The Doomsday Lord: Starting as a Insect Queen-Chapter 1196 - 416: The Sparrow and the Mantis (6k)

Chapter 1196: Chapter 416: The Sparrow and the Mantis (6k)

Not far from the place where Bai Yi descended, outside a city, the once peaceful plains were now ablaze in the literal sense.

This city wasn’t the one the Demon Insect Race predicted, but another that was closer and in a different direction.

After all, if the Demon Insect Race had anticipated the plan, how could Little Tower not have made special preparations?

Since yesterday, it had been conducting reconnaissance in the vicinity, following Bai Yi’s orders.

However, based on Bai Yi’s command, it also added its own enhancements to the plan.

Apart from tripling the number of reconnaissance Insect Swarm troops, they no longer invaded every settlement they encountered.

Instead, they recorded the coordinates in advance and deliberately left some large settlements untouched for now, setting an ambush.

This was the bait it specifically designed, an overt strategy!

As long as the enemy wanted to send teams to chance upon its Insect Swarm and kill them, they would inevitably be caught off guard by the hidden Insect Swarm.

Even if it’s seen as a trap, these large reserved cities couldn’t be left undefended; otherwise, they would lose public support.

And once they send people, they would inevitably encounter the ambushed Insect Swarm!

The Transcendent in this world have no choice!

Until just now, the ambushed Insect Swarm finally had results!

A Transcendent team came from afar and was spotted by the Insect Swarm just outside the city.

Upon receiving Little Tower’s approval, the battle commenced.

According to the intelligence maliciously perceived by the Demon Insect Race, this Transcendent team’s deck of cards was exceptionally abundant, featuring many powerful cards.

Even with triple the reconnaissance Insect Swarm, they were still outnumbered by the Transcendent team’s cards, turning the scene into a small-scale war.

This time, the Card Masters evidently found ways to deal with the Insect Swarm.

They allocated some cards to delay the swarm, while the rest focused fire on a few Insect Swarm at a time, attempting to eliminate them one by one.

Under the suppression of the unique magic environment of this world, mere turrets formed by their bodies couldn’t instantly take out the cards fortified with defense capabilities.

Without the advantage of firepower cover, the Insect Swarm was forced to wield their limbs imbued with Annihilation Energy for melee combat.

It’s not that they didn’t want melee combat; in fact, due to their nature, if possible, they preferred melee over long-range bombardment.

But melee, unlike bombardment, can’t produce miracles through sheer force. While it works in bullying weaker foes, under overwhelming strength, a sweep from their limbs leaves only one outcome.

Yet in this fight, where they lacked quantity advantage and there was no substantive difference in strength, melee had no advantage.

If they failed to instantly defeat those card summonings, the support healing cards would immediately heal the injured cards.

These cards were specifically matched with the team; how could they lack a complete professional system!

Coordinating with each other, they were even harder to kill than the Insect Swarm.

Simple, unadorned slashes and charges left wounds on the Card Masters, only to be healed again promptly.

But not only did the Insect Swarm feel this way, so did the Card Masters.

After a hard-earned burst of attacks on the swarm, the melee-transformed swarm’s shields absorbed some impact, further resisted by the shell’s various resistance runes and the shell’s own secondary weakening.

The remaining power that struck the swarm was less than a tenth, and even if wounds appeared, the swarm’s self-healing ability restored them at lightning speed.

Is this kind of life real?

This is too much of a bug!

Each of them was a genius in the Card Master World, but they had never encountered a situation where their full effort couldn’t match the opponent’s recovery speed.

Moreover, the defense of these Insect Clan was airtight.

From the start of the battle till now, they repeatedly sought opportunities, and their closest came when they nearly heavily injured one Insect Clan, only to see it find an opportunity to recover.

"We must use that item."

The leading Card Master gritted his teeth, pulled out an exquisitely crafted card from his deck.

"But...

We only have this one. Should we really use it now..."

"Haven’t you seen the orders from ’Card King’?

As long as there are rewards to be gained, we can earn his accolades. So what if we consume this card?

Perhaps we might even receive a card personally made by ’Card King’!

What meaning does preserving this card now serve?"

He understood his teammates’ thoughts that if they could take down the enemy without using this Seventh Rank card, they could claim it for themselves afterward.

This was a Seventh Rank card, an excellent asset as a team’s trump card or to trade for resources on the black market.

But from earlier on, he felt an unease, fearing something bad might happen, and without using it, he worried he might lose the chance!

With the card in hand, he was just about to activate it.

But just then, a teammate suddenly pointed in one direction and shouted: