Ant Lord in the Star Realm

Chapter 898 - 654: Ant King Eddy Rockfish (3)

Now what we’re seeing is nothing more than a guess that’s been proven right.

Along the forest ant-route, electric light flashed as the Snow Velvet Spider King followed right behind.

Dragon Cypress: "Snow Velvet Spider King, another one billion?"

"I’m afraid it’s more than just one billion!"

Snow Velvet Spider King: "According to our observations, in the last hundred years, the number of Ant Kings and Beetle Kings on Blue Island who’ve comprehended Sea Beast Devouring has also been rising sharply."

"Our current conjecture is that some Ant King or Sea God Horn Beetle Warrior’s God-Given Life Seed, when it was still at Lord-Level, bore fruit once and gave birth to the initial Eddy Scorpionfish Ant King. After that it rapidly grew and evolved, probably broke through to King-Level about a hundred years ago, its Blossom-Fruit Cycle shortened dramatically, and Blue Island began repeatedly producing Ant Kings and Beetle Kings who comprehended Sea Beast Devouring and the ’Eddy’ aspect."

"This is the most reasonable explanation..."

Dragon Cypress twitched his Tentacles and analyzed, "The Ocean God’s Scepter activates once every 30 years. In the hundred-plus years after the Eddy Scorpionfish Ant King appeared, four Kirin Beasts showed up one after another. That just happens to match one each time it activates—on average one every 30 years."

Snow Velvet Spider King: "Exactly—"

Snow Velvet Spider King: "We’ve already picked a codename for the newly awakened ’Eddy’ Ant King—Ant King Eddy Rockfish. If, the next time the Ocean God’s Scepter activates, there’s another Ant King who comprehends ’Eddy’, we’ll call it Ant King Eddy Bass."

"Dragon Cypress Ant King, you’re good at math and you’ve got a Super Brain Ability. Do the numbers—at the current probability, if the Stone Hunt Blue Ants cling to the Ocean God’s protection and turtle up, how many Kirin Beasts can they stockpile at most?"

The calculation was simple.

With sufficient resources, Ant Kings on Blue Island can break through and advance to Insect King before the age of 250, and can leave at around 550.

That leaves a 300-year window.

Blue Island can accumulate and nurture 10 Kirin Beasts.

That’s the minimum number.

If the war situation turns against them, they can even sacrifice the future of some Ant Kings—let them reach the proper age but not evolve into 9th Age Period Insect Kings, not depart, simply grow old and die or fall in battle in the Origin Force Star Realm. In that case the number can be doubled again.

Of course, they don’t even need that many. They don’t need 10 Kirin Beasts—five, six, seven, eight would be enough to crush the Wave Tree Bay Alliance and sweep across Wanglan Continent.

Even Ink Orchid could figure out such an easy calculation; naturally the Snow Velvet Spider King could too.

Dragon Cypress asked, "Snow Velvet Spider King, what you mean is..."

The Snow Velvet Spider King shot back, "Did Ink Orchid comprehend some Ability strong enough to contend with kilometer-class Kirin Beasts?"

Ink Orchid: "Nope~"

Dragon Cypress: "Sort of~"

Snow Velvet Spider King: "..."

The Snow Velvet Spider King was displeased.

"Dragon Cypress Ant King, Mantis King Ink Orchid, haven’t you been shouting everywhere that you’ll wipe out the ’Kirin Beast Ant King’ first, then enter Zhibai Continent and butcher the ’Eddy Scorpionfish Ant King’? That plan can be revised. That Kirin Beast Ant King is hiding in Eight Directions Continent and refuses to come out—you two can’t do anything to it. If you have the ability, enter Zhibai Continent first and take care of the Eddy Scorpionfish Ant King."

"The Eddy Scorpionfish Ant King is like a Poison Stinger stuck in the throat, jabbing into all of Zhibai Continent, making every Tribe on the continent feel endangered, too scared to act rashly. Pull out that Poison Stinger and Zhibai Continent will be freed; each Tribe can then dispatch its Elite Soldiers to reinforce the Wave Tree Bay Alliance."

Before Dragon Cypress could answer, the Snow Velvet Spider King asked again, "Dragon Cypress Ant King, Ink Orchid, are you confident you can fight three, four, five kilometer-class Kirin Beasts at the same time?"

Ink Orchid, unwilling to concede, looked at Dragon Cypress and asked, "If I evolve to 7th Age Period, can I take on three?"

"..."

A moment of suffocating silence.

The Snow Velvet Spider King’s gloomy mood eased a little, and it said, "Dragon Cypress Ant King, we can’t keep dragging this out. We can’t actually let Blue Island raise five or six Kirin Beasts. We may need to consider going on the offensive."

"Yes, we can’t just sit here and wait for death."

Suddenly a thought struck Dragon Cypress; his gaze sharpened as he asked, "Snow Velvet Spider King, that Eddy Scorpionfish Ant King hasn’t shown up for several years now? It’s gone into hiding?"

Snow Velvet Spider King: "Its information network is even more well-informed than ours. It predicted this situation long ago, and calculated that you and Ink Orchid would come for it first. It went into hiding as early as five years ago."

It foresaw today’s situation five years ago?

The Eddy Scorpionfish Ant King cannot be allowed to live!

Originally, Dragon Cypress had wanted to drag things out a bit, put pressure on Bayonet and Zhibai Continent, so that after conquering Blue Island, it would be easier to seize the largest possible share of the spoils.

But now...

The pressure was already at maximum.

Eddy Scorpionfish Ant King, Kirin Beast Ant King, Kirin Beast Beetle King, Ant King Eddy Rockfish—that’s already four Kirin Beasts, and barring accidents, there’ll be another every thirty years.

And along with that, there is a large number of Ant Kings, Assistant Kings, and Beetle Kings who’ve comprehended Sea Beast Devouring.

Ink Orchid can fight three?

He himself might not even be able to defeat two.

The pressure had now landed squarely on his own head.

Dragon Cypress activated his Super Brain Ability and thought at high speed, quickly forming a plan. He glanced at Ink Orchid, then swept his gaze around at the Insects gathered around them, and said:

"Snow Velvet Spider King, wait a bit longer! After the next great war between Wave Tree Bay and Blue Island ends, regardless of how the battle turns out, Ink Orchid and I will act."

Without waiting for a response, Dragon Cypress asked, "That Ant King Eddy Rockfish isn’t skulking and hiding, right? It struts about every day right inside the Scorching Ability’s surveillance field, doesn’t it?"

Snow Velvet Spider King: "Of course—"

"I’ll go to Blue Island myself and see that newly born Ant King Eddy Rockfish with my own eyes."

Dragon Cypress’s heavy tone suddenly flipped, turning light and cheerful: "The first batch of Divine-Grade Dual-Colored Mulberry Fruit is about to ripen and be harvested. Snow Velvet Spider King, come on, let’s celebrate first."