Rise Of The Worm Sovereign

Several silhouettes of beasts could be seen appearing at the edge of the second ring, just at the limits of the humans' sight.

The humans all froze with fear as the watched the beast's approach them. The number of beasts was way beyond what they had even talked about.

"This… this isn't thousands… this is hundreds of thousands!" the old man screamed.

The beasts all ran at full speed, uncertainty and anxiety filling their minds. They were not given any commands, but seeing the stronger beasts from the inner rings appearing in their territory had terrified them.

One of the humans tried to take a step, but their legs were too weak to carry them much farther.

~thud~

Just in two steps, the man fell to the ground. His legs turning to lead, he could only watch in despair as the wave of beasts only got closer and closer. Tears started streaking down his face and the same could be said for the rest of the humans.

"Is… this our end?" the girl said between her sobs.

The beasts were now merely twenty meters away and this distance could be covered in less than a few seconds by them. There were various kinds of beasts in the tide and some of them very fast, taking the lead.

In this current situation, there was a herd of Ash Crowned bucks charging towards the humans. They had large horns that were ash colored and they galloped at great speed, jumping several meters at once.

One such Ash Crowned buck was mid air and when he would land, the girl in the front was bound to be trampled.

~whoosh~

But just as the deer was about to land, the ground started to shake.

~TREMBLE~

This shaking was different from the trembling of ground due to the beast tide approaching. It was far more intense and soon the girl felt the ground underneath her move.

'Eh?' the girl couldn't help but look down as she felt herself rising up.

The soil parted as a large body rose from it. It was over three meters in size and was dark brown colored.

The rest of the humans, the girl's comparison, saw this too and were shocked by what had appeared.

"A Throw Pulse Cicada?!" The old man recognized.

"HEAVENS! IT REALLY IS A CORE CONDENSATION REALM BEAST!" another man shouted.

The beast in question was a dark brown cicada. It had a hard and tough exterior shell that was a bit rough. It had six limbs, with the frontal ones being hooked. But the most gnarly feature of it was its mouth.

There were three wide mandibles attached to it. These mandibles weren't like normal mandibles though. They had a webbing that connected all of them.

The Throw Pulse Cicada raised its head and looked towards the incoming beasts.

~HUUUUUUUUUUUU~

A large amount of air was sucked into its mouth in that moment, as the mandibles expanded and its thorax widened as well.

~FWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE~

The webbing attached to the mandibles vibrated rapidly as the Cicada beast breathed out.

~BOOM~

At that moment, spirit Qi flowed into its mandible as a dense sound pulse shot out. The pulse compressed the air enough that the change could be seen with naked eyes. The pulse traveled forth like a cannon and blasted apart all the Ash Crowned bucks.

~splat~

The ones that were in the very front were unfortunate and directly exploded into bits of flesh and bones, while the ones that were further back were knocked away like rag dolls. The attack spread in the shape of a cone, creating a divide in the beast tide.

~Roar~

~howl~

~Chirp~

The incoming beasts were suddenly startled by the appearance of the Throw Pulse cicada and changed their direction, avoiding the place where the beast was. This was a narrow area, but it was still enough to save all the humans that were behind the cicada.

The terrified humans were left with even greater shock as they saw the beast tide pass around them without hurting them.

'We… we're alive?' They all thought, unable to move their lips yet.

~thud~thud~thud~

The corpses of beasts that were caught in the attack of the Throw Pulse cicada fell to the ground, creating noise that scared the incoming beasts even more. Some of them were directly hit by the falling corpses and were injured too.

The humans could only watch as a slaughter occurred in a moment.

Just a single attack from the Throw Pulse Cicada had possibly eliminated over a hundred beasts at once while also repelling the rest from coming near. Not only that, but the beast was domineering too.

Spirit Qi fluctuations spread from its body while its beastly aura spiked.

The beast tide continued to pass by while the aura of the Throw Pulse Cicada kept them away even after the effects of the attack had passed.

Two minutes passed like this, during which the Throw Pulse cicada stayed still, its eyes gazing at the incoming tide straight without moving. The humans couldn't move either, even if they had gained the ability to move again.

There were beasts around them till before and now they were in the presence of a core condensation realm beast that had killed hundreds in one blow. They feared that if they moved, they might just end up catching the attention of the beast and it might kill them too.

Even if they had been saved for the time being, they didn't know this beast.

The most shocked was none other than the girl that was sitting on the back of the Throw Pulse cicada.

"What do I do?" She couldn't help but wonder.

She had never imagined in her life that she would get to climb on top of a Core Condensation realm beast like this, even if it was unintentional. She was merely at the early stage of the Qi refining realm, like most of her companions here.

Even the old man who was the strongest of them was at the late stage of the Qi refining realm.