Chapter 188 (1/2)

Chapter 188

Ch. 188 Ant Captain

I run straight, avoiding as many falling rocks as possible. But because it’s such a narrow pa.s.sage, I can’t really move much to the left or to the right. It gives me no choice but to slow down in order to avoid it. Everything I couldn’t avoid I smacked with my tail.

I thought of using [[Roll]], but then the light coming from [[Light]] would be gone. It would be suicidal to blind myself while this narrow pa.s.sage is collapsing. Also, if the red ants decide to block my way using [[Clay]] then my movement will be even more restricted.

As I pa.s.s by a red ant, I trample down on it with my forefoot, piercing its back with my claw.

‘Splat’

[448 experience points obtained.] [t.i.tle skill [[Walking Egg: Lv–]] activated, 448 bonus points obtained.] [Lv of [[Evil Plague Dragon]] increased from 65 to 66.]]

Since the red ants are focusing on escaping from the collapsing pa.s.sage, it was easy to land an attack on its defenseless back.

Although, if the pa.s.sage is blocked by the collapse, I could tell that a battle against all those red ants will begin. Even though it’s somewhat impossible, I have to reduce the number of red ants.

“Kuchaa!” “Kujiia!”

Wielding and waving around my claw, I smash against the ground underneath me killing any red ants that happen to be there. From Lv 66 to Lv 67, to Lv 68, to Lv 69, it keeps

going up. Although I’m in serious danger of being buried alive, the ant extermination is bringing me much needed experience.

My evolution is also quickly approaching, and my stats have also gone up with it. I thought that it would turn out to be a difficult fight with Adofu knocked out, but this is actually turning out pretty well. As a plus, when the collapse began, more than half of the ants fled in the opposite direction of where I was going. Also, since there are red ants being buried by the lumps of stone and soil, the number of red ants I have to deal with has been drastically reduced.

There’s a big red ant standing in front of the bend in the pa.s.sage. It’s looking straight at me, without even a glance at its running companions.

If I pa.s.s that corner I should be out of the collapsing zone. From then onwards my fight with the red ants begins again, so I can’t afford to be distracted.

A red ant stops before the big red ant.

“Kucha….”

The red ant who stopped calls out. If you don’t run away you will be buried where you stand. The big red ant still doesn’t move. The red ant who spoke seemed to give up trying to persuade the big one, swaying its head a little, stopping its feet, and turns to face me.

“….Kucha”

This time, the big red ant spoke out. Just like with the big

big one, the other ant does not respond to the cry. I feel like the big ant smiled.

Umm… I’m not the kind to do such terrible things though.

“Pefu?”

[Need, Translation?]

No, its fine.

But if you’re blocking the way like that, it will take me some time to get through. But on their end, it was probably good that only the big red ant and another stopped. If there were more of them, they would have been buried alive. If it’s just two, then there’s room for me to break through.

Race: Big Red Ogre Ant

State: Normal

Lv: 34/55

HP: 264/277

MP: 84/102

Race: Red Ogre Ant

State: Poisoned

Lv: 19/55

HP: 131/205