I can see experience bars after being transported to another world.

Inside the insect nest.

A pale green light emanated from Klaus, illuminating the sealed-off pipeline passage.

Four members of the Grey Pact stood in the center of the passageway.

The leader was in the center, with a fourth-tier deputy to his right and two third-tier attackers behind him.

Clearly, the four Grey Pact members are now trapped inside.

The scene was still etched in their minds. Their companion's head had shattered in Klaus's hands. The headless corpse's chest cavity had been pierced by a single palm strike. Green crystals spread from the wound, and the entire body solidified into crystal.

From start to finish, it only takes a moment.

The leader took a deep breath.

He looked at the man in front of him, wearing a dark shirt with rolled-up cuffs, standing above the swarm of insects, his green eyes looking down at the four of them.

We can't talk about this anymore.

The other side clearly has no intention of negotiating.

"Klaus!"

The leader's voice echoed through the hive.

"Since that's the case, then let me test whether you're really as strong as the rumors say!"

The words were spoken.

The leader and his fourth-rank deputy simultaneously unleashed an indescribable aura of filth.

Black liquid appeared out of thin air.

The liquid surged and boiled, appearing in an incredible quantity, instantly filling the space within three or four meters around the two people with black tide.

The swarm of insects formed by Rek was suddenly pushed away.

They were forced into a series of defeats in a short time.

The insect's body dissolved upon contact with the black liquid, making a hissing sound, and turned into wisps of gray smoke.

The leading edge of the insect swarm was corroded into a huge depression, which is still expanding.

The two third-order units also moved.

Two angry shouts.

Their skin no longer shimmered.

The surface is cracked with fine, grayish-black lines, like a dried-up riverbed. Rotten, foul-smelling liquid seeps out from the cracks, spreading along the limbs to the ground and merging into the swarm of insects.

Knowing they couldn't defeat Klaus, they did their best to assist and put pressure on the Rek swarm.

They are helping the leader erode the insect swarm, encroaching on Rek's territory from the flank.

The four of them worked together seamlessly.

Frontal suppression, flank corrosion.

The insect infestation is shrinking.

But Klaus's expression remained unchanged.

The next instant, he vanished.

At the same time, the insect swarm seemed to open a crack as if it were consciously aware of its surroundings, and Klaus's figure swept through it, leaving a long afterimage behind him.

It wasn't one or two streaks, but seven or eight stacked together, each carrying a pale green light, spreading forward from different angles.

The bone sword fell.

The green light drew an arc, directly cleaving through the surging black tide that was rushing towards them.

The moment the filthy liquid was struck by the green light, it began to grow green crystals.

Green crystal flowers appeared on the black liquid surface, like frost spreading on the water.

The leader's expression changed.

My whole body stiffened.

Then it exploded instantly.

His body exploded on its own, transforming into a surging mass of black liquid that sprayed in all directions, flinging out the newly grown green crystals along with a portion of himself.

To divide and protect oneself.

The swarm of insects receded at the same moment as the explosion, enveloping most of the splashed black liquid.

The flesh worms dissolved frantically, and gray smoke filled the enclosed space.

But Klaus had already pressed himself against the splattered liquid.

The afterimage dragged out several layers.

Klaus's bone sword at the very front was already pointing in the direction where the leader was re-forming.

The leader did not have time to fully take shape.

But he doesn't need to.

Because the fourth-tier assistant has arrived.

The man, whose entire body was covered in black liquid, slashed in from the side with incredible speed.

The black liquid condensed into a carapace, and the body beneath it swelled up to a full circle, with the surface of the carapace writhing violently.

A large black hand, shrouded in foul energy, struck directly at Klaus's back.

But the moment the claws touched Klaus, the man's expression changed, because all that was there was an afterimage.

The green phantom shattered at the fingertips of the secondary hand, dissipating into firefly-like specks of light.

Klaus, propelled by the surging insect swarm, had already reached his second-in-command's side.

"Stay."

His tone was calm, but he had already announced his death sentence.

Klaus's left hand, enveloped in greenery, plunged directly into the churning, filthy liquid, piercing through the armor and seizing his second-in-command by the neck.

"ah--!"

The deputy let out a mournful howl.

Green crystals began to spread from the neck, extending along the collarbone into the chest cavity, and climbing along the jawline towards the face.

With each inch it spreads, the carapace cracks, revealing the grayish-white skin beneath that is crystallizing.

Klaus simultaneously raised the bone sword with his right hand.

The green light on the sword surged.

The leader witnessed this scene.

"Klaus! How dare you!"

His voice was filled with anger and fear.

The surging black liquid instantly enveloped him, and his body swelled rapidly.

Two meters, three meters, a gigantic black monster took shape from the liquid.

Without a fixed outline, the black surface constantly bulges and collapses, with countless tiny tentacles extending from it, like a living, eerie mass.

Two gray eyes floated at the very top of this black mass.

The enormous black water monster tore through the insect swarm's defenses and instantly attacked Klaus.

A hint of disdain flashed in Klaus's eyes.

I don't know when I turned around.

The insect swarm dispersed simultaneously.

