As the saying went, “Nothing good comes without risk”.
Besides, he had the magic carpet, so what could the ant tide do to him?
The moment he thought of that, Meng Lei felt like everything had become clear at once, and he promptly charged into the Magical Beast Forest.
“Ol’ President, the ant tide has devoured all the Magical Beasts in the forest. Doesn’t that mean that there won’t be any more Magical Beasts in the forest for a very long time to come?”
Meng Lei chatted idly with Ol’ Amos while flying on the magic carpet. The old man had seen a lot of the world and was very knowledgeable, so he had learned a lot through his chats with him.
“That’s not the case!” Ol’ Amos gave him an odd smile and said, “In truth, after every ant tide, not only would the Magical Beasts in the forest not disappear, but they would even increase in numbers. They would reoccupy every corner of the Magical Beast Forest and turn the forest back into their paradise.”
“Uh...” Meng Lei looked dumbfounded. “Increase in numbers? How can that be? Didn’t you say that the ant tide would eat all the Magical Beasts? Why would their numbers increase? Did they all go into hiding? But that shouldn’t be! The ant tide is everywhere, so where can they even hide?”
“They didn’t go into hiding and have certainly been devoured by the ant tide. However, after the ant tide, more Magical Beasts will indeed appear in the forest.
“As for the reason, that’s a secret. A secret that belongs to the Magical Beasts!” A smiling Ol’ Amos twisted his beard and decided to keep Meng Lei in suspense.
“A secret?”
Meng Lei was taken aback.
“Yes, a secret! One that you’ll only be qualified to know when you’ve broken through to Saint Domain. When the time comes, you’ll realize that this world is very big and that what you know... is only very little!”
Chapter 98: Dragon-Language Magic, An Abnormal Ant Tide
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
A secret that he’d only be qualified to know when he broke through to Saint Domain?
Meng Lei rolled his eyes, dissatisfied with Ol’ Amos’ explanation. However, he didn’t press on. Although 1 billion gold coins was an astronomical sum of money, it wasn’t entirely out of reach.
Meng Lei believed that he’d definitely be able to save up 1 billion gold coins, break through the ninth-grade boundary, and become an existence that stood far above all others.
The Saint Domain realm was just a matter of time.
Meng Lei sped the whole way and returned to the Magical Beast Forest again. He didn’t see any traces of the ant tide in the outer boundaries, but as he went deeper into the forest, the ant tide gradually began to show up.
The scale became larger and larger, and their numbers became bigger and bigger.
In the beginning, it was just a small group of stragglers and wandering soldiers, but in the end, they had turned into a large spread of red torrents.
Like a breached dam, the ant tide barged about everywhere in the Magical Beast Forest. They spread to every nook and cranny of the forest. Everywhere they passed by, they left behind only ghastly white bones and a floor full of blood.
“Hiss, hiss!”
A huge python over 30 meters long and as thick as a water barrel curled into an S-shape and fled at high speed in the woods. Behind it was a deluge of red torrents surging toward it.
Meng Lei found the python—a Thorn Python—very familiar to the eye. The first Magical Beast that he had encountered back when he had first entered the Magical Beast Forest was exactly a Thorn Python, a snake-species Second-Grade Magical Beast.
He could clearly remember that the Thorn Python had attacked him back then. If he hadn’t run fast enough, he would have long since been killed by it.
Only half a year had passed since then, but Meng Lei no longer thought much of the little Thorn Python anymore. He could kill it even with just a light breath of his.
How things had changed with time, and how people had changed, despite the environment remaining the same...
“Hiss, hiss!”
The Thorn Python fled desperately, but it was ultimately still just a Second-Grade Magical Beast. The ant tide caught up to it in no time. A shrill, tragic cry rang out and then faded away very quickly.
The ant tide continued to advance, but the Thorn Python was gone forever. The Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ants had split it among themselves, leaving behind not even a bit of the python.
“That’s really crazy!” After witnessing this scene, Meng Lei’s hair couldn’t help but stand on end. “Scenes like this are probably taking place everywhere in the entire Magical Beast Forest.”
“That’s what it’s like when an ant tide erupts.”
Ol’ Amos nodded with a sigh. “And this is just within the Magical Beast Forest where the ones being devoured are only Magical Beasts, too. If the ant tide invades the human kingdoms... Now, that’s what you’d call tragic!
“I had once witnessed with my own eyes the ant tide cleanly devouring more than a billion people. Overnight, more than a billion people went missing, and the whole place within a radius of 5,000 kilometers turned straight into a ghost town. It was practically unbearable to look at.
“That is what a true catastrophe in the human world is. Despite how so many years have already passed, whenever I think back to it, it still makes my hair stand on end, and I still remember it as though it had only happened yesterday.”
Meng Lei couldn’t help but gasp chills running down
