episode_0051
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‘The invaders have arrived.’
The boy who came with what felt like a provocation was so peaceful that I wondered if he was really the same person who caused such a tragedy.
The boy who opened the door entered the queen’s room with a face that did not feel the slightest guilt or fear.
The ant soldiers quickly regained their senses and stepped forward, but none of them could reach him.
Those gathered in this room knew better than anyone else why the queen had gathered the soldiers and what was happening above.
Even though I knew he was my enemy, I couldn’t attack the person who destroyed the kingdom in one day.
Even their ruler, the Queen, is frozen and unable to move, so no one can blame them.
Rather, he deserved praise for coming forward like this even though no orders were given.
‘… There’s no way I can win.’
A strange force followed the boy.
A white-haired woman with a pair of cow horns and a collection of elements each in a different shape.
And the demonic beasts and demonic insects that I had never seen before, probably summoned by the boy, were watching the ant soldiers from afar with their mouths flowing.
The queen was still superior in numbers, but the quality of power was incomparable.
Originally, the plan was to overwhelm them with numbers and gradually reduce their stamina to defeat them, but it is questionable whether they will be able to get to that point.
At that time, the queen desperately tried to figure out how to resolve this situation.
“Queen of ants!! Requesting a duel!!”
“What?”
Ironically, it was the other party that caused this situation that suggested a way to survive.
There was no way the person who spoke of the duel did not know the meaning of requesting a duel in this situation.
Usually, when a war is won or lost through a duel, it is time to minimize damage to each other.
In an all-out war, neither the winner nor the loser can avoid great damage, so the winner or loser is determined by minimizing the damage through a duel between the two.
“If you win, we will no longer lay a hand on you and will simply retreat! Of course, even if we win, we will never lay a hand on your people!”
It was a very good story for the queen.
Queen Anti asked the boy, wondering if this was a trap or a taunt.
“What happens if I lose!!”
“Let’s talk about it then. So are you going to do it? You won’t do it?”
“… … .”
It’s a questionable story.
The Queen, who was inferior in power, had no reason not to accept the duel, but she was not the opponent.
If the enemy attacked the Queen and her clan with demonic beasts and spirits like this, it was not difficult to imagine what would happen next.
‘Is there something you can get from us? No, if there is such a thing, why not do it by force?’
I don’t know.
Perhaps this proposal itself may be a joke before the massacre that is about to occur.
To be honest, I did not want to participate in such a suspicious story, but the queen had no other options.
The queen stepped forward, feeling the utmost despair over having to place her hopes on such a childish story.
“… I will accept that duel offer.”
“Good! It’s raining on our side!”
The woman named Wu stepped forward with a detached expression, as if she was familiar with this situation.
There wasn’t a single drop of blood on the body, as if it had been washed off with water, but the smell couldn’t be erased.
The queen cried out nervously at the smell of her compatriot’s blood emanating from her body.
“… Our side will emerge as champion.”
“Champion… !!”
“Your Majesty, do you intend to do that?!”
Everyone who had any idea what the word “champion” meant was startled and started to move away from her.
Ant, queen of ants.
She was a summoning wizard.
There is one rule in summoning magic, and that is that you cannot summon a familiar of a higher level than yourself using normal methods.
Of course, there were exceptions here too.
A demon minister could summon a higher level demon than the summoner by paying more tribute than usual.
In her case, she was able to summon a familiar of a higher level than herself by applying certain restrictions.
The restriction is none other than giving up ownership of the summoned familiar.
Give a command to a familiar, and if the command is completed, ownership of the familiar disappears.
In other words, even if you defeat an enemy, there will be one more enemy that you cannot control afterwards.
Normally, I would never use it because it is a magic that cannot be used unless you are in a situation where you are in danger, but this case was different.
If you don’t use it, you die.
Anti, caught up in such thoughts, gathered mana and summoned the familiar he named Champion.
A bloated upper body that exudes explosive power even though it is trapped inside an exoskeleton.
The molars on its ant-shaped head were exceptionally long and sharp, so sharp that even if you burned your hand, you would cut yourself.
“Oh, oh… !!”
Everyone gave a small exclamation at the appearance of the champion and looked up to him.
Usually, ant insects evolve into insects, and instead of three pairs of legs, only two remain.
However, his arms had not degenerated and he had two pairs of arms on his upper body.
Having twice as many arms as others meant that you were superior to your opponent in terms of strength or anything else.
It’s simple and childish logic, but that’s the reality.
“Champion!!! Kill that woman!!!”
When everyone was holding their breath at the appearance of the champion, the queen pointed at Wu and shouted.
The signal for the duel has not yet sounded, but neither side seems to care about such trivial matters.
With two strong arms attacking Wu, Wu instantly lowered his body with abnormal flexibility and dug in between the champion’s legs and grabbed him from behind.
