chapter 13
Chapter 13 – Another World (3)
Chapter 13 – Another World (3)
Dungeons and gates that have not been studied properly even though they appeared 10 years ago are very diverse inside.
Natural environments such as forests, caves, deserts, polar regions, and monsters that change depending on the environment. As far as I know, there are no clear research results to say about those bastards who have the only thing in common is a hatred for humans that goes beyond the instincts of a biological species.
‘In the end, the overall shape is similar to a cave-type dungeon.’
The same was true of this anthill, which had the name of a dungeon. No matter how much I thought about it, I could never have thought that this anthill was a naturally created anthill.
The layout of the passageway and the ants’ response also seemed different from the common ant nests.
“Beast ants.”
Breaking down the worker ants like that, we passed through the narrow passage and arrived at a wide cavity, and what appeared in front of us was the beast ant guarding the place. With a small sigh, I watched as she put down her pipe, which was smeared with ant bodily fluids, and lifted up her compound bow.
That huge ant that lunges at her with her jaws wide open no longer frightens her. Neither her straight legs, nor her arms stretched out as far as they could, nor her eyes glaring at her foe did not waver.
The fact that I, who was with me in the form of a drone flying by my side, helped that firmness, so I put down my worries and concerns and looked at the situation in its entirety.
‘Should I go down further?’
As expected, the monster ant was hit in the head by her arrow, which became a single flash of light, and just as it was, more than half of her head exploded and fell to the ground.
However, while she was finishing, I was still unable to relax, so I stared at another aisle that was blocking the passage as if a demon were guarding it.
The dungeon is not over yet. Considering that cave-type dungeons and labyrinth-type dungeons are graded differently depending on the number of rooms and spaces of a certain size that look like a cavity, this anthill dungeon would not be a low-level dungeon.
‘Well, she’s not an ordinary hunter either.’
Of course, she entered this dungeon on her own and came down to this point.
Her archery, which uses unusual and powerful powers that are clearly different from those used by hunters, is very strong and fast, so maybe she can really win.
[The owner of the anthill is angry]
“What?”
But the moment she goes a little deeper. I was concentrating on the drone camera, and I flinched in embarrassment when I saw the letters on the flowerpot that had changed again.
‘This is definitely a boss battle.’
I sighed at what I saw on the screen. The deepest part of the anthill. Being there is, in a way, natural, the owner of this dungeon.
The dungeon attack is completed only when the boss is killed, and the core guarded by the boss can be exposed. And the boss of this ant nest is none other than the gigantic queen ant.
As I was piloting the drone, she and I could see her body tremble slightly.
It was not just a simple queen ant. It can be said that it has a huge belly that wriggles and throbs, and occasionally spews soft white eggs as if it were spilling from its tail.
Her sharp hooked blades at the end of her elongated forelimbs, as well as her sharp jaws across her face that seemed to stare at her, her queen ant used to kill all her own soldiers. I swung at the intruder who penetrated her here.
“—!”
She jumped off her feet, dodged her hook, the size of her minitruck by her side, and tumbled her behind her.
At the same time, they drew their bowstrings and shot arrows. A ray of blue light crosses the dim space. She wanted to stick it into the queen ant’s body, but the queen ant blocked it by covering her body with her forelimbs, which were so hard.
My stomach is my weakness. Instinctively, I realized that the gigantic egg-laying organ, which seemed more fragile than other ants, was a weakness.
Besides, this is also true for her, and she started running along the wall of this huge joint, trying to catch up somehow in order to target the queen’s weakness of not being able to move her massive body freely.
[Beginning of the ant nest occupation war]
But it wasn’t that easy. The white caterpillars that had been scattered around her queen ant, along with pieces of her pupae and her eggs, began to wriggle and crawl towards her.
On top of that, the front legs of the queen ant keep flying.
She dodged the blow by slapping on the ground with her frightened face, and as the caterpillar, the size of her torso, tried to stab herself with a stinger drawn from her snout, her blue flames flared up at her feet. He trampled and crushed his torso.
‘Are there enough arrows?’
I quickly counted the remaining arrows in her quiver.
Thanks to the larvae guarding the surroundings, it’s impossible to detour and attack, but even if you shoot arrows, you won’t be able to penetrate the front.
