Final Lord

Chapter 245 The Campaign Against the Root Extinction Insects
Three days later, Wang Bufu set up a net around the root-extermining insects.

A thick layer of poisonous miasma spread out on the ground, surrounding the roots and killing the insects.

The numerous phantoms of masked female demons in the sky were divided into two groups: one group was larger in number and farther apart, while the other group was smaller in number and closer together.

The underground area within a ten-kilometer radius was hollowed out by cave dwellers, and surging lake water poured in, forming an underground lake.

“We are ready, we can begin.” Wang Bufu said to Bai Ling, “Please, Bai Ling, unseal the frozen silkworm cocoon.”

"Mmm!" Bai Ling lightly flapped her wings, releasing the seal from the stagnant cocoon.

As the White Spirit God's wings fluttered, the stagnant cocoon enveloping the Root Extinction Insect slowly dissolved like melting ice. The amber-like substance peeled away inch by inch, revealing the hideous, dark purple insect body beneath. The tangled tentacles suddenly straightened, and the mucus on the surface of the spore cysts violently evaporated into the air, emitting a pungent, metallic odor.

"Mair, watch." At Wang Bufu's command, Mair, far away on the battlefield, immediately began to stare at the Root Extinction Worm.

"Roar--!"

Before the Root Extinction Insect's compound eyes could fully focus, the illusion of the demon-faced woman swooped down like a swarm of bees. Their figures cast dozens of afterimages in the sunlight, and the wind pressure generated by their wings stirred up the poisonous miasma on the ground, blowing it onto the Root Extinction Insect's body.

The root-destroying insect suddenly arched its body and lunged straight into the sky like a crocodile emerging from the water.

However, the illusion dispersed immediately, and the attack of the root-extinction insect only pierced through a gradually dissipating phantom.

"Keep luring!" Helan's voice rang out in the mental link. The second group of illusions in the distance immediately closed the distance, deliberately brushing past the tentacles on the insect's abdomen, provoking the Root Extinction Insect to roar in fury. Its massive body suddenly sprang into the air, activating the [Extinction Charge] special skill, the 300% acceleration creating a sonic boom!
However, the attack missed again, and the insect slammed into the ground, splashing mud mixed with a crushed illusory fragment of light.

One second into the battle, the harpies used two illusions to freeze the root-extinct worm in place for two seconds.

These seemingly insignificant two seconds are the key to the battle.

The enormous size of the Root Extinction Worm is both its advantage and its disadvantage, because its enormous size also contaminates it with the poisonous miasma of the Twenty Cavemen.

These twenty clusters of poisonous miasma will be settled simultaneously at the moment the root-root extermination insect operation begins!
[Each unit inhaling the toxic miasma gains 0.5 layers of crippling toxin per second (speed -0.5)]

【Crippling Toxin: Reduces enemy speed by 1 point. Lasts 10 seconds. Deals 2 points of true damage per second during the duration and greatly reduces enemy health regeneration.】

The number of layers can be stacked, the deceleration effect can be stacked, and the duration can be refreshed.

In one second, ten layers of crippling toxin were stacked up, and the crippling toxin exploded instantly! -200!

[Paralysis Detonation: When the Crippling Toxin stacks reach 10 or the enemy's speed reaches zero, the Crippling Toxin will immediately detonate. It removes stacks, deals 200 true damage, and paralyzes the enemy for 15 seconds.]

The root-destroying insects were suddenly paralyzed and collapsed helplessly to the ground.

The Root Extinction Worm is a Tier 6 epic giant unit. Normally, the paralysis effect would only last for 0.5 seconds. Unfortunately, it was facing a Caveman unit that was extremely adept at killing giant units—the Caveman Giant Hunter!

Caveman Giant Hunter
Extraordinary Level 3

Attributes:
Life: 60
Attack: 40
Range: 120 meters

Ammunition: ? (varies per instance)

Defense: 18
Speed: 13
Professional skills:

Burrowing and shooting, incapacitating poisoning, paralysis and detonation, acute and highly toxic poison

Giant Hunter: Ignores 50% of defense when attacking giant units, and the poison effect inflicted is immune to 50% of the size effect.

As an advanced unit of the Venomous Assassin, the Caveman Giant Hunter has demonstrated a terrifying ability to suppress giant units.

The paralysis effect, which was originally supposed to last only 0.5 seconds, was extended to 1 second.

In that one second, another 10 layers of disability toxins were added, and the disability toxins exploded again!
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200! Paralysis +1 second

Two hundred damage is dealt, followed by a one-second paralysis. Ten stacks of poison replenish the effect, and the root-borne insects paralyze again!
200! Paralysis +1 second

"Hillbilly! Prepare to replenish the poisonous miasma! Keep the number of poisonous miasma at 20."

