Chapter 329: The sound of machinery expanding and sinking was heard.
Jié Jié turned around, ignoring the two hunters who were circling around towards the Ruin City of the Queen from another direction.
He continuously coordinated his own Ruin City’s combat with the Queen Ruin City. Every direct attack from the Queen Ruin City aimed at him was firmly blocked by a pair of Praying Mantis Arms.
As soon as the mantis arms lifted up, the Strike Dragon Gun fired again, causing damage to the Queen Ruin City.
Aside from the Strike Dragon Gun, the long abdominal tail was raised over his head, and a new silk thread shot out, sticking to the Queen Ruin City and pulling it.
Naturally, just one silk thread couldn’t make the two Ruin Cities rise off the ground and rush towards each other. However, a piece of metal armor was directly torn off, swung in a circle, and then smashed onto the body of the Queen Ruin City.
Inside the cockpit, the Queen Mantis went berserk. She imitated Jie Jie and left the cockpit, dragging the massive metal wheel from her Ruin City and smashing it towards Jie Jie.
The momentum of the wheel was intense, as if it wanted to crush the male Queen Mantis into pieces.
At this point, the queen had rid herself of base desires; she only wanted to pulverize the freak in front of her.
Jie Jie, while controlling numerous silk threads, was also bound by them. This strike hit him squarely as the queen wished, turning him into a golden blur flying out.
Though severed, the connection remained, and Jie Jie clung to the silk threads linking him to the Ruin City. After swinging through the air several times, he returned to the Ruin City.
The silk threads above the Ruin City were in chaos due to the wheel’s trampling, making them almost impossible to untangle. He simply returned to the cockpit, reconnected the intact silk threads inside, and restarted the Ruin City.
The Hit Dragon Gun mounted below the Ruin City had shifted due to collisions. He kicked open the cockpit floor, using the silk threads to pull the gun base upward, making it stand proudly!
By this time, the two hunters had barely managed to board the Queen Ruin City during the previous collision and started destroying the golden silk threads within its structure.
But the Queen Ruin City shook violently again, causing them to stumble.
It was the Queen Mantis returning to the cockpit, ready to crush everything with her creation.
Two limbs on the side were raised to an astonishing height, and the entire Queen Ruin City charged towards Jie Jie’s Ruin City.
The Ruin City could no longer hold up.
Trampling, impact, smashing, and the wheel’s ravaging were all accumulating destruction.
The heavy metal armor removed from the Queen Ruin City was very hard, but the severe vibrations were unavoidable. Structural deficiencies allowed the shock-absorbing soil to keep escaping from the Ruin City.
Once most of the soil had escaped, now all structures were groaning under the impending collapse.
Looking at the Queen Ruin City that would completely crush him and his creation, Jie Jie decisively kicked open the front part of the cockpit, blocking it in front of the Ruin City.
He could block localized attacks, but the overall impact force of the Ruin City would send him flying. The Ruin City behind him would be unable to escape disintegration.
A mantis arm against a chariot?
The silk threads wrapped around the front end of the Strike Dragon Gun were pulled taut, adjusting to the optimal angle by sight.
Proudly standing, eagerly waiting.
The silk threads adjusting the Strike Dragon Gun’s angle remained tense until the moment of firing.
“This is the last moan before surrender.”
An iron piece was pulled by the silk threads and slammed backward, accurately hitting the firing button on the base of the Strike Dragon Gun, pressing it down.
“Click!”
The crisp sound of machinery sinking!
“Hiss!”
The restless metal was grinding!
“Clang!”
The friction reached its limit, the rotating gun head tore through everything in its path, heading straight for the core of the Queen Ruin City!
The golden cocoon was directly disrupted, exposing the Queen Mantis to the spinning gun head.
Unfortunately, Jie Jie could no longer see the Queen Mantis being nearly shredded.
He ascended to the heavens.
The residual inertia of the Queen Ruin City caused his Ruin City to disintegrate significantly, and he, being at the forefront, was thrown skyward by the powerful impact.
But the wind flowed according to his will, allowing him to float gently from the sky and land amidst the ruins of his own Ruin City.
The Strike Dragon Gun “clang clang clang” rolled down, the firing base exploded into small parts.
And right before him, the Queen’s Ruin City also had many structures disintegrated, collapsing onto the ground.
“Boom~”
The severely injured Queen Mantis pushed aside the rubble, swaying unsteadily, even powerless to express her rage.
Without hesitation, Jie Jie pounced forward, capturing the exhausted Queen Mantis with a pair of mantis arms.
Twisting tightly, tearing apart her body, he ended her life.
In her dying moments, the Queen Mantis trembled, ejecting large amounts of silk threads and bodily fluids from her abdomen, convulsing as she fell to the ground.
“Huff…”
The two battered hunters supported each other as they climbed out of the rubble, stunned at the brutal scene before them.
“This can no longer be described as marital discord.”
The eyebrows of the female archer wouldn’t stop twitching wildly as she dragged Kempe back into the ruins.
The male Queen Mantis still didn’t pay attention to them, plunging his hook claws into the Queen’s body, pulling out a gemstone shimmering with golden light.
“…How could there be a jade?”
Kempe murmured in confusion, finding it hard to believe.
Whether insect-like monsters, pincer-horned monsters, or shell monsters, none of these creatures with arthropod characteristics have ever been found to contain gems.
Jade was thought to only form in dragon-like and beast-like monsters.
That gem might be a very rare research material for the Dragon People, but unfortunately, they were already out of strength.
“Snap.”
The corpse of the Queen Mantis was thrown to the ground. It seemed the male Queen Mantis only cared about this gem.
We originally thought he came for interspecies mating, but now it appears he came for the gem?
Gems have always attracted monsters to some extent, but currently, there hasn’t been any research indicating that gems significantly enhance monster power. What attracts them should be the accumulated energy components within.
The radiant golden gem was sucked into the mouthparts of the Queen Mantis, and as he spread his arms and stretched his body, his whole body emitted even more dazzling golden light.
“So beautiful.”
“Indeed.”
“It seems we should retreat first.”
That was Hubble carrying the Katana Warrior on his shoulder, waving at them.
The two gave Hubble a “shh” gesture, instinctively looking at the male Queen Mantis, only to find him rummaging through the ruins without being disturbed.
Looking at the corpse of the Queen Mantis, realizing they couldn’t press their luck, Kempe waved and retreated with his companion toward the edge of the battlefield.
Hunters and Ailu Cats from the outer perimeter also entered, guarding the heroes and helping bandage their wounds.
“How’s the situation?”
Hubble looked at the captain of his original team.
“The mantises outside have scattered, and we realized the battle inside might be over. I’m proud of you, Hubble.”
“I didn’t contribute much; I didn’t even touch the Queen Mantis.”
The Great Sword Warrior scratched his head, shyly lowering it.
“No, without you, I would have been severely wounded.”
“Yeah, and me too. If you hadn’t been there to block the wheel, I would have been crushed. Sorry for losing your great sword.”
The Katana Warrior sighed. After being kicked down, he truly lacked the strength to pick up the great sword, let alone his own katana which he left behind.
“A song of heroism!”
“That’ll have to wait till we return; there’s no bard here.”
There was no bard, but the hunters naturally hummed the tune of “Testimony of Heroes.”
