Doomsday Totem

Chapter 176 Domination
The reason why Iron Slag dared to take risks was because this abyss master was of a low rank, as long as he could hit its nerve center, he could kill it with one blow.The academy's textbook divides the abyss masters into three levels.

The newly hatched Abyss Master is only the size of a calf, its carapace is pale yellow, and its texture is extremely soft.This is its most vulnerable stage, and any grown man can kick it to death.Afterwards, after several months of eating and growing, its carapace will gradually harden, its color will gradually become darker, and its body size will become larger and larger.

An adult Abyss Master is more than thirty meters long and ten meters high. Its carapace is jet black and extremely hard. Ordinary bullets cannot effectively damage it.And its head and tail are very small, but its torso is very large. When it lies on the ground, it looks like an irregular semi-ellipsoid.

In the textbook, the just-adult Abyss Master is classified as elementary.The abyss master at this stage moves extremely slowly. Although the carapace is solid, it has no means of attack. The only thing it can do is to command the same source of insects to protect itself, and there is no threat other than that.

Of course, this is only the initial stage of the abyss master.If its strength is nothing more than this, then the bee and ant swarm will not become the biggest opponent of human beings at present.

Compared with humans, they are more advanced and perfect in the use of energy.The swarm of bees and ants can directly swallow the spirit stone ore and black oil, thereby absorbing the high-density energy in it.However, human technology can only deal with spirit stone mines, and in the process of refining and extracting, most of the energy will be lost.Scientists estimate that humans currently use less than 1% of the spirit ore, while the bee and ant colony is as high as 97%.

This gap comes from the way energy is absorbed.The swarms of bees and ants directly devour and digest the spiritual ore, and the loss is very small; while humans can only extract the spiritual energy in the ore through industrial methods, which consumes a lot.For now, the greatest significance of Lingshi Mine to human beings is to extract "liquid spiritual energy".However, liquid psionic energy cannot directly power psionic equipment, and can only be used after being absorbed by the psyker.Moreover, there are still impurities and toxins in the liquid psionic energy, which will have a certain impact on the body of the psionic user.Therefore, only those low-level psychic users with poor talent and no hope of advancing in life will use liquid psychic energy to improve their strength.And psykers with better talents don't bother to use them at all.

However, among the psykers, those with low talent accounted for the vast majority, so liquid psychics were still very popular.Some people can rise a level or two by taking liquid psionics on a regular basis.Although it is only effective for below the fifth level, there are still many people who follow it like a heron.After all, above the Silver City, the strong are respected, and strength represents everything.And the sixth-order "spiritual energy release" stage is no longer a matter of "quantitative change", but a matter of "qualitative change", so taking liquid psychic energy is of little significance.

Unlike humans, an adult abyss master has the ability to digest spirit stone mines.If they devoured a large amount of spirit stone ore, the color of their carapaces would gradually change from black to dark red, and to a certain extent, their carapaces would emit a reddish gleam, like a piece of red-hot iron.

At this time, the Abyss Master will advance to the "Crimson Master", and the successfully advanced Crimson Master will have the ability to digest black oil.If they devoured a large amount of black oil, they would advance again and become the ultimate form of rulers - golden rulers.

At this stage, even holy psykers would shy away from them.Unless you have a great advantage, you won't fight lightly.Because facing the ruler of gold means the possibility of falling.Fortunately, the number of gold masters is as rare as human holy ranks. Not only does it need to swallow a lot of black oil, but it also takes a long time.

But at this moment, what Iron Slag saw was nothing but an abyss master, apart from commanding the swarm, it had no other threats.

The moment the charging was completed, the iron slag aimed at the head of the big silkworm and blasted out!
With a muffled sound of "bang", a blue light spewed out from the muzzle of the gun, causing waves of ripples, and shot straight at the Abyss Master who was prostrate on the ground.In an instant, the blue light bombarded its body, and the thick carapace instantly collapsed, and pieces flew away.

There was a deep mournful cry from a distance, followed by continuous ear-piercing hisses from all directions.Seeing that the blow was successful, Tie Slag immediately put away his rifle and rushed in the direction he came from.At this moment, in the sight of countless scouting soldier ants, the crickets and thorns are in a mess.They hissed at the top of their lungs, as if in great pain.

However, the chaotic swarm quickly returned to calm.They no longer neighed, but surrounded them in the direction of the attack in an orderly manner.

Not long after Iron Slag ran, he "saw" from the sight of the scout soldier ants that the wounded silkworm was still alive.At the same time, he also saw red dots rushing towards him from all directions.The insect swarm was distributed in twos and threes, and the number was extremely large, which had already formed an encirclement circle around him.If you continue to run the way you came, you will run into a bunch of gnats and thorns head-on in a few minutes.

Aware of this, Tie Slag stopped and looked around, trying to find a breakthrough.He thought quickly, the scorpion was faster than him, and it would not take long to catch him.He is not afraid of a dozen or so crickets, but he can only escape if there are hundreds of crickets, not to mention that there are groups of thorn insects behind the crickets.

"I can't escape!" Looking at the densely packed, more and more red light spots around him, he came to such a conclusion.

