123. Chapter 123
The aftermath of the collapse of the ant nest was enormous.
This is because the ants in confusion due to the queen ant dying at the same time as giving the order could not avoid the ant nest.
All ants on the ground or in the anthill were wiped out. Most of the wings also lost their lives.
The few winged birds that survived were hovering in the air, not knowing what to do.
squeak-
Sewoon did not miss them.
Within an hour, the ants were all gone.
– You successfully completed the 8th floor’s ‘Anthouse in a Heat Wave’.
– Counting public values… … .
– Remaining time: 9 hours 02 minutes
– The number of monsters hunted is 5012.
-Complete the hidden quest ‘Death of the Queen Ant’.
-Complete the hidden quest ‘The Fall of the Anthill’.
…
-Total cumulative achievement 302,200 points
There was plenty of time left, but the ants were wiped out and the ordeal ended naturally.
The number of monsters he hunted was over 5,000. It was a larger number than expected.
I wondered if I could have finished it within 10 hours even if I repeated hit and run as planned at the beginning.
‘Rather than that, it’s over 300,000 points, but I’m not number one.’
It was proof of how many monsters existed in the tower.
Unless there was an extra point due to the hidden quest, it was difficult to surpass all the records of those monsters, no matter how hard they built it.
It’s just that Sewoon didn’t win first place, but Yoo Seo-ah is different.
No matter what anyone says, she was the main character of this ordeal.
Since you defeated the queen ant and destroyed the ant nest using the potential of domination, the public value assigned to you must also be enormous.
As evidence of that, her eyes as she checked the message were surprisingly wide open.
“Did you achieve the ranking?”
“yes! Come on 2nd place! The public value has also come in a lot!”
“congratulations.”
“Ah, isn’t Sewoon ranked first?”
“It’s not, but I received a decent rank in terms of public achievement.”
-Constellation praises the contractor, saying that the ‘crowned spider’ was a surprisingly impressive hunting method.
-The constellation ‘Crowed Spider’ nodded, saying that it was a power that suited its contractor very well.
Yuseoah’s potential, domination.
It looked a little immature because I didn’t know how to handle it yet, but it was a power that seemed to have infinite potential for development.
Right now, it’s just a matter of dealing with a few small ants or a dying queen ant for a very short time, but as time goes on, that power will grow stronger.
– With the power of gluttony, the entire ‘ant nest’ was designated.
-The fangs of gluttony attack the monsters!
– The constellation, ‘The Hungry Prince’ is delighted with the bursting texture.
-The constellation ‘The Hungry Prince’ is delighted to say that there are various recipes, so you can choose and eat them.
– Constellation, ‘The Hungry Prince’ regrets that he can’t eat all the prey.
Kwack, Kwack!
Myriad teeth chewed and swallowed the carcasses of the ants.
However, since the target of authority was the monster Sewoon had defeated in the first place, only a few hundred ants were swallowed out of over 5,000 ants.
This was the reason for Beelzebub’s regret.
Even so, since the number of ants Seun had defeated was enormous, a considerable amount of mana was absorbed as nutrients.
It was impossible to fill the circle with increased capacity, but didn’t you say it was a great mountain by collecting dust?
Sewoon did not feel impatient and sat down and began to restore the empty circle.
“But how did you come up with the idea to dominate the queen ant?”
“Well, to be honest, I wasn’t sure. I thought it might be possible though… … . sorry.”
“No, rather good. Sometimes intuition is more important than rational judgment.”
“… … thank you.”
“Others… … .”
[Park Jeong-pil: Brother, brother, brother! I want to see you!]
[Han Ah-reum: Oh, really! I don’t want to go out with this oppa!]
[Baekhyun: Queen ant. It is a coveted monster. To be able to command so many ants at once… … .]
[Lee Ha-neul: This trial continues. Everyone shouldn’t be lacking in medicine.]
‘Ah, if it’s Baekhyun… … .’
Through Clan Chat, Baekhyun could be seen expressing regret.
No matter how excellent a necromancer he is, it will be difficult to completely conquer this ordeal.
Sewoon usually wouldn’t leave a corpse behind because of the power of gluttony, but now it was different.
“Yuseo. Let’s find the corpse of the queen ant.”
“A corpse? will you stay? I fell from the top.”
“But just in case you don’t know.”
Even if only part of the body remains, it will be of great help.
If you have enough skills to turn a manticore into a ghoul, you can also make a chimera made by stitching together a monster’s body.
Sewoon used wind magic to clear away the dust and then walked over the fragments of the anthill.
The smell was coming up through the body fluids of the ants, so I naturally blocked my nose.
While searching for the queen ant using the search magic, I saw an exceptionally large number of ant corpses piled up in the middle of the debris.
The moment Sewoon walks through some of them in a very unnatural look.
“… … It looks like you kept it until the end.”
The dead body of the queen ant surrounded by numerous worker ants, wing ants, and soldier ants was revealed.
The moment the ant nest collapsed, it seems that they threw themselves to protect the queen.
From the moment the sword was thrust into her head, she must have already known that the queen was dead.
According to the contents of the ordeal, they were evil insects that attacked travelers in the desert, so they did not regret it, but their loyalty was something that had to be acknowledged.
Thanks to the protection of the ants, the well-protected carcass was put into the subspace pouch.
