Chapter 209 Tentacle Magic Signal
The dragon wings cutting through the sky caused cheers in the city. People would be cheered up as long as they saw the flying dragon and the figure riding on the dragon's back.

After landing, Lind immediately found Duomei. The book thief had learned a lot and his knowledge was pieced together from here and there, but his knowledge was broad enough.

"Did you really bring back bugs?" Duomei's face was filled with shock when he saw the strange bug.

"You already know?" Lind would not suspect that Duomei deliberately concealed certain information from him, because Duomei's character is to get more, not to possess more.

Knowledge is something that can be shared with others infinitely, and nothing will be lost if shared, so there is no need to be stingy.

"It's just a guess."

Dome drew out his two-handed sword, which represented his honor. Although Dome did not think it was an honor for a wizard to rush forward with a two-handed sword after using illumination magic, as it was the greatest insult to the wizard's wisdom, the two-handed sword played a good role at this moment.

"It's just as I expected. It even looks a little scarier."

Dome talked about the guess he had mentioned to Reeve before, that someone was using a magic circle to teleport the bugs here. These underground bugs have not yet attacked the surface, perhaps they just haven't found the way yet.

At this point, Duomei and Linde couldn't help but look at each other.

They both said in unison: "They have found the way now!"

Yes, now I found the way.

The two men and one dragon, who smell like they've killed insects, are the best guides.

Lind had not yet thought that after the undead left, he would encounter an invasion of insect magic circle from some unknown magic madman. The disaster, undead and the abyss were enough to give him a headache.

"Lance, gather the great knights immediately and prepare weapons and supplies. We have a tough battle to fight!" There was no time for Lind to think carefully.

He was even somewhat glad that he discovered it in time, otherwise, once the bugs occupied the passage and then rushed to the surface, he would have to change from being the active attacker to the passive defender.

After witnessing the insects' powerful jumping ability, Lind didn't think that the walls of Star Dragon City could stop them.

"Yes!" Lance turned and left quickly.

The others who rushed over also left following Lind's orders.

Potions, food, weapons, etc., but no undead, so only the natives are destined to participate this time.

Lind turned to look at Duomei again and said, "But you may be wrong about one thing. There is not only one teleportation magic circle in there. There are many along the way. The undead should have only copied one of them."

Just as there are damaged and unusable teleportation arrays, there are naturally intact insect teleportation magic arrays.

So, going deeper into the cave and destroying the magic circle is obviously their main goal this time.

"Maybe I can go with you?" Duomei's eyes were eager to try. If he could study a magic circle that could teleport insects accurately, it would be of great benefit to his knowledge and research.

"You are a two-handed sword wizard," Linde said with a smile, "If you want to go to the battlefield, no one can stop you."

The team prepared very quickly. The space iron barrel researched by Patton played a significant role in transportation. The disaster warhorse could barely carry it and run. The team of dozens of knights looked like they were lightly equipped.

It didn't take much time for them to leave the cave and return again, but when they went deeper into the tunnel, not long after they had their third meal and rested, they heard a familiar rustling sound.

Duomei fired a illuminating firework, and the fireworks flew forward with a crackling sound, illuminating the road ahead.

The bugs are here!
This was an unexpected encounter.

There were only their own people around, and the flying dragon couldn't even breathe out a breath of fire, otherwise the high temperature in the narrow passage would be enough to roast the armored soldiers.

The crossbow was a very useful invention. Combined with the iron barrel of arrows, it made the sudden charge not too unexpected, and there was still time and opportunity to counterattack.

Arrows swept through the insects. The first wave failed to pierce the thick insect armor, but the second wave that followed stabbed them. After receiving a sufficient supply of arrows, the passage that could only go straight forward had become an insect slaughterhouse.

Some insects rushed forward, using their bodies to clear a path inch by inch for their kind behind them.

In every charge, some insects died, and in every charge, some insects stepped on the corpses of their own kind in front of them to move forward.

And when the insects swarmed up one after another with no fear of death, the great knights drew their weapons to resist, and blood was splashed, some of it from the insects and some from their own people.

The flying dragon rushed to the front. The narrow area was completely unsuitable for the flying dragon to stretch, and the number of insects crawling onto the flying dragon was increasing.

Lind's body caught fire, and the burning chains actively searched for enemies, pulling insects off the dragon's back one by one. Every powerful blow was bound to bring with it burst pieces of flesh.

Fortunately, the bugs are not endless.

The soldiers, wearing tattered armor, sat in a pile of insects, drinking potions in big gulps, trying their best to catch their breath and adjust their condition.

