The battle that followed was jaw-dropping. It opened the eyes of the four newbie players, including Wheelchair, to the bloodshed and horror of this world's superhuman combat.
Metal-Boring Beetles had no special tricks, only hard bodies and sharp teeth.
The House of Loving Kindness's methods, on the other hand, were almost too much for the four players to stomach.
Every piece of Data Equipment those people used was made from human hands, organs, or heads.
Even the bombs they threw were made from some kind of green fat.
Their usual methods clearly weren't doing enough damage to the insects.
Fortunately, they knew these insects well.
Once they confirmed that conventional attacks weren't working, they summoned a rotting corpse and threw it over for the insects to eat.
The insects weren't picky. They swarmed the corpse and stripped it clean.
Then, after eating their fill, they began dying in droves.
Their metal bodies looked as though strong acid had eaten through them, crumbling into rust across the ground.
The House of Loving Kindness suffered little in the battle. Only a dozen or so Fanatics sustained minor injuries.
All roughly 150,000 adult Metal-Boring Beetles that had emerged were wiped out there.
By then, Alton had returned to his normal human form.
Jon, however, wasn't ready to let it go. After dealing with the insects, he led his people deeper to investigate.
Unfortunately, they found nothing.
The enemy seemed to possess some special means of teleportation. Jon and his people found no passages or hidden mechanisms in the circular chamber.
It was a dead end, through and through!
A closer investigation also revealed that the place had been excavated within the past month.
In other words, it was only a temporary site, not a long-established central base.
That infuriated Jon, but the carpet