One to Fifteen

No matter how many times she saw the Zerg transforming, Alyssa would always be shocked, let alone sixteen Zergs transforming at once.

When Alyssa saw the duel arena, which was made of thick super-hard metal plates, she originally thought that the arena was so huge that she would have a hard time running across the short side of the arena in one breath. However, after sixteen insects, each with a minimum length of six meters, all revealed their insect forms, the duel arena seemed cramped.

Flora spread her wings and flew upwards immediately after transforming into an insect. She wanted to distance herself from the other insects as quickly as possible. Once in the air, her only opponents were the winged insects.

A loud buzzing sound was heard, and the insects watching on the scene suddenly realized that the flapping of the wasp's wings was so loud that it was almost as loud as the roar of two scramjet engines!

Flora recalled last night, when Her Majesty the Insect Queen had given her two miniature frequency amplifiers, no bigger than the tip of her little finger, "Hide these two in your wing sacs before the battle begins tomorrow."

Flora hesitated a little: "Your Highness, I am confident that I can win even without using any tricks."

Alyssa said, "Flora, you will be challenging fifteen opponents alone tomorrow. This is not a fair duel. Moreover, I want to use this insect fight to do something. If you feel that this will tarnish your victory, you can choose not to accept it."

Hearing the Bug Mother's ulterior motives, Flora felt reassured. A soldier bug's duty was to obey the Bug Mother's orders. She took the two frequency-vibrating speakers and said, "I am at your service, Your Majesty Alyssa."

Flora flapped her wings vigorously, even intentionally brushing the frequency-vibrating speakers with them, filling the entire arena with a thunderous roar. The spectators' vests vibrated in unison with the wasp's wingbeats. Sound, touch, pheromones—these ancient, primitive Zerg communication methods—were amplified by the wasp. The dense swarm of Zerg gathered in the arena and stands, their already ignited fighting spirit, coupled with the wasp's rapid drumming, stirred the participants and spectators to a palpable state of agitation.

Alyssa watched Flora soar through the air like a fighter jet. She'd discovered, during her music class performance of "House of Flying Daggers," that the high-frequency, passionate resonance could stir the Zerg's fighting spirit. That fighting spirit sent their adrenaline soaring.

What will happen if the adrenaline of the Zerg who have used the primary honey remains at a high level and continues to accumulate?

Back to the night before, Alyssa said to Flora, "Flora, you must avoid fighting as much as possible and delay it. I know this might make you look less than heroic. Later on, your opponents will be motivated to fight, and they might resort to drastic measures against you, outside the rules. Please be sure to protect yourself..."

It's just a matter of maneuvering! What's that? Flora made a nimble right-angle turn, dodging the poisonous scales of the spur moth flapping its wings in front of her. Her opponents were eight winged insects, and only the fire dragonfly could keep up with her.

Flora's compound eyes with a wide field of vision saw that the fire dragonfly was indeed catching up with her, and she immediately rose upwards. The height of the laser sensing line was only 200 meters, and there was no upper limit. As long as she didn't go out of bounds, she would not lose!

After flying for a while, Flora discovered that as she got farther and farther away from the ground, the wingless insects on the ground seemed less agitated.

Flora: ...

She remembered that Her Majesty Alyssa had asked her to spread the sound of flapping wings as much as possible throughout the venue.

Then the insects saw that the source of the noise had already moved far away, but suddenly turned around in the air and fell towards the duel arena like a falling cannonball.

Insects: ...Come on, please! Why didn't I find you wasps so annoying before?

Alyssa sat upright on the VIP table, her eyes seemingly following the flying chase, but in fact her attention was always on Alfonso who was near the VIP table.

Alfonso looked very uncomfortable. His always calm and kind face was cut into pieces by sunken wrinkles and grooves, making him look particularly tired and old.

"Master Alfonso, are you alright?"

The Worm Queen's concern made Alfonso try to cheer himself up. He held his forehead and said, "Your Highness, I'm fine. It's just that this wasp is giving me a headache."

"Do you need Chief Medical Officer Vio to examine you?"

"No need, Your Majesty Alyssa... An old bug like me will always have minor ailments. I just need to rest for a while."

There were some uncomfortable bugs like Alfonso in the stands, and they were all remembered by the Tiger Armor Guards who were scattered across the stands to maintain order.

The comments on Star Online have become a mess:

[What the hell is going on? Where's the bug fight? Why can't that wasp fly? Or is it a soldier bug? Can it just run away? Fight them!]

"She flies her own way, but why aren't these bugs on the ground fighting? Are they really banding together to fight the wasps? Is the Third Legion so uncouth? Fifteen against one?"

[It was hilarious! The audience was so bored that they put on masks of pain.]

The live broadcast had audio processed, so the bugs on Starnet couldn't hear Flora's deafening roar. They only knew that the expected primal melee had turned into a flying chase, with the wasp attracting hatred while the remaining bugs stared blankly.

[Wait, is that wolf spider on the ground refilling its venom glands?]

【Is it so cruel? 】

Because insect fights are generally for show, not to kill or injure, participants are warned to be cautious before entering the arena. For example, the venom of poisonous insects should be reduced in dosage, and the claws of beetles should not be able to bite through the opponent.

But the wolf spiders and red fire ants on the ground have become brighter in color, obviously filling their venom glands to produce poison.

The spur moths in the air also fanned their scales and powder, even releasing their venomous stingers. The spur moths and fire dragonflies combined to squeeze Flora's flight space ever smaller, forcing her to descend ever closer to the ground. Once she reached a certain altitude, the tarantula's poisonous silk and the fire ant's venom sprayed towards her. The splattered venom landed on the super-hard alloy surface, emitting a sizzling white smoke that was clearly highly acidic.

