Chapter 225 225 Entering the castle
[El's POV: ]
-Clank!
His first attack came from the front, so deflecting it was easier, however, right after I deflected his attack, the creature sensed I was no simple opponent and took a few step back.
[ "Human! Magic! Swords as well?! Disgraceful!!!" ]
I did not know why he said it was disgraceful to have both magic and weapon proficiencies, however, the air around him changed completely after he shouted that, and his big black eyes started glowing with a green light.
There was a red light shining on his back, and. Though I did not understand what it was,I can tell it wasn't an attack aimed at me with my heightened senses.
I had already used some buff spells on myself so my senses were sharper than I was at the top of this piller.
There were many monsters all around this place and I could sense many of them with my senses alone and with just a glance in their direction, I could tell what kind of ant they were and their strengths.
So…
I knew the red light was an attack that wasn't aimed at me but instead at the elite ranked monsters stranding right behind him.
He had commanded them to be on standby, however, now that they were just standing there, he created thick big spikes of blood and fired them at them.
[ "Brethren! Lend your strength!" ]
The blood spikes pierced them and the elite ants were all wounded. They were still alive by this point however, the red light that had glowed on his back a while back glowed again on his entire body and the green acidic blood of the demonic creatures flowed out of them and into the body of they commander .
It happened in matter of seconds and their bodies were sucked dry of all the blood or energy. In return, the body of the Devilant commander?before me became even more powerful.
He used his own kin as a sacrifice to strength himself since he knew fighting me one on one would be a better option than having a bunch die by my hands.
It would be of no use to him, so he followed his highly developed senses and did what he had to do in order to defeat me… not that I gave a shit about it.
He just made my work easier.
[ "Human bitchhhhhhh! Die!!!" ]
He shouted again and with his spear covered in his green Aura, he shot forward towards me once again, his eyes full of rage and his presence overbearing for a monster of his rank.
He was a strong opponent, I could have certainly used my own Aura if I had it agaist someone like him, however, since I did not have the ability to use a complete Aura just yet, I had to use a finely condensed form of Mana, or an Aura imitation as I called it.
-Booooooooooom!
It was just strong enough to contend agasit his weak Aura that had a green fluid like form, something that resembled their blood.
His spear technique was rough and wild so it was easy to tell he had made it himself, most of it must be from the battles he might have had among his own kind and with the original inhabitants of this city.
'This place… it wasn't always a dungeon or an Ant colony from the start. It used to be a beautiful holy city.'
People lived in peace here, gods had blessed the kingdom and this was the capital city of that blessed kingdom. There were practically no great problems here.
They had good food, the poverty rate was very low, the nobles here weren't arrogant pieces of shits, and the rulers that resided here, the ones said to be children of gods, were kind ones that cared about their people and their land.
However, one day demonic creatures invaded their lands. They fought agasit them for decades however, at the end, their peaceful kingdom fell, and the place where the city stood became what we are seeing right now, an ant colony.
'We have seen that place so we know it's a pretty good one. I would have loved to have a place like that of my own but these fucking demons destroyed everything they had… and if the association president had not sealed the mountain ranges in time, these pests might have spread all around that mountain as well, and then, dealing with them would have become far more difficult.'
Their reproduction rate was crazy alredy, and, the queen decided on how and when the eggs will hatch even after reaching maturity so, even at this moment, inside that castle, I bet there are a few hundred thousand eggs just lying there, waiting to receive the queen's command.
They reached the maturity quickly as well so, they were perfect weapons to destroy nations. However, weaponizing them wasn't any simple thing.
It was nearly impossible, one can tell that from just looking at this commander.
-Clank! Clank! Clank!
"Ahem!"
[ "Human! Strong! But not enough! Hahaha!" ]
I was pushed back after exchanging a few blows with him. The imitated Aura was, at the end of the day, just an imitation.
I could use it to efficiently attack him, however, landing a powerful attack on him wasn't easy. He was strong and knew how to fight.
And, he was just a commander of this army. There were eight more just like him… six actually, Lucy and Cary took care of two a while back. Bastards.
Anyway, there were still six aired out all around this place and from what we know from our past experiences, the strongest one of them was on a completely different level than this one.
"Not that they were going to be a match for me."
