Chapter 384
The Queen landed with a calamitous thud, several unfortunate monsters were crushed beneath her bulk or stabbed through by her legs as she fell . Her legs strained to the breaking point, but she absorbed the shock and ran forward, bulldozing her way toward the place her wayward child fell .
She reached deep into her healing mana gland and dragged the dense fog of energy out and into her antennae where it was amplified . More and more of her children were pouring off the wall and down into the crowded space . The melee was quickly becoming out of control .
Conflicting emotions battled in the Queen's thorax . She feared for her family, she was terrified that they would suffer due to her actions . At the same time, she exulted . This was what she had been born to do, and her instincts were afire with joy . She turned her body and scythed through a raging bear with a single chomp of her razor sharp mandibles .
System notifications rang within her mind but she paid them no attention . Her focus was on the healing energy building to a peak in her antennae . When she could contain it no more, the energy exploded outwards in a rolling nova of light that washed over the battlefield in an expanding ring .
Only the ants were affected by this mana, and then felt its invigorating properties wash away their fatigue and ease their pain in an instant . Already filled with the burning rage and desperate anxiety that seeing their mother fighting on the frontlines caused, colony members of all castes were driven to a frenzy and threw themselves upon the enemy in groups, tearing their foes apart with their vicious jaws .
After stomping her way another ten metres forward, the Queen stood over the healing body of the soldier who had leapt so energetically from her head . The ant in question was quite wounded, even in the short time she'd been submerged in the churning soup of monsters .
"Did… Did I win the battle?" she croaked .
The Queen stood over the smaller ant and defended her space with savage chomps of her mandibles .
"No child," the Queen responded, puzzled, "you must get up and fight"
"… . Fine . "
At that time, hundreds of dark shadow monsters erupted from out of the pitfalls . In a nightmarish scene, the creatures reached out of the holes in the ground with their dark, shadowy arms and dragged struggling monsters down into the pit with them . It didn't take long for the creatures to push their way out of the pits and begin to engage the monsters all around them .
Then the Garralosh spawn arrived .
Flames belching from their open mouths, the giant crocodile monsters bounded forward to tear into the shadow pets and smaller battles broke out everywhere .
"My Queen! Be careful!" Sloan had arrived next to her mother and couldn't resist trying to caution her .
"Don't be ridiculous, Sloan!" Victor scoffed, "it's a battle! Start worrying about yourself!"
The Queen quite agreed with Victor at this point and turned her attention to the approaching crocodiles . These were the monsters who were responsible for bringing this battle to her family and she would delight in returning the pain to them .
CLACK!
The Queen snapped her mandibles shut with tremendous force . The sound cut through the noise of the battle with ease, a whip crack that punctured through the din . In front of her a wall of Crocodile flesh rose up and she began to step toward them . As she did, her carapace began to glow bright with energy that unfolded and encompassed her entire body .
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