The Great Battle Between the Two Sides

On the periphery of the Border Forest, at the frontline.

A small force of magic beasts from the inner circle arrived. They were generally Tier 8 and Tier 9, led by a Tier 10 Mythic King.

Compared to ordinary magic beast kings, the pressure exuded by a mythic magic beast was already a powerful deterrent.

Seeing their arrival, some of the magic beasts on the periphery began to tremble in fear.

“Where are those monsters? Are they about to fight their way here?”

Just as this Mythic King, who looked somewhat like a bat, spoke, several objects trailing tails of flame flew in from the distance.

Their speed was terrifying, and they were so numerous that they blotted out the sun.

Within the line of sight alone, spanning several kilometers, there were over a thousand of them.

They were rocket bugs.

“What is that?”

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

Almost seconds later, the rockets hit the ground, letting out earth-shaking roars.

Soil was blasted into the air, trees were snapped, and massive craters appeared in the mud.

“What?”

The Bat King didn't have time to react.

The subsequent wave of rocket bugs did not diminish. After a continuous bombardment of about ten thousand rounds, a thin black line appeared at the edge of the horizon.

It was the charging Swarm.

“They’re here, Lord Mythic King! They’re here!” a magic beast king cried out in terror.

The Bat King fell silent, completely at a loss for words.

As the distance closed, the pressure brought by the massive swarm of locusts and the main combat units was already upon them.

In the sky, a dozen or so Devourers led the way, followed by dozens of mutalisks.

Countless magic beasts were fleeing in a panic, but as a group of lurkers burrowed into the ground, earth spikes several to a dozen meters high tore through the terrain with unstoppable force, skewering innumerable magic beasts into meat paste.

The fearsome ravagers crouched slightly, firing enhanced plasma fireballs from their backs, which carried the dragon breath of the sub-dragon lady.

Boom! Boom!

The plasma fireballs exploded, instantly covering a vast area in flames.

Some magic beasts turned back to fire magic, but their attacks were no more than a tickle to the Swarm; only a few locusts were killed.

Even then, only magic beasts above Tier 5 had the ability to damage the locusts, and a weak Tier 5 might not even be able to inflict a fatal wound.

At that moment, a brood lord approached from above.

This terrifying creature shook slightly, and Tier 7 broodlings began to drop from its body, landing softly.

Some broodlings could even fly like locusts, approaching in a cloud and then falling into the magic beast herd like rain, slaughtering indiscriminately.

Roaches rampaged through the pathetic magic beasts, easily killing dozens.

“Tier 10, Tier 11... how is this possible?”

The Mythic King was afraid.

However, after a rough estimation, he realized the enemy had not achieved a qualitative breakthrough against them. In fact, many Mythic Kings had already begun to gather around him, including some at Tier 11. With countless minions behind them, they still held an advantage when facing a legion made up of massive amounts of Tier 5 and Tier 6 fodder.

With a command, the magic beasts from the core region began their charge.

Looking down from the sky, two tides of black collided violently within the dense forest, followed by a scene of flying flesh and blood.

Countless horrific creatures fought upon the earth; it was a clash of claw against claw, tooth against tooth.

The magic beasts opened their maws wide, attempting to kill the insects before them, but only when they actually collided did they realize how difficult these creatures were to deal with.

First were the locusts, whose numbers were staggering. These creatures not only sprayed venom at close range but also possessed a terrifying combat resolve. Unless they were completely incapacitated, they would continue to attack like madmen.

When high-tier magic beasts fought them, they might accidentally get venom sprayed into their eyes, leaving them blind. Meanwhile, the zerglings lived up to their reputation as the kings of cost-effectiveness on the ground. Their attack speed was so fast it was hard to track with the naked eye, and their agile bodies allowed them to push their combat advantages to the limit.

Even their tails were equipped with sharp spines, and a single sweep was a devastating blow.

From an overall perspective, because the main force of the Swarm was smaller in proportion, it seemed like more Zerg were dying on the battlefield. This gave the magic beasts the illusion that the enemy's losses were actually greater than their own.

But as fodder, the locusts were endless.

Additionally, several brood hosts arrived on the scene, providing support by dropping Tier 7 broodlings every minute, greatly strengthening the Swarm’s defenses in weak areas.

In the rear, units like the hydralisks used their long-range firepower to trade blows with the magic beasts' spells.

Flashing lights and explosions, along with bodies suddenly blown to pieces, occurred continuously across different sectors of the battlefield.

At any given moment, similar battles between insects and magic beasts were taking place in at least dozens of locations.

Because the front was so long, the current numbers were indeed insufficient for a full-scale advance across the entire front. However, in some local battlefields, the scale was no less than that of the Battle of the Dawn Empire.

The range of a Tier 10 spell from a mythic magic beast was terrifying, killing at least hundreds of locusts in a single wave. To counter them, Xia Jin would often send Devourers to carry out decapitation strikes.

But the magic beast side also had an air force. Various flying units capable of magic posed a significant threat to Xia Jin's tactics.