Chapter 125 : Inhuman

TL:SummerPeanut

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I never thought that only seven of them would really try to defeat the ants alone. ...It was certainly a feat to defeat 100 ants but there could be dozens, maybe even a hundred times that many ants in these parts.

There should be a limit to such things as cockiness. Baros has always been one but Mars is even more so.

Perhaps Lady Karen likes those with high confidence? And do Mars's fiancées also...do women like confident people...?

I've got the knights at the ready in case of an emergency but I don't think the queen ant will be out there... After all, the queen ant appearance rate is at once a year or none at all...

Hm? Mars stabbed his sword into the ground, huh? What is he going to do?

I look around for Mars with binoculars from the fort's watchtower and see that the ground a little ahead of him is moving. Could it be that the ants are coming out?

The moment that such a thought crossed my mind. A huge ant appeared in front of Mars and countless killer ants began to spring up from the ground!

“Hey! We're going to save Lady Karen and the others! If we leave this be, Lady Karen will become food for these ants!"

I jumped down from the watchtower and rushed to Lady Karen's. It would take me about 10 minutes to get from the watchtower to Lady Karen's place. Lady Karen is no fool and she will surely come running this way.

Even after five minutes of running, I still couldn't group up with Lady Karen. And none of the other knights were following her. Damn! What are they doing...

In the end, I arrived at Lady Karen's place more than 10 minutes later.

“H, are you...alright-?”

I was stunned by the sight before me. There were five dead queen ants, and they were about to be burned to take out the magic stone.

“My? We will give the magic stones to the Knights of Arcane Fire so cease your worry. We are not after the magic stones or the money.”

Lady Karen said with her whip flailing and a slightly scary smile as she played with the killer ants while the beautiful elf girl is slaughtering the ants with a crazy smile.

The pretty Golden Lion girl is silently finishing off the mother ant and the absolute beauty is shooting her ridiculously powerful arrows in an annoyed manner.

The other girl was just jerking her chains, and only Baron was fighting desperately against the killer ants. And then there was the beautiful blonde...boy, no, the beautiful young man.

“Excuse me, Lady Recca. It seems that the killer ants are so much weaker than I thought and I killed thousands of them in their nest... and I think all the magic stones are in the nest... but it seems that there are still some surviving ants inside. Can you wait a little longer for us to destroy the nest here? Also, there are still queen ants, right? The experience from the high-level queen ants is a much-sought addition."

He asked me apologetically. Am I dreaming...? That a group of 10-year-olds can be this strong... these seven alone may be stronger than us, the Knights of the Arcane Fire...

“O, oh. But still, how did you beat those ants in the ground? Normally, I would think that the fire would go out immediately in there.”

“I used Wind magic to circulate the air and make the fire stronger, and before I knew it, the ants were dead. The queen ant was dying when it came out on the ground so it was easy to defeat it. More importantly, there are more queen ants out there, aren't they?"

I guess this beautiful young man sees the queen ants as nothing more than an experience farm.

“Well, yes...there are still some...but today I want you to collect the magic stones and even out this ground to a level surface. It's going to be tough to get to the Forest of death on this ground.”

I felt it took my everything to just say this.

☆☆☆

Queen ants' experience was very tasty. Was it because the queen ants here are at a high level? Or was it thanks to the huge amount of experience from Upial back then? I leveled up when I defeated the first queen ant.

Name: Mars Bryant

Title: Thunder God / Wind King / Saint / Goblin Butcherer

Status: Human race, second son of Count Bryant

Condition: Good

Age: 10 years old

Level: 30

HP: 76/76

MP: 5284/7891

Strength: 73

Agility: 73

Magic: 92

Dexterity: 72

Durability: 65

Luck: 30

Unique Ability: Innate Talent (LvMax)

Unique Ability: Sky Eyes (Lv9)

Unique Ability: Lightning Magic (Lv8/S)

Special Ability: Swordsmanship (Lv9/A)

Special Ability: Fire Magic (Lv3/E)

Special Ability: Water Magic(Lv3/E)

Special Ability: Earth Magic(Lv5/D)

Special Ability: Wind Magic(Lv9/A)

Special Ability: Holy Magic (Lv7/B)

Equipment: Thunder Sword

Equipment: Salamander Sword

Equipment: Bracelet of Disguise

My stats had also increased and my Earth magic had risen to level 5. With this, houses and bathtubs would be able to be made more solid and with less MP consumption.

Minerva had also increased her level by 3 in one go. The eradication of the nests must have been a big factor.

