Reincarnated as a Mosquito, I Sucked the Reborn Empress to Tears - Chapter 454: The Tide Turns, Sustaining War with War
On the battlefield, blood and fire intertwined.
The air was filled with battle cries, agonizing screams, the clang of weapons, the thunder of exploding Energy, and the roars of Fierce Beasts…
After the reinforcements arrived, the morale of the Human Race’s warriors had indeed been rekindled.
But reality was cruel.
The disparity in numbers, the gap in Low Tier combat strength, was far greater than anyone had imagined—so great that it could nullify all tactics and courage.
BANG!
High above, Li Zhantian slashed his saber, forcing a Monarch Level alien to retreat. His chest heaved violently as he gasped for breath.
’Dammit!’
A towering rage and frustration surged within Li Zhantian.
He was strong. He could take on three opponents at once, maybe even four!
But in the end, he was only one man. He couldn’t be everywhere at once!
He could see, not far away, the elites he had brought from the East State Combat Zone—his brothers, as close as his own limbs—falling one by one.
The Human Race’s defensive line was being continuously compressed and torn apart.
An indescribable grief, indignation, and regret welled up inside him.
’If only! If only I hadn’t listened to that old bastard Qin Zhen’s orders!’
’If only I’d trusted that mosquito a little more and chosen to stay!’
’Then, with the solid fortifications of the first defensive line, the Human Race could have definitely held out much longer. We absolutely wouldn’t be in this desperate situation, forced to plug the gaps with human lives!’
’But what’s the use of saying all this now?!’
“Aaaargh!!”
Li Zhantian let out an indignant roar. The light from his Battle Saber flared, once again forcing back the charging aliens.
Below the walls of Beitian Pass.
Luo Zhan stood there, his body trembling slightly from his severe injuries and rage.
His eyes were locked on the battlefield.
He saw a new recruit, enlisted for only half a year, have half his body bitten off by an alien. But before dying, he desperately clung to the alien’s leg and detonated the last Spiritual Energy grenade on his belt.
He saw a warrior from the Southern Border Beast Cavalry. His mount was torn to shreds and he himself had lost an arm, yet he still laughed maniacally as he tore out an alien’s throat with his teeth.
He also saw warriors from the Western Desert’s Direwolf Army. Three of them stood back-to-back in a small battle formation, facing the siege of dozens of Domain Fierce Beasts. Not a single one retreated, fighting until they were completely overwhelmed.
His heart felt like it was being sliced apart, piece by piece.
He, Luo Zhan, could die here. He had long been prepared to be buried in the ice fields of the Northern Domain.
Even his soldiers from the Northern Domain could all die here.
But these brothers who had traveled thousands of miles, braving immense risks to come as reinforcements—they shouldn’t have to die here in vain!
’We can’t hold on.’
’We really can’t hold on anymore.’
Continuing to fight would be meaningless, other than sending more men to their deaths for nothing.
Luo Zhan slowly closed his eyes as two lines of bloody tears trickled from their corners.
He snapped his eyes open. The pain and indignation within them finally turned into a deathly resolve.
He opened his mouth, mustering all his strength, preparing to give the one order he never wanted to give in his life.
“All troops…”
At that very moment, a faint buzzing sound registered in his ear.
A tiny mosquito landed on his shoulder.
It let out a soft buzz, as if to say, ’Don’t worry, I’m here.’
Before Luo Zhan could even react, the single buzz he’d just heard suddenly became an overwhelming, earth-shattering roar!
BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ—!!!
It was the sound of thousands, even hundreds of thousands, of Insect Beast wings vibrating in unison!
He snapped his head up to look.
In the next second, he witnessed a scene that he would never forget for the rest of his life.
Above Beitian Pass, the sky that had been shrouded in the smoke of battle was, at some unknown point, replaced by a boundless, black cloud of insects.
