Swarm of Ants (4)
‘What is that again?’
I suddenly thought of Winter, who had been just looking at me without even the slightest sense of tension despite the approach of the approaching monsters.
‘Ah, is that it?’
An ant-type monster.
I heard that there are various types and physiques for each country or dungeon, but these guys seemed to be one of the most common types among them.
‘It was probably the one called Giant Ant.’
I remember. I knew it was a fairly common type of monster.
They pop out easily from anywhere in the dungeon, and the danger varies greatly depending on the individual or innate tendency.
I know that poisonous fire ant species exist in Japan, or that termites live there.
Those guys are monsters, but they had something in common.
Originally, like ants on Earth, there are countless numbers of them, and they live in colonies that move around one queen body.
And now.
It was a situation in which such bastards appeared before the eyes of winter.
[Kiik!]
[Kieek!]
Not one or two.
Befitting ant-type monsters that originally lived in a colony, there were as many as seven of them.
‘What, what’s so many?’
While Winter is bewildered by the number of monsters that have appeared.
Kwajik! f*ck!
They were crushed by the merciless fists of his mother, Yuhwarin and Asa, and scattered fragments.
‘Wow, wow.’
Exactly, one fell out at a time.
There was no other way to express it.
Winter’s pack was powerful.
[Key, Kiik!]
[Kurrureu-!]
The blue beast’s eyes sparkled, and the mother, Yuhwarin, exposed her molars.
After grabbing her by the scruff of her neck, he glared at the giant ant’s struggling figure, then pulled it apart with force.
f*ck!
The guy’s head and body were separated, and blood and flesh cascaded down.
Strong.
Yuhwarin didn’t even change into a werewolf.
In the first place, as if she was an unworthy opponent, she defeated them only in human form.
Pud Deuk.
In an instant, her thighs swelled and expanded.
It was to contract the power.
You can see the flesh of the muscles that have been brought together and compressed to the limit are alive and breathing.
Boom!
Immediately after, Yuhwarin, who seemed to have disappeared from sight for a moment, appeared in a slightly farther place.
By the time Winter noticed, she was already crushing the other guy.
The giant ant, broken into pieces, flies away in a parabolic arc as if it were a baseball.
‘As expected, it’s amazing how all werewolves are amazing. It beats like a real dog.’
She watched with admiration from the gaze of an observer as if she were a third person.
‘Hmm?’
Sniff sniff.
Suddenly she felt a sensation approaching her, as if poking her own nose, and turned her gaze away.
It smells pretty strong.
It smells a bit fishy, but it’s not like you can’t eat it.
With the thick smell of ants’ bodily fluids that even reached the cave, Winter approached the corpse of a giant ant that was bleeding and dying nearby.
Sniff sniff.
It’s quite, quite corrupt. The smell of iron was strong.
The smell of blood was strong.
These guys are insect-type monsters, but like mere ants, they have blood and flesh, not bodily fluids.
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Winter looked down at them for a while.
Soon, I glanced at Yuhwarin and Asa, who were still busy, and quickly put them in my mouth.
‘Hmm.’
Winter thought as she rolled her eyes at the taste of the lean meat filling her mouth.
The sensation of chewing its flesh was more ‘normal’ than I thought.
‘I thought it would be something special because it’s an insect-type monster, but it’s not like that again.’
It wasn’t that it had a special taste or was particularly corrupt.
It was just the taste of chewing lean meat as usual.
There was not much difference from mammalian lean meat, where blood and raw flesh are chewed.
Of course, winter wasn’t really greedy for meat.
He was a young werewolf whose physical activity hadn’t fully matured yet, and he wasn’t supported by that much growth.
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Just what he wanted to know was simply the character this guy had.
‘Let’s see…’
Gulp.
Soon, Winter, who had swallowed the giant ant’s flesh down his throat, repeated to himself.
‘Special shop window.’
At his call, a talent shop window appeared in front of me.
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[Speciality Shop: Purchased characteristics can be deleted at any time.]
[New species characteristics are unlocked by hunting Giant Ants.]
Giant Ant Extraction Characteristic ‘Resonance Sensing’: Applicable only to species with antennae. You can communicate with allies with the same characteristics through resonance.
Price 1300 points.
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Kyeo-gyeol looked at the characteristics of the giant ant that came to mind, and then let out a short sigh.
‘It’s a landmine characteristic.’
The number of attributes possessed is also one.
Even that doesn’t look very good.
Among them, there were characteristics that needlessly required a large number of points in this way and had little effect.
This time was like that too.
‘Well, how good can a mere ant-type monster have good characteristics?’
I didn’t expect much, but I didn’t expect such a useless guy.
It sucks. Awesome.
Winter smacked his lips with regret.
‘Well, these guys aren’t monsters with great strength or efficiency.’
Ants are not particularly outstanding creatures.
They don’t even have the extraordinary claws and physical abilities of the werewolves.
That said, in terms of evolutionary theory, if it had development or clear growth, it wasn’t either.
There was literally only one characteristic of the colony, the ants.
There was nothing else.
Growl.
At that time, Winter heard a sound from his stomach.
‘Ah, I don’t know.’
At the sound of his stomach complaining of hunger, he swallowed another piece of flesh around him.
Even if I picked up one and ate another, nothing changed.
With that thought in mind, he picks up a piece of flesh nearby and eats it.
Saaa-.
Suddenly, the back was wrapped.
Let’s reflexively turn our heads at the stare from the back.
I saw werewolves looking at me from inside the circle.
His two sisters, Misoa, Eve and Rubris were staring at him.
[·······.]
Gulp.
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Recently, the appearance of only one giant ant has become frequent.
The first day was just a simple beginning.
The number of guys increased day by day.
As if they were scouting, they periodically showed up at certain times.
‘Something is strange.’
Winter lay down quietly in the cave, showing his stomach.
Mother Yuhwarin didn’t like the look of winter, so she laid Winter’s stomach face down.
In no time at all he lay back on his back with his belly exposed.
“Hmm-.”
Then her mother Yuhua Lin narrowed her eyes, as if she didn’t like her.
In a world where other werewolves are a threat to anything, I don’t know if it’s normal to cover your stomach, but it’s not winter.
He was rather comfortable in this position.
Winter clumps around and floats the water droplets that popped up here and there. I suddenly thought.
‘Starting the day before yesterday, Giant Ants have been appearing constantly.’
It’s a strange thing.
Usually, after coming here once or twice, they should soon realize that this place is dangerous or that it is a place they shouldn’t come to, but rather, the number was increasing.
For that reason, Winter’s group didn’t even go hunting.
To the extent that you don’t have to go hunting.
It was because many giant ants, whose numbers increased even more, were appearing.
In fact, there are still several bodies of dead Giant Ants piled up in the empty lot in front of the cave.
They ate it one by one as they passed by and caught their eye, as if it were a so-called snack. It feels pretty rich.
Poggle······.
Winter now rolled his eyes, riding on top of the floating water droplets.
“Hmm?”
“Eve…”
A few werewolves glistened in wonder at such a winter scene.
Some of them opened their distance again at the presence of Yuhwarin, the mother who opened her eyes like a knife even when she tried to approach them without realizing it.
‘Hmm. I can hardly think of it.’
Something, something, something.
I think it might come to mind.
Then suddenly.
There was one thought that flashed through my mind.
‘Ah, could it be because of the rain?’
As I recall, it was like that.
Since ancient times, ants were creatures living underground, not on the ground.
There was no way those guys could survive in a rainy season like this.