Chapter 265: Test Subjec (2/2)

“Master! We’re back! There’s a golem behind me too…”

At the same time as his return, Big 4 yelled out a warning to us.

No.3 immediately tried to rush out to help but I promptly stopped him with my voice: “Steady there, No.3. I need you to carry this queen ant towards it first. I want to see if it will attack her.”

“Understood Master.” No.3 immediately caught one of the outer limbs of the queen ant and started dragging her forward. By now, no matter how dim the queen ant was, she could roughly tell what was going on. She immediately tried to fight back but unfortunately, she was no match for No.3 at all.

“No…no…” Unable to resist, all she could do was beg for mercy. The way she was moaning almost reminded me of a scene where a bad man was slowly dragging a frail lady into a dark alley corner…well, except that this particular lady was unforgivably ugly…at least that was how she seemed to me.

Sensing the golem, Nola paused her feasting for now, turned towards the distant golem and howled. Having done that, she raked at the earth a couple of times as if warming up for a fight.

“Let the queen ant have a go first.” Worried that Nola might just charge in right away, I anxiously reminded her to wait patiently. “I want to test if those golems would actually attack her. Of course, all this is just an assumption on my part so if anything goes wrong, I still need you to join in.”

“Mhm, got it.” Nola nodded her head and took up a wary stance. Should anything happen, she would immediately charge off into battle.

Body hovering barely off the ground, No.3 crossed shoulders with Big 4 as he swiftly dragged in the queen ant. Shoulders tightening, he made sure to restrain the queen ant after tossing her onto the ground. From her position, squished against the floor by a power she couldn’t resist, all she could do was wriggle her abdomen about in what to be the most pitiful sight I had ever seen in a long while.

Deathly afraid of the golem trampling on her, she desperately clawed her way forward but was summarily stopped by a cruel kick to the face by No.3. She stumbled backwards uncontrollably and just as she tried to climb up to her feet, she found herself face to face with a fierce looking No.3. Finally, she understood her position and quietened down, like some kind of wife who was a victim of abuse.

If she was lucky, that golem would simply pass over her harmlessly, otherwise…from the looks of things, that golem would most likely step all over her in its path towards us.

In order to avoid getting attacked by the golem, No.3 took to the air while still maintaining a vigilant watch over the Black Blood Queen Ant. The moment she tried anything funny, he was prepared to swoop in and give her the beating of her life.

As she sat there helplessly on the ground, the queen ant gazed forlornly at the airborne No.3. She wanted to escape but didn’t dare to try. She knew very well what would happen to her after failing so many times already. No.3 was faster and more powerful than she was so even if she managed to avoid the golem, No.3 would immediately take her out…

Still, even though she knew that she was just a poor test subject of mine, her will to live refused to die down. She waved her limbs about frantically while calling out to that golem using some kind of strange chittering sound. Even though I couldn’t understand what she was trying to say, I could tell from her actions that she was trying to tell the golem not to attack her…

With regards to that wishful thinking of hers, all I could say was: fat chance!

The queen ant had only one thought right now: run. Because she couldn’t, she was terrified. She wanted to beg for mercy but who knew if that would even work…what then?

The golem continued its thunderous march towards her and us. Honestly, there was just no way that golem could understand her…right?

Right when I was expecting to see an ant patty however, something amazing happened that left us all stunned. The golem suddenly slowed down and even came to a stop right in front of the Black Blood Queen Ant…

With that, the Black Blood Queen Ant was temporarily spared a horrific death. She weakly laid on the ground and gasped, deeply and greedily. The golem quietly stared at the Black Blood Queen Ant, neither attacking nor moving away. It was then that the Black Blood Queen Ant knew that she wasn’t out of the fire yet. It tried to crawl backwards but as it did so, her eyes came face to face with the golem’s own.

The golem’s eyes were red like a ruby. Because it was a magical construct, it had no emotions whatsoever. Being stared at like that must have been really stressful for the queen ant. Thus, merely seconds after escaping the fate of being stomped on, she fell to her knees and started begging for mercy once more.

What happened next truly exceeded our expectations. Just as the queen ant was about to wet herself, figuratively speaking of course, the golem suddenly turned around and left…

That’s right, it left, inexplicably and without any warning at all. It didn’t even look at us before leaving…even though we were supposed to be kill on sight targets. Because of that lone queen ant, it abandoned attacking us entirely.