Divine Calamity Descends: A Decade Ahead of Global Dominance

The space behind the sacrum is much larger than I imagined.

The dome is over ten meters high, with stalactites hanging upside down and covered with translucent bone-eating insects.

In the center of the ground is a huge crater, the walls of which are covered with honeycomb-like holes.

A huge creature was coiled up at the bottom of the pit.

The thing was six meters long, its body resembling an elongated silkworm pupa, covered with a grayish-white carapace.

It has no eyes, only a huge mouth that splits open to a third of its body, filled with inward-curving barbs.

Bone-eating mother beetle, LV30.

Its name is presented in a chilling dark red.

Upon seeing the size of the female insect, the stewed goose in the iron pot went weak in the knees and slid down the wall.

Qiqi's face was deathly pale; she gripped the dagger tightly, her knuckles turning blue from the force.

Zhuang Bugui stared at the mother insect, his voice low: "Tell me your plan."

Wang Yan squatted by the pit, observing the mother insect's movements.

Every ten seconds or so, the mother insect would open her mouth and vibrate, after which several small insects would crawl out of the hole in the wall and slide down the wall to her mouth.

The mother insect swallowed the baby insect, and a layer of green light appeared on her carapace.

This is a recovery phase.

"On Nightmare difficulty, the mother worm regenerates health five times more frequently."

Wang Yan pointed to the holes in the pit wall.

"But there's a setting here: when the little bug dies, it explodes, releasing a corrosive mist."

Zhuang Bugui stared at the holes, reacting quickly: "You want it to poison itself?"

"The direct damage from the aerosol is insufficient."

Wang Yan stood up. "But the mother insect has a logic—it doesn't distinguish between life and death; it will swallow anything as long as there's something in its mouth."

"Swallowing the poisonous insect corpse triples the damage and ignores defense."

The man stewing goose in the iron pot got up from the ground, his voice weak: "Then who's going to push the dead worm to its mouth? Going down there is certain death."

Wang Yan ignored the argument and began to make his plans.

He planted the God-Slaying First Embryo in the ground, then rummaged through his bag and pulled out several gray cloaks stained with slime, tearing them into strips.

"You're in charge of something."

Wang Yan tossed the strip of cloth to Zhuang Bugui.

"Use these strips of cloth to block the holes at the top, leaving only the passageway at the bottom. Insects that smell their own kind won't detour; they'll slide directly into the bottom of the pit after they come out."

Zhuang Bugui took the strip of cloth and instantly understood its meaning.

"And what about you?"

"Leave the rest to me."

Wang Yan drew his sword and walked towards the edge of the pit.

"You're going to fall into the pit?" Zhuang Bugui frowned. "You're only level 2. One touch and you're gone."

"So I won't get hit."

Wang Yan jumped down.

The sword tip pierced the crevice in the rock, slowing him down. He slid all the way to the bottom of the pit, less than eight meters from the mother insect.

The mother insect sensed the vibration, opened her giant mouth, and her barbs trembled violently.

A large number of bone-eating worms poured out from the holes in the pit wall.

Wang Yan made a move.

Instead of rushing towards the mother insect, he precisely intercepted a slipping worm and cleaved it down with his sword.

The blade of the God-Slaying First Embryo sword glowed with red patterns.

That's corrosive damage to lower-level creatures.

The insect's carapace cracked instantly, and dark red cracks spread all over its body.

boom.

The insects exploded, releasing a corrosive mist.

The mother insect stirred its barbs and swallowed the remains of the insect whole.

Three seconds later, the mother insect's massive body trembled violently, and a crack appeared on her carapace.

Its health has dropped significantly.

"Make your move!" Zhuang Bugui shouted from above.

The three of them began frantically blocking the hole.

The next ten minutes were a dance on the edge of a knife.

Wang Yan moved at high speed at the bottom of the pit. His level was too low, and any collision or vibration from the mother insect could kill him.

He relied entirely on predicting the insects' movement routes to navigate through blind spots.

With the hole above blocked, the insects' exit route became extremely fixed.

Wang Yan's insecticidal efficiency suddenly doubled.

After the mother insect devoured sixteen poisonous corpses, her health dropped to sixty percent.

It was enraged.

Large amounts of black acid gushed from its mouth, covering a large area at the bottom of the pit.

Wang Yan's room for maneuver was compressed to the extreme.

He retreated to the edge of the pit wall, his chest heaving violently.

The growth rate of the first embryo of the God-Slaying Demon is jumping wildly.

97.

Three more are needed.

The mother insect seemed to sense the threat. It stopped summoning, closed its giant mouth, and crushed its body toward Wang Yan.

"It's coming!" the stewed goose in the iron pot shouted in terror.

Wang Yan did not retreat. Instead, he thrust the blade into the nearest hole and twisted it forcefully.

A piercing scream came from inside.

Three small, weakened insects were forced out and ran right into the sword's edge.

98.

99.

100!

The first embryo of the God-Slaying Demon emitted a clear and melodious sound.

Large patches of rust remained on the sword, cracking and falling off to reveal the cold, silvery-gray metal beneath.

A crimson line of blood stretched from the hilt to the tip of the sword, eerie and sharp.

[System notification: The First Stage of the God-Slaying Embryo has completed its transformation.]

[Current Form: God-Slaying Prototype. Attack Power: 45-60.]

[Additional Effect: Execute (Deals triple damage to targets with less than 20% health).]

The mother insect's body had advanced to within three meters.

Wang Yan turned around and stared directly at that foul-smelling, enormous mouth.

The mother worm has 18% of her health remaining.

They've entered the kill zone.

He touched the ground with his toes and leaped into the air.

The silver blade, trailing a bloody afterimage, pierced fiercely into the carapace of the mother insect's head.

The triple damage numbers overlapped, instantly emptying the dark red health bar.

One sword.

The mother insect's body burst open from the middle, and black filth fell like rain.

System notification sounds flooded the screen like a tidal wave.

[Slay the Bone-Eating Queen (Nightmare)! Experience Points +48000!]

[Level Up! Current Level: LV9!]

[First Kill Reward: Bone-Eating Mother Worm - Heart (Purple) x1]

[Achievement Unlocked: Insubordination! Reward: All Attributes +5]

Wang Yan stood amidst the wreckage, letting the black liquid stream down his face.

Zhuang Bugui jumped down from above and landed in front of Wang Yan.

He was silent for a long time.

"I'll change the terms of that deal."

Zhuang Bugui wiped the dirt off his face, revealing a rare smile.

"I don't want the intelligence anymore."

"I want to join."

Wang Yan looked at him.

In his previous life, Zhuang Bugui was a renowned lone wolf and ruthless hero who never submitted to anyone.

"Conditions?" Wang Yan asked.

"No conditions. You point, I'll go. Next time something like this happens, you have to take me with you."

Wang Yan looked at him and remained silent for two seconds.

"Go out first."

He opened the panel and glanced at the timer marked by fate.

There were originally four hours and seventeen minutes left.

At that moment, a golden announcement was scrolling across the world channel.

[Server-wide announcement: An unknown player has achieved the first kill of the Nightmare-level dungeon "Bone-Eroding Cavern"!]

The weaver of fate noticed this deviation.

The countdown has been updated.

Wang Yan watched as the number ticked away.

Four hours and seventeen minutes.

It was reduced to one hour.