It seems intentional.

The leader could clearly see that Klaus turned around in an instant, facing him.

The tide of black liquid is upon us.

But Klaus did not dodge.

Because he was still holding his deputy's neck.

The black liquid splattered onto the second-in-command.

The leader's power fell on his own people.

At the same time, Klaus's bone sword fell.

"Boss, let's go!"

These were the last words spoken by the deputy.

The bone sword cleaved down from above, splitting the deputy in two.

Green crystals grew wildly from both sides of the sword mark.

But at the same time, the black liquid on the deputy's body boiled.

He is burning.

Like a piece of paper being set on fire, the deputy's body began to turn to ashes from the inside out.

Gray residue drifted from the cracked body, touching the insect's body, which then began to boil.

When it touches the copper wall, white smoke rises from the copper surface.

This is the Gray Contract Society's last resort.

"Rek!"

Klaus remained calm.

With a shout, the swarm of insects rapidly contracted, moving away from the center of the explosion.

Klaus threw the half-corpse, which had already begun to turn to ash, directly out.

The corpse spun in the air, ashes peeling off its body like a burning meteor.

Wherever the ash and boiling liquid touched, even everything in the air began to boil, ignite, and gradually turn to ash.

Klaus's right hand got some on it.

The greenery immediately spread from the palm, crystallizing and sealing the area it touched.

But judging from his slightly furrowed brow, this was not without its price.

The leader saw this flaw.

But he did not press his advantage.

Instead, he chose to run.

Clearly, the leader of the Gray Pact realized that he was no match for Klaus, let alone with Rex's assistance.

The black liquid-covered form shrank rapidly, liquefied, and seeped into the gaps in the copper walls of the pipe network.

The black liquid seeped out from the seams between the copper plates, like water seeping into sand.

It disappeared completely within seconds.

The swarm of insects rushed toward the crack, but it was too late.

Klaus did not pursue the matter further.

He turned around.

The pipeline tunnel was a complete mess.

A half-green crystal statue stood frozen in place, half of the deputy's body crystallized, while the other half had turned to ashes, leaving only a fragmented outline.

The two third-order cases are different.

The third-tier enemy closest to the second-in-command couldn't escape the chain reaction of self-destruction.

Boiling liquid splashed onto him, and his gray-black skin began to burn and curl like paper, with ash spreading from his limbs to his torso.

He struggled for a few seconds in the swarm of insects, letting out a piercing scream, before turning completely into a pile of gray powder.

The last Tier 3 creature trembled in a corner of the insect swarm.

Klaus walked over.

It's not fast.

Only one afterimage remained.

But that afterimage was enough to make that third-tier player give up all resistance.

The bone sword swung twice in quick succession.

Two arms and two legs were cut off.

The cut was clean and neat; green crystals grew at the incision site to seal the wound and prevent him from bleeding to death.

Rex's swarm of insects immediately surged up, engulfing the man who was now just a torso and a head.

Klaus looked down at him.

The green eyes slowly closed, returning to their original color.

The bone sword began to shrink, returning to its ring form.

On his right hand, the area sealed by crystallization gleamed with a dark green luster.

I glanced at it, then ignored it.

"Walk."

Rick dragged the prisoner and followed Klaus.

The insect nest began to recede, and the fleshy worms peeled off the walls and ceiling, returning to Rek's main body.

The pipeline network has been restored to its original state.

However, the air was still filled with a stench of burning and corrosion.

Meanwhile, several hundred meters away, Klaus was engaged in battle.

Lu Yuan carried Beren and ran out of the range of the insect hive's low murmur.

Buren struggled a few times.

"Put me down, I can walk now."

Lu Yuan put him down.

The old man's face was pale, but he was able to stand steadily by supporting himself with his cane on the ground.

"Be careful, if a few giant ghouls come at this time, we'll both be doomed."

The two walked briskly along the numbered arrows.

Although Lu Yuan did not directly participate in the battle, he was not in good condition at the moment. His rationality was only 29, and he occasionally had the illusion of the copper wall patterns writhing at the edge of his vision, making it difficult for Lu Yuan to distinguish which ones were real.

We walked for about three or four minutes.

The gray and white text danced.

[Environmental Perception: Abnormal aura detected...approaching...]

Lu Yuan stopped abruptly.

He reached into the inner pocket with his right hand.

Two figures rushed out from the left fork in the road.

high speed.

Their cloaking effects are fading, and they are switching from stealth to attack mode.

With grayish-white skin and a thin build, he was exactly the same as the others I had encountered before.

Not the ones in the insect hive.

It's one of the other two.

"They still have people!" Burren's voice was filled with astonishment.

These two Ashes members were clearly newcomers and outside of Rex's detection range.

The moment they appeared, one lunged at Lu Yuan, while the other circled around to Beren, attempting to capture him.

They didn't use remote methods, clearly intending to capture him alive.

Lu Yuan did not hesitate upon seeing this.

His right hand had already touched the sealing plate, and his thumb pressed down on the second dark red crystal, injecting sanity into it.

[Sanity: -5...24/120]