From Ant to Abyssal Demon - Chapter 37

Chapter 37: Hunting, King of the Fishmen!

In a game world, players were destined to arrive eventually.

Otherwise, it wouldn’t be called a game world.

Su Bai had always understood that the world he lived in was a game world. He also knew that players would appear in this world sooner or later.

They would start as the weakest level 1 entities and grow at an unimaginable speed, plundering all available resources and slaying all monsters they encountered to forge their own strength!

Simply running away wouldn’t work.

Players’ greatest advantage was that they were players.

For Su Bai, this was a real world, but for the players, it was just a game.

Even if characters died in the game, they could resurrect. Or they could reappear in the world with a new character (a newly created account).

Given enough time, they would explore every corner of this world and discover every monster.

Given enough time, they would grow almost without limits.

When thousands of top-tier players emerged, Su Bai, as a mere village boss at level 12 with a warrior template, would stand no chance. If the game allowed, even the abyssal demons and gods of the celestial temples would fall to the players!

The only solution was to quickly enhance his own power.

He had to grow stronger at a pace faster than the players!

Before the players could grow, he needed to become someone they could only look up to.

Before the players could grow, he needed to become one of the peak existences in this world.

Perhaps this was the only way he could escape the fate of a monster.

In other words, if he could become a great demon of the endless abyss before the players grew, even if he couldn’t escape being hunted by players eventually, he would be the longest-living monster.

Grow and become stronger.

Grow and become stronger as fast as possible!

This was Su Bai’s only way out!

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The essence from the dozen fishmen corpses had been completely absorbed by the Demon Insect Lance, leaving only a pile of gray powder.

Putting away the Demon Insect Lance, Su Bai led the worker ants in the direction the fishmen had come from.

In five days, Su Bai had collected most of the information about the Poison Gas Swamp but hadn’t found the specific location of the fishman lord.

His strategy was simple: kill!

Kill every swamp fishman that appeared in his path!

With their simple social structure, the fishman lord wouldn’t allow Su Bai to slaughter its kin without reacting. The more he killed, the higher the chance a stronger fishman would come for revenge.

By killing his way through, he would eventually encounter the king of the swamp fishmen, the fishman lord.

As for whether his level 12 warrior template could match the fishman lord…

Ridiculous!

Having undergone five evolutions and possessing four resistance skills, if he couldn’t defeat a fishman lord, he might as well stay in the Gloomy Forest as a local tyrant and wait to die when the players arrived.

Soon, Su Bai and the worker ants encountered a second group of swamp fishmen.

Unlike the first group, this one had noticeably higher quality.

At a glance, he saw two advanced fishmen — the agile advanced class among swamp fishmen, the fishman rovers.

These level 18 fishman rovers had high agility and considerable strength, making them stronger than goblin centurions. Only warrior-level goblins could match them.

But to Su Bai, fishman rovers were still minor foes, mere cannon fodder.

As soon as this group of swamp fishmen appeared, Su Bai activated his maximum speed, charging into their midst before they could react.

The Demon Insect Lance then slashed a dark streak through the air.

An entire group of over a dozen fishmen had their heads severed, their blue-scaled bodies collapsing.

Stacking the fishmen corpses, Su Bai let the Demon Insect Lance devour them, then continued with the worker ants in the direction the fishmen had come from.

An hour later, Su Bai and the worker ants encountered a third group of swamp fishmen, this time with more advanced fishmen.

Two hours later, they encountered a fourth group of swamp fishmen, which included an elite monster, a level 20 fishman spellcaster.

However, the poison and ice spells of the fishman spellcaster were completely ineffective against Su Bai. With one strike, the spellcaster’s head was severed, adding to Su Bai’s experience and evolution points.

Three hours…

Four hours…

After half a day, following the direction from which the groups of swamp fishmen had appeared, Su Bai finally found his target.

A sparse forest had grown within the swamp.

In the middle of these woods were hundreds of crude wooden huts.

Each hut was built around a tree. Though rudimentary, they resembled human dwellings compared to the goblin race’s shabby tents.

Hundreds of wooden huts housed thousands of swamp fishmen.

And in the center of these huts resided the fishman lord, the king of the swamp fishmen!

“A level 25 boss fishman lord, three level 22 warrior-class fishman rovers, over thirty level 20 elite fishmen, and hundreds of advanced fishmen…

“The swamp fishmen are quite strong, but their war potential is still less than that of the Devouring Ants.”

After comparing the war potential of the swamp fishmen and the Devouring Ants, Su Bai instructed the worker ants to wait in a hidden spot nearby. Using the dappled shadows cast by the trees, he stealthily approached the fishman lord.