Chapter 364: Fated weakness
Ninth transmitted all she learned to her teammates telepathically. And once they understood her, a flicker of hope was finally regained in their eyes.
The prismatic dragon once again shined with the luster equivalent to the strengths of six Specialist-level Saviors, surprising the Malificient queen and her horde.
It followed up this rejuvenation by spreading its wings out and roaring to the skies, conjuring with it a large dark cloud that seemed to rumble and shake.
Then, after a few seconds, it started raining.
But it wasn't water that was falling down in drops, it was small prismatic fire droplets!
That wasn't the only one they used. The dragon raised its hands, conjuring an invisible giant hand that scooped up thousands upon thousands of Canzers in the ground and pushed them together into a single space. The weak Canzers couldn't handle the invisible hands' powers and simply died under the pressure.
Then, the prismatic fire droplets suddenly stopped in the air and turned their attention towards the grouped-up Canzers.
As if being attracted, the droplets defied gravity and rained down towards this single space, turning thousands of Canzers into nothing but ashes.
And since the rain continued to pour down more and more prismatic fire droplets, the Canzers couldn't regenerate or duplicate themselves properly.
Of course, this expended a lot more energy from the prismatic dragon, but it would all be worth it in the end.
Then, it conjured its strongest attack once again, the lightspeed prismatic fire bullet, and fired off toward the remaining horde of Canzers.
This time, however, the prismatic dragon didn't stay still. It dove down and wreaked havoc upon the horde of Canzers along with the lightspeed prismatic fire bullet near its body, continuing to riddle the Canzers with holes.
'Decided to dirty your hands? You're truly not a dragon yourself,' the Queen Malificient laughed in the air.
She let the prismatic dragon do whatever it wanted because she knew that it would do nothing to her army. Not only that, the humans would only be spending their powers uselessly.
'Swarm them!' the Queen ordered.
And just like that, the tens of thousands of Canzers converged upon the prismatic dragon that dared to fly low enough for them to reach.
Even though the dragon ripped them to shreds the moment they came close, the Canzers didn't care and continued to pile themselves up onto the prismatic dragon's body regardless of the consequences.
And no matter how strong the prismatic dragon was, it could not contest against the ever-growing number of Canzers that were trying to swarm her.
It finally reached a point where the dragon was completely submerged in a sea of Canzers, unable to move forward any longer.
The Canzers cheered, thinking that they finally conquered the false dragon.
The Malificient dragon realized that something was wrong. According to her estimations, the humans shouldn't be this weak. They shouldn't be swarmed by her army this easily. She was hoping that the humans would be stupid enough to continue killing her Canzers so that they could evolve and clone themselves infinitely, turning her ten-thousand army into millions and billions!
But it seemed that they were defeated easily, which didn't seem possible.
After all, they had that lightspeed prismatic bullet with them. It could tear through her army like nothing.
It was only then that she realized that the prismatic bullet was gone. It wasn't hovering around the prismatic dragon's body anymore. It seemed to have vanished entirely.
Using her vision, she was able to keep up with the lightspeed bullet relatively easily. But because she was distracted for a little bit, she lost sight of the bullet the moment it disappeared.
She looked at her body, thinking that they were planning an ambush attack.
But she wasn't sensing any threat directed towards her.
Just then, she saw a flash of light down to her army.
Right next to the torch bearer was the prismatic bullet! Somehow, it had sneaked through the rest of the army and targeted the very weakness of the army itself!
Using her wings, the Malificient Queen tried to stop the prismatic bullet from hitting the torch that held her entire army afloat.
But it was too late.
BOOGSHH!
The prismatic fire bullet collided with the torch, tearing it asunder and breaking the very foundation of the torch itself.
The fire slowly withered until it was nothing but smoke.
Suddenly, the air changed. Ninth and her team no longer felt the oppressing aura of the army bearing down on them. It was as if a window had opened, and all the pent-up pressure was finally let out into the open.
Ninth smiled. This was their chance!
Using all their strength, they spat out a hundred more lightspeed prismatic fire bullets simultaneously.
Each one of them was as powerful as the last one.
The Queen saw this and screamed out,
'NO!'
But she could do nothing as the prismatic dragon threw hundreds of prismatic bullets in the air.
The Canzers all looked up, a little bit enchanted by the sight of the prismatic bullets similar to fireworks.
But before they could even appreciate the sight, the prismatic bullets disappeared from the air and riddled the tens of thousands of Canzers with burned holes in a matter of a fraction of a second.
Each bullet tore through every single Canzer in the army, letting no survivor in their midst.
After a second passed, the Canzers all felt a strange cold feeling in their bodies. They looked down and saw their bodies missing large pieces of chitin.
That was their last thought as they fell to the ground, unable to regenerate or clone themselves any longer. They felt as if they were abandoned by the light of their queen.
They looked up at their queen, begging for mercy, but she could do nothing as they all died without her power.
In just a matter of a second, the entire army was finally defeated, marking a very significant victory for the humans.
'TULIP!!!! YOU TRAITOR! YOU SIDED WITH THE HUMANS!'
The Queen immediately knew that it was Tulip who guided the humans to the torch bearer.
Tulip was fated to be the weakness of the Queen, after all.