Chapter 235 (1/2)
Volume 9 / Chapter 235
TL: LightNovelCafe
Editor: Hungry Panda
Cha Jun Sung arrived at his destination and folded his wings.
He plummeted hundreds of meters to the ground, the ground cracked and a crater formed. It was an impactful entrance.
He is on a large mountain between several small cities.
The mountain is surrounded by the small cities, so it is a location in which it is naturally easy to get surrounded.
Is this why he was being watched by the mutants?
“I’m here.”
A level 8 roar that could not be the result of a living organism’s vocal chords, resounding like several loud speakers combined, swept through the cities and mountain.
Mutants experienced a phenomenon of mental decay and stopped what they were doing, trembling in fear.
There are no level 7s nearby. The strongest mutant is level 6.
An unimaginable gap.
They all looked up.
The Bomb Ants detected the arrival of a top predator and dug deep into their caves, hiding without any movement.
Cha Jun Sung’s body grows smaller.
He became the size of his body when he is a human. He is going to go into the ant hill.
He can’t go in with his normal form because the hole is small.
Cha Jun Sung roared again. He did it inside the ant hill this time, so the effect was amplified and spread to all corners.
The terrain is complicated.
The scale of the cave is impressive. There must be hundreds or even thousands of rooms. It is fitting for the habits of ants.
When Cha Jun Sung went around the ant hill freely, the Bomb Ants began to weakly express their hostility. They seem like they might attack at any moment.
“Queen, Queen Bomb Ant.”
Cha Jun Sung passes food warehouses and hatcheries where they breed disgusting larva and newborn Bomb Ants.
The places are repeated, so he is getting confused as to whether he has already been somewhere or not. He didn’t care however, because it was fairly interesting.
He kept searching, and half a day passed after he entered the cave. There are still a lot of places he needs to look, but he is getting used to it.
“Huh?”
Bang!
He didn’t have a chance to even react. A Bomb Ant approached him on the wall, stuck to Cha Jun Sung’s back, and exploded. The gunpowder is different. It is smoky and smells bloody. The smell of ammonia is accompanied by a shockwave, and a sharply fragmented hard shell and bones fly as debris.
That was the beginning.
Bang bang bang!
One time is hard, two is easy. The Bomb Ants saw their comrade’s intense self-destruction, and jumped in one after the other. It was just like bombing.
Cha Jun Sung inflated his coat thickly in the midst of the exploding ant hill. The Bomb Ants’ explosive power is pounding on his entire body.
‘Pretty good.’
There was no big hit. But there is a reaction from his coat when this is repeated hundreds of times.
Each Bomb Ant’s ability is barely middle level 3. Their self-destruction and distinctive characteristic of swarming together makes them level 4.
“They block it desperately. Always making it so obvious.”
Cha Jun Sung didn’t get overwhelmed by the explosions, and went forward. If they need to fight, even lower levels will attack an upper level. The Queen must be nearby. He is sure that they are sacrificing themselves and self-destructing in order to protect their precious Queen.
“I can’t… see.”
Boom boom boom!
Cha Jun Sung’s tail goes up like a snake. Then it became sharp like a needle and penetrated the Bomb Ants jumping at him.
They became skewered on the tail.
His tail went back down and Bomb Ants littered the floor.
Immediate death without the chance for them to explode. He killed a fair number, but that many more showed up.
The hole in the cave grows larger.
As that happens, the attacks lessen.
How much have they dug in?
A public space as large as a gym appears. At the center, there is the Queen Bomb Ant the size of a house, with dozens of level 5 Bomb Ants. They are all looking at the same thing. Cha Jun Sung.
“It feels like I’m facing a few apartment buildings.”
The public space must be connected to every path in the cave, because there are hundreds of holes. Bomb Ants pour out of them.
“Follow me. You’ll have to take a big sacrifice, but I’ll help you revive your tribe. You could take over this entire area.”
He is speaking in human language, but he didn’t attempt a conversation. They will know by instinct why he has come into the ant hull.
The Queen makes a movement toward Cha Jun Sung. It translates to, ‘Everyone attack.’
Thousands of Bomb Ants jump out of the holes in the wall. They overlap with each other, making it look like a wave.
“The Queen lays the eggs, right?”
He doesn’t know whether she is a hermaphrodite or if she mates.
He will kill everything that comes at him.
He’ll let the Queen and the few level 5s live.
Bomb Ants have a high reproduction rate and speed, so one can become a hundred within a day as long as there are no obstacles in the vicinity.
If they confirm his strength with their eyes rather than their instinct, they will know. There’s no need for him to make the effort to explain.
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