Wang Bufu's order reached Shanpao's ears. Standing two hundred meters away, Shanpao puffed out his mouth, and a cloud of poisonous miasma immediately sprayed onto the Root Extinction Insect, spreading out on its rear end. These twenty clouds of poisonous miasma were not placed simultaneously, but one by one at one-second intervals.

This means that the twenty clusters of poisonous miasma will not disappear at the same time, but will disappear one at a time, one second apart.

This gives Shanpao plenty of room to maneuver; he can replenish a poisonous miasma every second to ensure that the root-root exterminator is firmly under control.

In theory, Wang Bufu could use the toxic miasma of disability to control the root-extinct insects until they die.

It only has 3500 health points, and it will be destroyed in 18 seconds.

But that won't do, as it goes against the client's requirement to delay for 30 minutes.

Therefore, after Wang Bufu used the paralysis bomb 10 times to buy enough time and let the illusion of the demon woman move away, he ordered Shanpao to stop replenishing the poisonous miasma.

The consequence of stopping the replenishment of one poisonous miasma is that the number of disabled poisonous miasma layers on the Root Extinction Insect becomes 9.5 layers.

[Speed ​​-9.5, lasting 5 seconds]

At this point, the Root Extinction Bug only has a movement speed of 22.5. If it doesn't activate Charge, it will take it quite a while to catch up with the Banshee with a speed of 18.

The recent series of paralysis attacks made the Root Extinction Worm sense the danger. With only 1500 HP left, its first reaction after recovering from the continuous paralysis was to burrow into the ground to avoid the poisonous miasma!

"They've gone underground! Proceed according to plan!" Wang Bufu shouted sharply.

The ground trembled violently as the Root Extinction Insect's body pierced the soil like a giant spear, only to struggle even more violently the next second. The underground chamber, already hollowed out by the cave dwellers, was now filled with lake water, and as soon as the insect's body touched the water, large bubbles spewed out from the gaps in its carapace.

It thrashed wildly, trying to retreat back to the ground. At the same time, three Root Transport Worms summoned by its [Legion Domination] skill, which had just emerged from the rock wall, were swept into the lake by the surging water. These ordinary Tier 3 monsters flailing their limbs in vain, eventually sinking into the darkness due to lack of oxygen.

Burrowing underground? Sorry, you can't burrow underground underwater!
The roots that had just emerged from the ground were immediately covered by poisonous miasma. Ten layers of poisonous miasma erupted again, paralyzing the insects for one second.

Wang Bufu's preparations also resulted in the disabling of two special abilities: root-root extermination and insect extermination.

[Earth's Dominator]

It ignores terrain obstacles when moving underground.

Automatically summons 1 [Root Transport Bug] (Normal Tier 3) every 300 meters moved.

Root Network

All root-type monsters within a 5-kilometer radius gain the "Berserk" status (Attack +20%, Defense -15%).

The root network can only be deployed after the root extinction insect has been burrowing underground for a long time; if it cannot burrow underground for a long time, this special ability will not work.

The summoning of the Earth Vein Overlord also requires the extinction of roots and the burrowing of insects underground.

However, the underground had been hollowed out by Wang Bufu, and was now filled with lake water, leaving only a thirteen-meter-thick layer of soil. The root-extinction worms could not penetrate deep and could only operate in the shallow surface layer. The root-transporting worms they summoned would fall into the water and drown the moment they were born.

This means that the incredibly flexible root-borne extinction insects, which are both above and below ground, have become idiots that can only move around on the ground.

The enraged root-extinction worm roared, its head glowing red, and its speed suddenly increased as it charged toward the distant phantom of the demon-faced banshee!
It was so fast that a phantom disappeared into thin air in the blink of an eye.

But its reckless charge put it in a very unfavorable position—on the grassy area near the lake.

"Now!" Wang Bufu's eyes flashed with a sharp light, and the military strategy book in his hand turned to a crucial page without any wind. The four large characters on the page, "Use the Earth as Your Army," suddenly lit up and transformed into four golden rays that disappeared into the soil beneath his feet.

[The Book of Military Strategy, Volume 1: Using the Land as a Force] [Consumes 2 Military Strategy Points. Effect: For 30 minutes, the efficiency of our units in modifying terrain increases by 100%]

A sudden, muffled rumble echoed from the earth, as if a giant dragon were writhing beneath the surface. Wang Bufu's robes fluttered in the surging air as he pointed forward and shouted, "Blind Cat! The earth trembles!"

"Understood!" The bone staff in the blind cat's hand emitted an earthy yellow light.

He lunged forward, lowered his waist, and hurled his staff into the ground like a javelin, the end of the staff embedding itself more than three inches into the rock. "The earth trembles, break through!"

(End of this chapter)