Returning Immortal

Chapter 25 : Queen Blood Fly

As the long tongue went back and forth several times, a hundred or so Blood Flies disappeared in an instant.

Gulp!

The Three-Eyed Toad, which had swallowed the Blood Flies in its mouth all at once, licked its lips and this time shot out a sharp poison qi like a needle.

At that, the Blood Flies that were rushing towards the Three-Eyed Toad were pierced like beads and fell to the ground.

The Blood Flies that had barely dodged the poison needle and dug into its body were not in a much better situation.

The Three-Eyed Toad's skin was so hard that the Blood Flies' sharp fangs could not penetrate it at all.

In the end, even they were poisoned and became cold, lonely souls.

At the words that the Three-Eyed Toad could perform a divine ability, a dark shadow was cast over the group's faces.

Especially Gwi Seongjin, who had examined the Three-Eyed Toad with his spiritual sense, had his complexion turn pale.

Surprisingly, his spiritual sense did not work on the Three-Eyed Toad.

Looking at the momentum of the Three-Eyed Toad fighting the Blood Flies, it was clearly emitting internal energy from its body.

Even so, no energy was detected by his spiritual sense.

Then, suddenly, the internal energy was revealed again.

Wondering what was going on, Gwi Seongjin looked closely, and this time, the third eye located on the Three-Eyed Toad's brow was closed.

'Then does that mean the golden eye on the Three-Eyed Toad's brow is what broke the spiritual sense?'

Gwi Seongjin blinked his eyes in strangeness.

A secret of the Three-Eyed Toad that no one knew had been revealed by Gwi Seongjin.

Just then, the Raging Fire Divine Lord jumped forward and asked Ne Jinja.

"Vice Director! The Three-Eyed Toad is so ferocious, so why aren't the Blood Flies fleeing?"

"The pivot that is the core of the formation is located where the Three-Eyed Toad is crouching now. The Blood Flies are rushing in like that, risking their lives, because they know they can't escape the formation without killing that thing."

"Huh! Then are you saying those trivial creatures have even figured out the pivot of the formation? If they are Blood Flies, they are nothing but lowly insects, so how..."

"Divine Lord! It's true that beasts and insects are not as smart as humans because they rely on instinct. But aren't there exceptions?"

"Are you talking about the nine-tailed foxes or dragons that appear in legends?"

"Not necessarily nine-tailed foxes or dragons, but you must have heard many stories of animals that are reborn as spiritual beasts through long cultivation. Even a trivial beast can transform into a spiritual beast if it meets a fortuitous encounter and its spirituality opens up, so it wouldn't be that strange for the Blood Flies to have discovered the pivot of the formation."

"Does that mean there is a wise one among the Blood Flies?"

"That possibility is not nonexistent. And since beasts have a different consciousness system and senses than us, they would be able to find the formation pivot without using their heads like humans."

"That could be."

The Raging Fire Divine Lord slowly nodded his head.

It was because he thought Ne Jinja's words might be right.

Of course, his thought that there would be no Blood Fly smart enough to figure out the formation pivot remained unchanged, but this absolute forbidden zone was a place where common sense did not apply.

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The Raging Fire Divine Lord, who was nodding his head, suddenly threw a question at the Ghost Medicine Hall Master.

"Hall Master! If that monster called the Three-Eyed Toad has lived long enough to perform a divine ability... the crystal stone in its head must be quite large, right?"

At the Raging Fire Divine Lord's question, the Ghost Medicine Hall Master showed a wary look.

The fact that the demonic beasts living in the Phantom Beast Forest and this absolute forbidden zone had demon stones in their heads was a secret known only to the Cult Leader and a few key leaders in the Luminous Cult.

Among the group, only he, the Grand Prince, and Ne Jinja knew.

"It seems you, Divine Lord, are very interested in that stone."

"It just keeps catching my eye, you see? Do you, Hall Master, know how to use that stone?"