[Hey, hey, hey! This is foul play! Aren't you both from the Third Legion?! Why are you trying to kill her?]

【Was there any referee intervention? 】

Alyssa sat at the VIP table and quietly clenched her fists under her skirt. Her palms were sweaty, knowing that this was the critical moment.

Flora, please hold on!

Flora dodged left and right, and suddenly her head was touched gently by someone's warm hand, and Flora's field of vision suddenly became wider.

The wasp's compound eyes originally had a wide field of vision, 270 degrees horizontally and 180 degrees vertically, covering most of the area in front of and to the sides of its head. However, there was still a blind spot behind it. Flora was facing many enemies, her space for movement was shrinking, and the situation was becoming increasingly unfavorable for her. But now, these blind spots in her field of vision had disappeared.

Alyssa closed her eyes, pretending not to bear seeing Flora's miserable state. In reality, her eyes beneath her thin eyelids had become golden compound eyes. Thin, transparent lines of mental energy shot out from the top of her head and landed on Flora's.

Ever since Alyssa started school, public footage has shown the lines of the Worm Mother's spiritual power materializing, all of which are golden. This golden spiritual power perfectly matches the Worm Mother's golden compound eyes, leading many Worms to mistakenly believe that the Worm Mother's spiritual power, which can materialize, is golden.

Only the bugs around Alyssa knew that the mental power Alyssa first displayed was transparent, soft and elastic little tentacles.

Alyssa stretched her mental power into thin, transparent threads, with herself as the core, linking Gabriel and Ryan on the VIP stand, the housekeeping officers and tiger armor guards scattered in various stands, and of course, Flora in the duel arena.

They were all worms whose spiritual anchors had been absorbed into the worm mother's spiritual world. With the worm mother's spiritual connection, their vision and perception were shared. They stared intently at every worm in the duel arena from all directions and angles.

So Flora could clearly see without looking back that the wolf spider was accumulating strength in the blind spot behind her. This was the wolf spider's starting move before spitting out poisonous silk!

Ryan could communicate with the other insects seamlessly in the spiritual world connected to the insect mother. He commanded, "Four o'clock! Dive first, then quickly turn left at a right angle!"

In reality, Ryan didn't even need to say it. In the shared mind chain, Ryan's thoughts were practically identical to Flora's. She followed his orders without hesitation, as if Ryan had taken over her body. The timing and distance were exactly as Ryan had imagined.

Flora dodged the wolf spider's venomous silk, which had been shot high into the air, and it landed on the fire dragonfly, the one chasing Flora the most. The venom-laden silk smeared his face, and he wailed in pain, slamming headfirst into a beetle on the ground. The beetle, unable to retract its claws, pierced the dragonfly's wings. The pain drove the dragonfly insane, and it curled its long tail around the beetle, tightly wrapping itself around it.

He couldn't let go of the beetle, because if he did, its wings would be broken.

Seeing that Flora was surrounded by insects and fought back, killing two of them at once, people on Starnet started cheering for Flora.

After spinning silk, a wolf spider experiences a vacuum period, emptying its abdomen of silk and venom. Its body needs time to mobilize its venom and silk glands to prepare for the next attack. Flora seized this opportunity, flying low over the ground, catching the temporarily incapacitated wolf spider and flinging it out of the arena with a tail flick!

Flora then continued to tease the fire ants and moths at low altitude, perfectly dodging both the scaly stingers from above and the corrosive venom sprayed from below. Instead, it was the moths' stingers that pricked the fire ants on the ground, causing them to writhe in agony. The fire ants' acid corroded the moths' wings, causing them to lose their balance and be knocked out of the arena by Flora.

She had torn a gap in the encirclement and blockade of Flora. Flora spun around again, hovering in the air. Ten of her opponents remained!

Since the opponent can foul and attack her, there should be no problem for her to make appropriate counterattacks, right?

The wasp hovering in the air showed its sharp, shiny stinger.

Flora is fearless. She is the largest, the strongest, the fastest, can fly, and has the all-around vision provided by the Worm Queen.

It's time for her to strike back!

The Star Network barrage was already going crazy. This wasp had truly managed a one-on-fifteen fight, and was practically winning!

[Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, Sister Fu, my sister, do you really have no weaknesses? ]

[Oh my god, this prediction is like having eyes on the back of my head!]

[Ahhh, sister, please hit me gently! The tube of my vest is about to be knocked out by your headbutt!]

[Wasps are the most powerful species, no objection allowed!]

Half an hour later, only one bug remained in the duel arena.

A giant ten-meter-long wasp.

The insect queen on the VIP stand finally opened her eyes when she heard that the winner of the insect fight had been decided.

She smiled and stood up, applauding the wasp. With the wasp queen taking the lead, the audience stood up and applauded loudly.

Flora returned to her mimic form, still her sturdy figure, broad shoulders and slender waist. She knelt on one knee facing the insect queen at the VIP table. Meanwhile, on the sidelines, the insects she had thrown out of the duel, listening to the applause, found the noisy sound, like the sound of Flora's wings just now, irritating them.

They were so embarrassed. Even with the siege of many Zergs and the fouls, they still couldn't defeat the wasp. Their weakness and lack of martial ethics were not only exposed in front of the Zerg Queen and the 60,000 Zergs on the scene, but were even broadcast live on the Star Network to billions of Zergs!

Flora must have cheated. How could she do that? Why were her wings so loud? She's the one who's being unsportsmanlike!

The eyes of the insects that were still gasping for breath on the sidelines lit up red, and dense spines appeared where their shells met. They rolled over and pounced towards Flora in the field amid the exclamations of the audience.