Age of Adepts Chapter 465 The Battle in the Night

Chapter 465 The Battle in the Night

The Black Forest at night was never peaceful.

Unpredictable hazards hid everywhere in the silent and ghostly darkness.

There were forest beasts that went hunting under cover of night, bloodsucking vines that hid among ordinary vines, acid swamps that looked like grass but were actually the hos of Ghost Nannies, and ferocious predators that wandered in the depths of the forest like phantoms.

Including all of the rumored corruptors, monsters, and magical beasts would give you a genuinely primal world with a variety of resources and species– the Black Forest.

Sixty kiloters to the north of Fire Throne was land owned by the Aba Been.

It was deep into the night, yet his place was still bustling with activity and a particular sort of urgency.

Squads of beeman soldiers holding poison-tipped spears and arrows beat their wings and moved between the trees. Many of them were also carrying in their hands the prey they had hunted. Most of them were ordinary forest creatures such as goats, wolves, and apes. Once in a while, one would also see berserk apes, Otyughs, and human rcenaries in their grasp.

Under ordinary circumstances, each beeman squad would employ fifteen beeman soldiers.

They would move through the fifteen kiloters of Black Forest around their den in a specific pattern, carefully and seriously searching for prey they could hunt. Every ti they ran into a beast or other magical creature that had co out to hunt ant an inevitable battle.

It was precisely the terrifying offensive abilities of these prey that often ensured casualties in these beeman squads; almost none of the beeman squads returned unscathed. The worst battle saw only four beeman soldiers return. However, without exception, all of them returned with varying sizes of spoils.

The Aba Been’s nest was constructed in a dense stretch of forest. It was a strange magical structure that resembled a bee’s nest.

This place was also the Aba Queen’s delivery room. It was the special place where she gave birth to new been.

Ordinary been had no right to enter the hive. Only specially selected servants could stay by the Queen’s side, continually feeding her and taking care of the newly-spawned eggs.

The hatching cycle of a beeman was extrely short. An egg only required a short seven days to hatch into a beeman soldier. That was why an Aba bee nest could produce beeman soldiers at a\ breakneck pace as long as there was enough food.

According to the thod by which an adept’s strength was calculated, an ordinary beeman soldier only had 0.7 points of Strength. However, they couldn’t be underestimated because of their feeble power. The danger of these creatures exponentially increased if they managed to rally so of their allies.

They had wings for flying and were skilled in the use of poisoned weapons. They could fire long ranged attacks with their bows and arrows while using their spears to dive down as a lee attack. These advantages stacked together and benefitted from their countless numbers. Once a tribe of Aba Been managed to gain a foothold in a territory, they would quickly rise to beco the rulers of the nearby area.

That was why almost all other creatures in the vast Black Forest were on the Aba Been’s hunting lists. The only exceptions were the powerful magical creatures that had tough hides, such as the brutelephants and the wyverns.

During the ti Greem had been gone from Fire Throne, the uncontested Aba Been had increased their numbers at an explosive rate. Their unrestrained reproduction had undoubtedly threatened the forces around Fire Throne, which had barely just gathered together.

In a re seven or eight days, Gargal had already received news about the deaths of two outsider apprentices and a dozen rcenaries. For a mont, the fifteen kiloters around the Aba Been’s nest was categorized by Fire Throne as a zone of extre danger. The tower even established a strict ban going near the place.

The rise of an excessively powerful magical tribe around Fire Throne was not a good thing, no matter how you looked at it. Consequently, the tower restricted rcenaries and low-grade apprentices from getting close to the Aba Been’s hunting area. They also released an internal extermination mission to send high-grade apprentices out to exterminate the rampant Aba Been.

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An encounter had just reached its conclusion in a narrow mountain stream nearby.

A three-ter-long and three-hundred-kilogram heavy Flaming Tiger that had strayed from the pack had beco the prey of a beeman hunting squad.

The dead flaming tiger lay on the ground without moving. Many short black arrows pinned its yellow body filled with red stripes. There were even two long spears embedded in its neck that had been snapped in half.

The Aba Beeman soldiers’ strength might not be enough to kill a berserk flaming tiger, but the toxic poison on their weapons could. This unfortunate flaming tiger had been poisoned to death!

However, the flaming tiger’s strong fireballs had still trendously damaged the beeman hunting squad. Four beeman soldiers had been blown to bits when they failed to avoid the fireballs. Another three had died to the flaming tiger’s jaws and tail when they had dived at it.

The remaining eight beeman soldiers had all received varying degrees of fire damage. However, this didn’t prevent them from happily cutting up the flaming tiger’s body to take its at back with them.

