Chapter 90: If Only There Were Always This Many Monsters
[Desert Ant Queen (Boss-level Monster)]
[Level: 28]
[Strength: 9000]
[Agility: 3000]
[Spirit: 8000]
[Constitution: 8000]
[Skills: Summon Ant Swarm, Sonic Attack, Storm Strike, Curl Up]
Under Detection, the Desert Ant Queen’s information was fully revealed.
It wasn’t the dungeon boss.
The boss of Tyrant Desert dungeon should be the Tyrant.
And it should be a world-class boss level.
This ant queen before him was just a boss-level monster.
Its attributes weren’t that high either.
Detection also fell on the other four giant ants.
[Ant Queen’s Royal Guard (Super Enhanced Elite Monster)]
[Level: 27]
[Strength: 5000]
[Agility: 4000]
[Spirit: 3000]
[Constitution: 7000]
[Skill: Shell Hardening]
Four ant queen royal guards.
Average strength, agility and spirit.
Only constitution was extremely high.
Combined with their skill,
They were clearly meant to be tanks.
With them present, the ant queen’s safety would be greatly increased.
The ant queen was the most important in the entire ant colony, couldn’t be lost.
Other teams would have headaches seeing these four guards.
They’d have to find ways to kill them one by one.
But their presence made Lin Moyu see death.
As he used Detection, the skeleton warriors had already charged forward.
The ant queen’s guards also charged up.
The ant queen’s wings vibrated as it suddenly let out a piercing cry.
Skill: Sonic Attack
Terrifying sound waves reverberated through the ant cave.
The Bone Armor on Lin Moyu’s body flashed silver-white light, resisting the attack.
All the skeleton warriors and mages were hit simultaneously.
It was an indiscriminate area attack with an extremely large range.
Fortunately the power wasn’t too great. Lin Moyu’s Bone Armor successfully blocked it.
As for the skeleton warriors, they easily withstood it.
12,000 constitution allowed them to resist most attacks.
"Focus fire on one!"
At Lin Moyu’s command, the skeleton warriors swung their skills simultaneously.
Red light flashed on their blades.
Skill: Berserk Strike!
The skeleton mages behind also used skills immediately.
Following Lin Moyu’s order, they targeted the same royal guard.
Fire, ice, tornadoes, lightning.
Blooming like fireworks.
After a dazzling display of light, that guard was instantly killed.
[Killed Ant Queen’s Royal Guard]
[Obtained Flying Ant Wing x10]
Lin Moyu immediately raised his hand.
Skill: Corpse Explosion!
Boom!
After a huge explosion, the three remaining royal guards were blasted away.
"Huh! They didn’t die!"
Lin Moyu was slightly stunned. The three royal guards survived a Corpse Explosion.
That was 450% of the corpse’s max HP in damage.
Same-level monsters shouldn’t be able to withstand it.
Looking closely, he saw the three royal guards’ bodies flashing with a metallic luster, as if covered by a layer of armor.
Skill: Shell Hardening!
Lin Moyu understood. These three guards had used their skill to block the Corpse Explosion damage.
This skill’s effect should be similar to a knight’s Ultimate Defense, greatly increasing defense.
"Not bad, wonder how long it can last!"
The skeleton warriors had already charged up, fast as lightning, surrounding them as they landed.
The skeleton mages’ skills also fired, attacking from all directions.
With skill light on their bodies, the three royal guards were extremely hard all over. Their scythe-like legs struck the skeleton warriors.
At this moment, the skeleton warriors could barely hurt them.
They also couldn’t deal much damage to the skeleton warriors.
The attribute gap was too large. With only 5000 strength against the skeleton warriors’ 12,000 constitution, it wasn’t enough.
They might not even win one-on-one, let alone against 130 skeleton warriors plus 70 skeleton mages behind.
Completely outnumbered.
Massive attacks fell on them, quickly dimming the luster on their bodies.
Suddenly the ant queen flapped its wings again.
The huge wings whipped up fierce winds.
Gale-force winds swept over like a storm.
Skill: Storm Strike!
Howling winds swept through.
Many skeleton warriors were blown away, torn apart in midair by the fierce winds.
The skeleton warriors all took damage. Though not much, it was enough to show the ant queen’s skill power.
Lin Moyu knew he had the ’Elemental Resistance’ passive skill.
After enhancement it reduced elemental damage by 3 times.
Even so, the skeleton warriors were injured.
Without this skill, they’d probably be hurt even worse.
Other career professionals might even be instantly killed.
Lin Moyu’s expression changed as he quickly retreated two steps, standing behind the skeleton mages.
Skill: Bone Armor!
He reapplied a set of armor on himself!
The fierce winds blew to the skeleton mages. With lower constitution than the skeleton warriors, they were also blown about.
