Armipotent Chapter 322
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The swarm in the main nest was not as much as the swarm they encountered outside. After twenty minutes of work, Tang Shaoyang wiped out the entire Scorched Guardian by electrocuting them.
Under Tang Shaoyang's order, Malki kept sending the limbless Scorched Guardian to Li Na. The battle in the core nest was over with the Scorched Guardian's carcasses strewn all over the place.
There were no more enemies, Malki was standing right below Tang Shaoyang. He was waiting for the next order dutifully. Tang Shaoyang scanned the massive and his [Dragon Eyes] found something radiating fierce mana.
He did not rush over, looking at the carcasses, wondering what he should do with these carcasses. It was stage-5 carcasses, with a class, and level 145 on average. The number might be less, but it was a decent sacrifice to get a decent spirit.
"Let's save this for later," he muttered in a low voice as he came down next to Malki. After knowing the cooldown, he was not going to let Malki return yet. They still had the last big boss ahead of them.
"Can you keep going? We have the last Boss to take down," he asked Li Na. She looked fine, but he still asked her to make sure of her condition. Since it was a big boss, they should defeat it together. Li Na might get one or two levels from "assisting" him killing the last boss.
"I am fine!" Li Na nodded and replied loudly, telling him she was okay.
"What about Moon? Is he still recovering?" He gestured to Li Na to follow him, "Yes, he is still recovering,' the girl replied as she chased Tang Shaoyang.
"I see, can't be helped. Let's share the level with just two of us," Tang Shaoyang nodded and led the girl through the hot steam. The hot steam limited her vision, but it was not an issue as they soon found the host of the nest.
It was a massive ant with a massive abdomen with a bright crimson carapace. The ant reached ten meters in height, everything else was normal. The big one did not have the blade-like arm or even blade-like mandibles, it was just a big normal mandible.
The thing was, the giant ant was resting inside a pool of lava. It had half of its abdomen inside the pool of lava. The pool was ten meters wide, away from the ground.
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"Screech! Screech! Screech!" At the sight of the giant ant, Malki was starting to screech again. The screech was painful in the ears.
"Stop it, Malki!" Tang Shaoyang yelled at the Fire Ant Emperor, "What's wrong with you?"
—Enemy! Enemy! Enemy! Enemy!
Malki pointed his blade-like arm toward the giant.
—Kill her! Kill her! Kill her! Kill her!
Malki could not speak directly but conveyed his thought through his mind to Tang Shaoyang. Hatred and anger could be felt from his voice.
'As expected, each spirit has their backstories, most of them are unpleasant with Karan as an exception,' three out of his first four spirits became a spirit with a deep vengeance.
Zaneos was betrayed by the King he respected the most. Zowen was also betrayed by her closest one. And lastly, Rumru had an unfinished vengeance against the Gods. Now Malki, he appeared with pure thought and dedicated himself toward him. But he revealed his hatred at the sight of the giant ant.
[Basic Detection]
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Name: Searen
Race: Ancient Arachnid
Affiliation: Ant Kingdom – Scorched Colony
Evolution: Stage 7
Class: Scorched Queen
Level: 201
Skill:???
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As he expected, the last boss was the Ant Queen. Now he tried to link between Malki and Searen, 'Are they related? Or the hatred is because of Searen's status, The Queen?'
—Most likely the latter since Malki is Fire Ant Emperor. Maybe there's a hidden story behind Ant's hierarchy. That may be the cause. Or it can be whatever, we can't get the answer unless Malki tells us.
Zaneos voiced his conjecture. Both clearly were different species, so they should not have conflict before, or maybe they had the conflict that caused Malki to die.
Malkia stopped screeching, his eyes never left Searen. The latter did the same too, the Scorched Queen stares at Malki. The Ant Queen seemed to share the same hatred, he could feel that for some reason.
"Nah, let's not waste our time here," he glanced toward Li Na, "Start your attack, we will finish the Ant Queen!"
Li Na immediately nocked the silver arrows to her bow and aimed at the Ant Queen. She was ready to shoot anytime.
Tang Shaoyang then looked toward Malki. Despite the deep hatred, Malki was holding back because he had not received the order from him, 'You can kill her!'