"Gekekeke. I'm not sure either. It's just that I've been ordered to collect them..."

'An order? Then does that mean the Cult Leader...'

The Raging Fire Divine Lord, being a man who could think, did not ask any more questions.

Instead, he did not erase the suspicion that the stone, which emitted a strange color, emitted a radiance similar to the sacred radiance in the divine object that the Cult Leader bestowed upon those who had achieved great merit.

"You should have told me sooner. From now on, if I get a stone, I will give it to you, Hall Master. By the way, I think you said we have to kill the Three-Eyed Toad to escape the formation, so why aren't we attacking it right now?"

The Raging Fire Divine Lord asked, looking back at Ne Jinja and the Grand Prince.

The Raging Fire Divine Lord had suffered not a few internal injuries while fighting the green monster in the barrier.

Even so, he was rampaging like an angry beast, slaughtering the demonic beasts, and was now urging the group to fight quickly.

He was truly like a person born for battle.

In contrast, Ne Jinja was a person who valued strategy and tactics.

"Now is not the time for us to step forward, so let's just watch for a little longer."

"As I see it, now is the perfect opportunity to join the fight. If we dally and all the Blood Flies are annihilated, wouldn't it be our loss?"

"Divine Lord! The biggest danger we face now is not the death of the Blood Flies, but the divine ability that the Three-Eyed Toad might perform. Shouldn't we at least know what kind of divine ability it performs before we fight?"

"To do that, a situation so urgent that the Three-Eyed Toad feels its life is in danger must unfold. But if we just watch without attacking, how would such a situation occur? In the meantime, the precious Blood Flies will all die."

When the group had just arrived here, the Blood Flies and the Three-Eyed Toad were maintaining a stalemate.

Not many Blood Flies had died, and the fight had not gone beyond the reconnaissance stage.

The fight, which had been like that, suddenly became intense as the humans appeared.

It was because the startled Three-Eyed Toad had released the secret techniques it had hidden when a large number of humans appeared.

In the end, the Blood Flies suffered great damage and were still dying.

At this rate, it seemed not a single living Blood Fly would be left.

This was the reason why the Raging Fire Divine Lord was insisting on jumping into the fight right now.

However, Ne Jinja's thoughts were different.

"I'm not unaware of what you, Divine Lord, are worried about, but I hope you will think again about how cunningly the Blood Flies have acted on our way here. Those bastards would not have attacked the Three-Eyed Toad without any countermeasures."

"Are you saying the Blood Flies also have some kind of trump card?"

"Otherwise, there's no way those cunning bastards would act so recklessly. Let's watch a little longer, and when I think it's a chance to attack, I will give the signal then."

As soon as Ne Jinja's words ended, a change occurred in the swarm of Blood Flies.

Among the Blood Flies, there was a group that had stopped like a cloud high in the air and was not moving.

Deep inside it, a group whose bodies were twice as large as ordinary Blood Flies was staying, and these were evolved species, and peculiarly, their heads were golden.

And in their center, a large Blood Fly whose entire body was shining gold was hiding.

It was a queen Blood Fly with a whopping three pairs of wings.

As the tide of the battle turned against her, the queen Blood Fly had no choice but to change her strategy.

It was an attack using the evolved species.

The evolved species were her children, created by her using a special ability.

Since she had made them with difficulty, even using her own pure blood, she had tried not to deploy them in dangerous situations as much as possible, but the current situation was not favorable for that.

To deal with the monster in front of her, not only the evolved species but even she herself had to step forward.

Buzzzzz!

When the queen Blood Fly shook the antennae on her head, the Blood Flies that were surrounding the outside split in two.

And through the split, the evolved Blood Flies went out and began to attack the Three-Eyed Toad.

When the evolved species came out from the swarm of Blood Flies, the Raging Fire Divine Lord immediately realized that they were the trump card Ne Jinja had mentioned.

The evolved species not only looked ferocious, but their bodies were large and their flying speed was incomparably faster than ordinary Blood Flies.

