Chapter 1099 Insect War
Nevertheless, Leon quickly pursued the free-falling lifeless bloodmetal mites. After catching up, he didn't stop blasting them with nihility power until they were removed entirely from existence.
Leon made sure not to miss a single one of them with his divine sense.
He couldn't leave behind a potential threat when there were other races living in the Lower Abyss Domain.
A problem left unsolved was an invitation to introduce a greater problem.
After all, even if the bloodmetal mites were dead, their bodies were still carriers of huge amounts of wrath energy.
Considering the chances of them falling into the wrong hands, he had no choice but to destroy or use them for himself.
Nevertheless, wrath energy was not comparable to True Grandmist Energy. As such, Leon chose to convert them with nihility.
After exterminating the bloodmetal mites in their entirety, Leon didn't stop his descent. Instead, he increased his speed and shot down the abyss even quicker.
A few moments later, Leon caught sight of the falling remains of the colossal pillar structure.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The remains of the colossal pillar structure collided with the rocky walls chaotically on their way down into the deeper parts of the abyss, shattering rocks and tearing off huge masses of the earth with each collision.
After separating with the bloodmetal mites, the colossal pillar structure became hollow and fragile. The repeated heavy collisions with the earth deformed and even fragmented it into pieces.
Boom!
Leon kicked against the empty air and shot forward with a burst of speed, closing in on the falling structure fragments before sweeping them with his divine sense.
Leon was just about to leave after recording the runic remains on the structure fragments to his Archive when he suddenly spotted a Tier-6 Teleportation Array within the chaos.
Although presently unusable, the Tier-6 Teleportation Array was mostly intact. Thus, Leon decided to pocket it into his Worldspace for future uses and research purposes.
After confirming there was no longer any other point of interest within the falling structure fragments, Leon returned to the surface.
However, his return trip was not smooth.
The previous commotions had countless lifeforms that dwelled within the subterranean world, none of which seemed intelligent. Not even Paragon-level insects.
It was clear that the Paragon-level insects lacked the bare minimum level of intelligence to open their Wisdom Gate early.
Nevertheless, Leon was surprised by the insects that emerged from countless tunnels, cave holes, and passageways found on the way down the abyss.
There were ants.
However, there were not the same giant black ants he had encountered last time. Instead, they were giant red bull ants with long mandibles and venom.
A single bite from these nasty pests would leave a person in a world of pain—given that the person survives the bite in the first place.
Of course, with Leon's Arch Demon-level poison immunity and Peak Rank 4 Body Transformation in the flesh-tempering phase, an Early Paragon-level Bull Ant's bite would do nothing to him.
As for giant red bull ants above Early Paragon, he wouldn't be so confident in letting himself get bitten.
Besides the giant red bull ants that appeared in the abyss tunnel, giant mosquitoes and bees were also present. The giant mosquitoes, in particular, were especially numerous.
After the three insect races encountered each other in the abyss tunnel, they immediately entered an all-out battle with each other.
Leon noticed the giant golden bees to be the least hostile among them. They only started their retaliation after their kin were attacked first.
At the same time, the giant golden bees were also the weakest among the three insect races.
The giant golden bees didn't have the high defenses of the bull ants, and they didn't have the overwhelming numbers of the mosquitoes.
As such, they were quickly suppressed by the swarms of mosquitoes.
Leon saw the giant golden bees turn into shriveled carcasses. Their golden appearances dimmed, and a murky dark color quickly spread across the surface of their bodies, causing them to decay at a slow but sure rate.
Mosquitoes have always been known to be one of the deadliest insects in the mortal world. They were the bringer of death and disease.
Although such problems were easily and long conquered by the advancement of medicine and cultivation in the Divine Realm, it was a different story on Gaia.
Medicine wasn't plenty, alchemy wasn't widespread, and most importantly, the mosquitoes were countless times bigger.
People would get their blood sucked dry before they could live long enough to be killed by the diseases the mosquitoes carry with them.
And even if a person did survive a mosquito bite, the person still wouldn't live long either. The sheer number of parasites and viruses they could inject would easily kill anyone quickly.
'I can't let these mosquitoes reach the surface,' Leon thought.
Nevertheless, as soon as Leon entered the vicinity of the battle, he became the giant mosquitoes' most desired target as they swarmed at him en masse.
'They're interested in my blood, huh?' Leon determined as his eyes flickered.
Leon casually waved his hand at the incoming swarm of giant mosquitoes before a wave of Paragon-level death power swept past them.
In the next moment, all of the giant mosquitoes quickly stopped flapping their wings and dropped down the abyss with their withered bodies.
However, it was only a tiny fraction of their numbers.
Leon gathered his death power again and protected himself with a large barrier made of death power. Afterward, he flew directly through the swarms of giant mosquitoes and brought death unto them.
Given Leon's strength, he could have easily drilled his way through the swarms of giant mosquitoes regardless of what methods he used.
Nevertheless, the giant mosquitoes still swarmed at Leon blindly like moths drawn to the bright flame.
Leon easily attracted all the giant mosquitoes while passing through the region while inadvertently freeing the giant golden bees from their onslaught.
Sometime later, Leon shot through the large smarm of mosquitoes and reached the other end of the battle region, but not without attracting the whole swarm of giant mosquitoes.
In that instance, Leon quickly chose to summon an impassable wall of death to obstruct their advancement.