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Chapter 1479 - When it Rains it Pours
🕑 Added 2024-11-03 11:48:28 +0000 UTCA deluge of sludge blasts my way as the worm disgorges its vast, rotund belly of goop through its mouth. Dodging to the side isn’t really an option, since I don’t want the sludge to enter the safe-zone at all, so I return fire with… fire.
Dragon’s fire!
When mucus and fire meet, it’s never a good time for anyone, the sound alone is horrendous, and I won’t even mention the smell, but thankfully I’m able to produce enough heat to burn away a good portion of the slime.
The worm itself isn’t that hard to fight, it’s more of a sludge delivery system than anything else. A few quick chomps and it gives up the ghost, but I don’t have time to relax, there’s more monsters right around the corner to deal with.
This time it’s a horde of weird crab-looking things. Each one is disgusting in its own magical way, but for the most part, I would have to say that the dozens of eye stalks they each sport is the worst part. The little pinchers rush forward mindlessly, carpeting the tunnel in front of me. There must be thousands of the lousy things! Where did the Krath even find them?
Only two metres tall, they aren’t very large, and probably aren’t very evolved, but that doesn’t mean they can’t do damage, a theory that is proven correct almost immediately.
As soon as they’re within range, the crabs raise up their claws and start shooting acid at me. From thousands of crabs, that equates to an awful lot of acid.
I spring to the side to avoid the bulk of the spray and then charge directly forward, letting the rest fall behind me as I shorten the distance. In an instant, I reach the first of the crabs and unleash a mighty Void Chomp right in their midst, annihilating a chunk of the acidic crustaceans.
Which of course was what the slugs wanted me to do all along. The moment they bite the dust, each of the crabs swells up and explodes, sending a shower of toxic goop flying into the air.
Because of course it did. I’m wise to the shenanigans of this place by now, and before any of it can reach me, an empowered gravity domain takes shape around me, yoinking all of the airborne sludge to the ground. I swear to goodness, the amount of putrescent slime being flung about by these monsters is expanding exponentially! The Krath clearly have a plan in mind that involves spreading foul mucus far and wide.
Well, it’s not like its a secret. There have been several attacks that managed to breach the wall of blue mana that protects the Colony and I’m sure they learned what they were hoping to from those instances. Namely, what worked to consume as much blue mana as possible?
It’s not a difficult concept; if they manage to deplete the mana that shields us, then we have to leave, or diminish our held territory. Needless to say, giving up territory is not an option. We’ve captured what we need to construct the fortress and not much more. There is no retreat!
Yet the Krath are working a surprisingly effective campaign of trying to consume as much of the purified mana as they can, pushing our wuffer platforms to the brink in order to force us back.
They’re especially interested in this area, since it's where Goszi is being held prisoner. I don’t know how the heck they managed to figure that out, but they have, it's the only thing that makes sense. We have whole teams of mages on constant alert to detect tunnelling around his prison and the Krath are constantly trying to get in there.
Having their little cracks in the stone collapse on them has dissuaded the slugs from getting too close, but they keep trying.
I munch my way through the crabs, bemoaning the waste of Biomass and doing my best to make sure I don’t get any goop on me. The healers are being more and more insistent that I take regular rests to ensure there’s no build up of contaminants anywhere in my system, but I’ll have to wait twice as long if I get exposed to a significant source of infection.
Alright, the crustaceans have been dealt with. I let the domain drop and turn my attention back down the tunnel wondering what’s coming next, only to be met with a wall of mucus oozing toward me.
Oh great, they’re trying to flood the tunnel again.
I don’t know where in the heck they’re managing to find so much of this goop, but they’ve send waves of the stuff flowing down the tunnel around twice a day. Twice a day! What infinite lake of pus are they draining to send all of this our way?!
I turn and signal to the ants behind me and they immediately start deploying the countermeasures the Colony cooked up over the last few days.
Chains spin, stone groans and the massive grates gradually pull open, revealing the redirection pipelines we constructed. It won’t be able to take all of it away, but it will get a significant amount, letting it fall down the tubes and pile up below the fortress where we don’t particularly care about it.
As for the rest… I sigh.
Time for more Dragon’s Breath I suppose.
Comments
Rahsheem Reid
Agreed w Grey knight lord
Rahsheem Reid
Maybe she will help the colony when the wave hits.
Rahsheem Reid
No im okay. I’d rather see Anthony develop their own unique skill set. Last thing I want to read is a regurgitation of another story. Seems like a weak move as a writer.
Ulbert
That makes sense. I’ve just known the expression from other germanic languages, which makes sense then, that this expression exists in a little older english. Then again. I haven’t heard it in quite some time in any context… welp.
Matthew Pyatt
why?
Brian Schwab
Really? It might be a bit dated but it’s certainly not that rare. I’m surprised you haven’t heard it before.
Ulbert
Gives up the ghost, huh? Haven’t seen that expression in english yet.
Elmithian
It is funny to think how much they are sure the monsters will get mind controlled by the Ancient, and even then, literally turn themselves into monsters that they have no idea whether is susceptible to the ancient influence or not. Hell, the method to turn s human body into mana body might be something that was designed by an ancient for all we know.
alt31415
No.
Grey Knight Lord
I want to see more Legion and Demon perspective. Like what happened to Pyrixin the tier 7 Demon the colony is allied with. When will Al become tier 8, when will we see Sarah tier 7. More on Odin.
leo zhang
Gonna be honest here, I prefer reading about the colony instead more than Anthony
Matthew Pyatt
IDK if this has already been suggested but I think since he already controls gravity it would be cool if he eventually learns a technique similar to Gojo's infinity
Anthony Romanov
They were recruites and Titus was sitting on his Butt without much mana for very long time. And he still split GIANT IRON GATE in half (along with Anthony, also in half)
Roombot
I remember the old Mucus Wars, those were dark and snotty times
Grey Knight Lord
What the heck is the Mother Tree doing? She sent some Branchis, but when will she help.
Roombot
I assume he’s growing in levels with all this fighting, but I agree it would be nice to see the levels
evyatar
It’s a free moat for their castle
Enzo Elacqua
Yknow I like the concept of this arc but goddam do I need to see Anthony advancing somewhere. Show me him improving his skills, discovering new methods of using gravity, hell even just advancing in levels! I mean it’s called progression fantasy for a reason, you progress, and so far this whole strata has just been one long stall for Anthony.
Gopard
Thanks for the chapter!
KopiCAT
This whole stratum is a giant beast with the flu. I'm always surprised at the endless amount of mucus in my nose whenever I got the flu or a cold.
Roombot
That’s impressively disgusting. An entire flood of mucus
CUI13
Hopefully having a huge stockpile of mucus below the fortress isn't part of the Krath's plan
Ian Jones
I'm ready for the church to burn
alt31415
War... war never changes.
Loulatsch
I also like that he hasnt painted them as just evil villains, even though they are antagonistic to the ants thats quite impressive. The church on the other hand …
Ivan Majstorović
Happy Godzilla day!
Rick Delallata
Love how despite their defeat in book 5 RinoZ still manages to make the Legion terrifying and competent
evyatar
The biomass is used for the wuffers at least so it’s not a complete waste? And exp, so much exp, the eldest provides, the eldest protects, this campaign from the view point of others is tiring and horrific the legion sees the ants as tide breakers and the fifth like waves trying to pummel away again and again, ceaseless, a few weeks had passed already? Damn just imagine
Rick Delallata
Sounds like a brutal grind. No wonder only one other faction has managed to hold any territory in the 5th. Makes me curious about the Legion's base
