Ch.116 Praise the Empress and the Sacred Volcano!
Her body looked like it was decomposing and reconstructing itself at the sa ti, elongating in so places and contracting in others, darkening in so places and lightning in others, and it was a very horrific sight.
It was then that she rembered what the System had said, and couldn’t help but feel fear.
‘Is this what it ans to beco an Abomination? AGH!’ the Ant Queen thought before a swelling in her abdon caused her a mind-numbing pain. When she looked through the eyes of another Ant, she saw that her shell had ‘popped’ open, and spat out sothing that looked like liquid fire, radiating the essences of both fire and earth.
‘Wh-what is that?’
DING!
But although the Ant Queen could hear it, the sudden increase in pain had addled her thoughts and made her feel like she was going to die. And on top of that, the strangely active yet desolate energy that was forming within her body, was beginning to directly attack her mind, causing her thoughts to deteriorate or think crazy things.
So in a desperate attempt to save herself, her befuddled mind decided to employ the only trick that she had left, and without any hesitation in her heart whatsoever, she sent a ruthless order to her colony to kill themselves!
She was of the mind that all she needed to retain her sanity was the extra lifeforce from her dying colony mbers, so without any regards to their lives, she sacrificed them all.
Clearly, she wasn’t thinking straight. But the order had been sent and it must be obeyed, so in one big wave, all the thousands of Ants that had managed to cling to life in the increasingly chaotic environnt, keeled over and died.
It wasn’t one by one, and neither was there so kind of heroic self-stabbing. No. They all just collapsed like they had been deactivated, and it was quite the terrifying sight. Thousands of Ants lay dead and one huge pile.
It also didn’t help that they started to wither just like those that ca before them.
But they had done their job and their Queen had received their bountiful lifeforce. And it was so quantitative that she even began to glow from within, with every breath that she took exhaling lifeforce like it was common carbon dioxide.
But that did not stop the Abomination Transformation.
It had restored her sanity like she wanted, but Abominations were Abominations and it was only a matter of ti before her mind was once again eroded. And at that ti, there would be no more Ants in her colony for her to sacrifice (sothing which was already causing her massive guilt), to stall the process.
The Ant Queen was finished.
Or at least, she should have been.
DING!
【SYSTEM ANNOUNCENT】
The Ant Queen was shocked, but she didn’t dare to think too much and imdiately asked the most important question.
‘Will it save ?!’
DING!
‘’Yes! I agree! I agree!!!’
DING!
The Ant Queen lay underneath the pile of her dead colony with a dazed expression as an avalanche of blessings were bestowed upon her.
…
Fast forward 26 years and the lowly Ant Queen had beco the Blazing Ant Empress that she was today, with nurous Ant Queens that she had given birth to and even the rulers of other races within the 9 Circles, obeying her every command.
Currently, she was making her way down the Volcano with nurous Spirit Beast Stage Ants following her every step with extre vigilance. They were very bulky and had large thick abdons covered in a steely black igneous-rock-like material that looked impenetrable, along with lava-like veins running across their bodies, and burning red compact eyes. They were one of the new caste of Ants within her colony called the Royal Guardian Ants, whose sole purpose being to protect the Queens within the colony and the Empress herself.
They were a step above the Guardian Ants and the Knight Ants (who were above the Soldier Ants, Architect Ants and the Worker Ants), and only equal to the Juggernaut Ants: Ants who were built for the sole purpose of wreaking destruction.
It seed that things were going extrely well for the Colony and it was looking like they were steadily making their way to becoming a super colony, and it was all thanks to the Sacred Volcano.
A familiar light of reverent zeal appeared in the callous Empresses eyes as a single thought rose above the other simultaneous thoughts running through her mind.
‘All praise the Sacred Volcano.’
‘Praise the Empress and the Sacred Volcano!’‘Praise the Empress and the Sacred Volcano!’‘Praise the Empress and the Sacred Volcano!’‘Praise the Empress and the Sacred Volcano!’‘Praise the Empress and the Sacred Volcano!’‘Praise the Empress and the Sacred Volcano!’‘Praise the Empress and the Sacred Volcano!’
The voice of thousands upon thousands of Ants resounded throughout her mind, joining the other hundreds of thousands of thoughts already circulating there.
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