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Chapter 731: Chapter 731: Abyss Insect Nest

Boom, boom, boom~

In the sewer, a series of explosions suddenly rang out, startling the players who were clearing monsters in the sewer, not knowing what was going on.

“What’s happening? What’s going on, is the sewer collapsing?”

“Is there a BOSS? Did we encounter a BOSS?”

“The direction of the explosion is quite far from us. It seems to be where the two sacrificed brothers last appeared. Do you think it might be the work of our Alliance Leader…”

“It’s possible. We can hear it from so far away; the explosion must be powerful. They must have encountered a BOSS…”

The players of the City of Hope Alliance were all guessing, but they did not know that what Song Jian encountered was not a BOSS, but something even more terrifying than a BOSS.

A dozen explosive fire bombs turned the entire tunnel, several tens of meters wide, into a sea of flames. These beetles had no consciousness of their own and were controlled by the insect nest. After identifying Song Jian as their target, they rushed recklessly in his direction. In the end, swathes of beetles fell in the sea of fire, including the elite beetle guards, who could not withstand the damage dealt in the flaming area and also fell.

In just less than ten minutes, there were no more active beetles in front of Song Jian.

The effect of the explosive fire bombs was surprisingly good, much better than the battle Song Jian had fought for hours before. However, this was due to the fact that he had already eliminated most of the beetles, and the fire bombs only served as a finishing blow.

The strong explosion and the high temperature of the fire caused cracks on the muddy walls of the tunnel and sand began to fall from the ceiling. It seemed that it wouldn’t be long before this section of the tunnel would collapse.

Song Jian walked towards the insect nest, a three-meter-tall mass resembling a swollen tumor, stretching up to the top of the sewer, with numerous vents similar to exhaust holes on its surface.

This insect nest was also a level 30 Lord class BOSS, but with no attack power of its own, relying solely on the beetles it spawned. If allowed enough time, it could become one of the top-notch Lord class bosses. However, without beetles, it would be among the weakest of Lord bosses, even worse than ordinary monsters.

As Song Jian approached, the insect nest began to tremble wildly, making a humming sound from within, as if trying to plead with him.

Just as Song Jian was about to plant the last explosive fire bomb beneath it, a flash of inspiration struck him.

“This thing seems to be a living creature with its own consciousness. I wonder if the Abyss Temptation skill would work on it?” thought Song Jian.

He directly summoned the Book of the Abyss, flipping through the pages to the Abyss Temptation skill.

Song Jian began chanting the Abyssal Spell towards the giant insect nest. A faint, whisper-like sound echoed through the sewer. Dark, Abyssal Chains wrapped around the entire insect nest, which let out mournful cries under the erosion of the Abyssal Power but had no means of resistance. After ten whole minutes, the system finally told Song Jian that the insect nest had become his slave.

Song Jian opened the insect nest’s attribute panel and carefully examined its properties.

“Abyss Insect Nest (Lord class): Special creature, produces 3 eggs every 10 seconds. These eggs will hatch automatically, with a 90% chance of hatching an ordinary beetle, a 10% chance of hatching a strong beetle, and a 1% chance of hatching an elite beetle guard. All beetles have no independent consciousness and are strictly controlled by the insect nest. After being corroded by the Abyssal Power, the insect nest becomes a special creature with Abyssal Power, and the eggs it lays have a 0.1% chance of hatching an Abyssal Beetle (elite). The creature is currently Song Jian’s slave, with 10 loyalty points. Trait: This creature needs to devour a large amount of flesh and blood. When enough flesh and blood are consumed, the creature will evolve on its own.”

“Only 10 loyalty points…” Song Jian was somewhat speechless.

This was the flaw of the Abyss Temptation skill: creatures enslaved by it had low loyalty and were prone to rebellion.

With such low loyalty, Song Jian dared not place the insect nest directly on the ground. For now, he could only leave it in the sewer. However, now the beetles spawned by the Abyss Insect Nest were all Song Jian’s slaves, no longer considered monsters, effectively eliminating a major threat.

As soon as Song Jian left the sewer, he instructed Wang Qi to deliver all the flesh obtained from the monster kills to the sewer to feed the Abyss Insect Nest.

Although monster corpses would be burned to ashes by translucent flames after death, players with butchering or skinning skills could still obtain materials from them, including monster flesh, which was a cooking ingredient.

These materials were cheap and easy to collect. Soon enough, players started delivering monster flesh to the location in the sewer designated by Song Jian.

The piled-up flesh was continuously transported by the beetles controlled by the Abyss Insect Nest. In just half a day, its loyalty rose to 20 points, and it spawned a large number of beetles once again.

Then, under the control of the Abyss Insect Nest, the beetles began to actively clear out monsters in the sewer. Since the insect nest was Song Jian’s slave, it could receive orders from him and then relay them to each beetle.

The players clearing monsters in the sewer were surprised to find beetles actually competing with them for kills.

“Hey, look, what’s that? How is it…how is it attacking the monsters in the sewer?” A player exclaimed, pointing at the beetles crawling along the sewer walls.

“These must be monsters too, right? But when I lock onto them, I get a system prompt saying that these beetles are affiliated with our Alliance Leader and attacking them would mean challenging him!”

“Are all these beetles the Alliance Leader’s combat pets? How come there are so many of them…”

“But these beetles are so weak. I can take on more than ten of them by myself!”

“Humph, you can handle ten, but what about fifty? That would be tough, right? And if there are more than a hundred, you’ll have to turn tail and run. Look at how many there are here, at least three hundred, and there must be more elsewhere…”

With the help of the Abyss Insect Nest, clearing out the sewer monsters went much more smoothly. Monsters killed by the beetles were not burned by the transparent flames. Instead, the beetles dragged their corpses into the insect nest, where they were devoured.

After attending to the sewer monster problem, Song Jian immediately headed to the vacation manor where he had discovered the Sword Stone.

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