Blotting Out the Sun

The swarm burned beneath the blazing sunlight. The oppressive Demon Tide instantly became a sea of fire, reminding Old Eggplant of the scenes he had once seen in documentaries of locust plagues being driven away with fire.

But then he saw that the insects were actually moving.

At the outermost layer, the swarm suffering beneath the sunlight slowly writhed and began flying toward the higher sky.

Flames had already ignited across the insects' surfaces, and their bodies gradually peeled apart, drifting downwind like the fragments of fireworks.

Yet behind those insects, their untouched kin rose into the sky against the scattered ashes.

Even after the ashes dispersed, the sunlight remained fierce, incinerating the newcomers. But the insects still flew toward the sun like moths rushing into flames.

"This is..."

Stone gazed into the distance. Seeing this scene, he found it unbelievable.

"They're trying to block out the sunlight."

Xiya quickly saw through the swarm's intentions.

In her era, Thousand-Legged was no longer a particularly dangerous Demon Tide because of the existence of the Spirit Torch. But now, its numerical advantage had instead become its greatest weapon against the sunlight.

The swarm surged ceaselessly, spreading toward the sky through the raging flames. In a short time, it actually formed a barrier that blocked out the sunlight.

The dark clouds gradually spread toward the fortress, accompanied by blazing flames.

Even Xiya had to admit that the swarm's spirit of sacrifice was worthy of recognition.

If they had been monsters like Winter Wolves, or disease-based Demon Tides like plagues, they probably would have found it difficult to resist this fierce sunlight and could only have gone around it.

But the swarm was the most numerous of all. Even if hundreds of millions of its kind had to be sacrificed, it still advanced straight