<h4>Chapter 335: 24K “Solos” Commander Grade Monster</h4>
<strong>Trantor: </strong>Nyoi-Bo Studio <strong>Editor: </strong>Nyoi-Bo Studio
“Scratch, scratch, scratch...”
“Pa! Boom! Pa!...”
The unit production battle between the two Beetle Kings (Commander) had finally entered its final stage!
Red ded Beetles, ck Steel Beetles, green Spray Beetles, Suicide Bombeetles, Energy Beetles...
Apart from theck of Gatherer Beetles and Scout Beetles, both of whichckedbat ability, all the other types of beetles were biting, roaring, spraying, and attacking each other without regard to their lives!
Just as a ded Beetle pierced through the head of another Beetle with the hook on its tail, it was immediately struck by a sneak attack from a Suicide Bombeetle that emanated a red glow in its belly, blown to smithereens by a big boom!
As a green Spray Beetle’s poison finally broke through the white defensive shield that the Energy Beetle created, corroding the shell of an Energy Beetle until it fell to the ground, a Steel Beetle’s eyes would shoot outser beams that burned a hole through the Spray Beetle’s poisonous sac!
...
Commands of the “King Beetle” were ranked above the soldier beetles. Even as they were engaged in a “Kamikaze” battle like this, they had no hesitation. Beetles fell one after another, covering the entire tunnel with green blood!
However, overall, the tide of the battle was leaning towards 24K’s side!
It was because the wormhole on the wall behind the ck Beetle Commander had already disappeared. This also meant that it had depleted all its psionic energy needed to maintain the wormhole, and it no longer had the ability to “produce units!”
As for 24K’s wormhole on the ground, it was still there!
“Bzzzt, bzzzt...”
Two Suicide Bombeetles with gray metallic wings flew out of the pitch-ck wormhole, the red dot on their belly started to expand as they spun high into the air to join the other seven Level 35 mates of theirs that were waiting. Then, from different directions, they charged towards the ck Beetle Commander protected by three Elite Steel Beetles!
“Boom! Boom!”
Although during this time, two Suicide Bombeetles were blown apart by theser beams of the Elite Steel Beetles, since the distance between each Suicide Bombeetle was far enough, they did not affect the others.
The remaining Suicide Bombeetles continued to p their wings and charged towards the ck Beetle Commander as the red dot on their belly continued to swell.
“Roar!”
On the ground, the Level 45 Elite-ded Beetle that was in the lead roared and swung itsrge-sized”scythe” at an enemy ded Beetle blocking its path, shing its head clean off!
After that, it brought its remaining fivepanions with reduced HP to charge towards the ck Beetle Commander that had already lost all its ded Beetles!
“Pa!” At the same time, new psionic shields appeared to surround their bodies thrice, blocking all sorts of damages!
As for the tworge Elite Grade Steel Beetles standing beside the ck hole, theirser beam targeting system also immediately switched their target to the ck Beetle Commander!
“It looks like I missed something. Although it can also cast ‘wormhole’, the system monsters aren’t that difficult to deal with.”
Feng Luo, who saw everything through the vision of the Scout Beetle, showed a glimpse of a smile.
“It’s because it doesn’t even know how tomand the beetle soldiers to battle, it is almost relying entirely on thebat instincts of the beetle soldiers.”
“24K, on the other hand...”
Feng Luo’s vision switched back to his body. 24K was making squeaking noise on Feng Luo’s shoulder whilemanding its remaining beetle squads to make a final center push through its mental link.
24K’s tiny eyes and ws were shrouded in psionic energy light. Through the mental link, Feng Luo could feel that 24K was feeling rather excited!
Pet’s AI in War could be increased!
Using thenguage of the official game, “Pets can learn and grasp all sorts ofbat skills through interaction with their masters and battles, increasing intimacy with their masters to truly be the sidekicks of yers!”
Of course, the higher the starting AI of the pet, the faster the growth and maximum limit!
As a Boss grade pet, as well as a King Beetle, 24K’s AI was naturally very high. However, in addition to that, it also had the skill called mental link, which made learning highly effective! That was why under two months of gaming, with Feng Luo’s intentional training and development methods, 24K had long obtained somemon tacticalbat maneuver skills tomand normal beetles!
This was also the reason why 24K’s beetle army was capable of annihting most of the enemy’s forces even as 24K’s forces had a numerical disadvantage. At that time, 24K even knew that the optimal strategy was to gather its forces and target the enemy leader!
Of course, 24K’s sess was also dependent on the terriblemanding skills of the enemy ck Beetle Commander, at least to a certain extent.
The ck Beetle Commander did not even try to separate the Suicide Bombeetles in its squad, which took out their teammate when they exploded. In addition, even as it had a great number of Spray Beetles at its disposal, it kept having the Spray Beetles attack the ded Beetles that had poison immunity...
There was no way 24K would lose this battle that was like a tinum grade yer fighting against a Bronze level yer!
In addition to that, the ck Beetle Commander had now depleted its psionic energy reserve. It no longer had anything left to turn things around!
In fact, though 24K was a Boss monster since it was a pet, its total psionic energy reserve was still lower than themander monster which was the same species!
However, 24K had a wealthy master, so even though it had only a little bit of crystal shards left in its mouth, the psionic energy provided was enough to help it make thest push forward!
The victor had been decided.
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However, in another location.
“What is that sound?”
When the Steel Beetle destroyed the six Suicide Bombeetles and arge exploding sound rang, many Nightless City yers also noticed it!
Everyone seemed to have stiffened!
“This is bad!”
“Arge number of monsters appeared in the tunnel in front of us, numbering over 60. Moreover, from the life signs, they are all stronger than the Elite Beetles earlier!” Mu Zi quickly cast the Detection skill.
The Expert Level Detection skill paired with the bonus from his talent made it so that the signals immediately appeared on his recon meter even though the distance was great and there were multiple metallic obstacles in the way. Through the recon meter, he noticed the odd development in the deepest spot of the ruin where only one Commander Grade monster was left!
“What?” Upon hearing his, the group, whose HP had only recovered to around half of their total, paled.
If they were to just face a Level 40 Commander Grade monster, with their current condition, they were still rtively confident.
However, if it were a swarm of monsters that were stronger than the Elite Grade Beetles they faced earlier, then wouldn’t that mean that they were going to fail the mission?
Did that mean that they would have to give up the fourth, and only remaining, Legendary equipment shard left?
There was no doubt that everyone was unwilling to ept that fate.
After all, it was a Legendary Grade item!
“I’ll head over to check things out,” said Rose Thorns with a solemn expression. She grabbed a backup alloy shield from her backpack and charged forward!
Her HP had recovered to two-thirds of its maximum, and as a Heavy Armor Warrior, even if she were to get hit by a high-damage skill of a Commander Grade monster, she would not die immediately.
“Ah?? This...”
However, just as she got past the corner in front of them and sneaked a quick peek at the situation in the tunnel ahead from behind her raised shield, her expression stiffened!
“What’s wrong?” Asked almost everyone apart from Feng Luo as they felt a chill down their spine.