—
The insect swarm had originally come to hunt for food, but they were stubbornly blocked by these strange people from the Glorious Light Decapitation Squad, who slaughtered them all, preventing the Insect Tribe from replenishing their forces.
Unable to “sustain war with war,” the power of the Abyss Insect Race couldn’t be fully unleashed at all.
Apart from constantly draining the Glorious Light Decapitation Squad’s stamina and making the young ladies feel disgusted, they were almost completely useless, arguably the most disgraceful Insect Tribe in history.
But the Human Race also had a fatal flaw—
Behind the Glorious Light Decapitation Squad, there were still thirty thousand adventurers in the Adventurer Army.
For the Abyss, that was the real “fresh food.”
—
“Lady Shalum, do you know what kind of magic beast that is? Is it a dragon?” Steve asked.
Samimi’s expression changed, and she turned to rush back.
“That’s the boss of these bugs. We must go back and support them immediately!”
“Lady Shalum, calm down!” Steve hurriedly stopped her. “Our squad is still fighting here. If you leave, they’ll have no healing or amplification!”
“Now is not the time to tangle with these small bugs!” Samimi shouted anxiously. “We must go kill that big bug! Everyone—”
“You can’t go back.”
—
A hoarse, inhuman voice sounded behind her.
Samimi jolted as if electrocuted and whirled around.
She saw the Lead Maiden Demon, now missing one hand, slowly rising from the soil, leaves and dirt sliding off her.
The distance was no more than ten meters.
—
“You again, you bastard…” Samimi gnashed her teeth. “What are you planning?”
At this moment, she fully understood.
This was definitely not a tactic insects alone could devise.
The enemy’s intelligence was already on par with the Human Race’s.
And all of this likely stemmed from this “Contact Girl Demon” before her.
The Insect Tribe should only know how to besiege prey right in front of them. They shouldn’t abandon food to execute long-distance strategy.
But now—
The Swarm Core had actually bypassed them completely, heading for the rear!
Were these still just bugs?
Would an Insect King abandon food?
—
“Did you arrange this?” Samimi questioned coldly.
“Arrange what?” the Maiden Demon retorted.
“That thing that just passed over our heads, it’s your Mother Insect, right?” Samimi stared at her.
The Maiden Demon’s gaze turned slightly cold.
“How do you know these things?”
“It seems you’ve grasped all our intelligence through some method. From the very beginning, you’ve understood us extremely well, while we’ve never revealed any information.”
—
She had already sensed something was off.
Samimi did not answer.
“Foreseeing the future? Reading information? How exactly are you doing it?”
The Maiden Demon’s speech was becoming more fluent, her demeanor increasingly resembling a human’s.
But that bloodthirsty instinct was still deeply buried within.
She was learning.
To kill the enemy before her, she had to understand humans.
—
“You won’t tell,” the Maiden Demon said coldly.
Samimi remained silent.
But her eyes had turned utterly icy.
—
I have to kill her.
Today.
I absolutely cannot let her continue evolving.
This “Contact Girl Demon” is just like my “Magic upon Magic” and “Holy Rose Phantom Sword”—
Constantly evolving.
—
“Evolution… what a terrifying word.”
Samimi said in a low voice.
And in that instant, the Maiden Demon sensed—
Samimi was secretly gathering magic power.
The next moment—
She directly burrowed into the earth and fled!
—
“…She ran?”
Samimi was stunned.
This creature had even less shame than she did.
—
She instantly realized.
“Trying to buy time?”
For the other party to give up an excellent assassination opportunity and show herself, it definitely wasn’t just to “say hello.”
Her real purpose—
Was to buy time for that giant Insect King that had just passed overhead!
—
“Actually playing tactics with me?”
Samimi’s eyes darkened.
Having been in this world for so long, this was the first time someone could play a proper game of chess against her, a Transmigrator.
And—
The other party was doing it well.
She felt pressure.
But this kind of pressure only made her calmer.
—
“It’s too late…”
Samimi slowly let out a breath.
She could no longer return to defend.
She could only pray the Adventurer Army looked out for themselves.
—
Actually, there was no need to worry excessively.
The army had six S-Rank Adventurers. Their overall combat power wasn’t weak.
This was war.
She couldn’t save everyone.
A thirty-thousand-strong legion, having already engaged the Abyss during their advance, couldn’t possibly have no casualties.
“Don’t be too hypocritical…”
Samimi reminded herself internally.
She wasn’t the Savior.
Nor was she the protagonist.
—
“Solve the immediate problem first.”
“Steve, stay close to me.”
Samimi returned to the rear of the battlefield, continuously providing amplification for her teammates.
First, clear out the insect swarm in front of them.
Then—
Drag that “Contact Witch” out and grind her bones to dust.
In her eyes, that creature was the real “Witch.”
Wang Beibei seemed like a harmless little puppy in comparison.
—
Within the soil, the Maiden Demon revealed half her head, peering from afar.
“…She’s changed.”
Her plan should have caused chaos within the enemy ranks.
But Samimi had stabilized.
She hadn’t gone back to defend.
This exceeded her expectations.
—
But it didn’t matter.
She still had Plan B.
Although it was being activated early, it would have to do.
The Maiden Demon burrowed into the earth again, bypassing the battlefield, heading deep into the Sea of Ten Thousand Forests.
Preparing to execute the final measure.
—
Samimi didn’t know any of this.
She remained vigilant of her surroundings, guarding against assassination.
Never expecting—
The enemy had already “gone home.”
—
Until dusk.
The Glorious Light Decapitation Squad completely annihilated the insect swarm.
Ninety Insect Swarm Overlords, thousands of Abyss Insects—all were slain.
Only one remained—
The most crucial one.
It had escaped.
—
“There’s bad news.”
Samimi said quickly.
“A big bug passed over our heads. Its target is the Adventurer Army.”
“We don’t have time to rest. We must return to defend immediately.”
No one objected. They turned and left.
—
Right at that moment—
“Hummmmm—!”
From deep within the Sea of Ten Thousand Forests came a sword-like keen of sorrow.
A terrifying presence abruptly descended.
Everyone instantly froze.
Unable to take another step forward.
—
Samimi clicked her tongue.
“Reid… your timing is impeccable.”
“All part of the script.”