LORD OF THE SKY CITY

Chapter 733: Chapter 696: Nowhere to Hide

Facing the increasing number of beetles, Rocky, in order to evade the sprayed green slime, had to fly high into the mid-air of the Dissolving Cave.

Although they also launched an attack on these beetles, bombing them extensively and killing swathes of them, this left the deep pit undefended, causing even more beetles to surge up like a tide. More importantly, without Dusa to hold them off, those enormous Mantis Demons finally crawled out of the deep pit!

When the first Mantis Demon crawled out of the deep pit, the ground around the pit emitted a slight tremor, and then more Mantis Demons climbed up, quickly numbering five or six next to the pit.

Each of these Mantis Demons was over three meters tall with massive bodies, and while continuously hissing, their scythe-like forelimbs were also constantly swinging at Rocky and his group.

“Thank goodness, thank goodness these things can’t fly…”

While aiming the Magic Energy Beams and Magic Energy Cannons at the Mantis Demons, Rocky secretly felt relieved that these bizarre demons lacked the ability to fly, otherwise they really would have died here this time.

At this moment, the number of beetles emerging from the deep pit was immeasurable, as they gushed out continuously like a fountain, now covering the entire floor of the Dissolving Cave, looking just like a pool of black water inundating the cave. The only consolation was that these beetles couldn’t fly, for if so many beetles could fly into the mid-air, then not just Liliya, but even Rocky himself would be overwhelmed.

It was also because they couldn’t fly that, although these beetles on the ground kept spraying green slime at Rocky and his companions, the slime sprayed from their mouths could only reach up to about a dozen meters high. Although this height was already quite astonishing, with the Dissolving Cave being hundreds of meters high, Rocky and his group, flying high in the air, were out of reach of the slime, which ultimately fell back to the ground, or rather onto the beetles themselves, corroding them in the process.

Similarly, when the Mantis Demons climbed out of the deep pit, they looked terrifying and indeed were lunging and clawing at Rocky and his group, but as long as they couldn’t fly up into the air, they posed little threat to them.

Even so, Rocky and his group were becoming increasingly troubled.

The number of demons crawling out of the deep pit was just too many!

Now, the number of beetles emerging from the pit was well over a thousand and still increasing. In this situation, the entire Dissolving Cave was already filled with beetles. Although Rocky and his companions could hide in the air, what next?

Are they to just keep hiding like this, forever?

By this point, Rocky had realized why the previous explorations by the Fireteng Tribe had ended in failure, because there were simply too many demons here, beyond the capacity of just a few Beastmen to fend off, even with the presence of a Chief among these Beastmen—the same was true for Rocky now. Although the four of them still possessed strong combat abilities, they could not overcome the sheer number of beetles.

Thus, they must find a way out, whether it is to rapidly explore or to delay, they needed to find a solution, because hiding like this was definitely not a sustainable plan.

However, in reality, the time left for Rocky and his group to find a solution was not much, because just when they felt the Mantis Demons wouldn’t pose too much of a threat, an unexpected situation occurred!

The first few Mantis Demons that had climbed up yelled a few times at the air, then their massive bodies began to swell, especially their abdomens, which ballooned into a round sphere within a few blinks. Following this, even before Rocky could react to this scene, the Mantis Demons sprayed green slime at them!

“Dodge!”

Watching the Green Slime shoot towards mid-air, Rocky immediately shouted and hurriedly moved to the side, narrowly dodging the Green Slime aimed at him.

Even though he dodged the Green Slime, Rocky still felt a lingering sense of trepidation.

Now, he was more than fifty meters above the ground!

Early on, to avoid the beetles’ spitting attack, Rocky and his team had ascended to a height of over fifty meters. At this elevation, no matter how hard the beetles tried, they couldn’t reach them. However, it seemed that what the beetles couldn’t do, the Mantis Demons could!

The Green Slime spat out by these Mantis Demons appeared similar to that of the beetles, but it was even more potent. Never mind fifty meters, they could shoot the Green Slime up to the very top of the Dissolving Cave, which was over a hundred meters high!

At this, Rocky started to panic, as anyone could see that if these Mantis Demons could attack them, the aerial advantage of Rocky and his team would be gone. More importantly, as the pit fell, more and more Mantis Demons were crawling out of it!

Right now, Rocky and his team were only facing the attack of five or six Mantis Demons, but if the number of Mantis Demons increased, they would be completely unsafe in the air.

However, just as Rocky was thinking this, more Mantis Demons crawled out of the pit, totaling up to more than a dozen!

“Don’t let them get ready!”

Seeing more than ten Mantis Demons crawl out, Rocky instinctively sensed trouble and immediately targeted all his attacks at them without any delay.

He had realized that these Mantis Demons seemed to need to gather energy for a while before they could shoot the Green Slime to a higher altitude, so they absolutely couldn’t give them any time.

After that, the four of them unleashed all their firepower on the Mantis Demons. Despite their enormous size and tough shells, the Mantis Demons couldn’t withstand the barrage and soon several of them fell.

“Rocky! Look!”

But just then, just as each Mantis Demon was successively blasted and Rocky had just breathed a sigh of relief, Liliya suddenly shouted.

Hearing Liliya’s voice, Rocky quickly looked over, then witnessed a scene that made his scalp tingle.

While they directed all their firepower against the Mantis Demons, a countless number of beetles had completely taken over the entire Dissolving Cave, and not only that, but these beetles had subsequently climbed up from the ground to the cave walls, and then from the walls to the cave ceiling!

What were these beetles planning to do?!

As Rocky looked up at the beetles that had covered the Dissolving Cave, Dusa suddenly screamed because at that moment a beetle had just fallen from the cave ceiling right onto her!

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