After learning that the hostages captured by the larva had already been rescued, but that the rescue team was now under siege by swarms of insects and trapped inside the nest, Overlord Blade immediately ordered a full-scale attack.
The previous plan, where Teams One and Three advanced while Teams Four and Five held position, was scrapped.
Everyone from the Heavens Hall pushed toward the insect nest together.
Under the overwhelming firepower suppression, the larva gradually retreated deeper into the nest.
Heavens Hall advanced step by step.
Before long, Teams One and Three chased the larva straight into the nest.
Teams Four and Five, meanwhile, remained outside, clearing out the poisonous insects around the entrance to prevent them from blocking the exit, ensuring a safe path for a potential breakout later.
After entering the nest, they found themselves inside a vast, dark lair.
The air inside was damp and cold, like stepping into an ice cellar, bone-chilling and oppressive.
Looking deeper into the cavern, they saw Team Two completely surrounded by a huge swarm of poison bugs, unable to break free.
The hostages the larva had captured earlier, Ning Tiantian, One-Night Stand, and the others, had all been successfully rescued.
At that moment, the hundred members of Team Two were escorting Ning Tiantian's group and fighting with all their might to break through.
The ordinary level-155 poison bugs posed no real threat to the Heavens Hall's members, all fully equipped in golden gear and wielding SSS-level skills, but there were simply too many of them, forming a living wall of insects that completely blocked Team Two's path.
Seeing they couldn't break through, Overlord Blade immediately ordered Team Three to go support Team Two, while he himself led Team One, staying alert and watching their surroundings.
Because he noticed something strange, ever since they had followed the larva into the nest, at some point, it had completely disappeared.
Soon, Teams Two and Three met up.
The two teams attacked from inside and outside, working perfectly together. In the end, they wiped out all the poison bugs with zero casualties.
"The visibility here is bad. It's not good for us to fight inside, fall back! Lure the larva outside and fight it there!"
Following Overlord Blade's shout, the three teams quickly regrouped.
Just as they were preparing to withdraw from the nest, suddenly, a massive shadow loomed at the entrance.
Something enormous had appeared, completely blocking the only way out.
"The larva!"
When they saw what stood in their way, the ferocious larva itself, the three Heavens Hall teams immediately readied for battle.
Overlord Blade raised his blade and said coldly, "Since you've come out, we'll end you right here!"
With that, Overlord Blade gripped his Guan Dao tightly and charged straight at the larva himself.
On both sides, dozens of elite Heavens Hall warriors followed behind him, launching a full assault.
In the rear, countless archers and mages entered range and began bombarding the larva with long-distance attacks.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
As endless streams of magic orbs and enchanted arrows poured down on the larva, it suddenly opened its bloody mouth and spewed out a glob of green slime.
The slime cut right through the storm of magic and arrows, corroding every projectile in an instant.
A second later, that glob of slime splattered across the ground, and over Overlord Blade's advancing group.
Overlord Blade raised his blade to block, while the others, relying on the priests' buffs and healing from the backlines, and believing they already understood the larva's strength from earlier, assumed it wasn't lethal and didn't take it seriously.
However, what no one expected was this: when the venom splashed down, everyone hit by it, except Overlord Blade, saw their HP bars instantly drained to zero within a single second.
The priests in the back didn't even have time to cast a healing spell before those fully healed warriors and knights were all instantly killed.
Overlord Blade, relying on the strength of his epic-class profession, was the only one within the attack range who survived.
In the rear, everyone else was struck with shock and horror.
"How could this be…"
"How did the larva's damage suddenly get so high? Just outside, it didn't hit anywhere near this hard!"
What was even more shocking was that, those killed didn't turn into white light and return to the safe zone to revive.
They revived on the spot.
At that moment, Wu Haotian, who had managed to survive by blocking the venom with his Flame Shield, finally realized what was happening, his face paling.
"We've been tricked! Damn it, it's a trap!"
"This nest… it has a restriction that causes death-site resurrection! That monster pretended to be weak outside, deliberately luring us in here, planning to kill us inside the nest!"
Wu Haotian's guess was completely correct.
But by the time he realized it, it was already too late.
The larva was firmly blocking the only exit of the nest, and anyone who tried to get close was immediately attacked.
Compared to when it was outside, the larva's destructive power inside the nest had doubled.
Previously, it took two or three hits to kill members of Heavens Hall, now, it only needed one strike. Instant kills, every time.
The terrifying damage output meant that all professionals within its range were wiped out in moments.
Those killed would instantly resurrect on the spot, only to die again seconds later.
Even the archers and mages, whose attacks could previously hurt the larva, found that their focus fire now did almost nothing.
Countless spells and arrows flashed across the nest, landing all over the larva, but after being buffered by its magic shield, the attacks barely moved its HP bar at all.
At that moment, the larva summoned another wave of poison insects from all around.
It opened its mouth wide and devoured them one by one.
Instantly, its HP climbed back up from 75% to 86%.
"Don't let it heal!", Overlord Blade roared, "Focus fire! Attack!"
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Endless magic orbs and arrows rained down from above.
Meanwhile, warriors, knights, and assassins charged in from all directions for close combat.
ROAR!
With a deafening roar, the larva unleashed a beam of death light from its mouth, sweeping across the entire battlefield.
Wherever the death light passed, dozens of Heavens Hall professionals were instantly killed.
Immediately afterward, as the larva cast another spell, a dozen massive black wormholes opened up around the cavern.
From the wormholes surged an endless swarm of poisonous scorpions, spiders, and centipedes, flooding the entire nest in seconds.
Under the larva's command, the tide of insects turned toward the trapped professionals, launching a frenzied assault.
"Damn it!", Overlord Blade roared in fury, "It really was a trap!"
Unbelievable as it was, the larva was this intelligent.
From over a dozen wormholes, countless insects poured out, forming a massive beast tide within the dark, damp nest.
With overwhelming, earth-devouring force, it swallowed up the hundreds of Heavens Hall professionals trapped inside the lair…