Published: February 7, 2025
“Lower Armored Demon Beast!” The warrior from the Afo Tribe, who was the first to see this scene, exclaimed and immediately turned to run.
These black beetles, only the size of a coin, had a Grade 2 Magic Crystal on their foreheads, yet the people of the Afo Tribe showed expressions of fear even greater than when they encountered a Grade 6 Winged Demon Beast, leaving Ye Zhongming perplexed.
What he didn't know was that these Lower Armored Demon Beasts were infamous in the Blue Secret Realm, and calling them notorious would not be an exaggeration.
These creatures were parasites or symbiotic parasites that often lived on large demon beasts covered in scales. They resided under the scales of their host, feeding on dirt and surrounding insects. Because they secreted a substance that relieved the itch and skin diseases of the demon beasts, these larger, scaled monsters were more than happy to let these seemingly harmless little creatures stay on their bodies.
However, these seemingly innocuous little bugs had a terrifying side related to their lifestyle. They only lived on a living host, and once the host died, they would immediately fly out from under the scales, seeking out surrounding flesh and blood creatures. Whatever they could find would be devoured, and only after storing enough energy would they look for a new host.
Since they would definitely attack and kill the host, the posthumous child referred to these little bugs as revenge bugs.
The fear for the posthumous child lay here: these Lower Armored Demon Beasts appeared in swarms, and their speed was incredibly fast. In the face of their razor-sharp teeth and hard black armor, the relatively few posthumous children had no way to defend themselves.
Now, thousands of these Grade 2 Lower Armored Demon Beasts appeared, clearly parasitic on the pseudo dragon. Once the pseudo dragon died, they would seek flesh to feed on and then look for new hosts.
Afo's face turned pale; who would have thought they would be so unlucky as to kill a Grade 6 life form that was just parasitized by these Lower Armored Demon Beasts!
With the strength of the Afo Tribe, dealing with even a few hundred of these cockroach-like creatures would be enough to lead to the destruction of their warriors!
Warriors from the Dabu Tribe appeared on one side. They bypassed the corpse of the Winged Demon Beast, looking at the warriors of the Afo Tribe and the swarm of Lower Armored Demon Beasts charging towards them.
“Dabu, help us kill these Lower Armored Demon Beasts, and I can repay you with a large amount of food!” Afo, in a panic, couldn't care less about yesterday's unpleasantness after seeing the Dabu Tribe arrive, directly requesting for help. At such a moment, there could be no hesitation; otherwise, their tribe would truly face extermination.
Dabu frowned, signaling his men to be on guard, but he showed no intention of taking action.
Afo closed his eyes in pain.
Ye Zhongming casually glanced over and once again planted the Staff of Nature into the ground. It had already been embedded with a brand new nature gem, a beginner-level ice-type nature gem.
After a blue glow, a budding lotus flower appeared.
Blue Blood Lotus!
The temperature around them dropped sharply, and the blue lotus began to spin, quickly becoming untraceable to the naked eye. Then, a flurry of frozen blue petals shot out like a torrential rain, directly targeting the incoming Lower Armored Demon Beasts.
The Lower Armored Demon Beasts were fast, but the blue lotus petals were faster.
There were many Lower Armored Demon Beasts, but there were even more blue lotus petals.
Blue and black collided violently in the air.
The outcome was without any suspense; to survive under the Blue Blood Lotus of the beginner-level ice-type gem, one would need at least the strength of a Grade 3 evolution. If it were a mid-level ice-type gem, then only mutated life forms of Grade 5 or above could withstand it.
These Grade 2 little bugs were eliminated without a doubt.
“There are still some alive,” Ye Zhongming reminded. The Afo Tribe warriors, who had been dumbfounded, finally reacted and hurried to finish off any Lower Armored Demon Beasts that had been injured or had escaped from an attack by their companions, while also gathering the magic crystals.