[Light of strength], [Aspect of magic].
I was using duel wielding to test out my current level with the weapons, however, with the stat difference as big as we currently had, fighting agasit that bastard on equal grounds was not possible without some special buffs.
'[(All stat boost)].'
-Ooooooooong!
But with our stats equaled…
-Swish!
'[Quick blink], [Vertical slash]!'
[ "…?!" ]
-Booooooooooooom!
"Damn, you still blocked that?"
I had attacked with my boosted stats, used our movement skill, and even used the single physical attack skill that I had right now, and he still managed to block my strike with his sharp senses and instincts.
[ "Ughhhhhhhhh! Human!!!" ]
"Jeez. Call me El or something. Human doesn't-"
-Swish!
'[(Blink)]!'
"Dudeeeee… that was rude! I was speak-"
-Swish! Swish!
-Clank!
There was a large scar on his body now. A deep one that he recovered from my other sword.
'The vertical slash skill while dual wielding is pretty useful. It is a sure dire skill that will land even if one manages to block it. Hehe, this skill is far better than bastard's [Horizontal slash].'
Even someone on this ant commander's level couldn't block it completely…
He was damaged, but it seems like he didn't like getting hurt like that.
-Clank! Clank! Clank!
-Booooooom!
His attacks become sharper and stronger after receiving that fatal wound, perhaps he activated his last resort innate skill that boosted his overall abilities. His spearmanship had also suddenly become far better than what it was just a moment ago. It was certainly a veryyy good skill.
Alas, it was a skill…
"[Dismantle]."
With a bright smile on my face, I exchanged another blow with him, however, the moment our weapons parted ways, he felt something very strange.
I can tell from the sudden change of expression he had, he was feeling a kind of powerlessness he had not felt throughout his fight.
Not only was his buffs were gone, his skills had stopped working, which meant his connection with his queen was temporarily severed as well.
"You are a good spearman."
I reinforced my swords with the Aura imitations and, used the movement skill once again.
"But you will take a lifetime until you reach Croc's level."
And, this time, while he was still stunned from the shock of the movement, I used my [Vertical slash] once again, and chopped off all four hands of the spearman ant commander.
[ "Youuuuuuuuu! Damn!!! Humannnnnnnn!" ]
-Swish. Then I chopped off his legs, his antenna, gouged out his eyes with my swords, peeled off his back… and, after splashing some alcohol all over his body, I burned him when he was still alive.
[ "AGHHHHHHHHHH!" ]
"I already told you, didn't I? Don't call me human."
He brought it upon himself, fucking insect.
[ "El, am done here." ]
[[ One has finished up as well~! One wants to go inside now~! ]]
[ "Well, I am pretty much finished as well. Meet me at the front entrance." ]
Sun had risen on the horizon, the shadow of the castle made of mud, glue, and their essence was painting the battlefield in front of it in an even beautiful shades of red.
The sky was red, the soil was red, the hundreds and thousands of corpses on this battlefield were ugly, but their corrupting demonic blood wasn't corrupting the red soil any further so, it was quite pretty.
There was death all around us, screams of the ants workers and solders that mourned for the fallen were filling the atmosphere.
Banshees weren't here since this wasn't a honourable battlefield, however, the destruction, the abomination, the chaos… was visible all around us.
'Pretty.'
It was a good sight, however, I know when we are done with everything we want to do, this sight will become even more beautiful.
'Especially with 'them' with us.'
The outside of this ant colony was a battlefield of blood, corpses, and death now. However, there were still tens and thousands of ants waiting inside of this castle for their annihilation.
"El."
"Ah, darling. Come here."
i kissed my bastard first while leaving our backs to Anna and after thanking my best cute little Roxanna, we stepped foot inside a territory that already had a ruler.
[Master of the dungeon has confirmed the presence of the intruders on their territory.]
[Master of the dungeon has expressed her resentment towards the intruders.]
[Warning!]
[It has been confirmed that master of the dungeon is hostile towards the challengers.]
[Debuff: Queen's resentment will be applied to all challengers!]
[Ding!]
[You have resisted with your higher authority.]
Authorities were one of the most important weapons in the Worldline. I have said it many time already. However, sometimes, these great weapons also work as great shields against the unavoidable Laws of the system.
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