With them, it seemed there would be no shortage in confirming the Three-Eyed Toad's divine ability.

'If I had attacked a little while ago, I would have been used by the Blood Flies without even confirming the divine ability the Three-Eyed Toad possessed. The Vice Director of the Dark Spirit Council is indeed different.'

While the Raging Fire Divine Lord was admiring Ne Jinja, the evolved Blood Flies reached within a stone's throw of the Three-Eyed Toad.

The opportunity to watch the Three-Eyed Toad's divine ability had come.

The biggest characteristic of the evolved Blood Flies was, above all, their speed.

Swish!

The Three-Eyed Toad stuck out its tongue towards them, but not a single one was caught and they all dodged and fled.

But that didn't mean they had completely avoided the danger.

When the angry Three-Eyed Toad opened its mouth and spewed out a dark blue poison mist, hundreds of evolved species that couldn't dodge in time fell to the ground with a thud.

But that too was only for a moment...

Dozens of Blood Flies that had fallen to the ground staggered and then flew up into the sky again.

Since they had evolved from poisonous insects, their resistance to poison was particularly strong.

Seeing that, the Three-Eyed Toad stuck out its long tongue, snatched the flying Blood Flies, and rolled them into its mouth.

Croak!

Next, with a satisfied expression, it croaked long and then spewed out a blue poison mist and spread it around its body.

At that very moment, the evolved Blood Flies that had flown up into the air all twisted their bodies and rushed at the Three-Eyed Toad.

When the Blood Flies opened their mouths, their sharp fangs glittered in the sunlight.

They were fangs twice as long as ordinary Blood Flies.

As the evolved Blood Flies charged in, the poison mist spewing from the Three-Eyed Toad's mouth became even thicker.

Even so, the evolved species jumped into the poison mist and sank their sharp fangs deep into the Three-Eyed Toad's body.

Next, the chilling sound of flesh being gnawed on was heard.

Crunch, crunch!

Perhaps because thousands of evolved Blood Flies had rushed in at once, the Three-Eyed Toad was soon covered in blood.

In some places, blood vessels had burst and blood was gushing out like a fountain.

Croak!

The Three-Eyed Toad, which had croaked long as if in pain, suddenly began to swell like a balloon.

As its body grew three to four times larger, its skin burst and a yellow fluid flowed down its body.

Was it its intention to die like this?

That couldn't be.

Whoosh.

With a strange sound, the blue poison mist that the Three-Eyed Toad had spewed out swirled and began to be sucked back into its skin.

With a toxicity several times thicker than before, the fluids that were coming out of the Three-Eyed Toad's skin boiled.

At that, the crunching sound began to decrease abruptly.

It was because the Blood Flies that were digging deep into its skin were poisoned and their movements had slowed down.

Buzz, buzz, buzz.

The Blood Flies that were digging into the Three-Eyed Toad's body could no longer hold on and attempted to escape.

But this too was not an easy task.

It was because the fluids that were covering the Three-Eyed Toad's skin had already turned into poison liquid, and outside of that, a thick layer of blue poison mist was also enveloping it.

Was this the divine ability of the Three-Eyed Toad that the Ghost Medicine Hall Master had mentioned?

The Raging Fire Divine Lord, who had turned his head, soon showed a disappointed look.

It was because Ne Jinja was not showing any sign of giving a signal, let alone blinking an eye.

The disappointed Raging Fire Divine Lord's gaze returned to the Three-Eyed Toad.

Then he witnessed a surprising sight.

It was the sight of some evolved species breaking through the double poison formation the Three-Eyed Toad had deployed and flying up.

The crunching sound had not completely stopped either.

Although it had decreased a lot compared to the beginning, it was still being heard.

It was truly a ferocious Blood Fly with a tenacious life force.

What was even more surprising was that to save some of the evolved species that were escaping, poisoned, the queen Blood Fly had finally stepped forward.

(End of Chapter)