The Golem Mage

Alec was still in the air when he saw what remained of the Hive Queen’s minions, aside from the mutated Arachne and the defensive Arachne types, the rest had ignited themselves all at once.

They triggered their self-destruct skills in unison, each explosion aimed at dragging the Tier 7 opponents of theirs down with them.

But even Alec knew better, that it would take far more than this to truly kill creatures of that realm, and from the start, the Hive Queen had never intended to wipe them out anyway.

Her goal had always been clear: disorient the enemies long enough for her and Alec to escape the Dark Forest.

“Master, we have to move now.”

Her voice echoed directly in Alec’s mind while he was still in Mid-air, the explosions were still ringing violently in the air.

Though Alec had already wrapped his ears in mana to dampen the shock, yet blood still trickled down from them, as the aftermath of so many Arachne detonating at once was not easily dissolved.

It was only then that Alec finally understood how the Hive Queen had been relaying his commands so quickly, without having to move or sending one of her children as messengers.

Voice transmission.

And not just ordinary use of it, she was frighteningly good at it, and from what Alec could tell, she might even surpass him in that aspect, so he swiftly took note of that realization right away, already planning to rely on her more in the future when he needed to use voice transmission.

But before he could dwell on it, his danger sense screamed, Mid-air, Alec twisted sharply and raised his left arm into a high guard without a second thought.

The next instant, blood sprayed across his face, as his eyes snapped wide as he saw the source of the attack.

The Shadow Wolf Alpha.

Its massive body was nowhere in sight, only a pair of its claws had emerged from a rippling shadow portal in the air, slashing toward him, but even that was enough for Alec to confirm what was going on.

The claws aside he could also feel the dangerous and dark cold aura of the shadow wolf aura gushing out of the small shadow portal the Alpha had created, but as much as Alec wanted revenge, he knew better.

This was not the moment to fight it out, to him now there were far more pressing matters demanding his full attention, so he used the momentum from the Alpha’s strike, as he twisted his body and let himself be flung farther toward the bridge.

As he flew backward, pain surged through him in sharp, tingling waves, his hand was broken, this he knew that much about, but yet the pain felt strangely muted.

If he had to guess, it was because he had activated the second seal of the Blood Changdao, which dulled his sensitivity to pain.

Blood trickled down his shattered arm, pooling around his wrist as his mana struggled to hold the bones together, if not for the bone hand guard that had been formed by his bone katana his situation would have been more worse, like having all of his hand blasted off as the Shadow wolf alpha didn’t want to break his hand but to kill him .

Just as he was about to slam into the ground, someone caught him mid-fall and kept moving without slowing down.

They burst out of the Dark Forest and onto the bridge.

From the broad back in front of him, Alec instantly knew who it was that had caught him—the mutated Arachne, it was carrying him to safety.

Boom!!!

Another deafening explosion erupted behind them, this one was different—far louder, far more violent than the previous blasts.

“The defensive Arachne...” Alec muttered, finally realizing the Hive Queen’s true plan.

She had never intended to fight fair, from the beginning, her focus had been on one thing alone—sacrifice.

She hadn’t hesitated at all to sacrifice her kids which she had painstakingly pushed to the peak of Tier 5 mage realm, all for this moment, they had used their self-destruction powers to carve out a path of escape into the main region for her and Alec.

When the final explosion faded, they crossed fully into the main region.

Alec had already regained enough strength to sit upright, realizing he was perched atop the enlarged lower body of the mutated Arachne.

“Master!”

The Hive Queen gasped, her voice sharp with excitement as she turned her gaze toward another direction, in the distance, a pillar of evolution light, laced with a metallic sheen—shot straight into the sky.

[> Legion has successfully evolved into the Tier 7 realm and has become your first Lord-rank Golem. Congratulations.