"Why today do we only see Vice President Overlord Blade, no sign of Vice President Luo Chen?"
"For such an important operation, Vice President Luo Chen is absent? He wouldn't be off somewhere slacking again, would he?"
Outside the nest, as Teams Four and Five of Heavens Hall argued among themselves, little did they know they were already trapped by the tide of insects.
From all directions, countless poisonous bugs answered the larva's call and swarmed in, and in an instant surrounded Teams Four and Five.
Facing the dense mass of insects, the two teams quickly formed a tight circle and prepared to fight.
At this moment, seeing the Dragon Nation's professionals in danger, the various national professional contingents in the distance merely watched, except for a few buddies like Sevia and Thracian, no one came to help.
The scale of the insect tide was simply too massive; the allied reinforcements were blocked outside and couldn't get close.
Seeing this, the troops from the Eastern Nation even began to gloat.
["Well, judging from this situation, the Dragon Nation is going to take heavy losses this time!"]
["They've been inside that nest so long without coming out, they're probably being slaughtered by the larva, and the people outside are trapped by the swarm. This is a big problem for them!"]
["Serves them right. Just looking at how arrogant they were earlier made me sick. Now enjoy it!"]
["Zero can't reach the World 28. Without Zero, his guild's people are nothing but helpless prey to the larva!"]
["So yeah, except for Zero, the rest of Dragon Nation are all useless trash!"]
["I heard the Ten Great Beasts are tied to the Demon Emperor. The larva is targeting Dragon Nation specifically to take revenge on Zero, eventually the whole Dragon Nation will be dragged down with Zero!"]
["Hmph, let's see how they handle this crisis!"]
["How handle it? What do you expect? Total annihilation!"]
While the Eastern Nation crowd jeered—
WHOOSH!
A powerful golden sword light swept across the battlefield.
BOOM!
In an instant, within a wide area, dozens upon dozens of poisonous bugs were pierced by the sword light.
The next second, they all collapsed to the ground, motionless.
A single sword light instantly killed so many level-155 insects.
The sudden scene shocked the onlookers.
Turning to look, they saw a warrior in full enclosed silver armor, holding a silver longsword, walking slowly toward the nest.
The silver armor gleamed crystal-clear.
The sword in his hand gave off a faint silver light.
The aura he emitted was extraordinary.
With each step he took a kingly presence seemed to radiate.
All the gossiping crowds' attention was instantly drawn.
"Who is that guy? He looks really powerful!"
"Don't say 'looks', he is powerful. He's a core member of Heavens Hall, Vice President, the legendary-class professional Sword Emperor Luo Chen. In Zero's guild, his strength is second only to Zero himself."
"Legendary-class? No wonder you can feel his aura from a distance!"
"To one-shot so many small monsters with a single skill, you don't need to be a genius to know he's not ordinary."
Indeed, on the field it was the Sword Emperor, Luo Chen.
A disciple of Hidden Dragon.
A grand-disciple of Zhang Yue.
On the battlefield, the people of Heavens Hall looked up at Luo Chen, their faces lighting with joy.
"The Vice President is here!"
"Our guild's second strongest has come, great, maybe this battle will turn around!"
ROAR! ROAR!
The surrounding poisonous insects seemed to sense the tremendous threat coming from this enemy and all turned toward Luo Chen, releasing deep, intimidating snarls.
As Luo Chen stepped onto the field, countless poisonous insects charged at him from all directions.
Luo Chen stood firm.
Once those bugs entered his attack range—
SWOOSH!
He planted his longsword and released countless golden sword-images in all directions.
Sha! Sha! Sha! Sha! Sha!
An endless storm of sword images formed around Luo Chen.
Every insect that approached was shredded by those sword-images; before they could get close, they turned into piles of corpses.
Luo Chen didn't even need to move an inch.
He simply let the sword-image storm sweep forward toward the battlefield.
Where it passed, nothing survived.
The overwhelming power stunned the watching crowds.
"Gah! Is the Sword Emperor that strong?"
"You can tell he's strong, but his real combat strength is beyond what I expected!"
"This strength rivals the Necromancer's. No wonder he's the Necromancer's top general!"
With his sword-image devastation, Luo Chen swept the field.
Soon he reached the nest entrance and linked up with Teams Four and Five of Heavens Hall.
"Vice President," someone cried, "Teams One, Two, and Three and Vice President Overlord Blade are trapped inside the nest, the larva's in there. Let's go support them!"
Luo Chen said, "No. You stay out here and stop the outside bugs from coming in."
"Leave what's inside to me."
With that said, Luo Chen strode alone into the nest.
Though Teams Four and Five wanted to follow and help, they still obeyed Luo Chen's orders and held their positions outside.
Even though the nest was the home turf of the swarms, there were also many poisonous bugs outside. If no one intercepted them and they were allowed to flood into the nest, those inside would face an even greater disaster.
So after Luo Chen entered the nest, Team Four's leader, Mage Starfire, lifted his staff and shouted, "Brothers, hold the entrance! Don't let a single bug through!"
"Yes!"
With a chorus of affirmations, the two teams quickly formed a defensive line outside the nest entrance to hold back bugs trying to break in.
Inside the nest, under the pressure of the larva and tide of insects, Overlord Blade, Wu Haotian, and the members of Teams One through Three were already at a severe disadvantage.
Fortunately, everyone present had strong awareness and good coordination.
So far, fatalities were high, but no permanent deaths had occurred!
For now.
If the situation didn't change and continued to develop like this, they wouldn't hold out much longer, permanent exterminations would soon follow.
Just as the three teams worked hard to break out, a golden light flashed at the nest exit.
BOOM!
Accompanied by a violent explosion, a sudden burst of force blew dozens of insects within a wide area skyward.
Following the sound, everyone saw Luo Chen sweeping in on his storm of sword-images into the nest.
Overlord Blade's tense face finally relaxed a little.
"That kid… finally came!"