150: Chapter 150 Sweeping Through the Demon's Nest

On the mini-map, the green dots representing the Skeleton Vulture were rapidly contracting toward the Floating City.

But following closely behind were red dots, far exceeding the number of green ones.

Xu Qin stood on the Watchtower, looking into the distance.

He saw the first batch of Skeleton Vulture already flying back within the range of the shield.

But trailing behind them was a massive dark purple "tail."

It was hundreds upon thousands of Rift Locust.

The Skeleton Vulture passed through the shield, and the Rift Locust followed closely behind.

Bang!

The first Rift Locust slammed into the Floating City's orange shield.

-0!

It bounced off.

The second, the third...

Bang, bang!

After hitting the shield, all the Rift Locust were bounced away.

But they did not retreat and charged straight back up.

Bang!

-12 -12 -12 ...

Looking at the notifications, Xu Qin breathed a slight sigh of relief.

Each Rift Locust only dealt 12 points of damage to the shield.

But the problem was...

The Rift Locust were gathering in greater numbers.

It wasn't just the ones chasing the Skeleton Vulture.

Further away, the red dots on other floating debris also began to move toward the Floating City.

Xu Qin looked at the mini-map and saw that the red dots around the Floating City were still increasing.

"Don't tell me I've stumbled into the Demon Insect Realm?"

Xu Qin opened the command panel and found the turret control interface.

The six charging cannons locked onto their coordinates.

"Fire."

Boom!!

The first cannonball shot out from the side of the Floating City, hitting a dense cluster of Rift Locust outside the shield.

The shell exploded, and a dark purple shockwave spread out.

-2400

Within the blast radius, thirty or forty Rift Locust were instantly reduced to fragments.

But more Rift Locust were simply pushed away by the shockwave, only to pounce again.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Three more cannonballs were fired in succession, taking out another fifty or so.

"This won't do; the efficiency is too low," Xu Qin frowned.

The reason was simple: these Rift Locust were only the size of a fist and were extremely scattered.

Although the charging cannons had a large area of effect, the coverage was too low against such small targets.

"It really is like using a cannon to kill a mosquito..."

Xu Qin shook his head as he looked at the recharge cooldown for the cannons on the panel.

He closed the turret interface and opened the command panel.

"Deploy the Combat Readiness Platform."

"Ranged Troops, all units, form up at the edge of the platform."

Hum!

The bone decks on both sides of the Floating City slowly unfolded.

Six thousand Skeleton Elf Archer and four thousand Undead Dwarf Musketeer filed out.

They formed neat ranks, standing at the edge of the platform, with bows and muskets aimed at the sky.

"Fire."

Swish, swish, swish!

Bang, bang, bang!

Thousands of soul energy arrows and soul energy projectiles were fired simultaneously.

The dense barrage formed a net of firepower outside the shield.

The Rift Locust only had 1800 HP; two or three concentrated shots were enough to kill one.

After one volley, a large patch of Rift Locust debris instantly appeared outside the shield.

"That's more like it."

Xu Qin nodded with satisfaction.

But soon, he discovered a new problem.

The Combat Readiness Platform was deployed horizontally.

The archers could only attack targets to the sides and below the Floating City.

The area above the Floating City was a blind spot.

The swarm wasn't stupid.

After being hit for a few rounds, they began to swarm toward the top of the Floating City, repeatedly slamming into the top of the shield.

The archers' arrows couldn't reach directly above.

The Musketeer's trajectory also couldn't fire vertically upward.

Xu Qin looked up at the dense mass of dark purple insects outside the shield, and his scalp tingled.

He looked at the shield durability.

[861240 / 1000000]

Xu Qin had intended to have Long Gu take the Bone Dragon to clear them out.

But after a second thought, he abandoned the plan.

There was no helping it; Long Gu was too fierce.

One breath of dragon fire and nothing would be left.

Xu Qin just led the group of Rift Locust, maneuvering the Floating City at full speed toward that landmass.

One minute later, the Floating City arrived above the floating landmass.

Xu Qin looked down from the Watchtower.

This rock was about two kilometers in radius, with an uneven surface.

In the very center was a mass of dark purple fleshy tissue, bulging irregularly.

It was a Demon Nest.

