Final Lord

Chapter 215 New Discovery, The Evil Eye Clan

The soil in the swamp area is a striking black, like coal ash mixed with a lot of water.

Wang Bufu's military boots stepped into the mud, and the soles were immediately covered with a layer of black mud.

"My lord, they are about 700 meters to the northeast and will be here soon." The blind cat tapped the swamp with his staff, and a thick layer of rocks rose up in the distance.

Soon, deep within the churning mudflats, more than thirty giant, centipede-like worms, blocked by rocks, were forced to break through the soil.

Their dark purple carapaces are covered with coin-shaped fleshy protrusions, and their compound eyes shimmer with dark gold patterns identical to those of the root-destroying insect.

【Root Transporter (Standard Tier 3)】

"Stop them," Wang Bufu ordered softly.

"Miasma Clan, form ranks!" Nix spewed indigo poisonous mist from its pincers. "Miasma Barrier, open!"

The spiracles on the beetle's carapace erupted simultaneously, instantly forming a wall of miasma that trapped the root-transporting insects within.

The cave dwellers, embroiled in deadly poison, lined up in three rows and fired three volleys of poison bullets in quick succession, quickly clearing away the root transport channel.

But this is just the beginning.

Soon, twenty extraordinary level 1 [Root Tear Insects] rushed out of the swamp.

They have sickle-shaped forelimbs, and when their limbs tear through the mud, the entire mud ripples.

"Brother, let me handle these!" Wei Yi drew her twin swords, and sixteen sword energies pierced through the compound eyes of the three-headed tearing worm.

The sword light of the fourth level of the extraordinary level went straight to the core of the tearing worm's nerve ganglion. However, these monsters maintained their charging posture even before they died. Their bodies were broken, but they still charged forward for more than ten meters before slowly stopping and dying.

After the [Root Tear Worm] died, a large group of similar-looking root worms emerged from the swamp.

There were Transcendent Tier 2 Ironheart Root Worms, Transcendent Tier 3 Rampaging Root Worms... all the way up to Transcendent Tier 6 Devouring Root Worms. Their numbers exceeded six hundred!

Wang Bufu's pupils contracted, and he immediately ordered, "Everyone, spread out to the sides for ranged attacks. Do not engage them head-on; their target is not us."

As if confirming the king's disapproval, all the root insects ignored the poisonous fog and arrows along the way.

Even though they were cut in half at the waist by Wei Yi's sword, their remains still writhed and crawled in a certain direction.

Wang Bufu unfolded a tactical map, picked up a brush and began to draw. The extended lines of all the movement paths pointed towards the lake, which was the location where the Root Extinction Worm was sealed.

"Want to awaken the Queen? Dream on." Wang Bufu's knuckles cracked as he clenched his fists. "Tina, lead the Whirlwind Eagles for aerial suppression; Nix, use miasma to divide the battlefield; Shell Armor and Mountain Cannon, lead the Venomous Assassins to flank and intercept them from a distance. Leave them all behind."

A jade storm exploded over the mudflats!

The harpies spun and hurled wind blades, pinning rootworms to the mud. The cavemen's venom mingled perfectly with the Nyx's miasma, forming a labyrinthine cage that trapped them completely.

However, when the Extraordinary Tier 6 [Root Devouring Worm] arrived at the main battlefield, the battle situation changed again. This ten-meter-long behemoth could open its mouth and spew out a metallic sandstorm that enveloped the other root worms, deflecting all the weak ranged attacks.

Just then, a beam of white sword light suddenly pierced through the heavens and earth. Wei Yi's sword blade trembled and left afterimages in the moonlight!
"Is your carapace thicker than the defense of a dominant monster?"

Countless white feathers swirled around Wei Yi's sword blade, transforming into a drill-shaped whirlwind that forcefully pierced through the metal sand barrier and then through the five layers of the root-devouring insect's shell.

The sword tip pierced its core, causing the Devouring Worm to emit a deafening shriek, and dark golden blood cascaded onto the mudflats like a waterfall.

The battle ended, and Wang Bufu stared at the corpses of insects scattered on the ground, lost in thought. These monster corpses were rapidly turning into specks of light, transforming into various kinds of resources, just like normal monsters.

What troubled him was that these root worms couldn't have only appeared after they arrived. Before they came, who dealt with these root worms?

It's unlikely that a powerful being who had dealt with the Root Extinction Insects would intervene, because they hadn't discovered the signature stagnant cocoon during their reconnaissance. "My Lord!"

Just then, Helan's message suddenly exploded in Wang Bufu's mind.

"Intelligent life has been discovered in our southeast! They came from the Giant Tree Region!"

……

The branches of the greyish-white giant tree reflected a cold, razor-sharp light under the fluorescent glow of the dome, and Helan's masked clone glided silently along the grassy edge of the giant tree area.

Suddenly, Helan took off, her wings hovering abruptly thirty meters above the ground as she carefully observed the area about five hundred meters ahead.

A strange indigo ripple spread across the base of the giant tree area, and twelve bizarre creatures with spherical heads, a huge main eye in the center, and multiple tentacle-like secondary eyes extending below were moving rapidly through the moss using their tentacles.

Their tentacle-like secondary eyes constantly leave magical marks on the roots of the white tree. These magical marks are interconnected, forming a visible flow of magic.

“The Lord Father is right, there are indeed intelligent beings in this place.” Helan’s main body was hidden in the fern foliage a thousand meters away, her pupils shrinking to pinpoints. She controlled her clone to observe carefully and discovered that hundreds of eyeball-shaped magical summons were buried under the soil in the giant tree area. These magical summons were rotating at a frequency of three times per second, scanning the surroundings like a monitor.

Helan's clone wasn't paying attention and was caught by the eyeball without warning. Even though her clone was invisible, the eyeball instantly turned bloodshot and emitted a hissing sound.

From the clone's perspective, the vertical pupil on the top of one of the eye-shaped creatures suddenly turned towards the location of Helan's clone!
"Beware, clan! Spy spotted!" A hoarse warning ripped through the forest's silence, and all twelve eye-shaped creatures turned to look at Helan.

"What is that? An invisible birdman?"

"Strange shape! It must be a creation of the Wujin Cult!"

"Oh no, no wonder the Root Worms didn't show up today. It turns out the Wujin Cult has sent people again!"

"Grab her, don't let her go back and report."

What?! You things that don't even have bodies, just eyeballs and a bunch of tentacles growing under your heads, are calling me weird!

Helan was so angry she almost rushed out to yell at the eye-shaped creatures. But she remembered Wang's order to disobey and gritted her teeth to hold back.

"Retreat!" Helan, a kilometer away, decisively severed the link between his clone and the enemy, leaving the clone to be surrounded.

Her true form quickly retreated, telling Wang Bufu what she had discovered.

……

"It's actually the Evil Eye Clan."

Based on Helan's description, Wang Bufu easily recognized the eyeball creatures.

What is the Evil Eye Clan?

Wei Yi asked in confusion.

Wang Bufu replied, "The Evil Eye Clan is a rather ancient race. They are physically weak but possess strong mental power, and are skilled in mental perception and magical manipulation."

Their racial talent is metal manipulation; they can directly control gold coins or metals with their mental power, making them well-suited to become followers of the Metalless Cult.

However, they are loyal beings of the world under divine protection and refuse to submit, thus being hunted down by the Wujin Cult, resulting in a sharp decline in their population.

Many cultists of the Goldless faction raise Evil Eye Clan members and use contracts and other means to turn them into their slaves.

(End of this chapter)