During previous hunts in the Cold Plains, Xue Hua had been very careful and never left the protection of the insect swarm, but now he realized that an unknown drastic change seemed to be brewing in the entire Cold Plains, and the previous conservative strategy could no longer continue.
Now, he must quickly find the way to the Boneyard and complete the task, otherwise things may take unexpected turns.
Thinking of this, Xue Hua glanced at the resources in the resource pool, then gritted his teeth, and hatched six springtails, four cockroaches, three hydralisks and another insect mother from the hatchery.
As a necromancer who focuses on bones, poisons and curses, it is very dangerous to act alone in the wilderness without the protection of summons, so now I don’t care about achieving the goal of awakening Abathur. I need to protect myself first.
Let’s talk about life safety.
"Lord, Zaratusa obeys your will and comes to serve!"
After Isa sent a report to Xue Hua that the hatching was completed, Xue Hua opened the dimensional door. A huge insect mother walked out of the dimensional door first. Behind it, springtails, cockroaches and hydralisks poured out one after another.
Although after some spending, the resource reserves in Leviathan dropped to 900 crystals/1400 gas.
But seeing these uncute monsters appearing around him, Xue Hua's tense nerves finally relaxed while he was waiting for them to hatch. He realized his state and smiled to himself.
Since when did he become accustomed to trusting the absolute sense of security brought to him by the insect swarm?
"Zarathusa, lead the swarm of insects to surround me for alert hunting. I will assign a supervisory king insect to you to command. Try to follow the route of the insect mother Tumna and eliminate all threats, but don't stay too far away from me. If you find
Report any abnormal situations promptly.”
Xue Hua suddenly realized that a king insect in the sky broke away from Tumna's command and spawned on the spot. Tumna quickly ordered another king insect to fill the gap. Tens of seconds later, a supervisory king insect emerged from the egg.
Break out and fly to the sky above the insect mother Zaratusa to stand by.
"Resolutely carry out your will! Lord."
"Isa, you come to correct Tumna's actions and help him deal with emergencies."
"As you command, Lord."
"By the way, Zaratusa, collect the trophies dropped during the hunting process. If there are too many, send a swarm of insects to bring them to me."
"Yes, Lord."
Tunam's hunting area has fallen out of the maximum radius where Xue Hua can gain experience, so it will not drop any loot, but Zarathusa's insect swarm does not. This loot cannot be wasted.
As the order was issued, a new round of hunting with a larger scope began. With ferocious momentum, the insect swarms led by the two insect mothers began to raid all the hell monsters that were unlucky enough to be discovered, and Xue
While Hua followed Zaratusa forward under the protection of skeletons, he used the visual sharing of the main hive mind to observe the ground from the perspective of the king insect, hoping to find a way.
Although the Cold Plains is vast, the task of killing the Blood Crow Projection is a prerequisite for hiring mercenaries, so every day professionals go to the Bone Burial Ground. There is no way to do this, but after such a long time, a small path has been trampled on.
Here we are, what Xue Hua is looking for now is this small road that is not marked on the map.
Suddenly, Tunam, who was hunting ahead, sent him an unusual message - the Overwatch King Insect discovered a very large number of hell biomes in the distance.
Xue Hua immediately switched to the perspective of the monitoring king insect, and the scene before his eyes made him take a breath.
I saw a huge depression below the ground, and densely packed hell monsters were gathering here. The number was at least tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands, and there were groups of monsters coming from a distance.
This huge monster gathering place is still expanding!
Moreover, through the magnified perspective of the Monitoring King Insect, Xue Hua discovered an unusually tall, dark-gold-looking fallen demon wizard in the Sinking Demon Camp in the center of the Hell Legion, holding a staff covered with human skulls.
Bisu Bosu!
"Tunum! Get around them! Don't let them find out! Monitor the King Insect! Mark the location on the map! Isa! Can our remaining resources activate the Leviathan weapon system?"
"Yes, Lord, but I don't recommend you to conduct bombardment."
"Why?"
"Based on the existing material reserves, Leviathan can conduct a full force close-in defense artillery bombardment. However, first, the power of the close-in defense artillery may not be enough to destroy such a large number of enemy troops. Second, because Leviathan cannot
Out of your spiritual universe, so when conducting bombardment, you must get close enough to open the dimensional door for the Leviathan weapon system to target. This behavior will cause great danger and may endanger the life of the master, so the adjutant
Oppose this risky move."
"Um, okay..." Xue Hua thought about it for a moment, thinking of the monsters all over the mountains and plains he saw in the field of vision of the Supervisory King Insect and the many fallen magicians and dark wanderers among them, he hit
He started a cold war and decisively strangled the adventurous spirit in his mind. He didn't want to be shot into a hedgehog by an arrow first, then roasted to maturity by a fireball, and finally boiled in the cauldron of the Sinking Demon...
...
"Then avoid them! Stay far away! By the way, has the location of the monitoring king insect been calibrated?"
"Calibration has been completed." A hollow and cold voice answered in the main hive mind.
"Okay, output it and show it to me."
As soon as Xue Hua finished speaking, a slightly incomplete map appeared in his mind.
"Oh~ that's right, I almost forgot that the king bug also has the function of opening a map..." Xue Hua couldn't help but whistle when he saw the map, and said with some excitement.
This map is much more detailed than the one Kasha gave him. Although many places are still blank, as long as the places observed by the King Insect have been recorded on it, it even includes detailed descriptions of the terrain and landforms, Rogge Post
And some small roads and main roads, all in all it is impeccable.
"Isa, can you make a physical drawing?"
"Okay, Master, do you need to make it?"
"Yes, use this parchment to make a physical drawing."
"Okay Master, please wait a moment."
A few seconds later, an almost perfect map appeared in Xue Hua's hands.
"Uh, that's not okay..."
"Master? Is there something wrong? Is Isa's work too rough?"
"No, you are doing very well, but the problem is that it is too good, and there are problems at first glance..."
Xue Hua looked at the map in his hand with a wry smile. This map can be used as a military map. How can you show this kind of thing to others? After all, map making is not a craft that can be learned casually even in this world.
.
And the most critical problem is that this map is too big, and the bronze bird cannot carry such a large letter...
"We have a solution!" Xue Hua thought for a while and came up with an idea. He took out a whiteboard dagger and cut out the map where the monitoring king insect's demarcation point and the location of the border post were.
"That's enough." He turned over the cut map and wrote on the back with a quill: "The army of hell is gathering. The location is shown in the picture - Xue"
Then he rolled up the map, took out the bronze messenger bird from the inventory, and tied the map to the bird's claws. After injecting mana, the messenger bird spread its wings with a "click, click, click" sound. Xue Hua said in its ear: "
Go to Kasha or Akara, whichever is closer."
The bronze bird flapped its wings and flew into the air, then determined its direction, then rushed toward the border post with a "swish" sound, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
"Okay, I can only do this, now we have to see how they deal with it."
Xue Hua stood up, looked in the distance in the direction of the border post, pursed his lips, then turned around and put away the remaining maps, followed the swarm of insects to avoid the direction where the hell army was gathering, and continued to move forward into the distance.
