Chapter 342: Attrition × Taking Action × Doing Both
The fire dragon had turned back to attack so easily that Joey breathed a sigh of relief.
When he had used Weather Report to create birdsong, he had wondered how they would face the "infinitely" multiplying Insect Swarm if the fire dragon did not return.
Now that the fire dragon had joined in-or, more precisely, was charging ahead of them-he did not have to worry too much.
The fact that Touch Your Birdsong could actually fool the Insect Swarm into multiplying also came as a great relief to Joey.
Because as long as that worked, his plan could proceed smoothly.
As for the specifics of that plan, they were actually very simple.
Whatever sort of being had created the Insect Swarm, its own Life Energy could not be infinite.
However terrifying it appeared, energy itself had to obey certain rules. It could not simply come into existence out of nowhere.
Since individual insects in the Insect Swarm did not require much Life Energy to sustain themselves, creating them actually consumed less Life Energy than one might imagine.
Joey had, after all, dissected insects with Cluck.
He understood their simple bodily structure very well.
For a Nen user, creating them was much like an Emission user making a Nen Beast: they only needed to release some aura, shape it, and feed in a few simple commands.
From Joey's observations, the Insect Swarm possessed only two abilities: dragging food underground and attacking targets.
Once he had established that the Insect Swarm was a product of Conjuration, the former indicated that its creator should be underground!
Even though Cheadle had informed him that no abnormal individual had been discovered underground, he could not comfortably accept that conclusion.
After all, he could not be certain