ROAR! ROAR! ROAR! ROAR!
With a series of bone-chilling roars and the rustling sounds of crawling, endless poisonous insects surged in from all directions.
On the field, Heavens Hall's Team One, Team Two, and Team Three, totaling four to five hundred professionals, engaged in desperate clashes with the poisoned bugs.
Those poisonous insects were fearless and relentless, throwing themselves forward in wave after wave of frenzied attacks.
In a battle of this scale, no matter how individually strong Heavens Hall's members were, casualties were inevitable.
Amid the rising chorus of miserable cries, people kept falling one after another.
Yet there was no single white light.
Because those who died would revive on the spot within three seconds.
Around them, the numbers and scale of the insect swarms were at least tens to hundreds of times greater than the number of professionals present.
By comparison, the Heavens Hall squads trapped inside the nest were like single small boats adrift on a vast ocean.
Seeing the fierce onslaught from the surrounding insect swarms, the people inside began to lose their composure and sustained frequent casualties.
Overlord Blade immediately shouted, "Maintain defensive formation! Everyone stay grouped, don't fight the bugs inside the nest if you can! Pull outward as much as possible!"
"Those who haven't died, fall back toward the center!"
At first, even dying allowed one to return to the safe zone to revive, albeit at the cost of a resurrection scroll.
But now that events had developed to this point, the meaning had changed.
At this point, dying inside the nest meant facing permanent death!
No one had expected such an outcome.
As for the larva, after successfully luring the enemy into its territory, it no longer held back and began slaughtering them on a large scale.
As countless poisonous insects endlessly poured out from the wormholes around them to attack the Heavens Hall professionals, the larva continued to mercilessly attack the people in front of it.
Because it was stationed right at the nest's only exit, those inside could not get past the larva to break out.
Meanwhile, outside the nest, Teams Four and Five of Heavens Hall, who had been on standby, seemed to sense something was wrong.
"Why haven't the vice guild and the others come out yet?"
"It looks like they're fighting inside. Is it a trap, or what the hell happened?"
"Let's go check and give them support."
So Teams Four and Five quickly rushed to the nest's entrance.
When they saw the larva with its enormous body firmly defending the exit, both teams immediately took up positions on the outside and began attacking it!
The larva used the same trick again.
It feigned weakness to those outside, pretending to be overwhelmed by their concentrated fire so as to give up the entrance.
Inside the nest, seeing Teams Four and Five advancing from outside, Overlord Blade shouted hurriedly, "Don't go in! Get out, get out now!"
"This is a trap!"
Outside, Commander Ouyang Ling'er reacted in time.
Through a panel in front of her, Ouyang Ling'er exclaimed, "The nest map has a special restriction: professionals who die inside will revive on the spot! The larva deliberately lured us in."
"Don't go in! We'll provide covering fire from outside!"
Thanks to Ouyang Ling'er's timely warning, the moment Teams Four and Five were about to step into the nest, they stopped.
They stood at the nest's entrance and launched attacks on the larva inside.
Seeing that this time its baiting stratagem could no longer fool those outside, and that it couldn't successfully lure them into the nest, the larva gave up trying to manipulate the outsiders.
Instead, it summoned countless poisonous insects from all directions to block the nest's only entrance.
It then joined forces with the internal insect swarms to slaughter those trapped inside.
The larva's revenge was obvious.
It had clearly recognized that the Heavens Hall professionals were under Zhang Yue's command.
The Ten Great Beasts had been revived by the Demon Emperor's envoy with the resurrection stones to specifically take revenge on Zhang Yue.
The larva, being in the World 28 and unable to go to the higher realms to take revenge directly on Zhang Yue, could only target the people of Heavens Hall.
Once the larva fully unleashed its strength, it was evidently no match for the Heavens Hall professionals.
After all, it was an Emperor-tier BOSS.
The huge nest became a slaughterhouse.
Any target marked by the larva had no chance to escape.
The nest's insect swarms besieged the interior while the larva hunted and harvested victims.
Amid the continuous chorus of miserable screams, people on the field died, revived, died again, revived again, one after another.
Gradually, some people died twice in succession, consuming the only two resurrection scrolls available in the rotation.
If they died again in that state, they would face permanent death.
And Heavens Hall's counterattacks simply couldn't hurt the larva.
Although they could land hits on it, the larva had a unique trait: it could restore itself by devouring poisonous insects.
There were far too many poisonous insects nearby.
Whenever the larva lost some HP, it would eat a few bugs and immediately regain that health.
This created an intractable deadlock for Heavens Hall.
They couldn't kill the larva, nor could they eliminate the insect swarms to cut off the larva's supply.
Listening to the surrounding cries and watching teammates fall one by one, the protected group, including Ning Tiantian and One-Night Stand, felt overwhelming guilt.
"It's all my fault. If you guys hadn't come to rescue me, you wouldn't have fallen into this damn bug trap!"
"Sorry, I've dragged everyone down…"
Beside them, the Nightless Marquis said, "We're all brothers in one guild. Don't say that now. Working together to repel the enemy is what matters."
Overlord Blade, Glory Firmament, Lin Tian, and Wu Haotian, the core members of Heavens Hall, fell back from the outer ring of combat into the inner ring and began discussing tactics.
"This guy's stats are high, but if enough of us focus, we can still damage it. The problem is its sustain is too strong."
"Yeah! It swallows a few bugs and immediately recovers the HP we painfully wore down. How do we fight that? Unless we can one-shot it and not give it the chance to heal."
"We must cut off its supply, otherwise this battle is certain to end in our defeat!"
"The question is: how do we cut off its supply?"
At this, everyone fell silent.
"No, we still need someone strong enough to apply pressure and deal heavy blows! We may be many, but our attacks hardly scratch it; they don't truly hurt the larva."
At that point, Overlord Blade suddenly realized a problem, "Are we missing someone?"
"Where's Luo Chen?"
Looking around, they finally noticed that Heavens Hall's main damage dealer, Vice President Sword Emperor Luo Chen, seemed never to have appeared from the start.
"Oh crap, yeah, where's Vice President Luo Chen?"
No sooner had the words left his mouth—
KABOOM!
Outside the nest, a sudden, intense golden sword light exploded forth.