A King's Feast
They only had a rest of 10 minutes before proceeding with the death march.
Rowen kept his head down and tried not to draw any attention to himself. He kept his ego and pride locked, for his survival was more important than his feelings.
They walked for about 5 minutes before arriving in a wider corridor, like a room. It should have been about 100 meters wide and there were some caves around with narrow wall paths that led up to where there were more caves.
The place was full of ants and it looked like some caves were crowded, all waiting to attack them.
Although there were fewer people, they all seemed much stronger, so fighting and killing these woes was easier.
Rowen took a liking to wipe out these goddamned faces. The world will definitely be a better place without these things.
With a thought, he teleported and spun around, sliding the sword over the ant's head and slashing it away. He noticed that these ants were a little stronger than the previous block.
[You leveled!]
"Great. I only need to level a second time and I will have enough Skill Points to level Cosmic Force to level 25."
Rowen fought even more excitedly than before. The satisfaction of getting rid of these plagues, plus the sense of leveling power, was controlling their instincts.
It took him five minutes to level again and then find a corner to quickly distribute the points.
Now that the Strength, Endurance, Agility, and Vitality stats increase by +4 with each level, Rowen went with everything. Their movement speed was already greater than some of the slaves and possibly some of the bandits of another group.
At some point, after nearly an hour of battle, Rowen saw a different ant. She was red, looked even more dangerous than the others. This ant emerged from a half-hidden tunnel.
Marcel appeared in the air above the ant and touched it. The two disappeared without any special effect and appeared across the room with him smashing the ant's head into the sheer rock wall. The two disappeared again and soon after he was doing the same on another wall and so on.
"I think he watched Mob Psycho…" Rowen heard one of the slaves mutter beside him and he couldn't help but agree.
Turning his attention to his own fight, he continued to attack and whenever 6 seconds passed, he teleported and with a sword motion, heads rolled.
Yes, he was definitely getting good at it.
…
Marcel allowed a rest break of only 10 minutes again.
(.....)
Name: Rowen Lahey | Age: 16 years
Race: Human/Paragon | Level: 33 | EXP: 2%
Type: Colorless
HP: 1.000/1.000 | MP: 1.070/1.070
Strength: 109
Resistance: 116
Agility: 111
Vitality: 100
Intelligence: 107
Wisdom: 65
Lucky: 6
Attribute Points: 140
Skill Points: 280
Quests: Solo Leveling (2/5), A Question of Survival (In Progress…)
Shop Skills: Open Store >>
Soul Skills: Cosmic Force - Level-25, Solomon's Wisdom - Level-MAX
Passive Skills: None
Active Skills: Fireball - Level-13, Blink - Level-40
(.....)
This time, he thought for a moment and decided to risk and buy a new skill as it could save his life.
(.....)
Shop: Use Skill Points to Buy | Current Skill Points: 280
Discount: 60% for 49 hours
Fireball (Pyros/Magic): 10 Skill Points (Purchased)
Create and throw a fireball.
Blink (Psychic/Magic): 50 Skill Points (Purchased)
-For a place you can see and within a certain area, teleport instantly.
Lucky Star (Spirit/Cosmic/Ancient/Arcane): 1000 Skill Points
Let luck guide your way. The higher the Stat Luck, the greater the benefits of your trip and the easier the obstacles in your path.
Translocation (Psychic/Magic/Ancient): 500 Skill Points
-Swap the location of something of the same mass/size/energy for another within a certain area. Pay additional MP for the difference between mass/size/energy of targets.
Rain Dance (Spirit/Magic/Aqua/Sky/Ancient/Divine): 100 Skill Points
-Dance and with a little luck and MP, maybe it could make it rain.
New List: 5 Skill Points >>
(.....)
He took a deep breath, closed his eyes and clicked, knowing that he could change his mind at any moment.
"Now it's too late to regret it."
He closed the shop and opened the skill window.
(.....)
Translocation (Active) - Level 1 | EXP: 0/10 (-97%)
Type: Psychic/Magic/Ancient
Description: The power to move between two things, even if the user is unable to see the targets, and this includes: water, fire, wind, plasma and energy. While within range, by focusing, the user is able to "visualize" everything within range and effect, all within the skill's cast rate.
Area of Effect and Range: 10 yards
Release: 5 seconds
Cooldown: None
Cost: 100 MP
Additional:
+1 MP for every 1 gram difference between the two targets.
+1 MP for every 1 inch difference between the two targets.
