Chapter 119
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Chapter 119: When You’re in Front, Minotaurs and Your Mushrooms! 2/6
“Phew… Phew… Finally caught up!”
“Damn, they used those Valaharl people and the ‘reverse’ World Nails as bait to lure me away, then seized the chance to remove the World Nail I was guarding?!”
Obaid stopped attacking the Valaharl people not out of kindness, but because his remaining subordinates rushed to him for help.
Obaid knew exactly what mattered.
Slaughtering Valaharl mortals wouldn’t earn him any merit, but letting the World Nail be destroyed through his negligence? That would be an unforgivable crime.
The World Nail imprisoned the Will of the World and anchored chaotic energy in Valaharl—it was the crowning achievement of the Time of the End!
Allowing Valaharl to reclaim its power, letting other chaos councilors witness Lord Ralekin’s “cooked duck” fly off, humiliating him…
That would be inexcusable!
“Good thing I acted fast and rushed back!”
“Otherwise…”
“But what is this thing?!”
While hurrying back, the “golden spores”’ effects faded, easing the itch. Yet their lingering influence remained. Though his inner magic channels had stabilized, Obaid still couldn’t smoothly cast external spells.
At least the Chaos Demon God could finally think clearly.
“It can reverse the World Nail!”
The World Nail was a sacred tool crafted solely by the sixth seat of the Chaos Council to shackle the Will of the World. A “reversed” World Nail pinned down chaotic energy like chains!
“If this creature keeps planting ‘reverse’ World Nails, our other two clusters in Valaharl will weaken!”
“Then it wouldn’t even need to destroy them to free this world.”
“And then…”
Valaharl—that “cooked duck”—
would slip away!
Just then, Obaid saw the creature climb right before him to the World Nail cluster, open its Big Mouth…
“Ah—Ugh—!”
It chomped down on the World Nail and yanked hard!
“Damn—!”
Obaid’s fury exploded.
“You dare ignore me?!”
“Such arrogance!”
“Go!”
Obaid drove his six limbs as he charged the creature poised to wreck the World Nail.
But…
“Eh!?”
With Obaid’s startled shout…
“Roar—!”
The terrifying creature abandoned the World Nail it had bitten and suddenly turned around, its bloody jaws wide open!
—-
As the fellow got closer, Trilobite finally saw its real look.
“Hmm, it was an early… uh… generalized orthopteran insect.”
“Uh… It seemed like it might be something like ‘Gerarusvetus’?”
“This creature didn’t have a translated name in our country, so he just transliterated it and called it ‘Ancient Gulras Bug.’”
The modern examples of generalized orthopterans are grasshoppers and crickets.
To be more exact, these are today’s grasshoppers, crickets, katydids, and mole crickets. Except for the mole cricket, which specialized in digging, they all looked pretty similar.
They had two pairs of clear wings, chewing mouthparts, and a third pair of limbs specialized into long “jumping legs.”
But in the Carboniferous period or earlier, generalized orthopteran insects didn’t have any of these features.
Their bodies were long but strong. The third pair of limbs wasn’t specialized yet, so they could jump, but not very well.
On their long necks sat small heads, and their chewing mouthparts were already fully evolved.
Their wings were well-developed too, making them powerful insects that could fly, jump, and crawl.
In some ways, they were like today’s stick insects from the orthopteran group, just not as skinny.
“But this guy was huge!”
The Carboniferous was a time when dragonflies grew bigger than pigeons and millipedes could be larger than humans, but not all bugs were that big.
The Ancient Gulras Bug could reach about ten centimeters long, with a wingspan over twenty centimeters, which was big for today’s orthopterans or any insects.
Girls would scream at it, and boys would get goosebumps—shortened to “girl screams, boy goosebumps”—but next to the creature in front of him, it was tiny.
“This thing was 60 centimeters long!”
“The wingspan… wow, it was 80 centimeters!”
“It wasn’t smaller than that ancient giant dragonfly!”
“It felt bigger than some birds of prey!”
“And about what orthopterans eat…”
People think orthopterans eat plants now, but most grasshoppers eat meat too. Some big types are mainly carnivorous and can hunt small vertebrates, like small frogs!
Their ancestors were probably omnivorous insects.
In short, the insect facing Trilobite was fierce and agile, so it was tough to deal with.
“No wonder it tried to steal my mushrooms and meat.”
“But…”
Trilobite’s eyes shone with a fierce light.
“You want to eat the meat I caught! Eat the mushrooms I found? That ain’t right!”
Thinking this, Trilobite crawled toward that cluster of “mushrooms.”
“Raaargh—!”
He sank his teeth fiercely into them!
This was actually how animals claimed food dominance.
“Some folks enjoy snatching others’ girlfriends right before their boyfriends…”
“That’s basically declaring victory in the mating rivalry. Such people get off on that animal nature.”
“But me…”
“Chomp… chomp…”
Trilobite devoured two more mouthfuls of mushroom.
“Hah…”
He blew a provocative breath toward the giant insect.
“Your favorite mushrooms? Mine now!”
“I’ll devour ’em how I please! Savor ’em how I like!”
Sure enough…
“Screeee—!”
The creature’s wings rasped, shrieking sharply, then…
“Thud… thud… thud…”
It charged furiously, barreling toward Trilobite, who still munched on the mushrooms!
But Trilobite was ready!
“Raaargh—!”
His maw gaped wide!
Yet…
“Trouble!”
Albert Drake, who’d just emerged from the tunnel to witness the Giant God’s mighty combat, doubted this strike!
“This Chaos Demon God holds one huge edge over the last one!”
“The Giant God’s attack… it’ll miss!”
—-
“Hahaha…”
“Fool! Though my magic power’s restricted!”
“My immense inner magic still lets me fly!”
“Go—!”
“Fwoosh—!”
Obaid unfurled his translucent wings. Powerful magic surged through their veins, hoisting his massive frame.
A light push backward with his legs!
The colossal demon god actually took flight!
Like smoke blotting out the ground!
“In the ocean, with space to maneuver? Then I’d sweat.”
“But on land? You’re clumsy. Can’t even lift your head. No match for me in the air!”
“Now for the…”
“Gnash… gnash…”
The demon god’s intricate, razor-sharp mandibles snapped open and shut.
He’d make this chaos-defier suffer!
Yet midway through his flight…
“Boom—!”
The Giant God’s maw suddenly yawned upward!
It lunged with shocking speed!
