The flames quickly spread throughout his body, enveloping him.
Inside his soul, a powerful surge of Spiritual Energy rose rapidly like a stream after a torrential rain.
Rod felt his power increasing at an unstoppable rate.
He lifted his hand, pointing his fingertips at the Big King Ant. Star Lines shot out with unprecedented speed, swiftly coiling around his fingertips.
Amidst the flickering starlight, a Star Shuttle much more powerful than ever before was taking shape.
"Hold on!" Rod shouted loudly!
Lannis’s spirit was jolted, and the gale suddenly intensified, as countless Wind Blades flew towards the Big King Ant.
Cilly also raised her silver greatsword high, wildly slashing and hacking, entangled in close combat with the Big King Ant.
Strong waves of Spiritual Energy gathered from afar, the charging of the Star Shuttle surpassing any moment before, and its dangerous aura unsettled the Big King Ant, which instinctively tried to dodge but was firmly entangled by Cilly and Lannister.
The two desperately held it down until the Star Shuttle was launched.
In that instant, a tremendously bright light shot through the air, and the massive Star Shuttle struck the Big King Ant’s head directly.
The huge explosion sent them both flying backward, the scattered starlight enveloping the entire area like a meteor shower.
Cilly exclaimed in surprise, "Is it dead?"
Lannister’s face was grave, "Not yet!"
He could clearly sense that although the Big King Ant had been severely injured, its Spiritual Energy had not dissipated.
But the next moment, a figure flew in and instantly plunged its right hand into its soul.
Accompanied by a muffled sound from the Void, the Big King Ant slumped to the ground.
[The soul of the large Demonized King Ant]
It was finally killed!
This thing was too difficult to kill.
He turned his head and saw the two, frozen like statues, and couldn’t help but smile.
The starlight fell from the sky, as though it was celebrating his Victory.
At this moment, Lannister and Cilly truly felt the extraordinariness of Rod.
After killing the Demonized Big King Ant, Rod, against all advice, insisted on continuing their journey.
His reason was simple. Although the Victory was hard-won, the achievement of killing a single Big King Ant was too insignificant; they needed to kill many more.
Of course, the real reason was that the [Pioneer of Destruction] and [Goddess’ Tears] were too expensive.
The former required 100 top-grade Black Fire Fuel Elements, which needed specific ashes and were extremely rare.
As for the latter, it required Starlight Fragments.
Rod once thought they were cheap, but later he found out that only Mephit was cheap.
In Royal City, trading Starlight Fragments was forbidden; they came from the power of stars that scattered into the Material World and only appeared during certain celestial events, being very rare and hard to store.
Rod didn’t have many on hand, and each used was one less available.
Not to fully exploit the value of the [Pioneer of Destruction] at this time would have been a total loss!
Although Rod’s suggestion was extremely unreasonable, everyone still chose to trust him.
And for the fire on his body, Rod routinely pushed it off to the [Black Bottomless Pit].
A bottomless pit could hold anything, what’s so strange about that?
Lannister roughly guessed a bit of the truth but didn’t say more, simply readjusting their tactics, demanding that during combat, Anna and Mephit stood far enough away so that if they detected the Big King Ant displaying signs of releasing a Spiritual Power Shock, they would turn and run immediately.
This tactic worked out well; in the following period, they successfully hunted down two more Big King Ants, expending far less effort than on the first one.
Gradually, confidence built among the group as they continued towards the central region.
Just then, something terrible happened.