Winds Rise from Green Duckweed (Please Bookmark and Follow)

Winds Rise from Green Duckweed (Please Bookmark and Follow)

"Waaah, waaah, waaah—"

A piercing infant's cry sounded, like the howl of a ghost.

Yet Molenta, descending from midair, seemed utterly unmoved as it thrust its claws straight at the Giant Salamander covered in yellow earth.

Boom!!

A violent sonic boom stirred traces of white vapor around Molenta's body, mixed with sparks produced by the friction between the air and its scales.

Its enormous, elongated body was like a missile falling from the sky, instantly smashing the Giant Salamander viciously into the ground.

Scarlet blood, carrying traces of chill, seeped through Molenta's claws before being evaporated by the scorching air currents, leaving only crimson patterns across the ground.

Like an oil painting created by an abstract artist.

"I've flown over the Ten Thousand Beast Plains for so long, and I finally found a living thing." Molenta snorted, blasting out a slightly scorching breath, its voice irritable.

It had circled above the Ten Thousand Beast Plains for more than half an hour. Its initial excitement had turned into impatience, and the violent emotions buried in a flood dragon's bones made it want to vent fiercely.

Thus, even though it looked down on this Apprentice Sixth Order Giant Salamander and would never normally hunt it, it still chose to waste its strength killing the prey in order to relieve its irritation.

Surplus killing did not exist only among wild beasts. Even magical beasts with intelligence comparable to ordinary humans could not avoid such behavior.

It was fine when they remained rational, but once instinct took over, they would slaughter madly, killing prey far beyond what they could eat—not to satisfy their hunger, but to fulfill the twisted desire to kill in their hearts.

Bang!

The flood dragon's sharp claws stomped heavily onto the ground, kicking up a huge cloud of yellow-brown dust. Molenta cast it a disgusted glance and activated the Water Origin Power within its body to block the dust away.

"Roar~~~"

Circling once, Molenta shot back into the high altitude. It wanted to return to the Mian Gu Black Forest to hunt.

This Ten Thousand Beast Plains was simply far too boring.

Jade Crystal Mountain Range.

At the foot of the mountains, a travel-worn group of more than ten Azure-Eyed Baboons returned with their heads hanging low.

Because the Jade Crystal Mountain Range lay at a higher latitude and most of its peaks had sufficient elevation, it was far less scorching than the Ten Thousand Beast Plains and the Mian Gu Black Forest.

Looking at their familiar tribal grounds, the baboon elites sent to fight the Vajra Ant Clan in the Mian Gu Black Forest could not help but shed tears and let out mournful cries.

When they left, there had been two Planet Level leaders and fifty high-spirited tribal elites.

When they returned, only sixteen survivors remained. Every one of them was wounded. Two elites had wounds that had already festered; reeking all over and burning with fever, they had been carried back unconscious by their companions.

Because it was the dry season, they had not dared to cross the Ten Thousand Beast Plains along the route they had taken before. Instead, they had detoured through the direction of North Ridge Marsh.

"Rustle, rustle~~"

"Rustle, rustle~~"

Perhaps the Azure-Eyed Baboons' cries were too loud and had alarmed the tribal guards still keeping watch deeper inside. Clumps of treetops trembled in the primitive forest as agile Azure-Eyed Baboon guards climbed and leaped among them.

"Roar, what happened?"

An Azure-Eyed Baboon wearing simple wooden armor landed on the ground. Seeing its tribesmen sprawled everywhere and weeping uncontrollably, it could not help asking.

Several guard baboons landed behind it as well, Blade Wood weapons in hand, their faces filled with shock as they looked at the sobbing baboons.

"Little Thickskin, stop crying. Tell me what happened." Seeing that no one paid it any attention, the leading Azure-Eyed Baboon in wooden armor felt its temples twitch slightly and directly called out to a baboon it knew.

The Azure-Eyed Baboon called Little Thickskin was sobbing. Its right shoulder drooped limply at its side, while three fingers were missing from its left hand. It looked utterly miserable.

"W-we... we lost... Commander Iron Fist... Commander Gale... they... they were both killed!"

Still sobbing, Little Thickskin recounted what had happened.

"What? Both commanders were killed?!!"

The lead guard shuddered as though struck by lightning and staggered back two steps. "How is that possible? How could the Vajra Ant Clan dare do such a thing?"

"Are they trying to stir up a war between our clans?!"

The lead guard was Apprentice Ninth Stage, its status second only to the Planet Level commanders. All the guard defenses facing North Ridge Marsh were under its command.

Precisely because of this, it knew what Planet Level beings meant to a clan. Even a top-tier major clan like the Azure-Eyed Baboons possessed only eleven Planet Level beings. Now that two had been killed at once, it would surely provoke the King's fury!

"No, it wasn't the Vajra Ants who killed them." The Azure-Eyed Baboon beside Little Thickskin added, "It was an expert from the Frost Flood Dragon Clan!"

Upon hearing this, the guard leader's expression darkened even further.

Had the Vajra Ant Clan joined forces with the Frost Flood Dragon Clan?

That was no good news for the Azure-Eyed Baboon Clan!

"Little Thickskin, Black Fur, you two come with me. We must report this matter to the King immediately." The guard leader issued orders at once, then waved to the guards behind it. "Two of you, care for the injured tribesmen. Two more, go back and call for reinforcements. Bring medicine."

"Yes, Chief."

"Yes, Chief."

Behind them, the four guards split into pairs and moved swiftly.

The guard captain flashed to Little Thickskin and Black Fur's side, tucked one under each arm, then explosively pushed off with his lower limbs. In a single leap, he reached the treetops and streaked toward the depths of the mountain range.

The intelligence was important; they could only let these two lightly wounded soldiers suffer for now.

Little Thickskin and Black Fur, the two baboons, also knew the situation was urgent. So even when the guard captain's bounding tugged at their wounds, they clenched their teeth and endured it in silence.

Mian Gu Black Forest.

The region near the West Coast.

At that moment, dense crackling sounds suddenly came from the Great Rift Valley where the Vajra Ant Clan's vanguard had emerged before, as though countless stones were falling from High Altitude into the valley floor.

Dozens of openings, similar to the holes the vanguard had previously drilled, appeared along the dark rock walls.

The Vajra Ant Clan's main force had arrived!

"BOOM!!"

An especially violent roar Sounded. If the previous falling stones had been like rain striking plantain leaves, then this sound was thunder exploding beside their ears.

A circular slab of rock nearly five meters in diameter broke away from the rift wall and crashed fiercely onto the valley floor.

Two Fire Ants, their entire bodies blazing red and nearly four meters long, were the first to crawl out of the openings. Their wings vibrated as they hovered on either side of the entrance, like an honor guard.

"Click, click, click~~~"

Next, the two of them began rubbing their forelimbs together.

Like a domino effect, Vajra Ants emerged one after another from the other openings, leaping down and forming neat ranks across the valley floor.

"Click, click, click~~~"

The dense mass of Vajra Ants rubbing their forelimbs in perfect unison created a far more imposing spectacle than the two Planet Level Fire Ants!

"Woooo—"

A low sound like the wail of a ghost rose up. Within the pitch-black opening, a massive, extraordinarily crimson silhouette gradually came into focus.

The Star Level Queen Ant had arrived!!

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