At the Dead City, north encampment.

"Do you not hear me clearly? I said that we had to defend this camp no matter what!" said Vera while facing the captain that currently became the leader in this camp. Actually, she had requested this because currently, this was the war time and the most important thing to realize was the beasts already moved out.

"But how!? They will arrive at the entrance when the sun is almost at its lowest point. It means that our sights will be rendered useless and not only that but we lose our only hope to defend this place." the captain also had his own way to deal with this kind of problem.

'It's true that from the report that the Kreig Kingdom had gathered, this kind of beast can even move at night unhindered! Furthermore, we don't have something to fight with them in the darkness. Even with the good person that have strong capabilities to contend against hundred or even thousand of them, it will be for naught.'

This was one of the reasons why she decided to visit the tomb from the ancient god to find a method to fight against the beasts and if possible, strengthened herself.

Vera then glanced at the surrounding before returned her stare to the captain that stood still in his place. Both of them now were in a heated discussion about how to defend the camp!

While the ant king stood outside, observing every movement of the beasts which showed the numbers and their overwhelming flying dust and smoke made him worried a bit for this place well-being.

Suddenly he felt some connection with his colony. It turned out that Luki called their assistance and summoned Mobile Nest to do something together with his worker unit.

'The Serpent Outpost!' the ant king suddenly realized that the winged serpent that his colony felt was actually a Serpent Outpost. This kind of serpent actually had the innate ability to noticed any signs of threat in a radius of five kilometers. But that was not the worse part.

It was actually the other innate ability to produce the red mist which the serpent could customize at will.

'If this serpent already felt the danger, why it was still silent and let the camp still exist and even let them launch a campaign against them unless....' the ant king had the thought of the Outsiders Beast started to understand the art of war.

"Not good, they're here." the ant king's prediction turned into reality as some worms appeared from underground. The ant king used his human form in synchronization to move and kill some of the worms. But unfortunately, some unaware guards had fallen to these worms and even their scream only released little to no sound.

"The beasts overran the entire city!" someone exclaimed in that moment. This marked the worst hour in the battle and now that the beasts were right in their front door while they were unprepared, they could only run as far as their legs allowed.

"What, already!?" the captain felt annoyed by all of this matter but he could only do what he was supposed to do. So he took his blade and emitted his aura.

Then Vera also followed him but the captain then turned to her and said, "Can you fight?"

Vera only nodded and then both of them prepared to fight with their spirit! Even though the captain could not understand how can such person could fight with the beasts that already formed the sea of monsters. But in the end, he only added it as a bonus in this dire situation.

"Captain, please help us!" there were few soldiers that got their lucky better and started to attack the worms that appeared from underground. Their weapon full of the blood from the worms and even mixed with it some internal parts from the worms.

Then the captain gripped his sword and used his aura to release his energy from his body to the blade. He swung his blade to the ground and then a shockwave was created! This shockwave eventually made the ground cracked and shook before something came out from the ground at the same time.

"Fall back!" Vera could feel the huge presence underground. The captain heard that and stepped backward five times before they could see that a large mouth appeared on the ground. The ground sunk when the mouth appeared and even the other worms gathered around the mouth.

The ant king looked at the mouth that have circular shaped and the teeth that also in there. "It's that worm!"

What started as a battle now turned into mayhem. Then the large worm which its mouth appeared on the ground jumped out from the ground. Now everyone present could see its enormous body moved up and down, striking anything that stands in its way.

Vera tried to attack the large worm and prepared her strike. She released her martial aura before launching her strike towards the surface of its body.

"Skin Scratcher!" she used her nails which were enveloped by the aura to test the defense of the worm. But as expected, her strike did not leave any marks and that made her expression turned for the worse.

"It failed. This worm really tough on the outside!" Vera already prepared another plan to take this worm down but the captain who was fighting suddenly saw something else. There was a figure that stood at the top of the worm. His black hair could make anyone who sees it recognize the person.

"So this is really that worm." said the ant king. He used his sense to smell the scent of the worm then he analyzed the morphology of the worm.

"Sadly your opponent is me after all." the ant king then glanced down to see the first wave of the beasts started to pour down at the Dead City. Now the city became livelier by the sound of the battle that ongoing in the surrounding camp.

"Watch this!" the ant king's sound echoed through the city and could be heard by every living being there. But this was also the message that he had intended to sent to Vera. Because this was the highest mastery level at White Tiger martial arts and he even showed Vera the true Claw of White.

The ant king used his fingers to formed a claw-like stance before he proceeded with his attack. The claws penetrated the outer skin and even the flesh also had followed because of the power behind.

Because of the pain, the worm that already surfaced decided to submerged again to the ground!

'It's really strong!' Vera soon took a closer distance to the worm's body. She had already seen the technique that the ant king used was always in the state that she currently unable to reach!

'What should I do with my finger again?' recreated the scene where the ant king used his fingers only without even using his martial aura, Vera also tried to do the same.

'The gap between my finger should make it possible to scratch and tear apart the thing that stands in its way.'

Vera did what she can and now that she moved to tried her move, she also made her finger into claw-like, striking down the last bit of the worm's body before it fully submerged again due to the strike from both Vera and the ant king.

While the captain still slashed his sword against the numerous beasts that coming to his direction, he took a look at where Vera was.

'So far I killed fifty of them. But what about that worm? Why that person decided to go there?'

The captain thought about it and then he just decided to defend this place. There was no other choice anyways and he had sent the message to the nearby camp.

"Everyone! regroup at the center of the camp!" he did not know what to do but at least he needed to gather what he could to prolong the time.

And then every person that still standing now moved with their tattered armor and weapon. The smell of blood lingered in the air, and the atmosphere became much denser in that place.

Then Vera and the ant king met. "Do you have a solution for this?" the ant king asked. But Vera now in a dilemma because she did not want to reveal her identity right now until she returns to her place.

"I can't think of it for now. But if only I can use my full power here then this problem can be solved faster," said Vera while putting her hand on her chin.

"Or if Luki comes here and use his vehicle to support us then it is possible." she added.