Outside the transparent air wall, the huge black ball of flesh, formed by the corpses and flesh-pulp of over a million Soldier Beetles, was still constantly writhing and squeezing.

However, this was not the bugs struggling.

Instead, that invisible wall was slowly contracting inward in an unstoppable posture.

For every inch the wall contracted inward, the corpses of tens of thousands of Soldier Beetles were ground into flesh-pulp, emitting a teeth-aching "creak" sound.

Foul-smelling dark green liquid flowed down like a waterfall from the crevices of the ball of flesh.

Inside the air wall.

The Man in White Suit still kept his palms open, his expression calm.

"Have you changed your mind now?"

"This is the last chance I'm giving you."

"As long as you come out now and swear allegiance to us, I can let bygones be bygones."

"In the name of the Dawnbreaker Guild, I guarantee your personal safety."

However, the only response he received was silence.

And that increasingly harsh sound of carapaces being crushed.

Beside him, the bald giant Bhadra had regrown two illusory arms formed by golden light. He looked at the Man in White Suit, his face full of impatience.

"Why waste any more words on him?"

"Just crush him to death!"

In the distance, Chong Wenguma had a solemn expression and a serious tone.

"This fellow reeks of strangeness everywhere."

"It's better to kill him."

The Man in White Suit ignored them, merely shaking his head to himself, a trace of genuine regret showing on his face.

"What a pity."

"I originally thought you were a smart person."

"Pity that the arrogance of a Genius always ruins oneself."

He slowly raised his right hand, his slender five fingers spread apart, palm facing outward, aiming at the swarm of bugs that covered the entire sky.

"Press."

A single word was softly uttered.

Like a divine decree.

"Rumble——!!!"

The moment the words fell, that indestructible air wall began to crazily contract inward in an unstoppable posture.

The huge flesh mountain wrapped outside the wall, piled up from the corpses of nearly a million Soldier Beetles, let out an unbearable wail under this terrifying squeezing force.

Countless carapaces were crushed, and dark green liquid splattered like a waterfall.

The originally loose flesh mountain was being compacted and condensed at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Its volume was crazily shrinking!

One thousand meters... five hundred meters... one hundred meters...

That invisible pressure grew more and more terrifying, to the extent that even space began to show subtle distortions.

The Man in White Suit was still speaking words to persuade surrender.

"It's still not too late to change your mind now."

"As long as you speak up, I can stop at any time."

However, he never heard any words from that Insect Master.

The Man in White Suit could not help feeling regretful.

Beside him, Bhadra watched that "bug ball" which was being pressed smaller and smaller yet growing increasingly terrifying in density, grinning hideously.

"Since his bones are so stubborn, just kill him directly!"

"When he gets pressed into a marble, I'm going to stomp it to pieces with one kick!"

Hearing this, the Man in White Suit merely smiled faintly and nodded.

He reminded Bhadra beside him and Chong Wenguma, who had just flown up from the ruins.

"Get ready."

"This fellow is very likely to launch a desperate counterattack before death."

Bone-deep hatred burned in Chong Wenguma's eyes as he stared fixedly at the constantly shrinking black sphere, as if wishing to grind the enemy inside to dust.

"He won't have the chance!"

The Man in White Suit said no more, and that invisible power climbed to the extreme in an instant!

The black corpse ball, which originally had a diameter of ten meters, was forcibly compressed to a size of less than one square meter within a single second!

That was a black sphere with a mirror-smooth surface and a terrifyingly extreme density.

It floated quietly in mid-air, exuding an ominous aura.

Bhadra and Chong Wenguma had long since raised their energy to the peak, concentrating with full attention to welcome the world-destroying final counterattack they anticipated.

One second.

Two seconds.

Three seconds.

The anticipated desperate counterattack before death did not arrive.

Even a trace of energy fluctuation did not appear.

That black sphere just floated there quietly, frighteningly dead silent.

"Hmm?"

Bhadra frowned, already vaguely sensing that something was wrong at this moment.

Chong Wenguma also showed a puzzled expression.

The Man in White Suit reached out his hand, aimed at the black sphere, and gently clenched it.

"Disperse."

"Snap."

A soft sound.

That terrifying sphere compressed from the corpses of a million Soldier Beetles silently shattered and disintegrated like a sand sculpture, turning into black dust all over the sky and drifting away with the wind.

The dust cleared.

It was completely empty.

Yet there was not the slightest trace of that Insect Master.

There was nothing.

"Where is the person?"

Bhadra widened his eyes with an expression of disbelief.

"How is that possible? How could he survive under that kind of pressure?!"

Chong Wenguma also stared fixedly at that empty area, his face so gloomy water was about to drip from it.

The gaze of the Man in White Suit slowly moved downward.

It landed directly below where the black corpse ball had originally been floating.

On the ground there.

A pitch-black, bottomless large hole with smooth edges, about one meter in diameter, was quietly appearing there.

Resembling a mocking, grinning large mouth.

Only then did everyone realize.

Just when the Man in White Suit was continuously using his mind to compress the bug swarm,

That Insect Master had actually taken advantage of the cover of that huge mountain of bug corpses, right under everyone's noses, silently...

Burrowed into the ground and escaped!

"Damn it!!!"

Bhadra let out a heaven-shaking roar that made the air buzz.

Without thinking, he was about to transform into a streak of golden light and rush toward that earth hole.

"Stop!"

The voice of the Man in White Suit rang out coldly.

He stopped the impulsive Bhadra.

"If you go after him now, you're just a headless fly."

"You have no idea where this tunnel leads, nor can you find his target."

Bhadra trembled all over with anger, his fists clenching and cracking, but in the end he still stopped his footsteps.

He knew that what the other party said was the truth.

The Man in White Suit looked at that bottomless hole, the gloom on his face slowly dissipating.

Replaced by a hint of a wry, complex expression mixed with appreciation and helplessness.

He shook his head and let out a soft laugh.

"It's fine that he ran."

"I'm actually quite reluctant to kill him."