages of the battle, Apostle and the Heathmeier Guardian in Qin Mei’s guild had actual combat exchanges, and they didn’t show much strength. And Qin Mei herself had never made a move, causing the people of Heathmeier to misjudge the strength that descended upon Apostle.
Coupled with Qin Mei’s plan, the people of Heathmeier had been on the right track since the beginning of this battle, misestimating their own strength and weakening their vigilance against the enemy. Only then did the Guardian Holy Maiden of Heathmeier leave Apostle alone and make the wrong choice.