Name: Minerva Xevious

Title: -

Status: Human race, eldest daughter of Viscount Xevious

Condition: Good

Age: 10 years old

Level: 23

HP: 25/25

MP: 54/187

Strength: 10

Agility: 12

Magic: 34

Dexterity: 25

Durability: 10

Luck: 1

Special Ability: Swordsmanship (Lv2/E)

Special Ability: Chains Technique(Lv1/C)

Special Ability: Fire Magic (Lv5/D)

Special Ability: Water Magic(Lv3/D)

Equipment: Staff of the Water Spirit

Equipment: Silver Chain

Equipment: Vestments of Magic

Equipment: Magical Boots

Hmmm...even though she went up 3 levels ...her stats hasn't changed much...only her magic power went up 6 but other than that, her growth is scant… I guess that means power leveling alone is not enough...

I removed the sand with Wind magic to get the magic stones in the nest for now and took out the large amount of magic stones in the nest with Wind magic as well. Well, I may have missed about 100 or 200 of them but let me off the hook for that.

The leveling of the ground after the collecting of magic stones was a disaster. In the end, I used all the remaining MP to level the land, took a bath, and went to bed.

September 15, 2030, 1:00 p.m.

When I woke up, Ellie and Misha were sleeping next to me as usual. Clarice had been next to me the previous time I slept for 15 hours, which Ellie and Misha said it wasn't fair so they took her share of the night off for the time being.

Misha woke up at the same time as me but Ellie was still sleeping with a cute sleeping face as usual. It's fine to let her sleep in today so I'll just do so.

Clarice and Karen are also sleeping in another bed, and as for Baron, he is sleeping due to the arranged MP depletion with me. He won't wake up for another 3 hours.

I don't see Ryner, Bram, or Dominic, who were already awake, nor Minerva. I was a little concerned so I went with Misha to the watchtower at the fort, and found that Ryner, Bram, and Dominic were already fighting with the killer ants.

If killer ants are here, it means that a queen ant might be too. And it was the Knights of Isaac, not the Knights of the Arcane Fire, that are fighting alongside Ryner and the others. Was it time for the shift change already…?

I and Misha went down from the watchtower to Ryner’s group.

“Good morning. I can't find Minerva, do you know where she went?"

Ryner answered my question.

“Morning. Minerva went to Margrave Isaac to learn the chains technique. It seems like Minerva really wants to learn the chains technique… Somehow seeing her working so hard, I can't forgive myself for having a weird misunderstanding...I hope for Baron to realize that, too..."

Even if it is the result of hard work, Baron's emotional wounds will not heal so easily. Actually, I really want to go to Margrave Isaac to learn the chains technique, but for now, I'll cover for Ryner and the rest. I also want to help Dominic improve his level.

I repeatedly asked Dominic to run into the killer ant swarms even when I thought it was a bit too much for him and heal him up if he took any damage.

Taking damage increases your endurance value, and more importantly, it will definitely make you stronger than power leveling. It was super spartan training.

Mother ants sometimes attacked us but we decided to leave that to Ryner. Bram is no longer able to raise his level with this level of opponents so he is just letting them go at it.

Misha and Dominic are hunting killer ants, but unlike Dominic, Misha’s hunting has the feeling of stability. Misha has been getting stronger lately so there is not so much of the berserk or runaway behavior.

After about two hours, Clarice and Karen came out of the fort.

“Good morning, Mars. I was planning to sleep lightly without depleting my MP, but I was unexpectedly tired and slept deeply. You have taken out five queen ants but the number of ants hasn't decreased at all... What are you planning to do now?"

Clarice asked me.

“Morning. Clarice and Karen. When Baron wakes up, I'll get Ellie up and we'll go back to exterminating queen ants. Karen will go to greet Margrave Isaac and get permission to defeat the queen ants. Clarice, I need you to escort Karen. I'm training Dominic so I can't leave this place."

Clarice and Karen nodded and headed for the fort where Margrave Isaac was.

I used Heal on Dominic while burning the ever-increasing killer ants' corpses with Fire, leaving only the magic stones behind.

I looked at the Knights of Isaac and saw that they were taking the trouble to remove the magic stones from the dead ants so it was taking quite a while to get one magic stone out of the corpse. It seems that the new members of the Knights of Isaac are in charge of taking out the magic stone.

Am I the only one who thinks it would be easier to dig a hole somewhere, dump the killer ant carcasses in it, and burn them with Fire? When I say a fire, It’s not like they have to use Fire magic and animal oil would be more than sufficient and such oil are readily obtainable from here...

While I was thinking about this, Ellie came out of the fort and came to me as soon as she found me.

“Ellie. Morning. Did you sleep well?"

I asked her.

"...I can easily go another 10 hours..."

She said with a face that looked like she had just woken up. I wonder how long can she sleep... And after those words, Ellie hugged me and wouldn't let go. Even though Dominic is desperately fighting the killer ants on the other side...

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Author’s note:

Don't flirt next to next to people who are fighting so hard!

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