The moment this "Rotten Queen" appeared, the authority of four—no, five—queens finally joined into one.
Then, the terrifying will of the insect race began to boil completely.
Space rotted beneath her footsteps, and time withered in an instant.
The grand-completion mechanical tide capable of "reversing spacetime," the "causal chain" manipulated by precision quantum machinery, and the simulated timelines generated through the "causal chain" all snapped apart.
Du Zhaodi abruptly stood up. Her white hair flew wildly, and wisps of ascension-white light even formed within her phoenix eyes.
She naturally knew.
The most dangerous situation in this battle had arrived.
Among the countless simulations she and Gaokesi had run, this situation had the highest probability of occurring.
Compared to Number One Sealed Artifact—the Insect Queen—which was itself a natural-disaster species capable of evolving civilization,
Number Two Sealed Artifact might not excel at combat or warfare, but instead focus on support. Moreover, the "Insect Queen" had returned from severe injuries at full strength several times.
Then, Number Two's role was most likely healing-oriented, or perhaps a certain type of "special evolution."
According to the Naruto Law, the ultimate villain was always followed by an even greater villain. What High Artisan feared most was actually this Number Two, not the Number One before them.
Now, the shoe had finally dropped.
It was indeed healing-oriented, and it was indeed a type of special evolution.
Moreover, this evolution seemed closer to a kind of "rotting."
Cells digesting themselves, bacteria decomposing, ultimately causing carbon-based matter to break down into one or more kinds of "inorganic matter."
That was the principle of rotting.
But the higher a carbon-based species' level, the harder it was to "degrade," especially natural-disaster species, which were themselves super-carriers of biological viruses.
It was already good enough if they did not degrade others.