Versatile Mage: Get the Desert Emperor clone at the start

Chapter 24 Emperor-level collision, Silver-winged ant queen appears
"boom--"

The entire Pyramid of Khafre was shaking violently, and the dark light flowing on the tower was dimming at a speed visible to the naked eye.

What's even more terrifying is that the sand at the base of the pyramid has turned into a flowing abyss, and every grain of sand has become the most greedy man-eating ant, frantically gnawing at the foundation of this sanctuary of the dead.

The undead priests at the bottom of the tower let out shrill wails, their translucent spirits being carried by the sand and dragged into the ground, like drowning people falling into bottomless quicksand.

“Bold!”

In the underworld palace at the top of the pyramid, a figure wearing a star robe suddenly opened his eyes. It was the pharaoh of this pyramid, Khafre, the son of Khufu.

The undead gem inlaid on the top of the ebony scepter in his hand burst out with a dazzling blood light, and the shroud wrapped around the scepter moved without wind.

As the scepter slammed to the ground, the entire pyramid roared, and the ancient hieroglyphs on the pyramid seemed to be injected with life, one after another breaking away from the stone wall and floating in the air.

"Buzz——"

Tens of thousands of hieroglyphs intertwined in the air to form a huge underworld web, and each character was burning with the dark green fire of the soul.

This giant net covered the dark shadows in the sandstorm, and everything began to decay wherever it passed. Some sand giant lizards that were unable to dodge were brushed by the net and instantly turned into dried specimens.

However, the figure in the depths of the sandstorm only uttered a dull sneer.

The three runes in his hand suddenly gathered together and condensed into a constantly rotating chaotic sand core in the palm of his hand.

"Rumble--"

As the sand core was pressed into the ground, the originally golden sand was dyed with a strange dark purple color, and the rhythm of the undulating sand suddenly became like the breathing of a giant beast.

A sand wave with a diameter of more than a kilometer rose into the sky and split into countless giant sand pythons in mid-air. The shadow of the chaotic sand core was dancing in the pupils of each giant python.

At the moment when the Hades Net and the Sand Python collided in mid-air, time seemed to stand still for a second.

Immediately afterwards——

“Crack! Snap!”

A tooth-aching cracking sound echoed across the battlefield. The hieroglyphs crumbled one by one, and with each shattering, a cornerstone of the Pyramid of Khafre was reduced to dust. Sand pythons surged through the nets of Hades with unstoppable force, three of the largest serpents entwining themselves directly around the pyramid's center.

"boom!!"

The pyramid groaned under the weight.

The three sand pythons exerted their force in different directions, and spiderweb-like cracks suddenly appeared on the tower. When one of the sand pythons suddenly tightened its body, accompanied by a deafening crash, the entire lower half of the pyramid was crushed! Countless huge stones engraved with spells fell from the sky, but were swallowed by the greedy quicksand before they even touched the sand.

On the remaining tower, the dim lights that had not yet been extinguished were like dying fireflies, flickering in the increasingly powerful sandstorm.

The dark shadow in the depths of the sandstorm finally revealed its vague outline for the first time - it was a human figure made up of flowing sandstorms, with the rotating chaotic sand core suspended above its head.

Khafra was obviously no match for this giant sandstorm shadow.

The fall of Khafre's Pyramid finally awakened the true overlord of the Undead Empire—the Pyramid of Khufu! This vast sanctuary of the dead suddenly shook, and the dark light atop the tower lost its usual emerald green, transforming into a deep blue. The temperature across the battlefield plummeted, and fine ice crystals formed on the surface of the sand. Even the howling wind slowed down at this moment.

"boom--!"

The massive rock at the base of the pyramid shifted with a bang, revealing several pitch-black passages. Immediately afterwards, three terrifying auras awoke from the depths, stepping out with heavy steps.

The evil-scaled pharaoh was wrapped in cursed bandages, with every inch of exposed skin covered in black dragon-scale-like spells, and the scepter in his hand was inlaid with a dark Netherworld gem.

Medusa, the Gorgon Scorpion Queen, has long hair like countless slender snakes. Her lower body is a scorpion trunk. When she crawls, she leaves corrosive poisonous marks on the ground. The poisonous stinger on her scorpion tail is raised high.

The goat-headed demon king, with huge curved horns on his head burning with pale soul fire, every time his hooves stepped on the ground, it would cause a small earthquake, and the blade of the giant axe in his hand was covered with wailing souls.

The three great undead lords appeared at the same time, and the morale of the undead army on the battlefield was instantly boosted.

A thick beam of dark light burst out from the top of the Pyramid of Khufu, and the light column pierced through the sky and pointed directly at the sinking Pyramid of Khafre.

However, how could the Desert Empire sit idly by and watch Khufu intervene?

When the dark light of death that pierced through the heavens and the earth was about to touch the Pyramid of Khafre, in this moment of absolute silence—

"Uh-huh!"

A brilliant silver light streaked across the battlefield at breakneck speed. This wasn't a simple energy charge, but an absolute slash imbued with the laws of spatial slicing. Wherever the silver light passed, it left behind lingering vacuum cracks.

When the silver light and the dark glow collided with each other, the azure power of death and the silver-white edge of space engaged in a crazy battle, eventually forming a spherical annihilation field with a diameter of one kilometer. All matter within the range was instantly decomposed into the most basic particle flow.

In this destructive energy turbulence, a silver figure slowly appeared.

It is the king of all ant monsters in the Sahara Desert and is known as the Silver-Winged Queen Ant.

Compared to the Sandstorm Emperor that obscured the sky in the distance, it was as insignificant as a grain of sand. However, the spatial rifts flowing around it caused tremors within a hundred miles.

If the Sandstorm King represents the overwhelming power of nature, then the Silver-Winged Ant Queen represents the art of condensing destruction to the extreme.

Each piece of its silver armor was undergoing nano-scale spatial folding, and the vibration frequency of its three pairs of crystal wings was difficult to see. When it gently raised its forelimbs, even the dark light of the Pyramid of Khufu became unnaturally distorted.

"Buzz——"

As the Silver-Winged Queen Ant descended to the top of the sand dune, the entire desert suddenly fell into an eerie silence.

Immediately afterwards, a chilling metallic humming sounded from all directions. Millions of sand-eating army ants rose to their feet simultaneously, their compound eyes gleaming with the same silver light, and as their mouthparts opened and closed, they secreted a dark white enzyme liquid.

This is not a simple group response, but the perfect synchronization of the entire ant tribe's neural network under the command of the supreme will.

Even more terrifying, these worker ants began to develop spatial patterns identical to those on the Silver Wing Queen Ant. They were no longer independent individuals, but had become extensions of the Silver Wing Overlord.

When the ants turned towards the Pyramid of Khufu at the same time, countless tiny spatial cracks appeared in the air, as if the entire area had been redefined by some more powerful existence.

(End of this chapter)