Villains of All Worlds: Starting with the Beautiful Vampire Bride.

Chapter 157: Once the Overlord, Now the Ant

With an average height of less than 1.3 meters and arms as slender as bamboo poles, they continuously mine out pieces of blue raw stones from the canyon that are much larger than their own.

Then, with the whip of the Mantis Mantis constantly waving, he used his four thin arms to tremble and lift the huge raw stone that was several times larger than his body, and walked slowly to the processing warehouse in the west.

There, the raw stones mined from these locust-like creatures will be processed into semi-finished products and then sent to the front line to become metal nutrients that enhance the properties of the Mantis Mantis Arm Blade.

These four-armed creatures that look like locusts are a group of intelligent creatures called Thunder Horse Locusts.

They are a low-level race belonging to the Mantis plane. They have strong fertility and even gave birth to a civilization that is not weaker than the Mantis Mantis people.

But now, the development of their population has been strictly curbed by the Mantis Mantis and the Jade Blade Zerg.

The reason for this situation is entirely self-inflicted.

It is said that when the Mantis plane was still in its early days in the microcosm, it was not called this name.

At that time, the Mantis Zerg was still an inconspicuous middle-level group, neither good nor bad.

However, the Thunder Horse Locust was already the overlord of the plane at that time. Many tribes had to rely on it and struggled to survive.

It's a pity that due to the powerful reproductive capacity of the Thunder Horse Locusts, and the fact that the production of the Fiery Thunder Purple Bamboo on which they depend for survival has been declining year after year, the supply is in short supply.

Not only did their population decrease drastically, but all the Thunder Horse Locusts born after them also showed symptoms of malnutrition.

In order to maintain their position as the world's hegemon, the Thunder Horse Locust Clan at that time actually wanted to eliminate all the ethnic groups that could threaten their race.

This crazy move instantly ignited the war in the entire Mantis plane. A turmoil that lasted for a thousand years ended with both sides suffering losses.

And it was after this battle that the Thunder Horse Locust Clan fell into decline and withdrew from the world stage. Other high-ranking races were wiped out, and even those who survived could hardly regain their former glory.

The Mantis clan officially entered the historical stage after this war and dominated the Mantis plane for nearly 100,000 years.

Looking at these short, thin, dull-eyed, malnourished Thunder Horse Locusts in the valley, who could have imagined what brilliant achievements they once had!

Vlad sighed and looked at the ore they were carrying.

These blue minerals are called Blazing Thunder Stones. Blazing Thunder Purple Bamboo is a by-product derived from the Blazing Thunder Ore Vein and is also an excellent magical resource.

Especially for the lightning magicians in the dark world, or other creatures with lightning attributes, they are rare and precious magic resources.

What's more, this is a magical mineral that is extremely scarce in the dark world. Its preciousness and value will be further increased on this basis.

At this time in the valley, among the hundreds of Mantis natives stationed here, only the second-level male Mantis man sitting in the center of the valley needs everyone to pay a little attention. It is difficult for other first-level Mantis people to notice their abnormalities.

There were no unexpected incidents during this infiltration. Vlad easily tricked the guards into hallucinations without them realizing it. After quickly packing up all the stored and sealed Blazing Thunder Stones, everyone quickly moved towards the next resource location without anyone noticing.

Just as Vlad and other forces in the dark world were taking successive actions, at the front line of the Mantis continent, at the command base.

There is endless smoke and flames of war here.

Countless black fluid creatures, mixed with a large number of various star races parasitized by the variant civilization, were like a black torrent, covering the sky and the earth, constantly washing the hardest charred stone at the front line, and trying to submerge it in the black torrent.

They are sturdy and generally over three or four meters tall, shaped like crocodiles, with thick tails with sharp barbs. They look extremely ferocious and vicious, and their scarlet pupils are full of excitement and greed, which is a desire for killing and flesh and blood.

As the long purple tongue with black flesh thorns swept across the sharp fangs carrying sticky saliva, the body dived, and the thick arms covered with rough scales pounced on the already broken front line on the opposite side.

These ferocious crocodile-like creatures are indigenous people from a micro-plane in the known star field surrounding the Mantis plane.

However, at this time, they have become puppets of the mutant civilization. They not only possess strong physiques, but also possess diverse abilities.

Above the sky, there are four-winged, fiery red strange birds covered with dense scales. They are a group of interstellar wanderers from a certain extinct low-level plane, and are also parasitic puppets of a variant civilization.

Fire snakes were constantly spewing downwards, with well-developed muscles, sharp claws with sharp barbs, and long beaks covered with fine teeth, occasionally sweeping downwards, stirring up a bloody rain.

Among them, there are also a large number of parasitic creatures that resemble the Green Blade Insect Clan.

And from within the base, the major races from the Mantis plane continued to attack these mutant creatures.

Brutal fighting, fierce collisions, nearly one million people from all major races in the Mantis plane, led by the Mantis Mantis, desperately guarded this frontier base.

This front-line base, located at the forefront, was like a firm nail, firmly stuck in the path of the variant civilization's advance, and the fierce offensive momentum of the variant civilization was finally curbed.

This is the fourth attack from the variant civilization this year, with an average of one attack every three months, which is constantly depleting the base's manpower.

Currently, the southeastern war zone of Mantis Continent alone has gathered nearly two million fighters with strength above intermediate magic apprentices.

This shows the scale of the war.

In addition to this main war zone, there are two secondary war zones that are second only to the Southeast War Zone in importance, and the scale of the battles has reached one million.

Except for the elderly and children, throughout the history of plane wars that spanned more than a dozen generations and hundreds of years, the Mantis plane has fully developed and utilized all the resources and manpower that can be mobilized, and joined this war that can be called a meat grinder.

It's like a clockwork war machine, stretched to the limit.

The war potential and social resources of the Mantis plane have been compressed to the limit. If there is no improvement after a hundred years, their plane potential will be exhausted and they will face collapse at any time without any possibility of recovery.

(End of this chapter)