Phantom Blood Locusts

== Appearance ==
Just as a great battle was about to erupt, the ground exploded, revealing a giant hole. A group of fist-sized locusts flew out.
Their bodies were golden, but compared to ordinary locusts, they had a pair of pincers on their mouths that flickered with a cold light. While the rest of them looked like they were made of gold, only their pincers were blood-colored.
Phantom Blood Locusts might normally be golden, but when they attacked, blood-colored runes would appear on their wings, making them appear scarlet.
Their golden color was what they looked like normally, but once they changed color, it meant that they were infuriated.
The Phantom Blood Locusts soared out, filling the sky like a giant wave. They charged at the experts present.
These things were even more terrifying than the twelfth rank Magical Beasts.
The Phantom Blood Locusts were incredibly quick. A powerful Empyrean was surrounded in an instant, and while he crazily fought, there were too many Phantom Blood Locusts. One of them bit his leg, and with a scream, his entire body stiffened. Then the Phantom Blood Locusts enveloped him, and when they left, he was gone. Not even a bone was left.
== Description ==
The Phantom Blood Locusts were a strange kind of insect. While they were also classified as Magical Beasts, they were oddities, equally as famous as the Heaven Devouring Ants.
Even if a more powerful Magical Beast encountered them, they would flee. The Phantom Blood Locust’s mouth contained powerful runes that could tear through armor. A twelfth rank Magical Beast would instantly turn into a skeleton in the face of millions of Phantom Blood Locusts.
As for human experts, unless they had armor on the level of divine items, they wouldn’t even be left with a skeleton.
Once bitten by their pincers, your entire body would stiffen. Your Yuan Spirit would freeze, and that would spell defeat. The Phantom Blood Locusts were nightmares amongst Magical Beasts.
Magical Beasts like the Phantom Blood Locust normally weren’t called Magical Beasts. They were different from other Magical Beasts like centipedes, scorpions, or spiders. That was because they didn’t have crystal cores, and all their energy was concentrated in their mouths. That was an innate kind of terrifying power.
Some people joked that whatever god had made this world had made a mistake and accidentally created a few things that even they themselves didn’t understand.
These Phantom Blood Locusts were one of those existences. Rumors were that they were viewed as an invasive species back in ancient times and were hunted down.
The Phantom Blood Locusts were capable of devouring all life from a world. They bred quickly, and if they were allowed freedom, a world could meet with catastrophe.
In comparison, the Heaven Devouring Ants were a bit better. They were simply very territorial, but as long as you didn’t step into their territory or kill them, they would only start hunting when they were hungry, and their main prey was underground ores. Flesh was just a portion of their diet.
The Heaven Devouring Ants didn’t randomly increase their territory, and they bred slowly. So the Phantom Blood Locusts were far worse, a plague, a nightmare, an apocalyptic catastrophe for a world. Of course, any knowledge of the Phantom Blood Locusts was only within some ancient murals. They were important enough to include in murals because there were several times in human history when the Phantom Blood Locusts had appeared, causing the human race to pay a great price to exterminate them.
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