“Thunderhorn.”
And the lower kick, which flew at lightning speed, targeted the champion’s legs, precisely targeting the joints that the exoskeleton could not protect.
Even if it was an exoskeleton, it could not cover all the joints that needed to be bent smoothly.
There was definitely a weak spot, and it was not difficult for Wu, who had dealt with numerous loyalists on his way to this point, to see this.
Woo, who took away his mobility and targeted the gaps in the exoskeleton in order to neutralize the champion in an instant, cut off the champion’s life by blowing his head.
Unlike ordinary ant soldiers, the familiar champion’s body disappears immediately upon death.
At that time, everyone could not help but be surprised at the fact that the champion who was thought to be invincible had fallen like a newborn baby.
“What are you doing? Why don’t you summon the next champion quickly?”
“What, what?”
“What is ‘what, what?’? Does the duel end if you lose? Quickly summon the next champion.”
The winner of the duel started saying strange things.
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Ant Champion.
It is a level 48 monster, and despite its threatening appearance, its movement is slow, so it is not a particularly difficult monster to deal with.
I had dealt with it several times, both in the original game and in previous episodes, so I knew how to deal with it.
Looking at it now, I don’t think it would have been much of a problem even if I hadn’t been taught how to deal with it.
‘Our goal is to get them to summon at least one more Ant Champion.’
Monsters give different experience points depending on their classification.
If the experience multiplier for ordinary monsters such as ant soldiers is 1.0, for elite monsters it is 1.2.
Ant Champion, the queen’s secret weapon, is classified as a hidden boss, and the hidden boss’s experience multiplier is a whopping 1.5 times.
Usually, unlike regular monsters, once a hidden boss is defeated, it cannot be captured again.
However, unlike ordinary monsters, Ant Champions, which are familiars, can be summoned again and again as long as you have the queen’s mana.
Our goal is to have the Queen summon as many Ant Champions as possible so that we can hunt them and gain experience.
To that end, he summoned menacing-looking demonic beasts and demonic insects to pressure the queen and force her into a duel.
And as expected, the cornered queen summoned her last resort, the Ant Champion.
“Ha… !! ha… !!”
The queen, who had summoned her fortieth champion, fell to the ground, out of breath.
Techniques that use large amounts of mana were usually accompanied by extreme feelings of exhaustion.
He immediately cast a recovery spell on her and handed her honey to restore mana.
The number of empty bottles rolling miserably around her proved that this was an act repeated several times.
“Now, summon it again quickly. Should we hurry up and duel?”
“… stop!! I will give you both the kingdom and the title of queen!! Please let me rest!!”
“There’s no need for that. Summon it quickly!!”
“Uuuh… !! I don’t want to eat any more honey anymore!! I don’t want to have any more babies!!!”
The Queen, who was screaming in a childlike, crying voice, said these words as if she was confused or was trying to arouse sympathy.
As the queen sat down on the ground clutching her stomach, several soldiers followed her in tears.
Even Woo had a shocked expression on his face, wondering if this was true, but I could only laugh.
Damn the baby when summoning a familiar… .
If anyone hears it, they will think that it uses eggs to summon the Ant Champion.
A familiar returns to mana after a certain period of time or when it dies.
In other words, it was like a doll made of mana, and strictly speaking, it could not be called life.
To think that such a being is one’s own baby.
I’m sorry if your intention was to provoke sympathy, but I can only say that it was a stupid idea.
“Do you want to die? Do you want to summon a champion?”
“Heeugh!!!”
Of course it doesn’t work for me.
It was after I reached level 51 that she was able to free herself from champion summoning.
Actually, my original target level was around 48, but I got greedy and ended up raising it to 51.
After reaching a level that exceeded my goal, I approached Anti, who was sitting on the ground, and said.
“Do you admit defeat?”
“Recognition… !! I admit it!! Now please make it stop… !!”
“Then give me the scepter, the queen’s proof.”
As if Anti had been waiting for these words, he quickly stretched out his hand and offered the scepter he was holding.
After receiving the scepter, I asked Anti, who was shaking with her head bowed.
“And you know, this is absolutely not coercion. Would you ever consider becoming my familiar?”
“… Yes?”
If you have an army of ants as your familiar, it will definitely be a powerful force.
Anti turned her head and avoided eye contact, but looking at the trembling back of her head, I could guess what she was thinking.
I’m sure he couldn’t stop trembling with joy at the fact that he would become my familiar.
“It’s never forced, so you can say it comfortably. Do you really think I’m going to break your head by myself just because you refused the invitation to become a familiar?
“… It will be okay.”
She was wise.
At least compared to the group that made people repeat the same words over and over again and eventually raised their fists, it was worth calling him a wise man.
On this day, the ant kingdom that had existed for decades was taken into my hands.
I smiled with satisfaction and invited her and my subjects to the miniature garden.
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