From Ant to Abyssal Demon

Chapter 36: Player Arrival Countdown!

Hiss—

The sound was like a sharp paper cutter slicing through paper.

The sharp blade of the Demon Insect Lance swept across, and one by one, large heads flew off, landing far away in the swamp.

In an instant, over a dozen level 15 swamp fishmen turned into corpses scattered on the ground.

Without waiting for Su Bai’s command, the little worker ants, already waiting by the side, rushed forward, dragging the headless blue-scaled corpses together into a pile.

Then, the Demon Insect Lance pierced through.

The dozen corpses simultaneously shriveled and blackened, devoured by the Demon Insect Lance, transforming into Su Bai’s experience and evolution points.

This was the Poison Gas Swamp, an area adjacent to the Gloomy Forest.

Over five days, Su Bai and the worker ants had gathered nearly all the information about the Poison Gas Swamp.

In terms of size, the Poison Gas Swamp was much smaller than the Gloomy Forest. However, the number of monsters in this swamp was no less. The two most noteworthy monsters were the swamp fishmen and the venomous wyverns.

The average level of the swamp fishmen was around level 15, and they had simple social structures like goblins, distributed throughout most of the swamp.

The venomous wyverns lived in the northern part of the swamp, occupying nearly a quarter of the swamp’s area.

The reason was simple.

Among the swamp fishmen, there was only one lord-level boss, while the venomous wyverns had a lord-level boss pair, a male and a female. So, even though there were thousands of swamp fishmen and only a dozen venomous wyverns, the wyverns firmly occupied the northern region of the swamp.

Three lord-level bosses, thousands of monsters with an average level of around 15 — that was the strength of the Poison Gas Swamp.

It was several times stronger than the former Gloomy Forest!

One purpose of Su Bai and the worker ants entering the swamp was to collect information about the Poison Gas Swamp in preparation for the expansion of the Devouring Ants.

As the name suggests, the entire swamp was filled with poisonous gas.

For most creatures entering this area, the greatest enemy was not the swamp fishmen or the venomous wyverns but the ever-present poisonous gas released by the swamp.

To other creatures, the poison-filled swamp was nearly a death trap, but to the Devouring Ants, it was the perfect training ground.

Don’t forget, the Devouring Ants had the 【Adaptability】 talent.

For the Devouring Ants, the non-lethal poison gas that slowly reduced health was like a catalyst. Any Devouring Ant with the 【Adaptability】 talent could continually train in the swamp, eventually activating the passive skill 【Basic Poison Resistance】.

The little worker ant was the best example.

In just five days, it had activated 【Basic Poison Resistance】, becoming completely immune to the swamp’s poisonous gas. Moreover, the poison damage attached to the swamp fishmen’s attacks was greatly reduced.

As for Su Bai himself…with the three passive skills 【Resistant Shell】, 【Advanced Fire Resistance】, and 【Advanced Ice Resistance】, he was nearly immune to all the swamp fishmen’s attacks.

The pitiful attacks of the level 15 swamp fishmen couldn’t even leave a mark on Su Bai.

Their second and most important purpose in entering the Poison Gas Swamp was to hunt the swamp fishmen lord and the venomous wyverns to obtain the lord templates from these three bosses!

When Su Bai killed Gorg, his attribute panel had advanced twice, becoming a warrior-level attribute template with over a quarter of the progress bar filled.

He estimated that hunting these three bosses and obtaining their lord templates would advance his attribute template to the lord level.

Originally, slowly conquering such a vast area would be the best strategy, but Su Bai couldn’t wait!

If there were monsters above the lord level or even an epic-level boss in the Gloomy Forest and Poison Gas Swamp, Su Bai would have tried to hunt them!

He aimed to quickly enhance his own strength!

Quickly enhance the strength of the worker ants and the ant queen, boosting the entire Devouring Ant colony’s power!

This was the only thing Su Bai wanted to do now.

The reason…

It was simple!

Two days ago, a series of numbers appeared on his attribute panel.

719:59:59

Now, the series of numbers had changed to 662:39:42!

Considering the two and a half days Su Bai had passed, it was easy to deduce what the constantly decreasing numbers were.

It was a countdown!

662:39:42 equaled 662 hours, 39 minutes, and 42 seconds!

Which was twenty-seven and a half days!

In a game world, seeing such a countdown on his attribute panel — what could it mean?

The end of the world?

An abyss invasion?

The arrival of gods?

Or perhaps some major event?

Su Bai considered many possibilities, countless scenarios flashing through his mind.

Ultimately, he thought of one most likely possibility.

That was—

This countdown was the countdown to the arrival of players!!!