Chapter 492: Chapter 492: Completion

In just a few minutes, the Insect Race nest, which was previously filled with a sinister vitality, had its core completely destroyed.

Deprived of the energy and command from the mother nest, the remaining Insect Race guards immediately fell into chaos.

Wizard Herbert didn’t even glance at the remaining Insect Race, directly ordering the slave creatures to conduct the final sweep, while notifying the rear troops to enter for thorough purification work.

The entire purification operation, from the beginning to the destruction of the mother nest core, took a very short time.

After the remaining Insect Race guards fell into chaos, they no longer attacked in an organized manner, but rather scattered instinctively, even beginning to attack and devour each other.

This chaos created excellent conditions for subsequent cleanup and investigation work.

Upon Wizard Herbert’s command, the prepared rear troops swiftly advanced into the basin.

This team carried various peculiar witchcraft artifacts and equipment, clearly divided in their duties, acting efficiently as they immediately engaged in intense work.

Several wizards dressed in sealed protective robes and wearing special goggles took the lead, holding magic wands resembling metal branches, inserting them into the ground at key points around the basin.

The tip of the magic wand lit up, releasing light blue energy ripples that quickly connected into a huge isolation force field, enveloping the entire basin.

This force field not only prevents any possible surviving Insect Race individuals from escaping but more importantly isolates external energy and material exchange, avoiding the scattering of residual Insect Race tissue or spores by wind or water, causing uncontrollable ecological pollution.

Immediately after, another team of wizards entered the field.

They carefully avoided combat areas still being cleared by slave creatures, using specially crafted tweezers, cutters, and collection boxes flickering with rune light, systematically gathering various samples.

The mother nest remains are extremely important; the Wizard Plane currently has very little understanding of the Void Insect Race, and the mother nest as a core existence holds highly valuable research potential.

They focus on collecting relatively intact tissue blocks that haven’t been completely obliterated, especially fragments from the core area, to analyze its energy conduction structure and overall developmental process.

As for other eliminated Insect Race units, they are also significant; from the lowest level workers to elite Insect Race guards, different kinds and developmental stages of specimens are gathered wherever possible, particularly relatively intact brain nodes or nerve bundles, aiming to research their social connectivity and information transmission methods.

Meanwhile, Herbert also ordered slave creatures to capture some live specimens for future investigation and research.

Know yourself and your enemy, and you can fight a hundred battles without defeat.

Wizards are inherently a group with a strong research spirit, already filled with curiosity about unknown races they haven’t encountered before.

Now that these unknown races have even invaded the Wizard Plane, naturally their attention is more focused.

They need to thoroughly investigate all information about the Void Insect Race; only after identifying its weaknesses can they better target this species.

Wizards are never a reckless or rash group; analyzing a foe’s preferences is among their interests.

Even though the Void Insect Race currently seems somewhat formidable, it doesn’t evoke any fear in them; instead, it further arouses their curiosity.

The wizard squad still engaged in investigation and research work continued to scrape microbial blanket samples from different areas, gather biological matrices forming incubation cavities, spore cannons, and other structures for subsequent analysis of their components, energy characteristics, and self-proliferation mechanisms.

Every sample is carefully labeled, noting the collection location, time, and surrounding environment, then stored in constant low-temperature or energy suppression boxes.

With sample collection basically complete, the next focus is on environmental purification, employing several methods precisely targeting biological pollution.

Critical areas within the basin are laid out with runes emitting a gentle white light.

Once activated, these runes release energy fluctuations with purification effects continuously, akin to invisible sunlight, effectively neutralizing the evil aura pervading the air, and slowly decomposing and cleansing residual biological tissue toxins.

For areas with extensive microbial blanket coverage, gentle yet lasting elemental flames are applied.

The temperature of these flames is controllable, primarily targeting organic materials, capable of thoroughly burning microbial blankets and any contained insect eggs or spores while preventing damage to underground mineral structures or triggering forest fires.

There are also humanoid slave creatures equipped with prepared potions, spraying special purification potions into corners and crevices difficult to treat with flames.

These mist-like potions penetrate minute spaces, reacting with the acidic substances or biological mucus left by the Insect Race, decomposing them into harmless basic elements.

Concurrently, wizards use various precision instruments to carefully scan the entire basin, especially the original site of the mother nest and the area where the wormholes vanished.

They monitor residual energy ripples in the space, attempting to trace their source or analyze their attributes.

Repeatedly checking the stability of space ensures that the forcibly closed wormhole hasn’t left any hidden dangers or weak points, preventing it from re-opening or being exploited.

Recording changes in the energy field during purification to evaluate the effectiveness of the purification measures.

After all, this type of purification task has been performed only a few times; every experience is extremely valuable, always yielding new intelligence information through analysis.

The whole purification and investigation process lasted several days, everyone working silently and efficiently, akin to performing a precise surgical operation.

No cheering, no celebration, only rigorous exploration of the unknown and thorough elimination of potential threats.

Once the last piece of microbial blanket was consumed by flame, and the monitoring instruments displayed normalized energy levels and stable spatial structures in the area, this purification mission was considered initially complete.

The basin still bore scars, but the suffocating evil vitality had vanished, replaced by the scorched smell from the flames and the faint ozone-like cleansing energy aura.

The first Insect Race nest on the Florence Continent was completely wiped from this land, from material to energy, leaving only numerous precious samples and data to be taken back for deeper research in hopes of gaining more insight into the sudden terrifying threat posed by the Void Insect Race.

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While Wizard Herbert was using thunderous means to clear the Insect Race nest deep within the forest, ordinary people across Maple Hill County and even the entire Vera Kingdom remained immersed in the shock, bewilderment, and latent unease brought by the wizard reinforcements.

Those ten Floating Airships hovering in the sky, akin to metallic mountains, completely overturned their understanding of the world.

To farmers, craftsmen, and small merchants who lived their whole life on the Florence Continent and whose farthest journeys only reached neighboring towns, where the most powerful force they might have seen is a Knight’s charge, this was undeniably a miracle, or perhaps a precursor to the apocalypse.

Among ordinary people, there is never a shortage of smart individuals; they simply haven’t seen such a world, yet that doesn’t mean they are foolish.

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