Chapter 318: Malki the Fire Ant Emperor (1/2)

”Weird, why is it Emperor instead of a Queen?” Tang Shaoyang muttered in a low voice.

—Pervert! You don't even spare your spirit!

Zowen immediately called out. Of course, she was misunderstanding the meaning behind his words as she just instantly jumped to a conclusion by himself.

—He is right, based on the Ant hierarchy, the highest rank should be Ant Queen and the lowest one is the ant worker. You are the one who had a dirty mind, Lightning Bitch.

Karan immediately talked back. He was not going to miss the chance to mock Zowen at any chance. Only then the Lightning Magus shut her mouth. She could not talk back when she was in the wrong.

There was another thing that bothered him off. Rumru was titled the Beast King while the spirit he just summoned was an Emperor. One was a Black Dragon but this one was a Fire Ant. He was someone who regarded the Emperor as a higher rank than a King, so he felt weird about that.

The crimson particles soon disappeared and revealed the figure behind the smoke. It was not the same Ant to Scorched Ant. Malki had two legs and four arms. A pair of hands were blade-like hands while the other pair was a normal hand but with a scary claw.

The dark flaming eyes moved around, scanning the surroundings while the bright crimson carapace released out hot air. Two jet-black horns protruded backward while there was a pair of antennas made of fire next to the horn.

The Fire Ant Emperor's flaming glanced at Zaneos below before locking its gaze on Tang Shaoyang. The ant and the human exchanged glances for a few seconds before the blade-like mandible opened and a high pitch screech resounded.

”You can't talk?” Tang Shaoyang furrowed his brows. The screech was unpleasant to the ears.

Instead of talking like the other spirits, the Fire Ant Emperor kept screeching at him. It seemed to say something, but the language barrier caused the two not to be able to communicate.

”It's B+ Tier Spirit, it's disappointing that it could not talk,” Tang Shaoyang shook his head. He loved to negotiate to sign the contract instead of battling against the spirit. He had been doing this four times, and he was well aware that the spirit had a regret they could not fulfill in their life. He wanted to use this to sign the contract with the spirit.

”Then let's fight,” Tang Shaoyang motioned his hand toward the Fire Ant Emperor to come at him. It could not understand his words, but the ant understood his gesture.

Malki flapped his fire wing and his figure flashed toward Tang Shaoyang. It was fast, but he could still see its movement perfectly. He moved the side, dodging the incoming blade from above, and sent a kick to Malki's back.

The Fire Ant Emperor's figure shot toward the ground. But it managed to regain the balance before he could touch the ground. It flipped around and looked toward Tang Shaoyang.

Malki flapped the fire wings, but his body did not move. The ant stayed still in the air even though it flapped its wing fiercely. But the moment it stopped flapping, his figure flashed toward Tang Shaoyang at a frightening speed.

Tang Shaoyang noticed that even the blade-like hands were covered in the fire too. Instead of dodging the attack, he cast [Flame Shield] and [Mana Shroud]. After casting the two skills, he cast another defensive skill, [Dragon Scales].

Black scales started to cover his skin, from the bottom up to his neck covered in the black scales.

Malki's blades struck the crimson sphere, and it instantly broke. Flame burst out and rushed toward the Fire Ant Emperor. However, the fire could not have the Fire Ant Emperor. The claw came out of the fire, aiming at his face.

The claw was about to reach his face, but he ducked back, and the claw struck his chest instead. Even though the claw managed to hit his chest, it failed to break [Mana Shroud] as the claw bounced back.

Tang Shaoyang's hand reached toward the flame, but he failed to grab Malki. The Fire Ant Emperor flew around to his back quickly as soon as the claw failed to penetrate his [Mana Shroud].

Instead of attacking him, Malki grabbed his shoulder tightly and used the blade arm to strike his neck. The blade tore the [Mana Shroud] but it quickly met hard resistance from the black scales.

Malki did not give as he kept attacking the same spot with his blade.

”Go help him!” Li Na was anxious as soon as she noticed Tang Shaoyang was caught by the Fire Ant Emperor. He was talking to Zaneos who stood next to her.

”You don't need to worry about him, he should be fine,” Zaneos replied with his cold voice, ”He has to do this alone to make the contract with the spirit.”

She was about to nag the Demon Swordsman to help Tang Shaoyang, but she noticed Tang Shaoyang easily broke out from the grips.

”You are quick, but your reaction is faster. It's not easy to catch you,” Tang Shaoyang remarked as he caught the blade-like hand. He pulled Malki with a motion of slamming the Fire Ant Emperor down. At the same time, he deactivated his [Sky Walk].