"Our situation here is different. The city lord doesn't need to be too smart. As long as she can fight, that's enough."
Jin Dong rarely had a good word to say about Long Na, but to the Coal-Eating Dragon and Trevor, it did not sound much like praise.
Still, Long Na really could fight. She had a charge-forward-never-retreat aura, and in the past, she could indeed have been called a fierce general. Unfortunately, their opponents now were either Lion-Ant-Bees mutated to the extreme or watchers from other worlds, which only made her seem weak.
The Coal-Eating Dragon suddenly dove down, caught Long Na in midair, then swiftly flew high into the sky. As it neared the locust swarm, it abruptly opened its mouth and spewed flames, and a great number of locusts immediately gave off the savory fragrance of cooked food.
But even its attacks were only a drop in the bucket.
The densely packed locusts stretched for thousands of meters. Once the clouds and mist dispersed, all they could see were black swarms of locusts, like dark clouds with no end in sight.
Meanwhile, the grasshopper-men were still releasing locusts, showing just how enormous their numbers were.
The Coal-Eating Dragon circled through the air, continuously breathing fire to burn the locusts. Yet it was gradually surrounded all the same. The locusts landed on its scales and on Trevor and the others, biting madly regardless of whether they could bite through.
Everyone looked as though they were dancing, constantly swatting at the locusts.
These locusts were not especially strong. Trevor and Jin Dong could even crush them to death with their bare hands, though the sensation was somewhat like squeezing peanut shells.
They were all wearing armor, and strength-type armor at that. Even if they were not particularly strong themselves,