I can see experience bars after being transported to another world.

It's Lake.

This scale far exceeded the limits of what Rek could achieve. Back in the outer city, the swarm of insects Rek released could only cover a few blocks at most; compared to the scene before him, those insects were nothing.

Meanwhile, in the outer city, amidst the swarm of insects, above the ruins, Klaus and his companions stood together, looking up at the dark, all-encompassing shadow.

The countless swarming insects were continuously released from the figure suspended high in the sky, spreading like an endless tide towards the giant wall of flesh and blood to the east.

Standing to the side, Green looked utterly astonished, his wrinkled face filled with surprise. The Blue Knight, his attendants, and the others also showed surprise in their eyes, but none of them uttered a word.

Rex was positioned at the very center of that sea of ​​insects.

To be precise, he no longer has any "figure".

At this moment, Rick could no longer be considered a person.

His body had long since merged with the swarming insects, the boundaries of his skin and the outline of his human form had completely disappeared.

His flesh and blood merged with the swarming worms, and there was no longer a clear dividing line between man and worms. Countless worms supported him and surrounded him, using the swarm to barely form a blurry human figure around his body, but that figure was changing every moment, as if something was constantly churning and reshaping inside.

Rek, the fifth-order Crowd Worm, may no longer be called a Crowd Worm; he should be called the Mother of Crowds.

At this moment, Rick was no longer the silent figure who lurked under Klaus's command and barely uttered a few words a day.

He now truly reigns supreme on this battlefield, and is the one who can truly intervene in the war between taboos.

His existence is beyond what ordinary humans can compare to; he has transcended to another level.

In front of Rex, a small group of swarming insects huddled together crookedly, their bodies forming a few barely recognizable words.

The insects were arranged haphazardly, but they were still roughly recognizable.

"It's fine."

"Believe me."

"I will bring Lu Yuan back."

Klaus stared at the words spelled out by insects and remained silent for a long time.

The buzzing of the insects roared in his ears, and the deck trembled slightly beneath his feet.

He opened his mouth, but ultimately said nothing, only nodding slightly.

Green watched this scene from the sidelines, unusually remaining silent.

The next moment, Rick moved.

At the same instant, all the swarming insects changed direction, surging from the skies above the outer city towards the inner city. They no longer resembled swarming insects, for they seemed to have gained the ability to fly, coalescing together and supporting each other, like a whole black sky moving.

The vanguard of the insect swarm swept across the ruins of the outer city, and wherever it passed, everything was covered in a layer of darkness by the swarming insects.

The swarming insects emitted a sound similar to flapping wings, but they did not have wings. Clearly, this was some kind of ability that Rek gained after reaching the fifth rank.

All the insects were making this sound, a deep and resonant sound emanating from the abdomens of the swarm, creating a dense, impenetrable vibration in the air, completely different from the usual humming of wings.

Standing atop the Tower of Learning, Lu Yuan suddenly understood the sounds amidst the overwhelming roar.

Those were the insects of the swarm speaking. The ability to understand these things came from ancient music theory; everything has its own sound, and he could understand a portion of it.

The swarming insects were uttering the same message, repeating it over and over again.

"Mother is here!"

"Mother is here!"

"Mother is here!"

Countless swarms of supporters were chanting. Hundreds of thousands, millions, all of them vibrating with the same message.

The sound traveled from the outer city to the inner city, crashing down from the sky to the ground, echoing throughout the ruins of the Bronze City, even causing the stone walls of the Tower of Learning to tremble.

As Lu Yuan listened to those sounds, his fingertips unconsciously clenched, and an indescribable feeling welled up in his heart.

It was something a mixture of oppression and fanaticism, stuck in his throat, giving him the illusion that he couldn't swallow it down.

The swarm of insects surged in from the outer city, engulfing the blood-soaked ruins and collapsed buildings, and advancing all the way towards the inner city.

Where the swarm of insects flew, the dark red of the flesh was replaced by patches of black.

The flesh and blood that were originally writhing on the ground were covered with a layer of pitch-black insect shells after being crushed by the swarm of insects, one piece after another, turning the dark red earth black.

The insects kept devouring flesh and blood, and the insects kept dying.

The swarming insects rushed into the flesh and blood, using their bodies and their entire lives to devour the churning, dark red flesh and blood.

The flesh and blood kept fighting back, expanding new tentacles and flesh, wrapping up and swallowing up swarms of insects, turning them into its own nutrients.

But more swarms of insects surged up from behind, stepping over the corpses in front of them and continuing forward.

Just as the swarm of insects blotted out the sky, the earth trembled even more violently.

This tremor was much more intense than the previous ones.

If it weren't for the person on the wall using their power to protect the Tower of Learning, the tower might have already collapsed by now.

Not only the tower, but even the surging sea of ​​blood in the inner city was shaking, with ripples spreading outward from the center of the inner city.

Deep within the flesh and blood, something is being uprooted.

Lu Yuan keenly sensed the source of the unusual movement through his authority.

They were bronze pillars. Those bronze pillars, which were originally driven deep into the earth as auxiliary anchors for the seal, were being uprooted one by one from the depths of the earth under the trembling of the starry flesh.

Those bronze pillars were so thick that it would take dozens of people to encircle them. One end was embedded deep into the ground, and they were now wriggling upwards in a series. The ancient inscriptions on the pillars were constantly breaking and falling off under the pressure of flesh and blood.

This means that the seal has completely collapsed, and those bronze pillars, which served as anchors for the seal, have become completely ineffective.

[Current Status of Bronze City: +1...49.2/51]

At the same time, without the slightest hesitation, Rex controlled the swarm of insects that filled the sky to crash into the giant wall of flesh and blood at the junction of the inner and outer cities.

The colossal wall, nearly a hundred meters high, was formed from piled-up starlight and flesh. It stretched from left to right across the boundary between the inner and outer cities, its surface constantly writhing with dark red veins and thick blood vessels.

The blood vessels intertwined with something resembling plant roots, pulsating and contracting, extending from the bottom to the top of the wall, stretching the entire fleshy wall taut.

Rick, accompanied by a swarm of insects, climbed straight up.

The moment the swarm of insects landed on the wall of flesh, it produced a dull thud and a corrosive sound. Starting from the bottom, the pitch-black insects climbed up the entire wall of flesh layer by layer, each swarming insect biting the flesh beneath its feet tightly, using its body to make a path for its companions behind it.

The wall of flesh and blood continued to fight back, surging and squeezing out new tentacles. At the same time, the overwhelming flesh and blood began to devour the swarming insects on the surface, with large swarms of insects being swallowed up by the flesh and blood.