Beating Instances through Words Left by the Dead

Chapter 417: Chapter 224: Essence Armor

Looking at the overwhelming ant swarms in the distance, Wu Chang clicked his tongue, thinking to himself that if the Disqualified Monsters didn’t possess sentience and attacked indiscriminately based on instinct, Hymn Company might as well sell the Disqualified Monsters instead of developing high-energy weapons.

According to the records in the Disqualified Monster registry, the Gluttonous Ant has Life B, Attack Power C, Durability A, Aggressiveness A, and Attack Range D.

As the name suggests, the Gluttonous Ant’s feature is its ability to eat.

It has an endless appetite, capable of consuming everything it comes into contact with.

Regardless of its hardness, temperature, or even its form, as long as it touches the ant, it will be transformed into pure energy and absorbed by it.

It can also condense this energy into ant swarms and disperse them, having them forage for it.

Ant swarms that have devoured food will grow and reproduce, with individuals becoming larger and more numerous. When an individual’s size reaches its limit, they return to the vicinity of the Gluttonous Ant, becoming its food.

Speaking of Disqualified Monsters, their bodies and traits are secondary, what’s truly critical is their unique Disqualified Domain.

Although the Gluttonous Ant appears as an ant, its Disqualified Domain resembles a transparent web. Once something enters its Disqualified Domain, all inanimate objects, and even creatures with weak willpower, will become its food.

Just like the bullets orbiting it at this moment.

The Disqualified Domain might seem absurd, and its actual effect is indeed absurd.

Because Wu Chang perceived a trace of divine power from within the Disqualified Domain.

Although that feeling is faint, it is indeed divinity, and it is precisely this divinity that makes players unable to resist the power of the Disqualified Monsters.

This discovery truly surprised Wu Chang.

Divinity is not something easily obtained, especially in the Desolate Realm.

Wu Chang has experienced many high-difficulty instances and has seen many things related to divinity, but most of those divinities are bestowed by the Evil God or acquired from gods of the deeper Abyss through the Earthly Divine Kingdom.

The only time he saw divinity naturally grown in the Desolate Realm was with the Sea God Marshal of the Silent Route.

According to Sean’s memory, the instance plane where Hymn Company resides doesn’t have a mysticism-related system, making Earthly Divine Kingdom rituals difficult to perform, and higher plane bestowals extremely challenging.

As for gods nurtured by local culture, the Federation’s history books, as thick as Britain’s cookbooks, if they somehow summoned a local deity, would probably be a god without a head.

It would be good enough if it didn’t cause trouble; how could it possibly cooperate with Hymn Company?

Moreover, Hymn Company’s chairman Schultz is a staunch atheist. From childhood, every time he saw things related to gods, Schultz would show undisguised disdain and contempt.

Schultz’s exact words were that conversing with imbeciles was less uncomfortable for him than listening to preachers.

He cannot understand why, with technology having advanced to this stage, people still believe in the existence of gods and think it was gods who created the world.

When Schultz attended world-class meetings, while discussing the vision of Hymn Company, he often mentioned a phrase.

That is, everything humanity possesses today has never relied on the mythical gods but on human intelligence and hardworking hands. The existence of Hymn Company is to let the world know that humans don’t need gods, humanity is god.

At the cutting-edge technology exhibition a month ago, Schultz also mentioned this phrase. To Wu Chang, the likelihood of Schultz collaborating with the Evil God cult is also slim.

The existence of Evil God followers is to extol the radiance of the gods they worship, not to defy them.

So the question arises, if Schultz isn’t an Evil God follower, the Federation’s brief history can’t produce gods, and Hymn Company’s plane can’t connect to the depths of the Abyss.

Where did the divinity within the Disqualified Monster come from?

Wu Chang squinted his eyes; the secrets of Hymn Company are more than he imagined.

Under the gnawing of the ant swarm, in less than three minutes, the first layer of Orens Manor’s automatic defense armament was breached.

In less than five minutes, the automatic weapons in the community’s public area were devoured entirely.

Needing more food, the ant swarm shifted their targets to the assembled manor security team and the private bodyguards hired by the wealthy.

The manor’s security team and private bodyguards wielded new high-energy weapons manufactured by Hymn Company. They protected the residents as they retreated indoors, firing at both the ant swarm and the Gluttonous Ants in the sky.

Compared to traditional firearms and older energy weapons, the high-energy weapons from Hymn Company had greater power, smaller size, and more concentrated energy.

The bullets fired from the high-energy weapons could penetrate the Disqualified Domain surrounding the Gluttonous Ant, hitting its main body directly and causing it significant damage.

However, they were equipped with individual high-energy weapons, which, while more powerful and compact, also meant fewer shots.

A concentrated volley from the security team and bodyguards almost shattered a third of the Gluttonous Ant’s body, but while they were replacing energy blocks, the Gluttonous Ant had already repaired its body by consuming the ant swarm it summoned.

The heavily wounded Gluttonous Ant changed its strategy this time, directing the swarm to stop devouring the already destroyed automatic weapons and prioritizing attacks on those wielding high-energy weapons.

Those holding high-energy weapons, like high-damage but fragile ADCs, could indeed damage the Disqualified Monster, but without the automatic defense system’s protection, they were as fragile as paper against the Disqualified Monster’s attacks.