Two Hours Until Reinforcements Arrive

Shisui's figure moved like a ghost through the rainforest where the trees had thinned out considerably.

Beside him, Psychic Energy coalesced into invisible blades.

As he swept past the densely packed sea monsters and Leafcutter Ants piled on the ground, a burst of crimson blood mist would erupt.

Although the sea creatures are numerous, they are merely weapons of war that obey commands and have no independent consciousness.

Therefore, Shisui had no need to worry that his actions would expose his identity.

He began his rampage again, his Ukaku fluttering like butterflies stained with blood under the moonlight.

In its Kakuja form, its predatory organs lashed out, disappearing into the blood mist at the scene of its prey's explosion.

Numerous Kagune frantically absorbed energy from the air.

The inherent characteristics of the [Predator] talent make Shisui extremely adaptable to the war environment.

Given enough prey, and with the Kagune's absorption capabilities, he is fully capable of reaping lives over a long period of time at a high intensity.

There's absolutely no need to worry about dying from exhaustion.

After killing them for a while, Shisui keenly noticed the abnormal increase in the number of ants.

The Leafcutter Ants, which was only encountered once in thousands of sea creatures, can now be seen every ten meters or so.

This is not right; the ants' reproduction rate has increased dramatically.

The smile that had been playing on Shisui Sui's lips vanished instantly.

Yes, he doesn't welcome these carnivorous insects, for a simple reason: they've encroached on his ecological niche.

Use these marine mammals as examples.

Even though he could eat these ants, they were carnivorous, just like Shisui.

In other words, hunting these Insect Race is a trophic level higher than directly preying on sea creatures.

This extra link in the chain, like a middleman making a profit, results in a significant loss of Psychic Energy.

Overall, eating sea monsters is much more cost-effective than eating Insect Race.

Therefore, Shisui disliked these Insect Race very much, and Shisui also took his anger out on the Beastfolk behind them.

The enormous pair of Ukaku unfurled, their sharp feathers aimed straight ahead, blasting towards a location where a large number of Insect Race had gathered!

"Whoosh--!"

"Boom--!"

The Radiant Feathers tore through the air, heading straight for the swarm of Insect Race.

The Radiant Feathers exploded the moment they landed, instantly blowing away an inch of the soil in that area.

The swarm of insects was instantly blasted into a pile of fragments, which then merged into the increasingly dense fog.

"It's cut off again. As expected, there are mid-to-high-level combatants at the front."

Inside the cold, damp underground cave, the Insect Mother crawled on top of piles of white bones, her body growing increasingly bloated.

The Leafcutter Ants kept going in and out of the hidden burrow.

They brought in prey and then cleaned up the food scraps that the Insect Mother didn't like to eat.

"It's alright. The real war will only begin once all the newly deployed Insect Hives have finished their warm-up phase."

The Insect Mother murmured as she continued weaving her Insect Hive.

Despite her enormous and bulky figure, her fingers were slender and dexterous, like works of art.

Her hands moved without pause, each thread placed precisely in a clever position.

A moment later, a unique Psychic Energy fluctuation appeared, and another flat, round Insect Hive shell was completed.

The Insect Mother's body writhed, and directly above the location where the blood-red threads had appeared, a small, oval-shaped insect slowly emerged from a tiny opening.

The little insect looked almost identical to its Insect Mother and gently landed in the Insect Hive.

After the small insect disappeared into the blood-red outer shell of the Insect Hive, the unique Psychic Energy fluctuation instantly subsided.

With one Hive-Nest Species, the project was finally complete.

The Insect Mother handed the newly hatched Insect Hive to the Leafcutter Ants kneeling on the ground, waiting quietly.

Upon receiving the Insect Hive, the Leafcutter Ants respectfully rose and immediately headed towards the door.

On the other side, around the mouth of the Spirit Resonance River, the Insect Race were mixed in with the Beastfolk army, hiding and waiting for orders.

A Beastfolk officer, hidden in the shadows of a tree, coldly watched the sea beasts rushing into the river from the estuary.

Over time, the number of sea creatures passing through this area began to decrease.

This means that the entire sea monster army dispatched to attack Spirit Resonance River will soon arrive.

As long as the Insect Mother issues a remote command, the Insect Race here will swarm into the river and self-destruct, killing the sea monsters guarding the area.

They will stand guard here in place of these sea beasts, responsible for intercepting and killing any Sea Race soldiers who attempt to escape.

At the same time, the upper reaches of the Spirit Resonance River were also taken over by the Beastfolk army.

A net to strangle the sea monsters and the Human Race defenders was slowly taking shape.

At this moment, the seawater on the south coast of the Kaiyang Continent has been completely dyed crimson.

All the Radiant Feathers buried here are frantically absorbing energy.

The Sea Race's army advanced slowly and steadily, managing to gain a foothold in the mudflats despite the Human Race' fierce artillery bombardment.

Conversely, without a large number of sea monsters to act as meat shields, the Human Race suffered heavy losses.

The Sea Race's artillery fire carries a hint of soul attack; even those caught in the shockwaves from a distance will be momentarily disoriented.

This wouldn't normally cause any major problems.

However, on the battlefield, this is a fatal flaw.

The next shot after the shelling blast blew them to pieces—that's how most soldiers died.

Both races tacitly agreed to use a large number of low-level awakened individuals to wage a war of attrition, and neither side was too concerned about the lower-ranking soldiers.

This resulted in countless corpses and rivers of blood on the battlefield.

How much longer will the support take?

"Report: The fleet has just entered the Canglang Ocean area and will not arrive for at least another two hours!"

Amidst the roar of artillery fire, even face-to-face conversations had to be shouted.

"Two hours..."

A frontline commander murmured in despair, "Just now, my last messenger also left us forever."

Now, he can only rely on a small squad of his personal guards to act as messengers and risk using a communicator to barely maintain the smooth operation of command.

All he could do was pray.

I pray that the communication, Psychic Energy fluctuations of the battlefield, can hold out a little longer.

He prayed that his location wouldn't be detected by the enemy because of the Psychic Energy signals emitted by his communicator before reinforcements arrived.

"Just hold on for two more hours..."

(I'm taking a temporary day off. I haven't been feeling well lately, so I'll rest for a bit. I'll resume regular updates tomorrow QAQ)

(Left on March 23)