"Do you know of that kind of insect? The kind that brings endless death and disaster."
Tatiana's voice trembled slightly. Clearly, it had left a deeply terrifying impression on her.
"They were originally one with the rune stones that brought safety and shelter."
"That's something I've never heard before."
Jia Xiu had previously suspected that the Quaternary Insects and rune stones might be connected somehow. After all, their functions came in pairs, their colors came in matching sets, and the material of the insects' shells looked somewhat similar to that of the rune stones. With so many similarities piled together, it would have been more suspicious if they had nothing to do with each other.
He just had not expected the two to literally be the same thing.
"You mean the Quaternary Insects will directly turn into rune stones under certain conditions?"
"What insects?"
"Uh, Quaternary Insects. That's the name I gave them. Actually, they aren't insects that bring death and disaster. Their ability is merely to break down magic power into another, finer form. On a macroscopic level, that appears as magic power vanishing. Other than that, no other effects have been discovered so far. It's just extremely deadly to you and your kind. To people without magic power, they're no different from ordinary insects—actually, they're even worse, since they neither bite people nor..." Jia Xiu gave the aged Vampire a brief explanation of what those insects actually were.
Who knew how Tatiana had picked a place like this? She had run to another plane and somehow landed in one that countered them so thoroughly.
Given the Blood Clan's survival abilities, honestly, it was not easy to find a plane where they could die so easily.
"Qua... Quaternary?"
"Yes, quaternary. One, two, three, quaternary. One, one."
Tatiana's eyes were