The warrior shoved the corpse aside. Pain surged through his chest in wave after wave. Slapping a hand against the ground, he launched himself upward—but at that moment, two Zerglings suddenly burst from the earth beneath him. One clamped onto his arm, the other onto his waist, forcibly dragging his body back to the ground just as it sprang into the air!
"Roar!" Not even the pain wracking his body could suppress the sense of dread in his heart. The warrior shook violently, knocking the two Zerglings back a step. Seizing the opening, he rose again, only for another Zergling to descend from above and pin him down once more. Countless Zerglings burrowed out from the surrounding ground, and more than a dozen surrounded him completely...
The Zerglings erupted from the earth in a line stretching from a hundred meters ahead of the Hydralisks all the way beneath the feet of the charging demon warriors. To the demon warriors, it seemed as if the entire ground had grown bugs. Even ants could bite an elephant to death. Sensing that things were going badly, the demon warriors frantically flew into the sky, hoping to evade the demons crawling from the ground. But the Hydralisks, whom they had briefly forgotten, had no intention of sparing them. Once airborne, they became perfect targets for the Hydralisks. Hydralisks loved shooting moving targets—it made them feel accomplished!
Of the roughly one thousand warriors who landed, more than a hundred were taken down by Lurkers before they could even approach the Hydralisks, and over two hundred were swallowed by Zerglings. The remaining six hundred scrambled into the air, only for more than a hundred of them to be shot apart by the Hydralisks!
Just as those thousand warriors landed, the battle in the air began as