This Text Adventure Game is definitely poisonous-Chapter 928 - 444: Guardian of the Desert

"Ifrit, may you die a terrible death!"

Caesar was seething with rage but at the same time couldn’t stop the panic from setting in.

Having been stabbed in the heart by the Desert Guardian, he would soon lose all his strength and turn into a Holy Beetle with less than a year to live.

And there were so many cats around...

Caesar could already imagine what was going to happen to him next: These creatures were not even planning to let him live as an insect!

"Dream on if you think you can kill me!"

Seeing his fate was sealed, Caesar suddenly let out a roar, and while the Divine Power within him hadn’t completely dissipated, he hurriedly used the last bit of his Divine Power to summon a swarm of Holy Beetles he had been breeding in the God Realm over the years.

The next moment, Caesar’s Titan stature rapidly shrank until he disappeared, turning into a Holy Beetle the size of a fingertip, flipped onto its back, legs thrashing in the air, shrieking incessantly.

At the same time, countless Holy Beetles emerged from where Caesar had vanished, numbering in the hundreds of thousands, quickly engulfing the beetle that Caesar had become.

Then, like a wave, the dense swarm of beetiles rapidly dispersed in all directions.

The gathered cats instinctively leapt backwards; there was no choice—despite each beetle being weak, once amassed in such numbers, they could ravage a creature in seconds, like locusts devouring crops.

Even Evans and the Scorplion instinctively retreated a few steps, leaping onto higher ground to find safety before starting to retaliate.

As everyone else was retreating, only two figures stood their ground without moving, and began attacking the swarm directly.

One was the Bone Dragon, a Divine Beast with nothing but bone left, which didn’t fear such flesh-targeting pests; with its tail whipping continuously, swathes of beetles were instantly crushed to death.

The other was Mu You, currently in his Mecha form, not bothered by the beetles at all, and what’s more, he had his Pocket Watch for premonition—in the moment the swarm emerged, his Shotguns never stopped shooting, aiming precisely where Caesar had vanished under the swarm.

Amidst the blaze of gunfire, swathes of beetles in that area died off.

From a distance, Lin Xue joined the battlefield, the Grim Reaper wielding a Sickle that mowed down swathes of beetles.

With their efforts, the overwhelming tide of beetles visibly thinned out.

As the number of beetles decreased, the observing cats also jumped into the fray, the little moving creatures proving irresistibly attractive to felines.

Thousands of cats swiftly initiated their paw-striking mode, killing a beetle with each swipe, leading to countless Holy Beetles falling to cat claws.

However, it seemed as though the beetles had been given orders, not stopping to attack anyone but instead scattering directly toward the outskirts of the Oasis.

"Caesar wants to flee into the desert, stop him!" shouted the Bard.

The others, of course, understood this and enacted various measures to kill off the beetles.

It was unfortunate that the Holy Beetles weren’t afraid of fire, which would have made the cleanup much easier.

In this manner, the beetles fled endlessly, pursued and killed off by the group and the cats, quickly annihilating over 99% of them. Only a small number escaped due to being too widely dispersed and too small a target, slipping from sight by crawling into the various nooks and crannies of the terrain.

"That’s about it,"

Having killed off every beetle within sight, Mu You put away his red-hot barrels, "If he can still survive after this, then he’s just lucky."

On hearing this, the others also ceased their pursuit.

Even Evans and the Scorplion, who hated Caesar the most, also chose to stop.

Of course, the most important reason was it no longer mattered. Caesar had become a beetle and lost all his power; he couldn’t do anything anymore, and whether he was alive or dead made no difference.

Just as everyone stopped, a few dozen meters away in a crevice in the ground, a Holy Beetle sneakily crawled out, hugging the ground beneath a patch of low-lying grass leaves, and began frantically scuttling away.

This Holy Beetle was none other than the incarnation of Caesar.

At this moment, Caesar’s heart was filled with relief.

He had thought today would be the most unlucky day of his life, with everything plummeting to the nadir in an instant, almost leading to the most miserable end. But to his surprise, in the final moment, his luck had astonishingly burst forth, allowing him to survive the frantic pursuit of those people.

Caesar, reflecting on the brush with death he had just experienced, could hardly believe it himself.

Even though he couldn’t recover his power or his original form and had to remain as an insect, at least he was still alive. And more importantly, he retained his consciousness, which set him apart from a common Holy Beetle!

As long as he could escape, he could go find those fools from the Caesar Divine Sect and fool them into continuing to serve him in the name of ’Caesar’s incarnation’.

Then, lifespan and resources for survival would all be readily available. If he was lucky, he could still enjoy a king-like life, even if he could only enjoy it in the form of an insect...

Of course, all this was predicated on surviving here first!

Caesar silently dreamt, speeding up his segmented crawling.

After traversing the dense grass, Caesar’s narrow field of vision finally caught sight of the gleaming desert ahead, just a few dozen meters away.

Ceasar was ecstatic; once he could escape into the desert and burrow into the sand, those people behind him would be completely unable to touch him.