BXBX NOVEL Chapter 402
Kwishuuuuuu!
The sound of a lightsaber echoed all around the walls of the tunnel as a 2-meter plasma whip formed above the hilt.
Blake wasted no time whipping the closest soldier ant leaving a clean cut.
“As expected of an epic tier artifact, elite rank beasts can’t even take a single hit.” Blake said as he stared at the soldier ant that was sliced in half.
“On the other hand, I noticed the draining effect even though the soldier ant was killed instantly. The best part was that the drained vitality was absorbed by the whip, meaning that as long as I keep killing or getting hits the less beast core I need to spend charging it.” Blake said.
When he activated Binding chains, the plasma whip shot out at an unfortunate ant before expanding into plasma chains that sliced through the body of the ant instead of constricting it.
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It was then that Blake realized that he could adjust the power of the artifact by reducing its energy output.
He shot out the plasma chains once again, and this time the soldier ant was constricted without being sliced up. Although it didn’t die instantly, the vitality drain was so much that it died in less than 10 seconds.
“Too bad it was made to go against beasts.” Blake said.
The powers of the Master seal were this strong only because it was being used on beasts. If something like binding chains was used against a human, it would hardly constrict him or her talk less of draining them to death.
“I wish I could test out some things, but I don’t have much time left and the drawbacks may greatly affect the rest of the mission.” Blake thought.
Blake couldn’t test out the beast contractor ability because the drawback was random and he had no idea if he would start obeying the commands of the queen too.
“We are quite behind, so I will have to speed things up. So just keep up and store the corpses” Blake said as he activated lightning reinforcement and dashed forward.
While moving through the tunnel Blake began clearing the soldier ants that were making their way to the intersection.
“This is why I hate ant colonies, it’s a fucking maze.” Blake was forced to stop when he reached another intersection.
“Show me the map of the area we have explored and an image of the entrances at the surface.” Blake instructed the system.
After less than a minute of comparing both maps, Blake was able to discern that tunnel straight ahead led to the other entrance, while the one to his left led deeper into the ant colony.
When Brian and Castiel caught up, he explained everything to them before they moved into the new tunnel. The ants coming their way had increased, but they still weren’t what they couldn’t handle.
[There are hundreds of life signatures at the end of that tunnel.] The system informed them as they came across another intersection.
The trio didn’t waste time dashing in, but on reaching the end of the tunnel it turned out to be a room full of hundreds of ant pupae.
“What should we do about it?” Brian asked.
Ant pupae were not only used to prepare delicacies that sold for high amounts but they were also used by alchemists to concoct potions.
Literally, everything made with ant pupae was expensive, and that was because raiding an ant colony was no easy task.
“I am not happy to be the one saying this, but we have to burn them.” Blake said with a tear dropping from his eyes.
Both Dimensional spaces and pockets were only able to store none living things. So since pupae were alive they had no way of storing or carrying.
“We have to make sure we get that queen.” Blake felt a sting in his heart as he watched hundreds of white gold slowly turn to ashes.
[Shit!] The system interrupted Blake’s grieving.
“What happened?” Blake asked with a frown on his face because apart from when he was being roasted, the system never cursed.
[A powerful sound wave just went past my detection range.] The system said causing the trio to look at each other.
“We didn’t hear anything.” Brian and Castiel said in a confused tone, but that was when Blake’s eyes widened.
“We didn’t hear it because it was at a higher frequency.” Blake said with a deeper frown.
According to a book he read about ants, queen ants could call back every member of the ant colony with a high frequency screech that traveled kilometers and could only be picked up by the antennae of ants.
This was one of the major reasons that made clearing an ant colony very dangerous, because no one would know they were about to be surrounded.
“Should we abort the mission?” Castiel couldn’t help but ask after realizing what was going on.
“Nope, we have to get take down the ant queen.” Blake said as he marked the wall of the nursery. “The good news is that with the nursery is always close to the queen, so it shouldn’t be far.
The trio left the nursery and continued on their original path, and in less than a minute the system informed them about the present 10 elite rank soldier ants, 2 knight rank soldier ants and a knight rank queen.
“Seems we made it before them. So time to take it down before they arrive.” Blake said with a wide grin on his face.
“With night mist we can take the knight rank guards but we are no too sure if the other ants were to join.” Castiel said.
Not only did the tunnels limit their movements, but if the 10 ants were to attack them, then they would have nowhere to move to.
“You guys don’t have to worry, I will handle the rest.” Blake brought out the Master seal from his pocket dimension, but that was when something weird happened.
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