The moment the Floating City approached, the Demon Nest writhed violently.

Countless dark purple figures crawled out from the cracks in the nest.

Not only were there Rift Locust, but also larger ground-type monsters.

[Rift Crawler]

[Attack Power: 340 (Physical - Tear)]

[Defense: 180]

[HP: 3200 / 3200]

There were at least a thousand of them.

Xu Qin pressed the [Land] button.

Hum!

The Floating City descended rapidly, and the bone chassis slammed onto the rock surface.

Boom!

The entire city shook once, then quickly stabilized.

"Deploy the Combat Readiness Platform fully! Ground troops, attack!"

Thud!

The bone gate opened.

Three thousand Stitched Bone Beast charged out first.

Following closely behind were five thousand Minotaur and two thousand Undead Sand Jackal.

Tian Ming stood at the edge of the platform, holding the bone emperor scepter high.

"Kill!"

The Undead Army poured down from the Combat Readiness Platform, crushing toward the Demon Nest.

The front-line Bone Beast slammed directly into the swarm of crawlers.

Boom!

The impact of one Bone Beast sent a Rift Crawler flying over a dozen meters.

The crawler slammed into the rock, and its HP dropped by more than half.

The Bone Beast didn't stop at all, trampling over the remains and continuing to Charge forward.

On the other side, the Ranged Troops spread out around the Floating City, continuing to fire into the air.

Xu Qin stood at the entrance of the Lords Hall, overlooking the entire battlefield.

The ground battle was not a problem at all.

After being enhanced by the Ore Spirit, the stats of the Bone Beast far exceeded these monsters.

One Bone Beast could take on a dozen Rift Crawler alone.

With three thousand Bone Beast charging together, the crawler swarm couldn't even hold out for a minute.

But the Rift Locust overhead were still troublesome.

They were still gnawing on the shield.

Xu Qin looked at the durability, which was about to drop to 500,000, and frowned slightly.

"Hurry up and kill them!"

On the ground battlefield, the Bone Beast swarm had already pushed to the front of the Demon Nest.

The Demon Nest writhed frantically, still spitting out monsters.

But for every one it spat out, it was crushed to death.

Tian Ming raised the bone emperor scepter.

A purple-black light spread out.

[Bone Emperor's Might]!

Within a 300-meter radius, all monsters took 1200 shadow damage per second.

The Rift Crawler had only 3200 HP.

In less than three seconds, all the crawlers in the area fell.

The Bone Beast swarm trampled over a pile of corpses and slammed directly into the main body of the Demon Nest.

Boom, boom!

Three thousand Bone Beast unleashed a frenzy of attacks on that mass of fleshy tissue.

The Demon Nest didn't even last twenty seconds on its health bar.

Bang!

The entire nest split down the middle, and dark purple liquid splattered everywhere.

[Demon Nest destroyed!]

The ground was cleared.

Xu Qin looked up.

He saw that on top of the Floating City, there were still about a thousand Rift Locust gnawing on the shield.

"Ranged Troops, spread out!"

The order was given.

Seven thousand Ranged Troops quickly spread out on the rock platform.

Swish, swish, swish, bang, bang, bang!

Dense arrows and projectiles shot toward the top.

Ten-plus minutes later, the last Rift Locust was shattered into debris by a soul energy projectile.

The battlefield went completely quiet.

Xu Qin looked at the shield value.

[Shield Durability: 287000 / 1000000]

"Phew, it's been a long time since I've had such an exciting battle."

At this moment, a notification popped up on the interface.

[Battle Victory!]

[Calculating loot...]

Xu Qin looked at the result panel.

[Targets Killed: Rift Locust, Rift Crawler, Demon Nest Core]

[Battle Rating: S (Lord's first invasion of a high-tier plane, annihilated the Demon Nest with low casualties)]

S-rank?!

Xu Qin was delighted at the sight, but he hadn't even reacted yet.

Ding!

[Talent "War Gift" triggered! Current level 21! All loot x22!]

["Miracle Treasure" triggered]

[S-rank battle rating! Generating Undead Relic Chest...]

A dark golden treasure chest appeared out of thin air in front of Xu Qin.

Immediately after,

["Undead Immortality" triggered]

[Skeleton Vulture resurrecting...]