Chapter 68: They Can’t Hear You
More and more members of the Legion landed on the platform and they began to swarm the remaining ants. There were only about fifty ants left in the colony, but Jason’s army had nearly two hundred in number! And since most of Jason’s army were stronger than the regular ants left after the soldiers had all been killed, it wasn’t even a contest anymore!
Jason watched all of this happening from his place up in the air. He was still riding on the back of his scout, and he watched as the ten Queen subordinates were being torn into by the Rooks and their subordinates. The Queen Subordinates tried their best to cause harm to the Rooks, but they were seriously outmatched due to the enhanced defense of the Rooks, and it didn’t take long before the Rooks easily tore through all of them and left them twitching and dying on the ground.
Jason turned his attention to the left, where his system was going haywire with the notification tabs, and he read through them quickly.
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The user has killed [35] Adamantine Ant Workers
+1050 Kill Points
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The user has killed [10] Adamantine Ant Scouts
+700 Kill Points
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The user has killed [4] Adamantine Ant Soldiers
+600 Kill Points
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The user has killed [10] Adamantine Ant Concubines
+2000 Kill Points
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Jason frowned when he saw the number of scouts and soldiers that he’d killed. From what Jason remembered, there were about fifty scouts and soldiers on the ceiling when the ants were planning to use the egg bombs against him. Did the system not count them toward his kill count?
[The user was not granted kill points for their deaths because the user was not responsible for their deaths. The ants were killed by the explosion caused by the methane-filled eggs.]
Jason hummed. That made sense. So does that mean he also wouldn’t be able to gain their souls? All this while, the only creatures that Jason had tried to resurrect were those that had been killed either by him or by his Legion. Jason had never tried to bring back a creature that had died through other means. So Jason had no idea if he could only resurrect creatures that were killed by him or if he could resurrect any creature at all.
The system immediately responded.
[The user is only capable of acquiring souls from creatures that were killed by the user either directly or indirectly (By the Legion).]
Jason nodded as he finally understood everything and he turned back to see the Rooks moving around the bodies of the dead ants. The Rooks and the other members of the Legion had finally finished off the enemies, and Jason patted his scout on the head and told it to take him down to the ground.
He landed calmly before getting off and walked up to the ten corpses. These ants were all much larger than the other ants around, and Jason could tell that they would be high-level Pawn Rank III’s if he resurrected them. The only ant left to be killed was the boss of the Gate itself, the Queen of the colony, and she was located inside the inner chambers just ahead.
The Boss of this Gate was classified as an Eldritch Rank according to the SMD. That meant that you would need a very high-level A Rank to defeat it, so long as there were other superhumans to handle the other monsters in the Gate.
Now that there were no other monsters, Jason decided that it would be overkill to go into the inner chambers with every single monster under his command.
Jason looked towards the two large Rooks that had killed the ten Queen Subordinates.
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[Moonlight Wolf]
[Rook Rank I]
[Hierarchy Level: 1 [40.5%]]
[Subordinate Count: 10/10]
[Upgrade Points: 0/50]
[Upgrade Limit: Rook Rank III]
[MP: 2000]
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[Adamantine Ant Soldier]
[Rook Rank I]
[Hierarchy Level: 1 [55.2%]]
[Subordinate Count: 8/10]
[Upgrade Points: 0/50]
[Upgrade Limit: Bishop Rank I]
[MP: 4000]
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They had grown their hierarchy level a lot in the previous battles, but there was still a long way for them to go. Jason wanted to upgrade them as quickly as possible, so he needed to put them in more battles so that they would grow stronger.
And the best battle for both of them to be in right now was the battle against the Queen of this colony.
’You’re both going to fight the Queen. I’ll be at the side, but I won’t offer any help.’
Jason spoke to the two Rooks as he walked forward, and the Rooks flanked Jason on the side with serious looks in their eyes as they headed for the inner chamber. The Rooks understood that Jason was doing this to help them grow stronger, so they decided that they would put all their effort into winning.
Jason sent a message to the rest of the Legion and told them to gather the bodies of the ants that had been killed so that Jason could resurrect them all at once. Also, the ants were told to get the Mana Crystals from inside the bodies. Jason already had close to one hundred and fifty Magic Crystals from this gate alone, and when he got the Magic Crystals from the remaining ants, he was sure he would surpass three hundred easily.
’I was able to make half a million from just thirty crystals last time. With this many crystals, I should make more than twenty times that. The only issue will be how to explain how I got the crystals to the SMD. I could just say that I stumbled into an Orange gate, but they’ll definitely be suspicious.’
Jason frowned as these thoughts crossed his mind. He already knew that this rate of growth was not normal for anyone, so if he tried to explain that he stumbled into an orange gate and somehow killed all the monsters in there, they would likely not believe it.
After all, he had only just awakened the previous day as an A Rank. A new awakener clearing out an orange gate on their own was practically impossible.
Jason shook his head and decided not to let it distract him. He would deal with all that when he was done clearing the Gate.
Jason stopped just ahead of the entrance to the inner chambers, and he instructed the two Rooks to walk ahead of him. The Rooks moved forward and entered the chamber, and Jason nodded knowingly when a loud screech echoed through the chamber, followed by a massive impact as the Queen jumped from the ceiling and slammed into the Rooks!
If Jason had gone in there first, then he would have been attacked immediately. The Rooks were both slammed into the floor, and they immediately got up and threw the Queen off them before racing after her! The Queen was larger than any other ant in the dungeon, and her silver skin had a more intense luster compared to the others. She was so big that she was the same height as the almost twelve-foot-tall Moonlight Wolf!
She quickly used her mandibles to grab the Moonlight Wolf by the arm and bit down hard! The Moonlight Wolf growled as it felt pain in its arm, and it quickly used the other paw to slash across the Queen’s face! The Adamantine Ant Soldier came from behind and bodyslammed the Queen, sending her to the ground and making her release a loud screech in anger!
The screech echoed against the wall of the chamber, and Jason’s mouth split into a knowing smile when he realized that the Queen was calling for help from her children.
’They can’t hear you, Queen. You’re all alone.’