Chapter 55: The ants (1/2)

When Ed reached the group of monsters' location, he found a bunch of black ants. He had read about these ants in the library. They were separated into worker ants, soldier ants, and the queen ant. Most worker ants had Knight Establishment while soldiers were all King establishment. The queen was troublesome as she would even be Earth establishment level 5. If Ed were to fight these monsters he would have to kill them as fast as possible so he wouldn't get ganged up by them.

The monsters were near their nest so he was sure that they would respond in case they were attacked. Ed decided to kill the ones he could see from a distance first. Thanks to his KI control and his great reserve of KI, Ed conjured up 20 fire arrows and sent them all flying towards the ants. There were 10 ants, and they were all worker ants. Two arrows each were more than enough to kill them instantly. Ed had barely gotten 3000 exp from these worker ants.

As soon as the ants died, even more, got out from the nest to see what had happened only to find fire arrows being sent at them. Soon, Ed had killed more than 100 worker ants the same way. His KI wasn't going to last forever so midway he asked Raikou to switch with him.

After so many ants had died, soldier ants finally came out. The difference between the former and the latter was beyond words. The soldier ants' shell was hard and couldn't be hurt by the fire arrows. Ed noticed this and finally decided to come out and fight them directly.

”Raikou I have some stuff I want to test. Stay here with Suika” Ed left and withdrew two of his swords. Ame-No-Murakumo and Shusui. He used Wind Blade on both swords and started fighting the soldier ants one by one. Ame-No-Murakumo had the wind attribute so it further enhanced the wind blade, while Shusui enhanced all skills it was used with.

”Seventy-two-pound cannon!” Ed didn't hold anything back and attacked the first ant from a distance. The wind kept injuring the ant until its shell couldn't hold anymore and was destroyed. After killing the first ant, he moved to kill the other ones.

As soon as he finished one, another would come out of the nest. Ed was now surrounded by ants so he activated his Seikken. His swords looked as if they were flowing around and with each swing of his swords; a leg would fall off an ant if not a head. Soon enough he had killed about twenty soldier ants and none came out.

The nest seemed to be a small size one as it didn't have a lot of monsters. Ed activated his Map and noticed that a red dot was coming towards him from a small distance to the left. He guessed it was the queen ant and decided to get serious.

”Raikou, Suika! It's time to hunt!” Fighting the queen ant alone would be suicide for Ed currently so he had no choice but to use his companions' help.

The two of them came forward to Ed's side and started getting ready. The queen ant finally appeared and Ed scanned it immediately. It was at Earth Establishment level 3. Ed sighed in relief since he could hunt such a monster with his companions.

Immediately after it appeared, Raikou used his fire magic on it. It was surrounded by fire but seemed like it wasn't harmed at all. Its shell was even tougher than the soldiers. Its size was also bigger, standing even taller than the bear Ed fought last time.

After noticing this, Ed and Raikou moved to opposite spots and started attacking it. In this case, it would have to focus on one opponent while the other does damage to it. However, they didn't expect that the queen would just use earth magic and blow both of them away. Ed and Raikou jumped backward in the air and restored their balance.

”Suika!” Ed was worried about Suika so he looked for her, only to find her above the queen's head.