"Yes!"
As the remains of the last Sun Insect fell on the Illusion Screen, someone in the judges' seating shouted in triumph, and the other wizard spectators burst into applause. They had not seen the match clearly enough to notice that Edgar had used Tree of All Things to compromise the purity of the Void-Forged Catastrophe Insect. That had effectively lowered the Ten-Sun Insect's potential, leaving it unable to withstand Locke's magic.
A genuine Ten-Sun Insect, with the undying power of the Void-Forging Calamity, might not have been defeated so easily.
But to the spectators, Locke had slain a Ten-Sun Insect that none of them could have handled alone.
The head of a lower-ranked Academy, a Moon-Ring Wizard, said, "The Ten-Sun Insect's power may have been only at the Void Forging stage, but the Void-Forging Calamity's traits of [Infinite Expansion] and [Undying] mean it normally takes a hundred Star-Ring Wizards or a dozen Moon-Ring Wizards working together to defeat one on the battlefield. Yet Locke did it alone. If he travels to the New Route someday, he may render extraordinary service on the insect battlefields, earn vast resources, and qualify to establish a Swarm laboratory there."
An old Moon-Ring Wizard beside him narrowed his eyes with a smile. "He isn't from the Insect Curse School. Why would he build a laboratory there?"
"Still, the Ten-Sun Insect truly is a problem that usually takes an entire wizard legion to solve. I never expected him to defeat one by himself.
"And the Ten-Sun Insect wasn't the only one to die. The Mother of Insects died too. There are still insect eggs in the Genesis Blue Lotus World, and they'll be nearly impossible to clear out completely. But without the Mother of Insects, they only need to prevent another from hatching. Then the