roccoschili Chapter 920 - 662: Great Leader Dragon Cypress
Chapter 920 - 662: Great Leader Dragon Cypress
"Great King!"
Tie Bush rushed over, having been hiding alone in the drainage ditch by the beach, guarding the neatly arranged severed heads.
"Great King! A complete victory!"
White Willow and Red Moonseed, who had been on aerial scouting alert, were the fastest; they streaked over, and when they saw Dragon Cypress, all their pent‑up tension loosened.
"Dragon Cypress Ant King!"
"Great King!"
"Dragon Cypress Ant King, you saw Mantis King Ink Orchid, right?"
"Great King, look, we killed them all!"
"We’ve done the tally: a total of 5.84 billion Source Stones, and 83 Divine-Grade Fruits."
"The amount is too enormous. Can the Wave Tree Bay United Kingdom even produce that much wealth?"
Dragon Cypress: "...Very good!"
Dragon Cypress made a quick check, then raised his head to gaze at the standing stone pillars and asked, "Who did this? Isn’t it a bit too brutal?"
Red Moonseed: "Great King, this is the Sinking Gold Ability of the Second King."
White Willow: "Near the end of the battle, some scouting Insect Clan Warriors suddenly approached the island. Everyone was busy clearing out the remaining enemy on the island at the time, and we let it slip away. Most likely, it saw King Cypress and Azure using the Thousand-Year Tree to attack."
Red Moonseed: "The Second King said, display the severed heads to intimidate those with ill intent. For us to establish ourselves on Bayonet Continent, we need not only Strength, but ferocity as well. In the Ant Clan and the Bee Clan Kingdom, the more domineering you are, the more respect you get. Keeping a low profile is cowardly incompetence, and you’ll just be bullied."
Dragon Cypress: "..."
White Willow: "Oh, right, Dragon Cypress Ant King, just now the Dark Maple Dragonfly King of the Wave Tree Bay United Kingdom came by. It wanted to land on the island, but Red Moonseed and I intercepted it at sea and persuaded it to turn back."
"..."
Dragon Cypress asked, "No Insect got injured, I hope?"
Red Moonseed: "The battlefield was chaotic, all kinds of Abilities flying everywhere, impossible to guard against. Chinese Clematis, White Rice, Spruce, Mountain Persimmon, Areca, Mulberry—each of them was injured to varying degrees. Woodberry and Blue Catalpa already helped treat them in time; it won’t affect their growth and Evolution."
White Willow: "Dragon Cypress Ant King, your North Elm was hurt more seriously. It was violently rammed by a Kirin Beast that suddenly charged in; the entire tree was half‑tilted, the main trunk snapped. After the battle, we immediately set it upright, and Blue Catalpa used its Ability to reconnect it. Its Life is not in danger, but after the injuries heal, it may need to condense a new Tree Heart to be Reborn."
Red Moonseed: "The northern direction under Azure’s protection took the fiercest assault from the Stone Hunt Blue Ant Army. Rhubarb, Little Yellow, the Multi‑Seeded Blue Ice Cypress, the Second Spikemoss and ten other Divine-Given Seeds were damaged to varying degrees, but nothing serious."
These Divine-Given Seeds had been continuously strengthened by the Wood Element Red Crow Pattern Ability; their branches and trunks were already as hard as alloy. Each one was two to three hundred meters tall, several dozen meters thick; not that easy to kill.
"Good—"
Dragon Cypress lightly tapped his Tentacles, then turned to look at Spiked Cypress, who was limping as he ran over.
"Great King..."
Spiked Cypress shouted excitedly, "Great King, I personally used my claw to kill a Sea God Horn Beetle Bettle King!"
"That one right there! Great King, look at the hole in its head!"
Spiked Cypress ran closer and lifted a claw to point at the small hill of piled heads. "That fellow was insanely brave. It rammed head‑on into the Nosh Remnants defensive line, charged up the high ground, and killed a lot of our Specialized Blue Ants and Thunder Soldiers. I charged straight up and drove a claw right through its head..."
Listening, Dragon Cypress’s Tentacles subconsciously lifted, electric light flashing. "What happened to your claw?"
"The Sea God Horn Beetle’s Carapace was too thick. Its Strength was monstrous; with one fling, it tossed me flying, and my claw snapped off inside its head. Great King, don’t worry, my Life Force is tough. After the battle I went back and found the broken limb, and Blue Catalpa helped reattach it."
Who told you to charge up there?
If a Insect King breaks into the defensive line, can’t one beam from King Cypress deal with it?
How did you not die on the battlefield?
Suppressing the fire in his chest, Dragon Cypress asked, "Is the tallying work done? In this battle, how many Stone Hunt Blue Soldier Ants did we kill? How many troops did the Xianglan Mountain Kingdom lose?"
Spiked Cypress: "This time, the Stone Hunt Blue Ant Army that attacked Rainbow Island numbered about four million; we killed close to three million. The Second King doesn’t have your precise calculations, Great King, and wasted far too much Primordial Energy for nothing. Afterward, he had no Strength left to hunt down the remnants, and several dozen Assistant Kings hiding on the sea floor got away, along with over a million more of the Stone Hunt Blue Ant Army."
"As for our Xianglan Mountain losses, Great King, the disparity in numbers was simply too great. My Specialized Thunder Soldiers, along with the Specialized Air Soldiers commanded by Black Sophora and King Cypress, are almost completely wiped out."
"The losses among the Specialized Blue Soldiers are also quite heavy. After the battle, Cypress’s First Corps has only 25,000 troops left; Silver Cypress’s Second Corps is even worse, with fewer than 20,000; Giant Cypress’s Fourth Corps still has about 30,000; and the Fifth and Sixth Corps of Black Birch and Black Persimmon each have fewer than ten thousand left."
Dragon Cypress felt his heart sink and asked, "What about your Third Corps?"
"About the same as Silver Cypress—still 20,000 troops..."
Spiked Cypress concluded heavily, "Great King, after this battle, our Xianglan Mountain Kingdom has about 110,000 battle‑capable troops remaining, with roughly 130,000 fallen, and nearly 20,000 heavily wounded or crippled."
A hundred years of hard accumulation to reach 260,000 troops, and in a single battle more than half were gone.
Still, 260,000 against 4,000,000—just being able to hold the line meant there were no major mistakes to nitpick.
"Enough, Spiked Cypress. You all did very well."
Dragon Cypress gave a praise that was neither light nor heavy and asked, "What are Cypress and Silver Cypress busy with?"
Spiked Cypress: "Handling the corpses. The bodies of the Stone Hunt Blue Ants can’t be wasted; Refinement into White Refining Beads makes the best food. Feed it to the Larvae, and the Soldier Ants you raise will be stronger and more powerful."
"Our own kind do not eat our own kind. That is the bottom line of intelligent Life."
Dragon Cypress ordered, "Have Black Birch and Black Sophora process them. Mix and disperse them into the stored food in the Snow Cedar Mountain cold warehouses. Later, toss it out for the other Bee Clan and Ant Clan to eat."
Spiked Cypress: "...The Great King is wise."