This kind of magical creature at, filled with elentium aura, was an exceptionally nutritious food. It was the favorite food of the Aba Queen.

Just as they gathered around the tiger’s corpse and busy at work, a voice rang out from the forest nearby. A humanoid creature cloaked in thick black robes appeared within the vision of the soldiers.

Human!

Not only was this newcor a human, but they were also a human caster that the Queen most liked to feast on!

That was because the only ones that dared to walk through this forest in black robes were those so-called apprentice adepts.

The beeman soldiers couldn’t help but be happy.

Weng, weng, weng!

The buzzing sound of their wings began to spread out throughout the forest.

The eight beeman soldiers tossed away the bloody flesh in their hands, picked up their spears, and instantly took to the skies. A few of them spread out to avoid possible magic attacks from the human apprentice. They took cover behind thick branches and vines and quickly closed in on the black-robed individual.

What puzzled them was the fact that the human hadn’t tried to run. Instead, they raised their head. A pair of pale green eyes shone from beneath the shadows of the hood, staring coldly at the been.

Even though they could tell sothing was off, the beeman soldiers still initiated their attack according to their usual strategy.

The first wave of attacks was naturally the mid-ranged poison arrows.

Phew! Phew! Phew!

Eight poisoned arrows shot through the space between the trees and barraged the human like a swarm of locusts.

Surprisingly enough, the enemy had no intention of dodging. They didn’t even try to cast any defensive spells. They just stood there and allowed the poison arrows to hit against their body. Judging from the dull sound of the poisoned arrows hitting their target, the human wasn’t wearing any tallic armor beneath their robes.

The eight beeman soldiers beca even more excited. They quickly closed-in while firing even more arrows at the apprentice. When they were within ten steps of the hooded figure, they tossed aside their bows and charged at the enemy with forked spears in hand.

The black-robed human suddenly unleashed a strange bug’s screech when all eight spears dug into their body. The human’s body exploded into a sky full of black beetles, instantly drowning the eight beeman soldiers in a terrifying tide of insects.

It was the first ti the beeman soldiers had ever faced such a terrifying retaliation. They scread and tried to get back on their feet, but they were covered in a layer of black beetles. Their faces, heads, bodies, feet, and even their semi-translucent wings were crawling with these strange insects.

What frightened them more was that strange chattering sound of silkworms feasting on mulberry leaves, and the intense pain from every part of their body.

A few stronger been barely managed to fly by flapping their wings. However, their vision was obscured, causing them to fall to the ground after crashing into branches.

The beeman soldiers struggled and frantically fought back. Many black, bean-sized beetles were crushed into a paste or reduced to pools of black liquid by poison. However, their remaining numbers were still enough to kill these eight unfortunate victims with no magical abilities.

Soon, the forest regained its peace.

Only chilling crunching sound remained in the silent Black Forest.

A short mont later, the black beetles gathered together after their feast. They once again reford into the appearance of Billis.

The apprentice adept that had just experienced glorious victory in his first battle stood in the pool of blood on the ground. He silently savored the comfortable feeling of sweet blood coursing through his body.

The Aba Been were a type of magical creatures, but their appearances were a combination of elves and bees. They were humanoid magical creatures. In the past, Billis’ personality would never have allowed him to conduct such a cruel act as devouring the enemy alive.

However, after he had assimilated the Queen Bug, all of this seed to be a matter of fact for him. He was indifferent to it all!

This place is the world of my goals!

Greem had always suppressed Billis’ violent and bloodthirsty nature after his successful assimilation. Even though Billis had enjoyed plenty of snacks in secret before this, those weak humans couldn’t provide him with much energy needed for evolution.

In comparison, the magical creatures soaked in elentium power were the most suitable food for him!

Those sweet and delicious human apprentices were also walking delicacies. However, Master Greem had given him strict orders. He was not to eat adepts or apprentices without permission. That was why Billis had to suppress his impulse to hunt in the tower. He followed his master’s guidance and ca here to look for the Aba Been.

Once he had finished eating, Billis pushed into the depths of the forest with heavy and shambling footsteps. A swarm of bugs followed closely behind him like loyal hunting hounds, sweeping the bits and pieces of flesh left on the ground along with them.

Billis had only barely completed the evolution of his body of bugs. He now possessed an immortal body of bugs, but he had yet to cultivate a single combat beetle. His current self was undoubtedly frail. He could only turn around and run if he ran into those powerful magical creature leaders.

That was why it was ti for him to find a place to create his bug’s nest!