Chapter 355: This is very bad!
Even from all the damage they were taking from the sea of spells being shot at them and the barrier’s purple flames that were spreading to all parts of their bodies. The king rank Killer earthworms didn’t falter for a second as they continued trying to drill through the city barrier.
“These shits are suicidal!” Blake cursed at the Killer earthworms that were sacrificing their lives to make sure that they broke through the barrier.
The only good thing about the situation was that with the Killer earthworms being so close the attacks from the cannons were dealing a lot more damage to it.
“It’s working, Keep on firing!” The ash corps commander screamed as the speed and strength of the earth armor which was continuously being summoned couldn’t keep up with the damage the killer earthworms were receiving.
Once the earth armor was as good as nonexistent, It took only a matter of seconds for their darkish armor to be blown apart, revealing their soft pink skin that easily exploded into a thousand pieces.
“That was a close one.” Blake let out a sigh of relief as he saw the cracks in the wall’s barrier.
“The others!” Blake had been so focused on their safety that he had forgotten the other 2 killer earthworms that were drilling at the other sides of the city barrier.
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On turning to them he saw Oliver and Xavier close to their lifeless corpse, causing his heart rate to drop for the first time in what seemed to be forever.
Since the killer earthworms were totally focused on drilling another hole from the inside of the city barrier. Xavier had used the penetrative power of lightning to destroy its brain, while Genji had manipulated the earth to reduce the rotation speed, eliminating its drilling power and making it a sitting duck for the mana cannons to kill.
(AN: For those wondering why the killer earthworms could attack the city barrier from the inside when it is ethereal to the humans (attacks from the humans and magical devices could go out). It is simply because the city barrier was designed to fight beasts. So its aim is to keep beasts out and those within it in.) ．
“Is it me or did the mana cannons become weaker?” Brian couldn’t help but ask when he thought of how the king tank Killer earthworms were tanking their fire like no man’s business.
“I think it has to do with what major Reeves said about them getting empowered by the beast tide.” Blake answered.
“I don’t think that should still be enough to take so many shots without even flinching.” Luciano said.
[I have a theory.] The system said through the mind link.
[I had been looking at those below and I noticed that they hadn’t been having much of a tough time even though the number of beasts had increased.] The system said.
‘Are you saying they got weaker?’ Blake asked in a confused tone.
[Yes. I suspect that the beasts nearby had transferred the beast tide’s buff to the killer worms to ensure that they went through the wall’s barrier.] The system stated its suspicions.
‘I have one question. If you are correct, does it mean that now that the killer earthworms are dead the transferred energy would return to the beasts?’ Castiel asked.
[It is only a hunch and I don’t have much knowledge about this, but I think there should be a limit to it. If not, before any beast dies they would simply transfer the energy to those alive. Meaning the fewer they get, the stronger the beasts would become.] The system’s words sent chills down the spines of the trio when they imagine how bad it would be when the beast army’s composition changed from quantity to quality.
“What the…” The trio was snapped out of their reverie when the corpse of the killer earthworms was being pulled out of the 8-meter holes they drilled in the city barrier.
“This is bad!” Castiel cursed as the beasts were about to ‘unplug’ the drilled hole in the city barrier.
Most of the killer earthworms’ bodies along with the beasts pulling them were underground, meaning mana cannons couldn’t stop them even though they knew about their plans.
Although the 8-meter wide holes in the city barrier were nothing compared to the 20-meter holes made by the Hippodon, 5 of them would surely be an added headache to the human army.
“This is very bad!” Blake said in a worried tone as he pointed at the swarm of insects that were flying out of the forest.
He couldn’t help but worry because from what he was seeing, they were enough to block out the sun if they were in the right position.
“Everybody switch over to flames, activate the mortars!” A voice was heard all around the wall.
“I would be taking over then.” Blake quickly handed over the controls of the elemental cannon to Luciano.
‘Is there something I need to know?’ Blake asked the system because he felt, if something was to go wrong, it was definitely then.
[From the looks of things, the city barrier wouldn’t hold out for long and if it is down the wall’s barrier would surely be breached.] The system said.
With the appearance of the king rank killer earthworms, the mana cannons had switched their target from the ranged beasts to them. The lack of pressure on them, made their return back to attacking the city barrier.
Now that the swarm of unending insects had arrived, most of the mana cannons had no choice but to focus on them and try to limit the numbers that got through the city barrier.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Out of nowhere, 4 very large water bombs crashed into the city barrier, leaving visible cracks on it.
“2 king-rank armored hippos have been spotted! Special ops team is being deployed to eliminate them!”
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