That insect cloud, like a demonic tide surging from the depths of hell, descended upon the Alien Race’s army below with world-destroying momentum!
And at the very forefront of that endless insect tide, leading it all, was the very same mosquito on his shoulder.
As Chu Sheng shot forward, he didn’t forget to glance back in Luo Zhan’s direction. His enormous compound eyes seemed to give a wink.
In that moment, in the eyes of the iron-blooded commander Luo Zhan, that was no mosquito.
It was a god.
That scene would be forever branded upon the depths of his soul.
Even many years later, long after he had achieved great fame and reached the highest echelons of power, whenever someone asked him what the most shocking scene he had ever witnessed was, he would answer without hesitation.
“That year, in the snowstorms of the Northern Domain.
“A mosquito, leading its army of thousands, descended from the heavens.”
…
「On the battlefield.」
A warrior from the East State Combat Zone was locked in a bloody battle with a Fierce Soldier Level alien.
He was already exhausted. His Armor was in tatters, and only half of the long saber in his hand remained.
’It’s over.’
He stared at the ugly face filled with sharp teeth and closed his eyes in despair.
However, the anticipated pain never came.
Instead, the agonized shrieks of an alien filled his ears.
He snapped his eyes open.
He saw over a hundred grotesque, basketball-sized wasps, completely covered in black heavy armor, swarming and relentlessly attacking the alien.
The alien struggled frantically, trying to shake off the bizarre wasps, but it was completely useless.
After just a moment, the alien collapsed, lifeless.
’What… what are these things?’
The warrior stared at the strange wasps, momentarily dazed. He thought the Alien Race had deployed some new type of soldier.
But then he saw that after killing the alien, the strange wasps circled once, did not attack him, and instead turned and charged toward another group of combatants.
’They’re allies?’
’These terrifying insects are on our side?!’
The same scene was playing out frantically in every corner of the battlefield.
The army of over two hundred thousand Insect Beasts was like a red-hot iron poker plunged mercilessly into a block of butter.
Under Chu Sheng’s command, the Insect Beasts formed small squads to specifically hunt down the Low Tier aliens.
When facing stronger Warrior Level and War General Level aliens, the Insect Beasts would even cooperate with the Human Race’s warriors to kill the enemy together!
Soon, with the help of a full two hundred and sixty thousand Insect Beasts, the tide of battle was completely, utterly reversed!
The Alien Race’s army, which had been on the verge of victory, was completely stunned.
’Where the hell did so many monsters come from?’
As for the Human Race’s warriors, after their initial shock, they erupted in sky-shaking cheers!
“Brothers! Counterattack! Fight back!”
“Kill them!!”
In an instant, morale shot up from the depths of despair to its absolute peak!
The Alien Race could no longer advance even half a step. Instead, the joint army of the Human and Insect Races beat them into a steady retreat, and they began to rout!
The scales of victory had begun to tip!
And at this moment, as the architect of all this, Chu Sheng himself did not personally join the battle.
He moved like a Ghost, zipping back and forth across the chaotic battlefield.
He had only one objective.
And that was to collect corpses!
One by one, he took the freshly fallen bodies of the aliens, whether they were whole or in pieces!
’Damn it, every bit of Life Essence I can recycle is a win!’
’So many aliens have died on this battlefield. It would be a total waste to leave them!’
After experiencing the power of his Insect Beast army, Chu Sheng placed even greater importance on Life Essence.
’This stuff is completely different from Qi Blood and Mental Power, and it’s amazing!’
[Ding! Fierce Soldier Level alien corpse recycled. Life Essence +700!]
[Ding! Warrior Level alien corpse recycled. Life Essence +1500!]
[Ding…]
’Awesome! This feels so damn good!’
Chu Sheng’s Life Essence, which had dwindled to just over twenty million, once again began to skyrocket at a terrifying speed!
Thirty million! Forty million! Fifty million!
’What do you call this? This is… fueling the war with war!’
