Arduous Battle

(TL: This is bonus chapter #4 for October. Enjoy! And thanks for the Patreon support!)

The bugs that the Bug King bred seemed to pose little threat to humans. It was hard for their mouths to break through tough leather shoes, and they had no sharp stingers to pierce through human skin. The two pairs of wings behind their back were merely decoration. Although they were poisonous, their venom was not strong.

The only decent thing about them was that their movement was quite agile - but only relative to their size. Even a child would have no problem stepping on them.

But they had two advantages which ensured that they live a very happy life on this planet called Earth.

The first was their reproduction rate. Their life cycle - from an egg, to hatching, to sexual maturity, to laying other eggs - only took twelve hours. In addition, each time they laid eggs, the eggs would number over a hundred. They were all hermaphroditic too.