Chapter 44 – Change of composition (4)
Chapter 44 – Change of composition (4)
‘I can’t believe it was possible even with ants. Is it because these ants are so big?!’
The first reason Urea was surprised was that she had succeeded in communicating with this disgusting ant. It was because she had never used her powers to communicate with her ants even once in all her years of existence.
“The witch-daughters are capturing the queens of these ants and using them as slaves. They look the same, but they are different. These are just ordinary ants.”
And the second reason is the story told by the ant that they came to communicate with. Elves, who were uncomfortable with the story of non-intelligent animals enslaving other animals, became agitated when they heard her story.
“Then tell them like this. Together with us, let’s fight the evil beasts who are aiming for the world tree.”
Serenian, who was somewhat expecting it, made Urea tell her to fight together with the ants. However, when Urea told this, her ants moved their antennae more vigorously.
“They say you can’t decide for yourself.”
“Then, please make sure to pass it on to other people.”
Serenian looked at the ant and said. Ant and Serenian looked at each other with slightly different eyes from before, probably because they communicated with Urea and saw the possibility.
“I-I don’t know if this is really possible, Chief. Fighting alongside the ants.”
“This is such a world.”
Other than Urea, who lost her words, the other elves weren’t sure if it was awkward yet. Serenian tried hard to appease such people.
She always tried to keep in mind that this was a different world from her native Great Forest, and unlike her older kin, she was quick to accept it.
“It would be a great help if I could be friends with the ants.”
I already fought fiercely with monsters I had never seen before. Breaking common sense and customs, he farms and makes and uses metal weapons. In such a yard, there is nothing more difficult than fighting together with big ants over a common enemy.
‘Is that the right change?’
Urea took a step back and bit her lip as she watched the scene. Urea, who had awakened to her desire once, is still confused.
Her jealousy toward Serenian, supported by her people, deepened instead of being relieved. However, as much as that, the curiosity to see how far Serenian could achieve also grew.
“The ants set a condition.”
And not too long after that, Urea conveyed to Serenian the will of the ants who came to visit them again.
“The queen of ants is being held hostage by enemies. The ants say they can’t fight against her queen as long as her queen is safe.”
“In that case, we will rescue the queen first. After all, it is impossible to clear all complex dungeons at once.”
After hearing what the ants said, Serenian decided to rescue her queen first.
Of the several dungeons that make up the complex dungeon, the idea was to occupy the dungeon where the ants made their nest. That way, you can make a lot of ants into allies.
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“It would be better to prepare. There’s no point in wasting time.”
She hurried her actions, saying that she had better hurry on that too. Anyway, there is no day or night inside this dark underground dungeon, so after resting and healing their injuries, the elves re-armed and began to advance into the dungeon teeming with more enemies.
“The ants will tell you the location!”
Beast bugs who sensed their invasion as a crisis began to gather in the hub, a wide cavity that could lead to other passages, and the elves kept their formation and started heading to one place.
Following the guidance of the ants who subtly showed the way, they re-entered through another passage.
It is different from other passageways where pill bugs pour out like crazy. The ants outnumbered the pill bugs, but the ants seemed to know already and didn’t attack them and cleared the way.
“I’d rather have some block the narrow passage, and the rest go inside and deal with the enemies inside. Rescue the queen and all the ants will be allies, just buy yourself some time!”
“But…”
“It would be nice to do that. We will cover it.”
It was at that time that Garmin, who was in overall command of the elves, proposed to divide the troops by presenting his opinion. Serenian panicked that they would be sacrificed, but the other elves also agreed and voluntarily turned their bodies.
“There are only about 10 enemies visible inside, but one of them is strange.”
In the meantime, Ren sent a drone to inspect the room where the queen ant is. As the ants had said, the witches’ daughter-in-law were camped out and living there, guarding the queen ant.
The conspicuous enemy was one of them, a demonic beast that had undergone a terrible mutation, such as the one with hooked feet on its back armor.
Serenian instinctively recognized that the monster was his opponent.
“Please don’t die, everyone.”
After making a decision, Serenian took only a handful of people to help him and headed inward past the ants who could neither help nor attack and just watched.
“Me, why am I!?”
Yurea was one of them. Urea, who was communicating with the ants as if fighting was not her job, was caught by Serenian and dragged inside.
“I didn’t expect to release it again this soon, but please lend me your strength.”
