The sight of the effortless dispatching of the enemies by the ant drones and the way they coordinated with each other in a smooth manner made Money Body shake his head inwardly, thinking, ’I don’t like that fellow, but I have to admit that he is prepared for victory. That is something I cannot complain about now, can I?’
He felt pleased with the ant drones, but he didn’t show it or express his satisfaction to Loki with words. Instead, he ignored the ant drones and spoke to Nether Flame about the skeletons.
He said, "These are impressive skeletons."
But Nether Flame shook his head and said, "You flatter them too much, sir. They are not that impressive. Especially compared to these ant drones."
In response, Money Body waved his hands in dismissal of his claims and said, "Of course, the skeletons are impressive. You made the skeletons, and you’re only rank 7, so it is not a surprise that they are weaker than those ant drones that were made by a rank 8 forger."
"The ant drones were meant to be stronger than the skeletons. One might even call them mediocre, considering the power of the person who made them. After all, compared to the power of the person who made them, their power is truly mediocre."
This explanation gave Nether Flame a way to be proud. But he couldn’t be proud because he didn’t make the skeletons. He had only bought them from someone else.
Besides the fact that he didn’t think the person who made the skeletons had the right to be proud, he also didn’t think Money Body was right to say that the ant drones were mediocre just because their creator was strong.
So he shook his head and said, "I guess only a rank 8 cultivator like you can belittle the creations of another rank 8 cultivator. As for me, I have to be in awe of the ability of the rank 8 forger to kill rank 6 divine beings without even trying."
Blood Sword also chimed in, saying, "Not only can the rank 8 cultivator kill nearly every rank 6 divine being without spending a lick of their lifespan, but they will also find it easier to do so personally with their rank 8 cultivation compared to the rank 6 ants."
He had been cornered by the two of them, so Money Body sighed and said, "You just can’t understand. You’re too weak to understand my point of view."
He was using this as an excuse to call them ignorant and shortsighted so that he could win this argument. But ironically, the two of them agreed with him about being too weak to see things from his point of view.
They felt that they couldn’t besmirch the creation of a rank 8 forger in their absence, so there was no way they were going to disregard the opinion of a rank 8 cultivator who was standing right in front of them.
They have witnessed Money Body’s great power earlier when he fought the dragon king, and now they are seeing what a rank 8 forger can achieve without being present, so if Money Body claims that they are weak, they will agree with him completely about it.
As for the person they were talking about, he ignored all the task talk that Money Body was saying about him. Just as Money Body refused to acknowledge the fact that the ant drones were impressive, Loki refused to acknowledge Money Body’s claim that the ant drones were mediocre.
While this mental tit for tat was going on among them, the water level finally reached the top of their head. Only the trees on the island were not submerged at this point. But this was for the meantime.
The storm was still raging, and rain was still falling as if the sky was weeping, so the water level was rising fast. It was only a matter of time before the island and any signs that it used to be there disappeared under the waves.
The ferocity of the inhabitants of the world also seemed to have no end. They didn’t back down, no matter how many of them were killed. The more they were slaughtered, the angrier they became and the more they wanted to tear the invaders apart.
Unfortunately for the frenzied aquatic enemies, there were enemies standing in their way. The ant drones had formed a wall that blocked their access to the invaders, so if they wanted to reach the invaders, they would have to go through the ant drones.
The medium-sized shield drones had formed a wall around the perimeter of the island. The small-sized flying drones were swimming around, roaming the battlefield with their laser guns, while the medium-sized spear drones were made to stay above the shield drones to support them.
The spear drones formed a dome above the island that covered it. So with both the spear and shield drones working together, access to the invaders had been blocked.
He had also summoned the large-sized drones for the defense. There were ten of them, and each one was nearly four stories tall. They stood like towers of metal in the section of the wall that he made them stand in.
These behemoths were carrying many powerful high-energy laser guns and ultrasonic sound blasters. The high-energy lasers were long-range weapons with enough power to pierce a world through.
The power of the high-energy lasers had gone from being able to drill a hole to the core of a world to being able to turn a world into a donut with a hole through it. So when the behemoths swept their laser through the water, everything the violet lasers touched melted to slag or turned into ashes that were carried away by the steam of evaporated water.
The behemoths were also carrying sound blasters for short-range gun fighting. The blasters were like drums. But unlike drums, they produced a sound that was loud, which no enemy nearby could hear.