I Forged the Myth of the Ancient Overlords
Chapter 190 - 190 189.Prison Cage_1

Chapter 190: 189.Prison Cage_1 Chapter 190: 189.Prison Cage_1 Those bug eggs shattered upon touch, the unprecedented low temperatures turning their jelly-like structures into crisp thin shells akin to potato chips, and stepping on them produced a satisfying crunch.

Lu Ban couldn’t help but stomp on a few more.

“…We need to hurry,” No-Face urged.

The worms inside the bug eggs had also turned into frozen noodles, now devoid of any vitality.

Lu Ban picked up an iced bug stick and gave it a lick.

The ice pop slightly melted, freeing the worm from its icy prison. At first, it flopped down limply, but soon it began to twitch and squirm, trying to burrow into Lu Ban’s skin.

“It’s still alive.”

He hastily threw it to the ground and stomped on it repeatedly.

“The taste isn’t anything special though; it might need some cooking,” he concluded.

“…”

Watching Lu Ban’s actions, No-Face did not know what to say for a moment.

The corridor was filled with a putrid smell, and they could see many withered fragments, likely the remains of bugs. As they walked, the space around them became increasingly narrow, and suddenly the conveyor belt stopped.

“Be careful,” Iron Fist warned, his arm rapidly crystallizing over his wrist, ready to launch an attack.

At the end of the conveyor belt, it appeared that the bug eggs were being transported from a room.

With just one punch, Iron Fist shattered the surrounding walls, revealing a deeper and more cavernous room.

“There’s something wrong here!” Echo was the first to sense that something was amiss. A buzzing sound reached his ears, and it wasn’t until something approached him that Echo remembered—it was the sound of insect wings flapping.

Buzzzz—

A sharp bone spike pierced through his chest without any delay, and more spikes shot out of the opening, merciless against his flesh, which burst into a spray of blood on contact.

Flash could not escape either. His eyes twinkled just long enough to illuminate the room momentarily before the light disappeared forever.

A spike lodged between his eyes, like crystal, splitting his skull wide open.

Blood spattered across Lu Ban’s face, his eyes capturing the briefly lit scene within the room.

It was a more spacious area, filled with countless black bugs squirming restlessly, their bodies equipped with sharp black spines capable of being launched as weapons.

The bugs occupied most of the space, but that wasn’t the most noteworthy sight.

What really drew the eye was the colossal creature amidst these bugs.

The massive beast, resembling a hornet combined with a spider, was firmly restrained within a huge mechanical structure. Its eight legs were chained, spikes driven into its body, and it was trapped on the ground within a rocky and steel prison cage. Beneath the monster lay a huge, white, writhing egg sac, continuously producing bug eggs that fell onto the conveyor belt and were carried elsewhere.

And many more eggs had hatched, resulting in the vast insect sea.

Lu Ban noticed an irregular hole in the ceiling directly above the space, with what appeared to be light beyond it. Countless bugs entered and exited through that hole, crawling on the ceiling.

At the same time, his True Sight also saw something resembling a coffin beneath the immense Queen Bug, lying there as if guarding something.

“No-Face,” Iron Fist called out, and then No-Face’s crystalline face exploded. He roared with all the strength he could muster in his life.

Frost spread from beneath his feet, completely freezing the bugs at the entrance.

The moisture within their bodies turned into ice crystals instantly, the expansion of ice causing them to swell and burst open, like blossoms covering the earth.

This wave of freezing frost solidified everything; a good portion of the space and the bugs within it were frozen solid, with traces of frost even spreading to the vicinity of the Queen Bug.

However, it was unable to continue moving forward.

But for Iron Fist, this had already bought enough time.

His right hand was completely crystallized, like a knight clad in gemstone armor, and that arm, now several times thicker than before, swung down toward the ice-crystal-covered ground.

Boom——

An explosion occurred.

Lu Ban finally understood where the initial explosion sound he heard had come from.

The moment Iron Fist’s crystallized arm struck the ground, it shattered, and his hefty body splintered into sharp fragments that flew about, slicing through the insects like a hot blade through solidified butter. Many bugs didn’t even realize what was happening and continued moving forward, only for their legs to move without their bodies following, severing in mid-air.

And there, Iron Fist’s hand was revealed again, quickly covered by crystal, ready for another blast.

Compared to Giant Arm’s primitive brute force method, Iron Fist’s ability was clearly more outstanding. Moreover, Lu Ban saw that he didn’t possess any peculiar powers; he simply used a special technique to explode the crystals on his arm.

In this world, there were different levels of ability users.

Just as Iron Fist was figuring out how to fire another shot, the insect swarm suddenly quieted down.

The surviving bugs retreated as if fearing something, dispersing to make a path.

“What’s going on?”

Lu Ban didn’t quite understand.

He saw a figure standing among those writhing, soon-to-be-hatched bug eggs and fierce, terrifying black insects.

It was the white-clothed, black-haired Remains of the Sage.

In this filthy, squalid world, it was spotless in white, its slender bare feet stepping on the blasphemous and frenzied insect carcasses, yet it remained untainted.

Its pitch-black eyes looked over here, silent, as if waiting for them to approach.

“I think, is it letting us in?”

Lu Ban looked at the exhausted No-Face and Iron Fist, who was ready to detonate the crystal in his hand at any moment.

“You see the Remains of the Sage?”

Iron Fist asked, staring blankly at the swarm of bugs, but he couldn’t see anything.

“Yeah, it’s standing right in the middle of the insect swarm.”

Lu Ban nodded.

“Could it be a trap?”

Shia seemed to be rolling a meatball in her hand, clasping a ball of invisible something.

“We can try it out.”

Lu Ban felt that if the Remains of the Sage wanted to harm him, it would have acted already, with no need to wait until now.

Since it appeared here, it must have had a reason to seek him out.

He clenched his crowbar, and in his other hand manifested “Testament,” ready to fire a Speech Bullet at the other party at any moment.

Lu Ban came face-to-face with the Remains of the Sage, when he suddenly noticed something.

The Remains of the Sage’s eyes and the Queen Bug’s insect eyes were eerily similar.

The next moment, the Queen Bug slowly shifted its body, bringing over its massive abdomen filled with bug eggs.

Lu Ban looked at the Queen Bug, then at the Remains of the Sage.

And then at that abdomen.

“???”

Could it be… this is a courtship?