Chapter 156 Colony

Black Swarm Insect God, That is the true name given by humans to this giant insect. Or at least how mages called them. The first time this insect colony was discovered by humans was during the era of war between mana species.

At that time, the human alliance was trying to seize the Black Iron Wood Fortress which was being controlled by the elven alliance with the Iron Dwarf race who was the leader of the defense forces. This fort was considered very necessary for the battle because it was the choke point of the two lines connecting the two front lines.

So that any party who can own this fort will have access to send supplies faster to both front lines. As a result this fort will always change owners every month. With each struggle it will result in an incalculable number of victims to both parties.

At that time the battle had reached its peak where level 5 constellation mages from both sides had been thrown into the battle and caused destruction to the soldiers of both sides. As usual these level 5 constellation mages would not concentrate their attacks on the enemy's level 5 constellation mages, but instead tried to kill the enemy side's mages with lower constellations.

Battles between level 5 constellation mages were extremely rare and would only be done in a state of compulsion or there was no other way but to advance. This is because not only the damage that will occur will be greater when they fight each other but also because every level 5 constellation mage is a very important asset in the alliance where every loss of one of them is a very heavy loss for each alliance.

As a result, whenever a level 5 constellation mage is thrown into battle they will focus on killing enemy troops rather than fighting another level 5 constellation mage. However, the difference in the strength of a level 5 constellation mage with other mages with a constellation level below them was enormous.

If a level 4 constellation mage is called a realm of god with the ability to use their God's Form then a level 5 constellation mage can be said to be a realm of law. Every level 5 constellation mage will have the ability to use the domain through changing their mana.

Domain is the ability to create a special space by changing the mana law at a certain distance around their body. In their domain a level 5 constellation mage would have true god-like abilities where they could change anything and shape anything they wanted. That's why every mage below level 5 constellation mage was equivalent to an ant that they could stomp on at will.

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However, level 5 constellation mage's domains will cancel each other when they collide so usually the battle between two level 5 constellation mages will start by destroying each other's domains. In the war the use of the domain becomes something even more terrible. Every level 5 constellation mage that descends into battle will immediately take out their domain and kill every enemy that enters it, while an enemy level 5 constellation mage will try to protect his soldiers by pushing his domain into battle and vice versa.

So a battle where there is a level 5 constellation mage in it will be that every mage will push each other's domain and hit every soldier who is successfully pulled in his domain. In essence, a war with a level 5 constellation mage in it will be a massacre with infinite casualties on both sides.

The war should be won by whoever level 5 constellation mage is faster and kills more enemy soldiers. But all that changes when a third party suddenly takes part in the battle between the two mana species.

? Smelling blood and food piling up, the Black Swarm Insect God Colony sent their scouts to find where the smell was coming from. The Black Swarm Insect God Scout found the battlefield and sent a signal to the colony, in no less than an hour, millions of Black Swarm Insect God came into the battlefield.

Their vast numbers were of course easily recognized by the two mana species, causing the battle to pause for a moment before starting again with their new foe. The Black Swarm Insect God attacked regardless of the number of casualties on their side, even though level 5 constellation mages worked together to kill every Black Swarm Insect God that entered their domain but that didn't stop the Black Swarm Insect God from continuing to push deeper into the battle. After all a level 5 constellation mage only had two hands, even though they had a hammer for each hand, a level 5 constellation mage still couldn't hit the millions of moles that appeared simultaneously. (whack-a-mole game reference)

As a result, in just a few tens of minutes, the Black Swarm Insect God managed to take away every corpse of the mana species that was killed in battle and even killed thousands of soldiers who were trying to stop them from carrying the corpses of their brethren. The battle between the two species ruling the world ended in both sides being humiliated by a mutated animal species which they considered a brainless animal.

The battle at the Black Iron Wood Fortress was postponed and for the first time humans and elves teamed up to pursue their new foe. They managed to follow the Black Swarm Insect God to their nest, but what they found made their hairs stand on end with their bodies shivering.

A mountain-shaped nest filled with billions of small caves appeared in their eyes. From every little cave, thousands of Black Swarm Insect Gods came in and out every second. There were so many of them that the mountain looked like it had turned black from being covered by their exoskeletons.

As the two species mana armies approached, the Black Swarm Insect God greeted them with thousands of volleys of poison gas balls filling their skys which were shot by thousands of giant beetle-like insects from their ass. This attack can not only injure soldiers but also inflict wounds on mages. As a result, the two mana species armies were forced to retreat before the number of casualties that fell further increased.

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But the increasing number of casualties in the two mana species armies was not the only reason they decided to retreat, the biggest reason was because every level 5 constellation mage sensed enormous mana from within the Black Swarm Insect God's nest, an enormous mana equivalent to a Stent Gaht and Iron Darius, the mana felt from the body of the Orichalcum tier danger mutated animal.

Therefore there was no other choice but to retreat for the leaders of the two armies before they would be completely slaughtered in this place by the power of the Orichalcum tier danger mutated animal. This news quickly reached the supreme power of each alliance and made the war between mana species cool down a bit.

Unlike the warbeasts who had the possibility of making peace with them, the Black Swarm Insect God was a colony of mutated animal species that could not be negotiated, reconciled, or cooperated. For them war is a way to find food and as food increases, their numbers will also increase. It's not in their instincts to reduce the number of new Black Swarm Insect God births when their food is abundant and easy to get as it is now ( mana species war).

For this reason, the problem of the Black Swarm Insect God Colony is not only a matter of one side, but also the problem of all the mana species that live on the Meer Continent. For them, the war between the two mana species is a war to determine who will rule, but the problem of the Black Swarm Insect God is a species crisis that can threaten the hegemony of mana species on this earth.

For that the human alliance withdrew their troops from the front line and retreated several tens of kilometers, it was the elves alliance that was closer to the Black Swarm Insect God Colony who would send their troops to destroy the mutated animal colony.

The elf alliance fielded their elite army of 30,000 mages with Iron Darius himself at the helm. With full attack power they charged into the Black Swarm Insect God's nest and killed every insect that got in their way. The battle started from early sunrise to sunset on the second day.

The amount of insect corpses piled up in the Black Swarm Insect God's nest could make a giant lake be bury and two connected seas cut off. Until the elven alliance troops managed to enter and find the queen of the Black Swarm Insect God, an Orichalcum tier danger mutated animal.

Unexpectedly Iron Darius can defeat the queen very easily, making the elven alliance troops stunned by his strength and making the human alliance have to reassess the ability of Iron Darius. However, the information found next made the two mana species dumbfounded.

None of the eight mana organs in the Black Swarm Insect God's Queen's body are useful for fighting against enemies of equal strength. Each of the queen's mana organs serves to give birth.