Versatile Mage: Get the Desert Emperor clone at the start

Chapter 176 Greetings, Your Majesty! Sandworms Turn Against the Undead

Qin Xiaonan advanced forward, stepping over the remains of the undead scattered on the ground. As she penetrated deeper into the enemy ranks, the number of commander-level black-rotten corpses around her increased significantly.

However, with Lan Xi protecting him and his considerable strength, he felt no pressure whatsoever.

Finally, after breaking through the last undead defense line, Qin Xiaonan saw her goal—

The sandworm monarch was curled up on a circular patch of sand about 100 meters in diameter. Its sand-transformed body, which should have been golden and shiny, was now a sickly grayish-white, and its surface was covered with spiderweb-like cracks.

The most shocking thing was the almost huge wound on its head, from which blood in the form of sand grains was constantly seeping out.

At the same time, it was surrounded by a large number of undead, its sand-like body shrank considerably, and it was surrounded by a large amount of death energy.

At this moment, it was in a daze and was only instinctively condensing a large number of sandworm eggs.

Meanwhile, the surrounding undead corpses collected the sandworm eggs.

Salam originally wanted to control the Sandworm Monarch and make him obey her commands, so that she could indirectly command the ubiquitous Sandworm demon army and cause great destruction to people.

However, he has not been able to achieve his goal.

Although the Sandworm Monarch was severely injured, its mental strength was not weak, and it would be no easy task for Salam to completely control it.

Her ancient capital plan was imminent, so she left the sandworms here to assist the undead in their siege.

With its parasitic ability, the sandworm, in cooperation with undead creatures, did indeed accelerate the undead siege, just as Salam had predicted.

Qin Xiaonan stared at the sand worm monarch curled up in the sand pit. The amber compound eyes no longer held their former majesty, only pain and chaos remained.

His fingertips trembled slightly, and the connection between him and Soraka in his mental sea was instantly established, with the vast power of the stars crossing space to reach him.

"Lan Xi." Qin Xiaonan's voice was deep, yet carried an undeniable authority.

Lan Xi understood, and her sea-blue dress moved without any wind.

She crossed her hands in front of her chest, forming an ancient ocean symbol: "Vast Ocean, Pure Realm."

In an instant, the space within a hundred meters radius of the sandpit suddenly distorted.

Countless fine water droplets condensed from the void, transforming into a rotating water curtain barrier.

Before the rotting corpses wandering nearby could react, they were torn to shreds by the raging water elementals.

At the same time, the death energy within the barrier is being rapidly purified, and even the black blood seeping from the ground is evaporating into wisps of blue smoke.

Qin Xiaonan stepped forward, her right palm facing down.

A dazzling pillar of starlight suddenly descended from the sky—the light contained the healing power of the stars that Soraka had borrowed.

The starlight in the pillar of light burrowed into the cracked body of the sandworm monarch as if it were alive, and the terrible wounds healed at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the gray sand grains regained their golden luster.

"Hiss!" The Sandworm Monarch writhed in pain, his compound eyes gradually regaining their clarity.

When it finally saw the figure standing in front of it, its massive body suddenly trembled violently.

Qin Xiaonan flipped her right hand, and a phantom image of a sun disc appeared in her palm, exuding an ancient and majestic aura.

"Greetings, Your Majesty," the Sandworm Monarch bowed his head. "I, I..."

Its belly touches the ground, performing the highest form of respect for the people of the desert.

Sensing the monarch's will, the scattered sandworms ceased their attacks and trembled slightly as they turned towards Qin Xiaonan's direction.

The sandworm knew it had failed in its mission, suffering heavy losses and then being betrayed by humans. Now, the ruler of the Shurima Empire was demanding that His Majesty personally come to its rescue.

Qin Xiaonan waved his hand without saying much. He didn't know the specifics, but since the Sandworm Lord was mainly facing the Southern Ridge Demon Tribe and was then ambushed by Salang, he had nothing to blame.

"Summon your people." Qin Xiaonan retracted the illusory disc and pointed to the distant battlefield. "Let the undead taste the bitterness of backlash."

The sandworm lord's compound eyes suddenly burst forth with dazzling golden light, and ancient runes flowed across the hexagonal crystalline membrane.

Its jaws vibrate at high speed, emitting a series of sharp hisses that are beyond the range of human hearing.

The sound waves, resonating through every grain of sand on the battlefield, instantly spread throughout the entire battlefield—

Beneath the ancient city walls, the sandworms that were burrowing into the human mage's wounds suddenly froze in place.

On the surface of their thumb-sized insect bodies, fine golden patterns simultaneously lit up their dark yellow carapaces. As if receiving some supreme command, they unhesitatingly abandoned the flesh and blood that was about to be devoured and turned around in unison.

After they were brought into the battlefield by the undead, their first instinct was to seek out human mages.

They prefer human flesh and blood, while the undead are just rotting flesh and skeletons, so sandworms naturally won't attack them.

This led to the cooperation between the sandworms and the undead.

At this point, after receiving the command from the Sandworm Monarch.

"Rustle, rustle"

Thousands upon thousands of sandworms emerged from human wounds and sleeves, and the sound of their shells rubbing together created an eerie resonance on the battlefield.

Zhu Meng had just blasted a rotting corpse leader to pieces with lightning magic when he suddenly noticed that the sandworms, which were originally the greatest threat to humans, were now surging towards the nearby undead creatures like a golden tide.

"What's going on?!" His pupils contracted sharply as he watched the sand worms burrow into the skull's eye sockets, and golden sand immediately seeped from the joints of the skeleton.

The undead invaded by sandworms suddenly became extremely uncoordinated, like a marionette whose strings had been cut.

A rotting corpse leader that was about to pounce suddenly knelt down. From its gaping maw, instead of corpse poison, a fountain of golden sand gushed out.

"Damn it! These bugs have turned against us?" Hunter King Du Xiao said, puzzled.

Commander Lu Xu's eyes flashed with a sharp light: "This isn't a simple internal conflict; it seems someone is controlling these sand worms."

On the battlefield, the sandworms, which were originally completely disordered, surprisingly displayed astonishing tactical coordination:

Smaller sandworms specialize in burrowing into the joints of the undead, using sand grains to block the flow of lifeless energy.

Medium-sized sandworm swarms attack the undead's eye sockets, destroying their soul fire.

And those undead completely controlled by the sandworms, their bodies covered in flowing sand armor, actually turned their weapons on their undead brethren.

A skeletal warrior, now turned to sand, wields a sand blade, each strike bringing down hordes of undead.

At this moment, the Sandworm Monarch's wounds had all healed.

Above its head, the illusory image of the sun disc held in Qin Xiaonan's hand resonated with the millions of sandworms.

Meanwhile, somewhere in the ancient capital, Salang, observing the changes on the battlefield, exclaimed, "How is this possible? These sand worms? The Sand Worm Monarch should have already been corrupted by death energy!"

"However, even if you solve this problem, it will be too late. He is about to awaken, and the ancient capital is destined to become a kingdom of the dead."

(End of this chapter)