Fortunately they were farther away, so the skill had less power.
The Bone Armor flashed constantly, blocking the attacks.
Lin Moyu knew the team’s biggest weakness was still himself.
Even with Bone Armor, his defense was still the weakest.
If he took heavy damage, it would transfer to the skeletons, severely injuring them too.
This damage was calculated based on his defense, ignoring the skeletons’ constitution and defense.
So he had to avoid injury as much as possible.
The storm lasted a full twenty seconds before stopping.
The skeleton warriors fell to the ground but quickly got up and charged again.
They felt no pain, knew no fear, only following Lin Moyu’s orders to fight.
The perfect warriors.
The skeleton mages were the same, their various skills firing again.
Once more fire, lightning, ice and wind erupted.
The royal guards’ skill duration had ended, their defenses completely collapsing under the attacks.
With a miserable scream, another royal guard died.
The skill light on the other two had also disappeared.
Lin Moyu acted without hesitation.
Skill: Corpse Explosion!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Three Corpse Explosions in a row.
The first killed the other two royal guards while injuring the ant queen.
The second and third both hit the ant queen.
The ant queen screamed in agony, its wings blasted off, body a bloody mess.
These three Corpse Explosions had nearly killed it.
Suddenly, the ant queen’s body began shrinking, then curling up.
Skill: Curl Up
At the same time, a translucent membrane appeared on its body.
The membrane had extremely strong defense. The skeleton warriors’ blades couldn’t cut through.
Even the skeleton mages’ attacks couldn’t break through for now.
"Another Ultimate Defense-like skill."
"Let’s see how long you can last!"
All such skills had time limits, and the stronger the attacks received, the shorter they lasted.
The skeleton warriors attacked non-stop, the skeleton mages as well.
All kinds of attacks fell on the ant queen continuously.
After curling up, the ant queen’s screams never stopped.
The screams echoed through the entire ant nest.
Soon, dense crawling sounds were heard.
Lin Moyu turned to look. Large numbers of ants were rushing over from various caves.
They looked frenzied, moving extremely fast.
It was the ant queen’s skill: Summon Ant Swarm.
The ant queen had used its skill to call all the ants in the nest.
Seeing this, Lin Moyu wasn’t worried at all. Instead, a strange smile appeared on his face.
"What a nice surprise."
Lin Moyu rarely smiled. When he did, it meant something good.
A dozen skeleton warriors attacking the ant queen suddenly disappeared, reappearing in front of Lin Moyu the next second.
They quickly met the charging ant swarm.
The skeleton mages also turned their attacks towards the ant swarm.
A round of focused fire instantly killed a flying ant.
Then came non-stop explosions.
Corpse Explosion after Corpse Explosion.
Each explosion brought massive experience.
No matter how many ants there were, they couldn’t get through.
Experience truly skyrocketed, rising in a straight line.
Hearing the ant queen’s call, it seemed all the ants in the nest had rushed over.
Lin Moyu didn’t know exactly how many, just that there were very, very many.
His experience showed it.
When entering the ant nest, his experience was 38%. Now it had reached 65% and was still rising.
If he always had this many monsters to explode, his leveling speed would definitely surpass everyone’s.
Finally, the ant queen’s skill ended.
No more ant swarms came.
Lin Moyu inwardly sighed in regret.
His experience had now reached 78%, 40% more than when entering the ant nest.
As the skill stopped, the ant queen unfolded its body. The injuries from earlier had all healed, even its wings had regrown.
"Didn’t expect it to have a healing effect too."
With a wave of his hand, he ordered another all-out attack on the ant queen.
The ant queen flapped its wings, slicing at the skeleton warriors like blades.
It swept skeleton warriors away, but unfortunately the damage wasn’t great. The skeleton warriors bounced back.
In an instant, the ant queen was severely injured again.
The ant queen’s skills seemed to be on cooldown and weren’t used again.
Its injuries grew worse and worse as it screamed and wailed constantly.
130 skeleton warriors, 70 skeleton mages, completely saturated attacks.
After holding on for just over 10 seconds, the ant queen collapsed with a boom.
[Killed Desert Ant Queen, Experience +800000]
[Obtained Silver-grade weapon: Ant Queen’s Spear]
[Obtained Silver-grade accessory: Ant Queen’s Ring]
[Obtained Desert Ant Queen Egg]
[Obtained Low-grade Monster Crystal Core]
[Ant Queen’s Spear: Silver-grade weapon, Strength +50, usable after level 20]
[Ant Queen’s Ring: Silver-grade accessory, Spirit +50, usable after level 20]
[Desert Ant Queen Egg: Egg of the Desert Ant Queen, can be hatched by a beast tamer to obtain an ant queen]