As soon as he sent his order to his mind, the Fire Ant Emperor immediately flapped his wing. The crimson streak was created as Malki slashed at Searen's head. But his blade only managed to break Ant Queen's protective crimson barrier.
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As soon as the barrier was destroyed, Li Na released her arrows. Three arrows whistled through the air and pierced the carapace. The Ant Queen was not doing anything with the incoming attack, she just received the attack without doing anything. The Ant Queen was staying still inside the pool of lava.
—Hahaha!
Tang Shaoyang suddenly heard laughter inside his head. Malki was laughing in satisfaction, this was the first time he heard the Fire Ant Emperor's laughter.
—Weak! Breeding!
Soon enough, Tang Shaoyang got to know what actually happened. He looked around the ceiling and the wall that was filled with the eggs. The Ant Queen was just finished laying the eggs and she was in a weakened state.
Even her eyes filled hatred and anger as Malki kept slicing her body with the blade, she did not do anything in return. It was not that she did not want to, but she could not.
Li Na was confused too as to why the boss was not moving. Even so, she was still shooting her arrows, dealing the damage to the unmoving Ant Queen.
Tang Shaoyang let out a sigh, even though he did not mind the torture. It was not his type to torture his enemy on the battlefield unless they deserved it. Malki was clearly playing with his prey, he was having fun.
Searen must be overbreeding that made her exhausted like that. The reason for that was him as she lost eighty percent of the colony. She did not expect that he would come down to the core nest, hence the current situation occurred.
"Guess I have to finish the Ant Queen by myself," he muttered and created a sword with dense lightning. A five meters lightning sword condensed above his head, he aimed for the Ant Queen's head.
Bzzt! Bzzt! Bwoosh!
The lightning sword shot through the air and pierced the Scorched Queen's head through her abdomen. The lightning sword instantly killed the Ant Queen as the massive body fell to the side, causing the lava to spill over to the side.
Malki was surprised that his enemy was killed all of sudden. Clearly, the Fire Ant Emperor had not yet been satisfied, but when he met Tang Shaoyang's gaze, the ant spirit lowered his head immediately.
Tang Shaoyang shook his head and extended his hand toward the Scorched Queen. Since he had the stage-7 beast corpse, he wanted to summon a new spirit with all the carcasses around. He was about to cast his [Spirit Summoning], but the Ant Queen's body disappeared into crimson particles.
The crimson particles then gathered at the side of the lava pool and formed something. With the outline, Tang Shaoyang immediately found out what it was, a longbow.
While the crimson particles forming the longbow, Tang Shaoyang came over. He was watching the whole process until the longbow took a shape. Soon, a bright crimson longbow formed, and there were two dots on the center, like eyes.
He immediately grabbed the longbow to see the attributes. It was, without doubt, the longbow was a treasure, one of many treasures in Fallen Land.
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[Scorched Huntress]
Tier: B+
Bonus Attribute: +100 Strength +100 Agility
Additional Skill: [Scorched Arrow]
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It was without a doubt a very good bow. After checking the attribute, he tossed the bow toward Li Na who was coming over.
The girl was surprised and was not prepared. The bow almost fell but she managed to catch the bow in time. Her eyes widened a little bit as she saw the attribute. The bow was much better than hers.
"You can have it," Tang Shaoyang told her to take the bow.
"No! No! No!" She said no three times loudly, "I don't deserve this bow, Sister Cao Jingyi should have this bow instead!"
Her main weapon might be a bow, but she did not need the best bow for her to use since Moon was her real weapon. Giving the bow to Cao Jingyi was the best option since Cao Jingyi could utilize the bow to the maximum potential since she was a ranger.
She explained those to Tang Shaoyang so he would not misunderstand her for rejecting the gift.
Tang Shaoyang shrugged his shoulder, "Do whatever you want to the bow, that's yours!" He was telling her to keep the bow, as to whether she wanted to give the bow to Cao Jingyi later on, that was her choice.
The young girl was flustered for a moment before she decided to keep the bow for now, 'Yes, I will use the bow on the Survival Game, and I can give the bow to Sister Cao Jingyi later.'
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