Chapter 149 – Queen An (1/2)

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Ants of various colors flew or crawled. The sheer density in which they gathered was enough to make a person feel faint.

“Is this the Ant Nest? That’s a lot of passages!” Liu Lan curiously examined the tunnels sprawling in all directions.

“You’re not scared?” Fatty asked, pointing at the ants.

“Scared? Scared of what?” rebuffed Liu Lan. “How could I be scared with you here?” She smiled charmingly as she feigned cuteness and a sense of dependency at Fatty. The rogue inwardly felt something was weird about Liu Lan’s sudden change in personality lately; while he was a little happy about it, he also felt it was somewhat dubious.

Ignorant of the thoughts running through Fatty’s mind, Liu Lan inquired, “How do we get to the boss?” All her excitement was directed toward the boss.

“We force our way in,” Fatty said gravely.

“Brute force it? You insane? There are enough monsters here to drown us to death with their spittle alone!” Clueless as to why he seemed to have lost his mind that day, Liu Lan gawked at Fatty.

“Of course we’ll clear out the mobs first,” noted Fatty.

“This many mobs…” His companion rested her head on her palm, as if she were about to faint at the very thought. How would they clear out tens of thousands of mobs with just the two of them?

“I’ll show you something good,” Fatty declared, and he took out a fiery red scroll. “Intermediate fire skill scroll, Wildfire Stormburst.” He tore the scroll and flung it into the air. The parchment emitted a brilliant red glow that shot out, tracing a magical hexagon in the sky. From the midst of the formation, fiery flames rained down.

Ding!

System Notification: Player Money Grubber has used an intermediate fire skill scroll, Wildfire Stormburst. Grants the skill Wildfire Stormburst, an AOE effective over 25 square meters.

Magic Attack: 30

Duration: 60 sec.

In the Fire Valley, Fatty had wormed his way into making friends with West the Flame Ruler, and gained plenty of good stuff from it. The Thunderfire Power Bomb was the most powerful of his loot, yet this fire scroll had been among the more trivial items.

“Only 30 magic attack?” Liu Lan pouted. “That’s not enough for—” But, before the words were barely out of her mouth, she watched as fire rained down on the contingent of ants and caused numbers like 55, 67, and 64 to pop from the monsters every second. At such rate, a large area was cleared out in the blink of an eye. A great many flying ants were killed as well.

“Ah?!” Liu Lan gaped at the sight, then turned to Fatty with a burning gaze.

“How’s that?” Fatty asked smugly.

“Give me one! I want to throw one too!” Liu Lan snatched a scroll, another intermediate skill called Sea of Flame from Fatty. Swiftly tossing out the scroll, Liu Lan shouted, “Hah! I’m the Goddess of Flame! Watch me! Sea of Flame!”

The scroll spun through the air and flopped onto Wheat’s head. The rodent raised its little head to study the object before pulling it down and sitting on it.

“Huh?! What happened?” Liu Lan was dumbstruck. She turned to Fatty. “Was that a fake scroll?”

“What fake scroll?” The rogue didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. “You forgot to tear it!”

“Oh, yeah! I forgot.” Liu Lan hastily kicked at Wheat’s butt. “Move aside.”

Retrieving the scroll, she tore it and tossed the parchment toward the area with the most monsters. Along with a ding from the system, a magical hexagon pattern materialized on the ground. Subsequently, fiery flames erupted one after another to devour all of the mobs within the formation.

“Wow, how quickly it kills!” Liu Lan gushed in excitement. She was happy to see her visibly climbing experience bar.

Whoosh! A golden halo ringed Fatty’s head and illuminated his smiling face. At that instant, he greatly resembled the smiling Maitreya Buddha statue.

Ding!

System Notification: Congratulations, you’ve reached level 33.

Whoosh! A golden halo wreathed Liu Lan’s head as well; she’d also leveled up. “Woah, I’m level 32 now!” Liu Lan was ecstatic.

After putting all of his new stat points into strength, Fatty looked toward the massive Ant Nest. The mound was several dozen meters high, comparable to a six-story building. The number of monsters inside was unknown. If the pair wanted to force their way in, they would have to be prepared to pay a high price.

“Fatty, do you have more scrolls? Give me another!” Liu Lan had grown addicted to throwing skill scrolls.

Exasperated, Fatty replied, “The scrolls aren’t of much use now. Let’s lure the boss out first.”

“Should I lure it?” Liu Lan summoned the Fire Cloud Panther.