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Chapter 59 : Ant Sweep Operation 2
🕑 Added 2022-07-16 17:45:17 +0000 UTCTL:SummerPeanut
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"Thank you for waiting."
When Clarice and I linked up with Zeke and the others, they were already set for battle.
"How did it go?"
Zeke asked me.
"Lord Barnes won't come to the labyrinth but he's willing to participate in the urban battle.”
"I see. I will make the decision to retreat as soon as possible. Then I’m going to start the ant sweep operation without any delays now, is everyone ready?”
Zeke looked at everyone and they all nodded.
By the way, everyone here refers to me, Clarice, Ike, Zeke, Maria, Azure Fang, Red Wings, and Black Tri-Stars, a total of 20 people.
"Now, Ike and Mars, please.”
Ike and I went down the stairs and checked the second floor.
Then we noticed something a little strange on the second floor.
Someone was fighting with the ants.
"Mars! Is someone fighting ants?”
"Yes! But they are surrounded!”
"Let's go help!”
When Ike said that and I replied..
"Wait a minute. I don't think it's people that are fighting."
Right. I look closely with my clairvoyance and saw a grizzly bear fighting with a group of ants.
"The magic beasts are fighting each other… what does that mean?”
"I don't know much about labyrinths myself, so I'll go ask father."
Ike said and headed toward Zeke. Then Zeke came right over.
"I don't think I've ever seen… magic beasts in the labyrinth fight each other before.”
The grizzly bears are stronger but outnumbered. In no time at all, the grizzly bears will be beaten by ants.
"No point thinking about this. Let's do it while there is still some damage to the ants."
Ike gathered his magic power and prepared his Flare, and shouted.
"Let's go! Flare!"
A mass of red and white flames landed on the ants.
As soon as they landed, I amplified the Flare’s fire further with Firestorm.
The labyrinth seems to be sucking up the smoke, but just in case, I use Wind to push it toward the second floor to prevent the smoke from going to the first floor.
As soon as I see Firestorm spreading reddish-white flames around us, we quickly return to the first floor.
Since they had to use the stairs to get to the first floor so we just continued attacking from above like playing Crocodile Panic*1. The difference from Crocodile Panic is that we only had to watch out for the specific place for the ants to come out.
The ants, on the other hand, rushed toward us as soon as our attack started.
With the fire from the Flare and Firestorm still remaining, the fire-clad ants charge at us.
However, the fire-clad ants died in the process and the fire spread as they moved around.
All the ants near the stairs on the second floor had already been reduced to ashes.
I damaged the endless charging ants by using Tornado.
The ants that were still pushing in from behind, shoved the ants inside the tornado outside and flooded the staircase.
Ike and the vanguard team stabbed the ants to death.
Clarice also used her bow to kill the ants. This was going pretty well.
Zeke must have felt the same way.
"Great! This is going better than I thought!”
Isn't this what you call a flag?
Then a big prey was caught by the Tornado.
It had more than twice the mass and was clearly stronger than the killer ant.
"A big one is coming! Watch out.”
An ant bigger than the killer ants came up from the bottom of the stairs.
Thanks to the Tornado, there is some damage to it but we still had to be on our guard.
Name: -
Title: -
Race: Mother Ant
Threat: C
Condition: Good
Age: 1 year old
Level: 12
HP: 22/54
MP: 2/2
Strength: 26
Agility: 31
Magic: 1
Dexterity: 5
Endurance: 32
Luck: 1
It's about as strong as a grizzly bear, with high HP, agility, and durability, which is not my strong suit.
"This one is a magic beast called Mother Ant. I think we can defeat it in a few more minutes.”
As I said that, three members of the Black Tri-Stars began to stab it to a stop.
But although its HP was less than half, its status value was a little higher than that of Black Tri-Stars.
Mack was bitten a little when they stabbed it to a stop, and Owl was poked by a needle in its butt.
Mack was quickly cured by a Heal, but Owl got poisoned.
“Watch out for the poison in the needle in its rear!”
When I detoxed Owl with Cure, the battle lines were loose and quite a few ants had trickled into the first floor’s room.
I tried to halt the ants from rushing up the stairs but I cannot defeat them.
Then Ike shot Flare toward the stairs, cutting off any more ants from entering the first floor, and began to take down the remaining ants on the first floor.
"Nice! Brother Ike!”
When I affirmed so, Clarice also said, "As expected of lord brother(-in-law)”*2. It seems that Clarice and I are the only ones who have room to spare, while the others have their hands full with the enemies in front of them.
Well, it's not that I have a lot of room to spare either but I am confident that I can look around calmly.
I suppose Clarice could do so because she also needs to assess the battle situation to aim at the enemy with her bow.
When we managed to finish defeating the ants that had come up to the first floor, Zeke said…
"When the big ones come, Ike will take care of them. The rest of the vanguards should just aim for the smaller ones! Clarice, when the big ones come please join Ike and attack!”
He handed down the order to everyone.
Zeke, Maria, and the other magicians don't have as much fuel for long-duration battle so they are in charge of putting the end to the ants that are restrained. If they use MP in the early stages, they will become a burden due to MP deficiency.
Before I had finished dealing with the ants that had come up to the first floor, I felt as if another same mother ant that I had seen earlier had been caught by Tornado. Two of them, too.
"Two more are coming! I will use Firestorm so please watch out!"
Although it consumes more MP, I changed to Firestorm instead of Tornado to avoid the same thing that happened earlier.
Ike also quickly released Flare toward the stairs, and this time we were able to stop the wave without allowing any ants to come up to the first floor.
Meanwhile, the other members of the team killed all the ants that had made it to the first floor.
Now we were back to where we started, and we were back to the Crocodile Panic phase again.
With a little more room to spare, I asked Zeke.
"Is the second floor bigger than the first?”
"I heard that up to the third floor there is not much difference to the first floor."
He answered. If the ants were tightly packed on the second floor, we still had a long way to go.
But it was not all doom and gloom.
As we fought, I managed to control the Tornado with my left hand while joining with the vanguard with my right hand wielding the mithril silver sword.
After using Tornado all the time, I became able to use Tornado without chanting and it also had increased power.
When I appraised myself, my level and status had increased.
Name: Mars Bryant
Title: Thunder God / Wind King / Goblin Butcher
Identity: Second son of Viscount Bryant
Condition: Good
Age: 6 years old
Level: 16
HP: 47/47
MP: 2984/6174
Strength: 38
Agility: 44
Magic: 55
Dexterity: 42
Durability: 39
Luck: 30
Unique Ability: Innate Talent (LvMax)
Unique Ability: Clairvoyance (Lv8)
Unique Ability: Lightning Magic (Lv2/S)
Special Ability: Swordsmanship (Lv7/B)
Special Ability: Fire Magic (Lv2/F)
Special Ability: Water Magic(Lv1/G)
Special Ability: Earth Magic(Lv2/F)
Special Ability: Wind Magic(Lv9/A)
Special Ability: Holy magic(Lv5/B)
Equipment: Mithril Silver Sword
Equipment: Sylph Dagger
Equipment: Disguise Bracelet
I made it to level 16!
It felt that it took a much shorter time from 15 to 16 than expected. I thought it would be even harder to go up from 15 onwards but this is a pleasant miscalculation.
I had confirmed that Lightning magic had risen to level 2 before the battle but finally Wind magic has risen to level 9.
Perhaps that's why the control of Tornado became easier.
Maybe I could push through if I keep at it like this, or at least I thought so at this point of time.
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Author’s note:
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TL’s note:
- My childhood lol. youtube.com/watch?v=C7vcSSUfLkQ
- Written as brother-in-law but pronounced as brother.
