Ant Lord in the Star Realm-Chapter 724 - 597 Sudden Change_3

Purple: "Before joining the war, the Saint Butterfly Tribe also vowed confidently that they would wipe out Blue Island in one blow. Afterwards, they never said that again."

Dragon Cypress: "Come on. Bayonet was just joking."

Dragon Cypress: "Purple, how many troops did your Fire Wheel Island send this time?"

Purple: "The Volcano Ant King sent Assistant King Gooseberry and thirty thousand Combat Soldier Ants; the Single-Feather Bee King sent Assistant King Eryu and thirty thousand Combat Professional Bees. So in total, Fire Wheel Island dispatched sixty thousand troops, fighting together on the ground and in the air. It's about the same at Mighty Spirit Mountain: sixty thousand troops, two Assistant Kings, and a scouting and communication Dragonfly King. Combined, we have a force of one hundred and twenty thousand troops, forming an elite legion capable of ground and aerial combat."

Purple fanned his wings, flicked his tentacle, and pointed west toward the Forest Beard Bee Kingdom: "I've heard, they're still sending two Assistant Kings and eighty thousand Combat Professional Bees..."

This butterfly, Purple, talked a lot, explaining to Dragon Cypress and Ink Orchid everything he knew about the war and the involvement of each nation.

After chatting for most of the night, they strolled around the archipelago together, then took their leave and parted ways.

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In the spring of Year 66 of Silver Cypress.

It was the time to trade with the Flame Spider Roving Merchants from the Ten Thousand Clan Continent. Dragon Cypress, along with Fragrant Cypress and Black Sophora, waited and waited, but after half a day, even by noon, there was no sign of the spiders.

Dragon Cypress immediately guessed that something must have gone wrong in the war between Wave Tree Bay and Blue Island.

Something had gone terribly wrong!

Fragrant Cypress and Black Sophora led the team to go for the trade.

Dragon Cypress stayed in the mountains, waiting near the Divine Force Barrier.

Three days later,

The figure of the Snow Velvet Spider King appeared, running hurriedly over.

"Snow Velvet Spider King?"

"Truly sorry. I got caught up following the war. I'm late."

"How is the situation on the front?" 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝘦𝓌𝑒𝑏𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝘭.𝒸𝘰𝑚

"Utterly disastrous! Yu'e Island has fallen, and the Wave Tree Bay United Kingdom's coastal defenses are nearly in total collapse."

The Snow Velvet Spider King activated his ability, flashed to stand before Dragon Cypress, whoosh whoosh whoosh, untied the spider silk rope binding the goods on his carapace, and handed over four spider silk bags filled with Divine-Grade Fruit to Dragon Cypress.

"Dragon Cypress, do me a favor and pass these to Red Peach."

"Tell Red Peach the transaction we discussed beforehand will proceed as normal. As for the deal White Ivy Spider King concluded last year, we'll talk about that next year."

Dragon Cypress was still reeling and hadn't come back to his senses.

The Snow Velvet Spider King spoke rapidly and continued, "This defeat is unlike any before. The Wave Tree Bay United Kingdom might lose control of Yu'e Island, and also surrender coastal territory—they're about to be invaded by Stone Hunt Blue Ants from the mainland. I must return to Shanglu immediately and report to the Ancestral Land..."

As he spoke, the Snow Velvet Spider King suddenly paused for two seconds, then said, "The Ancestral Land has always opposed getting involved in the war between Wave Tree Bay and Blue Island. But this time is different… Wave Tree Bay absolutely cannot be allowed to fall, whether the Ancestral Land agrees or not… The Flame Spider Roving Merchants won't directly join the war, but I can try to lobby the great warrior tribes of Zhibai Continent to rush to aid them. We must repel the invading Stone Hunt Blue Ant Army and retake control of Yu'e Island as soon as possible."

Dragon Cypress shook his tentacles hard in disbelief and asked, "Wasn't everything ready for this great war? How did it suddenly collapse like this?"

The Snow Velvet Spider King tersely replied, "First, Blue Island's offensive this time was fiercer than ever; second, a miscalculation led us to fall for the Stone Hunt Blue Ants' trick; third, a Stone Hunt Blue Ant King has grasped the 'Eddy' within the Sea Beast Devouring Ability."

Dragon Cypress: "'Eddy'?"

The Snow Velvet Spider King: "The Ocean God's Scepter is an octagonal metal prism more than a hundred meters long. Each side is adorned with seven ferocious beast reliefs, making fifty-six types of deep-sea beasts in total. The beast forms assumed through the Stone Hunt Blue Ants' 'Sea Beast Devouring' ability all correspond to these reliefs on the scepter."

The Snow Velvet Spider King: "Above these fifty-six ordinary beasts, on the very tip of the octagonal prism, there stands a supreme 'Leader Level' beast-form sculpture—its name is 'Eddy.' Shaped like a sea serpent, it is born with eight wings, able to fly through the sky, dive into the sea, and slither swiftly on land. Without even the amplification of the Ocean God's Scepter, its body can reach a length of one kilometer. It has mastered the quintessential secrets of water's ever-changing forms: able to flow like a gentle river, clear and winding; able to transform into solid ice, freezing all; able to be as supple, agile, and savage as a true sea serpent or python; and even as light and swift as a bird."

The Snow Velvet Spider King: "About two thousand years ago, there was once an Ant King on Blue Island named Eddy Scorpionfish Ant King, who mastered 'Eddy' within Sea Beast Devouring, broke through the Allied Forces' defenses, and raided coastal kingdoms by guerrilla assault. The Wave Tree Bay United Kingdom was nearly destroyed. The great warrior tribes of Zhibai Continent were forced to intervene, fighting a grinding war for three hundred years. In the end, that Eddy Scorpionfish Ant King was forced to leave the Origin Force Star Realm due to his life span running out."

The Snow Velvet Spider King: "The disaster is here again, fiercer than ever before. I must rush back to the Shanglu Ancestral Land and report at once."

After speaking, the Snow Velvet Spider King turned and dashed away.

Dragon Cypress: "..."

Dragon Cypress stood there in a daze for quite a while, only regaining his wits after much thought.

He was in trouble as well!