“There are a lot of things you want after being treated this way.”
“If this goes well, I won’t lock you in the basement again.”
Serenian released Urea’s bracelet. Because Urea’s strong power belongs to the upper ranks among her elves. Of course, Urea lamented at Serenian’s self-indulgent behavior, but Serenian sighed with one word, saying that he would not imprison her.
“They are coming Chief!”
Besides, I didn’t have time to argue. The beastly pill bugs recognized the elves as enemies who had infiltrated the ant nest they enslaved, and began to fight to protect their property, the queen ant.
If we don’t win here, Urea herself will die, so after biting her lip, Urea finally accepted the bow Serenian gave her.
“Chief…!”
“I will kill their captain!”
After confirming Urea’s will, Serenian left the other enemies to them and, as always, stepped forward and charged towards the strongest enemy.
‘A terrible strain.’
Her face turned pale as she glared at her foe as she loaded arrows into the compound bow she was holding.
That deviant pill bug with its jaws wide open at herself was cute enough to have hooked feet on her back.
[Demon Beast Bed bug/Tentacle]
Like the others, the one that was crawling on the ground suddenly jumped up. To Serenian, countless tentacles were attached instead of legs under the back of this monster the size of a van.
The fake hair that was attached like a head was just a trick. Her real head was glaring at her, buried amidst tentacles, like her octopus or squid’s mouth.
Supporting her uplifted body with some of her tentacles, this mutant pill bug attacked her by stinging her tentacles.
“Oops.”
She hurriedly leaped to the ground to avoid her tentacles right before she fired her arrows, and she rolled and dodged the ground one after another, avoiding powerful tentacle attacks that broke the ground and cut the wind.
Neither the strength nor the type of attack was at an ordinary level. A powerful enemy that is hard to catch even with all your might.
However, she has grown a lot compared to when she ran around and shot her bow to catch monster ants.
“Shoot them!”
Summoning a spirit clad in her blue thunderbolt, she cried out as she watched her tentacles rush towards her. Powerful thunderbolts fired at the same time flashed through the darkness and flew towards her foe.
“…!!”
Her anomaly staggered in dismay at the electric shock that ran through her tentacles, and hurriedly lowered her body to protect herself with her carapace.
‘You have to show up to catch it.’
Serenian gritted his teeth when he saw that the arrow he had shot was blocked by the back armor of his daughter-in-law, a witch possessing a dark purple aura.
To catch a strong enemy, you need a price.
“I have to make him attack me again. Let’s go.”
Serenian, who had no time to hesitate, took the spirit and took a rather drastic approach. In fact, now she was in a hurry.
Even at this very moment, the remaining kin may be dying to fend off the swarming enemies.
Clutching her bow, she ran forward. She intended to use her body as a bait to make the enemy reveal her weakness.
“Kuh…Ahhh!”
To some extent, it worked. In fact, her mutant lifted her body to attack her again, unleashing her tentacle strike, and she thrust her pre-stocked arrow into her fragile flesh with one stroke.
However, even her thunderbolt-laden arrows missed the vital point, and her single shot failed to kill her bastard. Her rushing tentacles hit her body, coiled around her limbs, and pulled her in one breath.
‘I can’t die.’
Even at the moment when her body and limbs are torn by her strong power, and her muscles and bones on the verge of breaking scream and cause her excruciating pain, she still refuses to cut herself. Seeing her sharp chin, she exploded the last of her strength.
Powerful electric shocks burst through her own body through her medium, riding her tentacles and electrocuting her anomalies, burning them from the inside out.
“Huh!”
Serenian was slumped on the hard floor from a position twice her height, gasping as her anomaly fell overturned and her tentacles spasmed frantically. Visible in her vision, blurred by pain and tears, is her bow, which had been destroyed during her fierce battle, and the eyes of a giant ant queen staring down at herself.
The eyes of the queen ant were completely different from the eyes of the monster queen ant she had seen in the past. Although Serenian doesn’t have the ability to communicate like Urea, she seemed to know that feeling for some reason.
“Dogs, ants…!”
Serenian closed his trembling eyelids at the exclamation he heard behind her.
The ants who filled the ant nest and watched only moved as if they had been waiting for this moment.
With her sharp jaws at the forefront, she began attacking the demonic daughter-in-law who had been attacking her elves.