Locust Plague

As Han Wu pondered, a line of large characters appeared before his eyes.

[Please release your Retinue, the competition will officially begin in three minutes.]

At the same time, Han Wu saw his opponent for the first match.

The guy was short, with dark skin, hunched over, and let out a cackling laugh from time to time.

"Kid, although I can't see your information, I'm sure you're a newbie. Don't worry, this old Rat is always taking care of newcomers. The match will be over quickly."

As he spoke, the Rat Disciple grinned sinisterly and summoned his Retinue.

Ratmen, each only half a meter tall, were summoned one by one, with a total number reaching 300 million.

"Kid, you must have never seen so many Retinue before, are you scared? If you're scared, just surrender obediently. After I finish killing your Retinue, I'll let you go. Hehehe." A hint of cruelty showed on the Rat Disciple's twisted face.

Han Wu smiled slightly in response and summoned his Core Kin: Locusts.

Instantly, a massive swarm of locusts flew out, obscuring the entire sky.

Seeing this scene, let alone the Rat Disciple, even the few scattered spectators in the stands were stunned.

"What the heck? So many! Locusts! Do these things even have combat power?"

"Locusts that are Elite lifeforms, that's interesting."

"This is a battle of numbers. It's really hard to say who will win or lose."

The Rat Disciple's expression froze when he noticed Han Wu had released Locusts as his Retinue.

He had thought his Ratmen Retinue would be unbeatable in terms of numbers, but he never expected his opponent's Retinue to be even more numerous Locusts.

"Hehehe, your Core Kin are actually Locusts, how pathetic. Don't worry, this Rat promises to keep his word and ensure the competition ends quickly." The Rat Disciple became even more confident about this match.

Locusts, how strong could they be? Just targets!

As the three-minute countdown ended.

The competition began.

The Ratmen summoned by the Rat Disciple put their hands behind their backs and took out small hand crossbows.

Pulling the triggers, arrows shot towards the locust swarm in the air.

A total of 300 million arrows rained down on the locusts.

Han Wu made a decisive command, issuing a divine decree: "Fallen Insects, defend."

From the massive swarm of locusts, Fallen Insects, slightly larger and with thick carapaces, flew out and positioned themselves in front of the other insects, meeting the first wave of arrows.

Some arrows hit their carapaces, but more were deflected.

The locust army suffered minimal losses.

Seeing that the first wave of arrow attacks had no significant effect.

The Rat Disciple became somewhat enraged and ordered them to continue attacking.

The Ratmen Retinue skillfully manipulated their hand crossbows, reloading arrows.

Han Wu continued to issue divine decrees: "Heavenly Demon Insects, assault!"

Countless Heavenly Demon Insects flew over the Fallen Insects' defense, vibrating their wings and raising their long horns, charging towards the Ratmen.

Instantly, a large number of Ratmen were impaled by the Heavenly Demon Insects.

Being impaled wasn't the end of it.

Most Heavenly Demon Insects were influenced by the Level 1 Holy Relic, Poison Mist Orb, and were themselves poisonous.

The toxins entered their blood and flowed into the Ratmen's internal organs.

Within five seconds, large numbers of Ratmen died.

The entire process took less than 20 seconds, but the casualties were terrifying.

All the spectators could see that Han Wu's Retinue survival rate remained at 99.99%.

Meanwhile, the Rat Disciple's Retinue survival rate plummeted to 42.73%.

Who was stronger was clear at a glance.

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"Impossible, absolutely impossible!" The Rat Disciple could hardly believe what he was seeing.

How could his Ratmen legion be defeated so easily?

This was the Ratmen army he had cultivated with so much Divine Power!

The locusts didn't care about restraint; they continued their slaughter.

The survival rate of the Rat Disciple's Retinue had already dropped to 31.45% in the few seconds the Rat Disciple hesitated.

"I concede, I surrender," the Rat Disciple cried out in pain.

In the past, he was always the one watching others grieve for their retinues. He never expected that today, he would be the pitiful one.

As the Rat Disciple announced his surrender, protection descended upon the arena.

In the end, only 31% of the Ratmen were teleported back to the Rat Disciple's Divine Realm.

The Locusts were also teleported back to the Divine Realm. Han Wu looked at the corpses littering the ground and couldn't help but want to summon Skeleton Knights to raise all the bodies on the scene as Skeleton Soldiers.

But in the next moment, Han Wu dismissed the thought.

Because a giant magic circle appeared on the ground of the arena. The patterns of the circle bore some resemblance to Han Wu's Life Sacrifice ability, but it was much more potent.

The Ratmen corpses on the ground were absorbed by the magic circle, eventually condensing into a Divine Realm Core fragment, which fell into Han Wu's hand.

That was the reward for Han Wu's victory in this arena match.

After being teleported out of the arena, Han Wu was overwhelmed with shock.

It was the first time he had seen an ability similar to Life Sacrifice.

While he was marveling, Tian Wen walked over, patted him on the shoulder, and praised him, "Classmate Han Wu, well done. You easily secured victory in your first arena match, and I won quite a bit of Divine Power because of it."

"Your Retinue didn't suffer many casualties. Are you interested in continuing to participate in the second round of the arena? If you can win consecutively, the Divine Realm Core fragments you obtain will be 10% more than this time."

Upon hearing this, Han Wu immediately agreed, "Then let's continue. My Retinue is in dire need of experience."

After submitting the application, Han Wu's second arena match was registered.

Ten minutes later, the arena match began.

Twenty minutes later, the third arena match began.

On the thirty-second day, Han Wu paid the price of self-destructing one hundred million Heavenly Demon Insects and narrowly won the 184th arena match.

The entire venue erupted, and countless spectators shouted the words "Locust Plague" at the top of their lungs.

This was the codename the spectators had given to Han Wu's Retinue.

And this victory was Han Wu's 89th consecutive win.

The Divine Realm Core fragments he obtained were a full 8.9 times larger than usual.

For every level the Divine Realm Core increased, the amount of core fragments required increased.

To upgrade from level 5 to level 6, Han Wu used sixty-nine Divine Realm Core fragments, large and small.

Only after absorbing the newly acquired Divine Realm Core fragments did his Divine Realm Core level barely reach level 7.

As for upgrading to level 8, the amount of core fragments required would be more than the sum of fragments needed for levels six and seven combined.

"It's getting harder and harder to become stronger," Han Wu couldn't help but sigh.

"My lucky star, what are you sighing about again?" Tian Wen walked over with a smile.

In all 184 arena matches, Tian Wen had bet a large amount of Divine Power on Han Wu.

Han Wu had been very promising, losing only 3 matches out of 184.

Tian Wen had consequently won a lot of Divine Power, and even the way he looked at Han Wu had changed.

It was as if he was looking at a shining, golden child who brought wealth.

"I'm sighing that my Divine Realm Core is upgrading slower and slower," Han Wu replied.

Tian Wen smiled at this, "Actually, with the current strength of your Retinue, you can try challenging a Demigod."

Han Wu was slightly taken aback and asked, "Will the rewards increase if I challenge a Demigod as a Divine Being?"

"It will be 10 times what you normally receive for winning an arena match," Tian Wen said without exaggeration.

"For example, if you fight a Demigod in your next match and win, you will gain the benefits of 90 consecutive wins multiplied by 10, which is 90 times the amount of ordinary Divine Realm Core fragments."

After Tian Wen's explanation, Han Wu's heart was immediately moved.

He looked inside his Divine Realm and saw nearly 4 billion Locust Retinue members remaining.

Han Wu felt that it was necessary to challenge himself.

What if he won?