In the end, after shooting the caterpillars one by one with arrows from a safe distance, it seemed like I should catch the queen ant one last time, but the problem was the number of arrows she had.
A situation where you can’t be sure of anything, whether you’ll be able to catch them all, or whether the dungeon will be the same if you go out to replenish in the middle and come back.
“Eh?”
However, she was sweating in a cold sweat and pondering for a while in the immediate situation, and she grabbed me, to be exact, the body of the drone with her hand.
Right after that, she forcefully dragged it and brought it in front of her face. Suddenly, our faces meet with the screen in between.
Of course she’s only looking at the camera lens of the drone, not my face.
“Are you asking me to lure you?”
Looking desperate, she let go of the drone and this time pointed at one side of the space with her hand. She wiggled her limbs and said something, as if she was a little frustrated, but as a sign of understanding, she flicked the drone up and down her.
I couldn’t speak the language, but I seemed to be able to understand it perfectly, so I immediately moved the drone and charged at her queen ant and her larvae.
I never thought I would participate in a dungeon raid with elves like this.
Although the basic skill of technicians who are necessarily included in raiding parties of a certain size or higher is drone piloting, I did not know that I would be active like that operator. Even those operators do not bother to use tactics such as luring monsters with drones.
‘Eat it?!’
But at this moment, I am thrilled to see this tactic work.
In the dark ground, as the drone that illuminates all directions with bright flash lights quickly crosses the air, it seems that not only the caterpillars but also the queen ant, the size of a small house, are attracted to it.
“Huh.”
I dodged the queen ant’s attack by waving her front legs like a human trying to shake off her mosquitoes, and deliberately spun around in front of her eyes.
Isn’t it an unbearable glare in the eyes of these guys who are accustomed to the dark? Seeing the sniper reactions of struggling head and wriggling body, I also relaxed and started to feel hot instead.
‘Run.’
And through the gap in his field of vision, I could see someone with bright blonde hair stretching his long legs and starting to run.
I don’t know what happened after that because I can’t see it well. So, all I have to do for her now is to believe in her and be faithful to her role.
“But until when?”
In fact, it wasn’t just the enemies who were hit by the sight of bright light and darkness playing, so even I, who was staring at the narrow screen blindly, felt dizzy and sick to my stomach.
There was no news of what she was doing, so I continued hovering and aerobatics using a drone as if I was in a trance.
[The owner of the anthill has been fatally injured]
I think about 5 minutes have passed since I felt like that. Suddenly the queen ant stopped moving and creaked.
‘As expected.’
After stopping her aerobatics, I smiled at her as she climbed onto her head of her queen ant before I knew it.
I managed to climb up there and stand on top of it, which was shaking violently, and put the arrow precisely into the gap in the carapace between her head and spine.
Having given a fatal wound to a more certain and perfect place than the abdomen, which she thought was her weakness, she continued to shoot arrows through the cracks in the carapace, showing a sense of balance close to her god until the queen ant collapsed completely. .
[Dungeon-Ant Cave Completed]
Afterwards, she fired arrows at the corpse of the fallen queen ant and killed all of the larvae that were not killed by the queen ant, and then jumped and landed on her land.
Perfect results informed by the letters that come to mind. We actually cleared a dungeon. It was accomplished by one elf and one drone.
‘Dungeon Core.’
All that remains is to harvest. Some monsters say that their corpses are also useful, but in fact, the only meaningful thing that can be found in a dungeon is the dungeon core, which contains enormous energy inside.
Except for some high-ranking monsters that have magic stones inside, that dungeon core is the raw material for refined magic.
She twisted and shook a piece of luminescent stone the size of her own face, which was almost buried in her wall, behind her queen ant.
[Disarm nearest threat]
[World Tree level limit unlocked]
[Possible to additionally manifest the power of the World Tree]
“??!”
And at that moment, when I took my eyes off the screen, I began to see something. It was a violent and many change, just like the first time the change occurred in this pot.
[Biological exchange possible without demonization: 01 living organisms capable of exchange]
Furthermore, the last new phrase that came to mind was so outrageous that I was fascinated for a moment.