Chapter 64: Bomb Shell
The Rook subordinate let out a screech that almost sounded like it was laughing before it immediately countered with a bite of its own and aimed for the ant’s leg! The sound of its mandible tearing through the leg like a human tearing into an apple echoed through the region, and the regular ant screeched loudly in pain as it quickly retreated! The rook subordinate raced after it and grabbed its wing before tearing it to pieces!
This scene was repeating all around the region! The soldier ants were trying their hardest to fight back against the rook subordinates, but they were incapable of putting up a good fight since the rook subordinates all had very high durability! Even the wolves on the ground were capable of tanking the hits and bites from the ants, and they were using their claws and teeth to tear into the ants that attacked them easily!
One of the rook subordinates that was only a Pawn Rank II was tag-teamed by three of the soldiers, and although it tried its best to fight them all off, it was unable to kill them before they tore its wings away and killed it!
The soldiers felt happiness in their hearts when they saw the rook subordinate dissipating into purple dus! They had finally succeeded in killing one of them! But their happiness didn’t last long and they were shocked when the dust suddenly gathered back up and formed back into the shape of the rook subordinate!
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You have consumed 60MP to resurrect [1] Pawn Rank II subordinate.
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SCREEEECHHH!!
A loud screech echoed through the area as the rook subordinate came back to life and all the ants turned and ran in fear! They couldn’t fight against something like this! This was the work of a devil!
Jason watched all of this happening from on top of the Rook’s back. There were twenty soldier ants out there fighting against ten rook subordinates, and at the end of it, only one of the rook subordinates had been killed by a tag team from the soldier ants. The other soldier ants were easily dealt with by the rook subordinates, and it wasn’t long before there were no more enemies in the region.
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[You have killed [10] Adamantine Ant Soldiers]
+1500 Kill points
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Jason put his hand out to the dead ants and spread his mana over them.
"Resurrect."
Doon!
His mana surged through the area and dragged the ants’ souls out from their bodies with loud shrieks!
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[You have acquired [10] Pawn Rank III subordinates]
+1500 MP
[The skill [Mana Frenzy] has grown stronger.]
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Jason looked away from the system tab immediately after and he spoke to the ants that he had just resurrected and ordered them to report on what the ants inside the tunnel were doing. Jason was able to gain a lot of knowledge about his enemies by asking his resurrected subordinates to explain things to him, so he made it a habit every time he resurrected a new enemy to first find out what their comrades were up to.
The ant told Jason all about the defenses that the Queen had been organizing inside the tunnel. They told Jason about the broken tunnels and also about the ten dangerous ants that were the Queen’s personal guards joining the attack.
Jason hummed as he thought over everything that he heard, and he decided a few seconds later that it didn’t matter. The situation was dangerous, but it wasn’t so bad that he wouldn’t be able to handle it.
Besides, Jason had almost two hundred subordinates, and twenty-two of them were buffed with the defensive abilities of a Rook. The ants inside the tunnel wouldn’t stand a chance against his attack.
Jason sent a message to the rook subordinates and ordered them to begin breaking down the barrier blocking the tunnel entrance before Jason sent a mental command to the rook that was in charge of the subordinates fighting on the southern part of the hill and he asked it how they were handling the situation over there.
The Rook reported that they had two casualties and they were in the process of breaking down the barrier as well. Jason nodded along. He had already gotten the notification for the deaths, so he just used his mana to revive the casualties that died in that fight, but he was surprised when the revived subordinates appeared beside him rather than beside the rook.
’So the dead subordinates always revive close to me?’
Jason filed away that piece of information and decided that it wasn’t a problem. The rook on the southern side was short two allies, but it wouldn’t make a big difference in the long run. Jason’s plan was for them to fight their way through their respective tunnels and then meet up somewhere in the middle of the colony, so the rook just had to hold on until then.
Bang!
Bang!
Bang!
The rook subordinates were using their sturdier bodies to slowly break through the barrier leading into the tunnel, and Jason decided that it was going far too slowly. At this rate, it would take at least two minutes for them to break it down.
Jason stood from the back of the rook that he was riding and he summoned another ant to his side. A scout appeared and Jason jumped over onto its back before he ordered the other ants to step back and told the rook to use its skill!
The Rok screeched before its body glowed with a purple light!
[Linear Charge] has been activated!
TWOOM!!
A sound like a Gatling Gun echoed through the region as the Rook shot forward with the force of a building-sized bullet! It slammed into the barrier with all its force and tore through it before disappearing into the dark tunnel! Jason gained a nasty grin on his face once he saw the sheer destruction from that one move and he stretched his hand forward with a shout that echoed through the region!
"Attack!"
The full force of Jason’s army ran forward into the darkness of the tunnels and Jason sent a message to the scout he was riding, telling it to follow after them. But before Jason could go far, he heard the sounds of explosions echoing through the entire region and he furrowed his brow!
Inside the tunnel, the large Rook was barreling forward with no hesitation! There were no ants there to stop its charge, so it was moving through all the blockades that had been put in the way to create a straight path toward the middle of the colony! The tunnel was just large enough for the Rook to fit twice, so the other ants were following behind it at a hurried pace.
But all of a sudden, the Rook stepped in something that broke under its feet, and before it could even know what had happened, a massive explosion echoed from under its feet and threw it into the air! The Rook slammed into the roof of the tunnel before it let out a screech as it came back down again! There was a sizzling sensation from its silvery exoskeleton and it noticed that a strange green-like substance had coated its body and was releasing smoke as it tried to corrode through it. This was the goo from the mutated ant eggs.
In the colony, some of the ant eggs that the Queen produces don’t gestate properly and the ants end up dying inside their eggs. Those eggs end up becoming poisonous with methane gas filling them, and they are used as weapons to fight off intruders. The ants all know that the colony uses the eggs for attacks, but the ants Jason spoke to were already outside the tunnel when the other tenants planted the eggs, so they couldn’t warn Jason about them.
The other ants were still running forward and the Rook immediately screeched at them and told them to stop! But some of the ants had gone too far already, so they were also thrown about by massive explosions from under their feet!
The Rook quickly sent a message to Jason, telling him what was happening before it took charge and stopped the other members of the Legion from going forward. A few seconds later, Jason sent back a message and asked the Rook if the eggs were capable of getting through its exoskeleton.