“Go!”
The Gods-Slaying Spear hurtled out at once.
Stab, stab, stab!
The Gods-Slaying Spear formed an illusory arc in the air. Amid crisp, melodious sounds, before the dozens of Underground Cave Magical Spiders could even react, the Gods-Slaying Spear had already pierced through their heads. All of them fell to the ground, dead.
“A bunch of detestable killjoys.”
Meng Lei kept the Gods-Slaying Spear away. His gaze swept across the Underground Cave Magical Spiders carcasses, too lazy to even bother with their magic cores. The hundred thousand or so gold coins were simply too beneath his taste.
“Let’s continue forward.”
After cutting through the spatial layer, they entered another dark, quiet tunnel and continued advancing. The beauty and wonder of the underground world revealed themselves bit by bit to Meng Lei and Ol’ Amos’ eyes.
All the spatial layers! All the expanses of glowing forests! They were gorgeous, magnificent, and glowed brilliantly!
As Meng Lei and Ol’ Amos enjoyed the visual feast, they also finally arrived at an entirely different spatial layer—it was gold in color.
This was a golden dimension.
Golden lands!
Golden skies!
Golden walls!
Golden plants!
Everything was gold in color!
Dazzling golden light lit up the entire world, and scattered all over the wide and flat golden lands were several holes.
There were up to a million of these well-sized holes. They were distributed evenly on the ground in a dense, packed, and tidy manner. All the holes were identical in size and the spaces between each hole less than 10 meters wide each.
It looked like a hornet nest, yet also like a beehive.
Honey-like golden liquid filled the holes, and there were even white, round ant eggs soaking in some of them.
“That’s…”
Meng Lei and Ol’ Amos’ eyes widened big and round.
“That’s my clan’s divine weapon—the Bloodthirsty Golden Nest!”
Little Gold was awfully excited. “All my subjects are born here, so they have a mysterious connection with the Bloodthirsty Golden Nest. A young ant monarch can command all its subjects through the Bloodthirsty Golden Nest.”
“I see.”
“That’s so amazing!”
Meng Lei and Ol’ Amos were greatly astounded. However, a look of grief surfaced in Little Gold’s eyes as it gazed at the quiet Bloodthirsty Golden Nest.
“Before the Underground Cave Magical Spiders’ invasion, the Bloodthirsty Golden Nest was very lively and bustling. The queen produced eggs every day, and the worker ants went in and out of the nest. But now…”
There was only dead silence.
There was no ant queen here, and the worker ants were nowhere in sight.
The Bloodthirsty Golden Nest was frighteningly quiet. Even the ant eggs soaking in the holes were still and motionless—clearly, they had already been dead for a long time.
The Bloodthirsty Golden Nest was in a bleak and desolate state.
“Cheer up, Little Gold. As long as you, the ant monarch, are still alive, reviving your past glory won’t be a problem.” Meng Lei said with a smile, “The most pressing issue now is to take control of the Bloodthirsty Golden Nest and summon back all the Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ants wandering outside now so that they won’t continue to wreak havoc outside.”
“Yes, yes! I understand!” Little Gold nodded.
Then, it flapped its little wings and dived into the center of the Bloodthirsty Golden Nest, a hole about two-meters-wide.
Before long, a mystical, desolate horn blast traveled out of the Bloodthirsty Golden Nest, sending out some kind of mysterious and unknown message.
“Ol’ President, do you understand what the horn blast is saying?” asked Meng Lei as he looked at Ol’ Amos.
Ol’ Amos shook his head, indicating that he didn’t, and replied, “It’s probably the Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ants’ unique way of communication.”
What the two of them didn’t know was that the bleak and desolate horn blast passed through the golden world and the thick rock layers to finally reach the Magical Beast Forest’s surface.
Then, an amazing sight happened:
All the Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ants, no matter which part of Magical Beast Forest they were in, no matter where they were, and no matter what they were doing—without any exceptions, all of them came to a stop!
They miraculously froze on the spot, as if all of them had their movements sealed. All of them turned still and motionless, their actions neat and uniform.
The ones pursuing Magical Beasts… came to a stop.
The ones attacking cities… came to a stop.
The ones wandering about… came to a stop.
“What’s going?”
“Why has the ant tide stopped moving?”
Countless people and beasts under the ant tide’s threat were utterly baffled. Then, under their even more bewildered gazes, the ant tide withdrew like the receding tide.
In the blink of an eye, all of them had cleanly withdrawn.
If anyone were to be looking down from the sky at this moment, they would see an unbelievable sight—countless ants surging from all directions and converging at the same place, the entrance to the underground world!
At last, all of them dived right into the entrance and returned to their world!
Chapter 118: Returning To The Academy, Ten Superior-Grade Elemental Affinities
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
With the rise of the morning sun, the rays of dawn shone upon the land.
In front of the solemn and stately academy gates, an endless stream of horses, carriages, and people flowed to and fro. Guards in golden armor swept their eyes over the students going in and out of the academy, their eyes cold and sharp as though hawks.
“Tell me honestly, Alex. How many cute, gentle, little maidservants did you defile this winter break again?”
“Get lost, get lost! Don’t spoil my reputation!”
“Pooh! Who doesn’t know that you, Alex, are a famous lustful fiend? After holding it back for half a year in the academy, wouldn’t you let loose after you go home?”
“Bastard! Would it kill you to stop talking that much...”
As Meng Lei stood in front of the majestic and awe-inspiring gates and listened to the laughter and bantering around him, a brand-new sense of vigor and spirit shone in Meng Lei’s eyes.
The Underground Cave Magical Spiders
