Chapter 166 - Endless Waves of Ants (1/2)

Wave after wave of ants were charging at Jiang Fei. These baby ants had even lower Attack Power and Health Points than the Worker Ants. They could only attack Jiang Fei once, stinging him a little, before dying to the reflect damage. However, there seemed to be no end to their numbers.

In less than five minutes, thousands of baby ant corpses were piled up around Jiang Fei. On the other hand, Jiang Fei was down to half his health points.

"How the f*ck do you even do this?"

Jiang Fei suddenly yearned for the previous mutant breeding room. As the mutant eggs were as large as humans, the breeding room could only house hundreds of the eggs, at most. However, these ants were barely larger than his fists. If the entire room's full of eggs were all hatched, the numbers could range into the tens of thousands. Even Jiang Fei would eventually fall.

"Argh! That Ant Breeder has to go. I'm not going to last forever!"

Jiang Fei started unlocking his protective armor. He used the opportunity to drink the Health Potion and restore his Health bar by a thousand points.

However, the Ant Breeder was basically out of his reach. It was surrounded by closely grouped baby ants. Although he could kill them with a single reflect damage, the continuous streams of baby ants still made it difficult for Jiang Fei to wade forward. In fact, every second involved hundreds of attacks which kept Jiang Fei's body locked in a flinch animation. Therefore, skills like Jumping Slash which required a short charge were impossible to activate.

Ice Burst!

In an instant, the baby ants in a fan-shaped area before Jiang Fei were all slain. Jiang Fei could not rely entirely on the passive return damage to get rid of these baby ants. He had to work his arms about. Otherwise, he would be drowned in the never-ending onslaught of ants!

Battle Cry!

Ice Burst was rather powerful, but Battle Cry was still more-suited for these numerous baby ants. After all, the baby ants' Health Points did not even reach a hundred. The Battle Cry and Ice Burst could both kill them instantly. But the Battle Cry had a far superior semi-circular range of eight meters!

With a single Battle Cry, Jiang Fei had completely wiped out the baby ants next to him. He had some time to take a breather and gulped down another bottle of Health Potion. Finally, the opening that he had been waiting for!

Jumping Slash!

The moment he had just enough breathing room, Jiang Fei pounced on his enemy target before the baby ants could swarm up to him yet again.

Although the Jumping Slash was classified as an instant skill, it actually required approximately 0.1 of a second of kneeling down before it actually activated. Under normal circumstances, this charging time was negligible. After all, it was just too tiny a window for anyone to capitalize on.

However, with more than a hundred attacks each second, you would be constantly interrupted at any given moment. Jiang Fei was unable to unleash the Jumping Slash earlier on, because of the continuous attacks from the baby ants.

"Leap!"

In an instant, Jiang Fei had leaped away from the baby ants surrounding him and landed right next to the Ant Breeder.

Ice Burst!

Sunder Strike!

Bash!

The moment he was close enough, Jiang Fei unleashed all of his offensive skills. He instantly hacked down the Health Points of the Ant Breeder by more than a third!

Sadly, that was the extent of his charge. A large number of baby ants surrounded him once again. The Ant Breeder immediately ran away from Jiang Fei's area of attack and continued to hatch ant eggs elsewhere.

"Motherf*cker…"

Jiang Fei frowned. Now, the distance between him and the Ant Breeder had increased yet again. The cooldown time of Jumping Slash was only one minute, but the cooldown time of Battle Cry was three minutes. Based on how the situation was turning out, it would take another two cycles of that skill combination before the Ant Breeder could be eliminated. However, his Health Points would not last that long!

However, without Jumping Slash, Jiang Fei had no means of approaching the Ant Breeder! As he helplessly stared at the Ant Breeder in the distance, Jiang Fei was suddenly struck by a fresh, new idea.

"I've got it!"

Jiang Fei had an idea!

Ice Burst!

Changing his direction, Jiang Fei started blowing out frosty energy towards the Ant Breeder. However, the Ant Breeder was ten meters away from him. The Ice Burst's area of effect could not reach the Ant Breeder!

Intercept!

Suddenly, Jiang Fei activated a skill that one would rarely see him using.