[Jeong Sewoon: I took the corpse of the queen ant.]
[Baekhyun: Really? thank you!]
[Jeong Se-woon: Thanks to Yoo Seo-ah.]
[Seoah Yoo: Oh, no! If it wasn’t for Seun-ssi, I would… … .]
[Baekhyun: I will definitely repay you! I want to study it soon! If you can maintain the attributes, you can use it as a commander to lead the undead!]
It’s a better response than you think.
Baekhyun’s increasing fighting power means that Diablo Clan’s fighting power will increase, so it was something that Seun-eun welcomed.
Afterwards, Sewoon recovered all of his mana, and Yoo Seo-ah also took a break.
“Yuseo, are you feeling better?”
“A little tired, but bearable. More than that, I feel a bit uncomfortable, so I want to wash up quickly.”
Not only Yoo Seo-ah, but also Sewoon didn’t make much sense.
The bodily fluids of ants were smeared all over the armor, and even the hair, which was wet with the bodily fluids, smelled like it was dried in the sun.
I didn’t even pay attention to it during the fight, but after the battle, I felt uncomfortable.
Se-Won usually didn’t pay attention to monster blood splattering, but this time it was a bit harsh.
Immediately, he took out a new magic.
– Opened the treasure house of greed.
[ Clean shower ]
– It is a life magic of the Cheongtap and uses a light whirlpool to wash the body and clothes.
Chow ah!
At the same time as the magic manifested, a whirlpool arose under Seun and Yoo Seo-ah.
The cool water soaked his body, removing the body fluids and sand of the ants.
Yoo Seo-ah was taken aback by the sudden flash of water, but this was definitely a magic devised by the Blue Tower.
After washing away the foreign substances on the body, the moisture disappeared like a lie.
So much so that not a single hair gets wet.
“and! Great!”
“Are you okay now?”
“yes! It feels like coming out of a shower. It’s very convenient, isn’t it?”
“It won’t be as good as a real wash, but a makeshift solution will suffice.”
After a simple wash, it reminded me of the bathroom in my residence.
The next time I went back to my residence, I thought I’d spend a few hours in the hot tub.
“Are you ready?”
“yes! Anytime.”
“let’s go.”
As I chose the next trial, my vision quickly darkened.
* * *
-Welcome to the challenge of the 9th floor.
-Subject: Desert ruins
-Time limit: 48 hours
-You who came to excavate the desert ruins have finally arrived at your destination.
– Discover and explore one of the nearby historical sites.
“It’s a desert again.”
“Shall I cast a spell?”
“No, I’m used to it now. How long can you not get help?”
Yuseoah replied boldly.
Aside from that, he was already sweating, but he didn’t intend to cast a spell on her when she didn’t want to.
Players grow with trials. If you experience this kind of heat, you will get used to it.
What if you experience heat on another floor?
Other players somehow endure the experience of the desert, but those who are not adapted here will have a hard time there too.
If possible, it was best to endure the difficult environment by bumping into it with the body, rather than overcoming the difficult environment with tricks.
“By the way, if it’s a historic site, do you mean that?”
Seoah Yoo pointed to the pillars ahead.
Like a Greek temple, white pillars rose one after another, but with traces of the long years, here and there collapsed and shattered.
“That’s right too.”
“That too?”
“There, and there. Can you see?”
Sewoon nodded and pointed in the other direction.
In the south, a statue in the shape of a black scorpion boasted a sharp tail, and in the west, the white skeleton of a mysterious monster was half buried.
The ordeal of the ninth floor, the ruins of the desert.
The content of the ordeal was not ‘discover one of the nearby historical sites and explore it.’
There are countless ruins around here, and the difficulty and rewards for each ruin vary greatly.
Players can choose one of these to explore.
It was this ordeal that could be an easier ordeal than the first floor, or a more difficult ordeal that surpassed the difficulty of the ninth floor.
‘Unfortunately, I don’t know about the Hidden Peace here either.’
Sewoon recalled the past.
From the 6th floor ordeal, he proceeds with his colleague, but Sewoon’s colleague lost his life on the 6th floor after being hit by the ant hell for disobeying Sewoon’s words.
Even after moving to the next floor, no new companions appeared, and thanks to this, during the anthill trials, he really risked his life to explore the trials.
Such as hiding as much as possible and ambush an ant walking alone.
A few minutes would not have passed the ordeal.
It was on the ninth floor that we arrived.
Since he had no comrades and lacked fighting power, Se-Won at the time challenged the easiest-looking ruins among the ones he could see right away.
Luckily, the place we arrived at was a ruin with few monsters, so we were able to explore it somehow.
On the way, the guide map of the journey showed a response, but there was no time to pay attention.
‘Come to think of it… … .’
Looking back on the past, I remembered a door I found in the ruins I was exploring.
I didn’t pay attention to it because it was a course that had nothing to do with exploring the ruins, but I remembered that the guide map of the journey responded at the time.
At the time, I didn’t even think about opening it because there might be monsters inside, but now that I think about it, it was definitely not an ordinary door.
It wouldn’t hurt to open the door there, since you don’t know which ruins would be the best anyway.
“Yuseo, let’s go this way.”
“yes!”
The footprints of Sewoon and Seoah Yoo were engraved on the hot grains of sand.