He now has two choices, either break out directly, and then quickly evacuate, as long as he escapes from the brain wave range of the abyss master, he will be safe.Either rush back now and give the half-dead silkworm another shot.He frowned and hesitated for a few seconds, then suddenly he had a flash of inspiration, and while running towards the way he came, he commanded the army of soldiers and ants to flock to the wounded silkworm.

In the blink of an eye, more than 20 soldier ants closest to the big silkworm jumped out of the grass and quickly crawled towards their target.

Just as the soldier ants climbed up the huge insect body, got into the wound caused by the psionic armor-piercing bullet, and began to bite the inside, Iron Slag encountered a group of crickets.Iron Slag, who was running at high speed, pulled out his shotgun and blasted towards him. The hot iron sand knocked the lilies in the front row back and forth.Although it did not cause fatal damage, it caused a short-term setback.After firing the shot, Tie Slag dropped the shotgun, drew out the single-edged straight sword, and resolutely charged into the crowd of crows.

There were a dozen or so crickets in this team, Tie Slag swung his sword round, kicked the first cricket flying towards him, and then swept across with his sword, cutting off the heads and A front leg of the third.Immediately afterwards, he slammed forward and knocked away the fourth crowfly that was about to jump with his shoulder, and then slashed his sword from bottom to top, slicing open the belly of the fifth cricket, with a final loud cry , suddenly punched the head of the sixth clam beside him, sending it flying a few meters away.

At this moment, seven or eight thorn insects emerged from the dense forest not far away.They lined up in a row, absorbing the air while slowly pushing towards the iron slag.Seeing the thorn insect's chest bulge high, the iron slag rolled on the ground, and rolled behind a tree trunk at the critical moment.

"Whoosh whoosh..."

There was a sharp sound of piercing the air, and pale spikes slashed across the tree trunk, nailing obliquely into the soil in front of it, sinking most of it.However, there was another wave of ups and downs, and as soon as Tie Slag escaped, a few crows flew around the tree trunk and came at him.

There were melee combats and long-range attacks, which gave him a big headache.In the next second, he turned sideways to avoid the gnawing bite of the gnat, and then he swung his bow left and right, causing the gnat who was close to him to spit out green mucus.In the blink of an eye, the second round of spikes shot out and flew towards him.Immediately he lunged forward, barely into the protection of the second trunk, and five or six spikes followed, digging into the ground behind him.

Iron Slag grasped the hilt of the sword, twisted his neck, hid behind the tree trunk and bowed his arms, ready to rush out and fight desperately when the thorn insect approached.At this time, a crow flies around.But when it was about to pounce on the iron slag, it suddenly neighed uncontrollably and stayed in the jumping position.When Iron Slag saw this, he immediately reacted, ignored the cricket, turned around and rushed out of the cover of the tree trunk, and rushed towards the chaotic swarm of stinging insects.

In just a moment, Iron Slag rushed into the stinging insects, killing them all with one sword strike!

At the same time, thousands of meters away from him, hundreds of soldier ants flocked to the big silkworm one after another.In an instant, they climbed up the huge insect body, burrowed into the ruptured wound, and gnawed at the flesh and blood inside.At the time of life and death, the master of the abyss instinctively sent a distress signal to the surrounding swarms.

In the blink of an eye, the surrounding insect swarm retreated one after another.The pressure of the iron slag dropped sharply, and then he climbed up the tallest banyan tree nearby, stood on top of the staggered branches, took out the psionic warrior rifle, pulled the bolt, reloaded, pushed the bolt, raised the gun, and aimed, all in one go!
The texture of the gun body gradually lit up, and the psionic star sand slowly flowed into the barrel of the gun.

About a minute later, Iron Slag pulled the trigger and ended the life of the abyss master with one shot.

The swarm fell into chaos again, and Iron Slag hid in the canopy of the tree to rest for a while. After the swarm calmed down, he came down from the tree and retrieved the shotgun that had just been dropped on the ground.

Afterwards, he hatched hundreds of scout soldier ants from the corpses of the thorn insects, and monitored the entire forest.The crickets and thorns who lost the master of the abyss became a little silly.They basically stay in place and lurk.

After a while, Iron Slag bypassed most of the insect swarm and came to the corpse of the abyss master.Looking at the insect body like a hill, Tie Slag couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.This action was a little reckless, and he almost lost his life.Then, he drew out the single-edged straight sword, circled around the head of the big silkworm, and stabbed in with the sword.

Dark green slime spewed out immediately, he stirred it vigorously a few times, then drew out his sword, reached in and groped for a while, and pulled out a spherical crystal.This crystal is exceptionally transparent, exuding light cyan fluorescence.

This is the crystallization nucleus of the abyss master. According to the textbook, the queens, queen bees, and abyss masters of the bee colony all have crystallization nuclei. The nuclei contain abundant spiritual energy and can be sold for hundreds of gold coins.

Looking at the transparent crystal nucleus in his hand, he suddenly felt an inexplicable longing.He couldn't help being taken aback, according to past experience, this desire would only appear when he was about to use "Gene Looting".

(End of this chapter)