Then they encountered several attacks from insects. Unfortunately, these insects were just inferior "magic splicing products". Although they were very powerful, they did not have the conditions to produce the heart of disaster.

The team finally went underground, and the wind blew away the strong smell of insect plasma on them. I believe that more insects will swarm in soon.

After crossing the Star Pasture Grassland and then the Spiky Stone Forest, the surrounding environment changed again.

They seemed to be not walking underground, but standing on a horizontal mountain top. Now they had reached the edge, and the ground suddenly meandered downward. The extremely steep slope made Lind and others feel a strong sense of drop.

Looking down along the rugged hillside, there was no bottom in sight, only darkness.

Only plants that had never been seen on the ground were wriggling wildly on the hillside like leeches that had burrowed into the skin, forming large lumps but leaving only a few traces.

The bugs must come from the front, but they don't necessarily have to go deeper.

The iron barrels were placed on the edge, and the soldiers quickly built defensive structures. It was obviously more suitable for Lind to scout the way ahead while riding a flying dragon.

He took the ice bow from Lance, even though he was not used to the weapon it was something that would allow the dragon to survive for a long time.

The flying dragon spread its wings and swooped down. The fire tumor exploded after squirming, turning into a rain of fire and meteors that washed over the darkness below.

The darkness, which had been silent all the time, suddenly became noisy. The sound of insects' footsteps could be heard, and the dense red dots that lit up in the darkness made people's scalps numb.

The clanging of its claws, with the momentum of trying to tear the mountain apart, created dense holes on the rugged hillside, which eventually turned into traces like those left by a millipede climbing up.

The flying dragon spewed flames again. The underground space was high enough for it to spread its wings and fly easily.

The flame jets from its high position made it easy to slaughter these magic-spliced ​​insects.

But they seem endless.

Lind had to leave the bugs to his soldiers, who had already built up defenses, and he had to rush forward to the source as quickly as possible to resolve the issue.

A flying dragon flew low in the wind, spread its wings, opened its mouth, and flames burned from the "top of the mountain" all the way to the "foot of the mountain" as it dived.

The unpleasant smell made Lind frown slightly, but the flying dragon under him was excited and revelling. It was happy to spit out flames wantonly, and it didn't have to worry about the damage caused by the fire tumor. It could even use the force to spit more freely, making it even happier.

The air was filled with dust blown up by the storm after the burning. The dead insects with their eight legs facing the sky were like defeated soldiers raising the white flag, twitching and swaying slightly in the flames.

Even though it was just a flying dragon, the soldiers who saw this scene on the "top of the mountain" still couldn't help but sigh at its power. The fight with the giant that day did not show how powerful the flying dragon was, but now the flames it spewed out unscrupulously were like a history book of victory, imprinted deep in people's hearts.

The appearance of the bugs has an end, but surprisingly, it is not a magic circle, but a huge nest.

They didn't know how long they had been building this nest, and it was wriggling like it was alive.

The bugs saw the figure flying in the sky, but were powerless to do anything. Apparently the wizard who created the splicing magic had never thought that one day he would have to face a dragon flying in the sky and breathing fire.

The flying dragon flapped its wings and burned the insect nest, even biting the fire tumor several times.

With the blessing of the power of the magic ring curse, the insect nest was burned down quickly.

The flames completely overturned the insect nest, followed by a swarm of insects pouring out like a flood. They trampled on each other like piled up sand and chased after Lind, but after the flying dragon flapped its wings to increase its altitude, the distance was once again widened.

Insects swarmed everywhere, the earth trembled, and flames burned the sky.

If there was a bard present, he would have recorded this scene, but now it was just a massacre, which was being waged by Lind riding his dragon against the insects, and by the insects against the soldiers.

The soldiers were unable to withstand a swarm of insects that was a hundred or even a thousand times their own size, and this was the result of a large number of insects having been attracted to Lind, otherwise everything might have been even more difficult.

Lind, who was flying in the air, was finally attacked.

He quickly caught sight of the figure. It was a giant insect in the shape of a magic centipede. Its carapace was gray, its body was flat, it had many legs, and it moved very fast.

The opponent jumped like a cricket and actually bounced from the ground into the sky.

It suddenly appeared in front of my face, and its tentacles shaking like steel whips were creepy. Its mouthparts opened and closed, expressing the joy in its heart.

It successfully attacked the flying dragon and knocked it so hard that it almost lost its balance and fell.

Lind quickly jumped onto the giant centipede and reached out to grab the centipede's pair of steel whip tentacles.

At that moment, he seemed to sense some signal.

A vague magical signal.

(End of this chapter)