Chapter 53: The Dive Begins
Jason quickly decided on that course of action. It wasn’t perfect, but it was the best plan he could come up with at that moment.
Jason moved to bring back the wolf that he sacrificed, and it reformed with a swirling purple light while consuming some of his mana. Jason then looked at how much mana he had left and he nodded in satisfaction when he saw that he had more than four hundred MP.
Buzz~!
Buzz~!
Buzz~!
Jason’s head suddenly shot to the side as he heard the sound of flying ants heading in his direction! He immediately realized that they must’ve heard the fight between the ant and the wolves, and he cursed!
He ordered his subordinates into the Alternate Dimension before he moved to hide beside a tree. Three large ants appeared in the space where Jason had just been and they flew towards the corpse of the ant that was still there. They looked from one to the other curiously as they wondered what had killed their brother.
The ants had heard a fight happening here, so they expected to see their brother killing another creature. They knew that their brother wasn’t stupid, so he wouldn’t attack a creature that he wasn’t sure he could handle.
The ants immediately suspected that something was wrong and one of them moved closer to the corpse while the others began moving around the forest to see if they could find what had killed their brother.
But once they were close enough, Jason called out to the Legion.
’Now!’
The legion suddenly shot out from the Alternate Dimension! Two Pawn Rank II wolves latched onto each of the ants and grabbed them before they could get into the air again, and they tore their wings and bodies into pieces!
Jason told them to drag the bodies into the shadows so that any other scouts around wouldn’t see them, and then he put his hand over them and spoke:
"Resurrect."
The souls of the three ants were forcefully dragged out from their bodies by Jason’s mana and Jason saw a tab open in front of him.
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The user has successfully killed [3] Adamantine Ant Scouts
+210 Kill Points
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[Adamantine Ant Scout]
[Pawn Rank II]
[Upgrade Points: 0/5]
[Upgrade Limit: Rook Class Rank II]
[MP: 300]
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+90 MP
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The skill [Adamantine Skin] had grown stronger.
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Jason felt the surge in power that he always felt whenever he gained a new subordinate, and the amount of mana he had in him also increased. The three ants waited patiently for Jason’s orders with their wings folded behind their back, and Jason easily passed the plan to them as well before he called out all the members of the Legion and told them to move forward.
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The anthill was an ecosystem that had been self-sustaining for a long time. The Adamantine Ants were omnivores, and they possessed strong mandibles made from adamantine that allowed them to cut and carry tree logs and carcasses of stray animals around with them.
The ants that went out for these tasks were the worker ants. These ants were wingless and they possessed a smaller body than the soldiers and the scouts, which made it easy for the soldiers to keep them in line even though they were far fewer.
There were four entrances to the maze-like hill, and each of the entrances had its own workers and soldiers who were in charge of carrying food and protecting that area from intruders.
The worker ants were currently scavenging for food all around the hilltop with some soldiers flying around them. The soldiers were twice as large as the Scouts, but they possessed a much stronger body and mandibles that looked like silver daggers. They were flying with an aura of danger around them and anytime they saw a stray beast or monster in their domain, they would immediately attack it with their powerful mandibles, tearing it to pieces and then carrying it back to the tunnel entrance so that the workers could take it to their Queen.
There were ten soldiers and close to fifty workers in this one space and Jason watched them from a distance with his [Predator’s Gaze]. Jason had run into five more scouts on his way to the tunnel entrance and after killing them with the same tactic as before, he added them to his subordinates and allowed them to boost his mana and power even more.
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The user has killed [5] Adamantine Ant Scouts
+350 Kill Points
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[The skill [Adamantine Skin] had evolved to the D rank skill [Adamantine Armor]]
[Adamantine Armor: This skill wraps the user’s skin in a shell of silver adamantine, protecting the user from external physical attacks. This skill can be evolved]
[To evolve this skill, the user must obtain more [Adamantine Ant] subordinates]
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+150 MP
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Mana Points: 550/790
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Jason watched the tunnel entrance and the ants moving in and out of it from his place high in the sky. He was currently riding on one of his Adamantine Ant subordinates and flying high enough that the soldier ants couldn’t see him.
Jason was trying to come up with a proper plan of action in his mind. The ten soldier ants had formed a matrix of protection around the entrance. They weren’t moving away from the entrance because the scouts were the ones in charge of looking for enemies and they would only move if the scouts reported back that there was something for them to kill.
So once Jason begins his plan, he was sure that the soldiers would all move away from the entrance to go and attack the wolves. And when they leave, Jason would use that opportunity to attack the worker ants and gain more subordinates!
Jason had gained more than five hundred kill points from the system after killing the nine scouts so far, so he decided to use the five hundred kill points to evolve one of his Pawn Rank II Adamantine Ant Scouts into a Pawn Rank III.
[Does the user wish to convert 500 kill points to Upgrade points? Yes/No]
Jason chose yes and the system changed the points to what he wanted. Jason then transferred the points into one of the ants in his Alternate Dimension and the ant’s body changed and grew into a larger version of itself. Its wings grew larger and the metallic skin grew stronger. Its mandibles also doubled in size and Jason could see the similarities between the Pawn Rank III scout and the Soldier ants that were at the tunnel entrance.
’Okay, the forces should be evenly matched now. There are ten soldier ants, so I’ll send twenty subordinates to fight them. Four of them will be Pawn Rank III and then sixteen Pawn Rank II. That way, they won’t be overwhelmed even if the soldiers are stronger than them. I’ll send the rest of my subordinates to block the entrance and make sure the workers can’t escape into the tunnel before killing them too.’
Jason laid out his plan as well as he could in his mind and relayed it to his subordinates. Once he was sure that they were all on the same page, he gave the order for the battle to begin!
’Go!’
Two wolves suddenly charged out from the foliage, drawing the attention of the soldiers to them with noises and growls! The soldiers all turned in their direction and they flew off quickly to confront the wolves!
The wolves darted into the forest to escape and five of the soldiers stayed back while the others chased after them! Once those five were gone, two more wolves appeared and began drawing the attention of the remaining soldiers!