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"Isn't that like those Naruto replacement jutsus?"
Shaking his head, he did not hesitate to use 76 Skill Points to level his new skill to level 23, leaving only 4 Skill Points left.
The only changes were that the range became 230 meters and the launch time dropped to 2.8 seconds.
"Once I get the Lucky Star, I will update the skill list. I just hope the next 5 skills are decent."
He must pay 5 Skill Points to update the list of skills to buy. When you do, the current five skills on the list will be replaced by another five skills and unless he is lucky, he will hardly be able to see any skills again on the list.
He put 100 points in Intelligence and the remaining 40 points were all for Wisdom.
The mortal march resumed a few minutes later. The number of slaves dropped to 8, counting on him. Two slaves died in the fight.
Already the bad guys remained the same, there were still 7 of them.
In the next fights, Rowen killed more than two thousand ants in all before they arrived in the Queen's room, and so far he had not used Translocation, because that was his letter up his sleeve, especially against Marcel.
He was not looking for a battle, but if time to go, he has to fight to escape, he wants to be able to surprise the enemy, as his chances increase.
From the moment they bought their new skill until they arrived in the Queen's room, where the other groups also arrived, it took more than five hours, and despite all that, Rowen was not completely exhausted. Yes, he was hungry and thirsty, but nothing serious.
It was enough for him to reach level 57 and at the first opportunity he did not hesitate to spend 400 Skill Points to buy Lucky Star.
The remaining 84 Skill Points, he used as much as he could to level Translocation. He put 200 Attribute Points into Intelligence and the remaining 40 points went to Wisdom. He did it fast, for he had to focus his attention on the imminent mortal battle that was about to begin.
The queen, to Rowen's horror, looked like a copy of the Hunter x Hunter anime queen, and the whole scenario as well.
They appeared to be in a huge, half-dark underground parking lot supported by deformed pillars.
The queen was on her throne surrounded by skeletons and remains. She was clearly about to give birth.
Behind her, in the center of the nest, floating almost two meters off the ground, was a crystalline sphere radiating a mixture of colorful energy that made everyone's heart flutter just watching that sphere.
A thought crossed most people's minds. A thought of pure greed and instinct:
I must have that. I will become strong if I devour him.
Already Rowen, just thought so, he would be strong if he devoured that sphere, but he had no desire to risk his life by taking it.
Greed was no longer part of him.
DING!!!
"Motherf*cker…"
(.....)
Mission Alert!
… *…
Mission: Banquet of a King!
Conclusion: 0%
Description: the Ant-Queen, Andria, like all of their kind, are born to give life to the king. From the moment she was born, everything she eats has a large portion turned into energy within her egg-shaped body. And when she is ready to begin the King's gestation process, this egg is expelled from her body in a nest, but the process is still ongoing: everything she feeds on has a part turned into energy within that egg. This egg was created for the King, who by feeding is able to fight even against a dragon and possibly win, but anyone other than an ant can feed on that egg and gain about 50% of it. your power. This egg is only fully ready when the King is in the final process of being born. Of course this is almost impossible, since the King is born powerful and able to adapt and acquire the powers of all the DNA he consumed while in the process of being born and after birth. That is why, whenever other beings spot an ant over 1 meter high, they mobilize to exterminate these pests before the King can be born, and why they also want the egg.
Objective: To steal the egg and devour it by gaining its powers.
Duration: 90 hours
Reward: + 80% egg powers gain, +100,000 XP.
Additional Reward: none
Punishment: 30% permanent loss of all XP gained, your level and skills, and the inability to level for the next 200 hours.
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"Son of a b*tch!" He exclaimed in thought, but outside he kept the facade cold and serious.
The queen was half humanoid, just like her royal guards. Some had wings, some had muscles, and some didn't even look like ants.
And it was full of black, red or purple ants, which seemed more powerful than the red ones.
"Oh, that sounds more like a nightmare come to life… Where are we going to find some Netero to beat the King, or even a blind girl who likes shogi?" The same boy who commented on Mob Psychic, made another depressing comment.
He looked to be at least two years younger than Rowen. Red, green eyes, some freckles, but almost invisible to the naked eye. He was wearing a school jacket and looked more fit than Rowen for someone his age.
"All right, you bastards. I know exactly what you guys are thinking, but let me just warn you. The egg doesn't belong to you and anyone who thinks otherwise, I hope you've said your last words." Marcel clapped his hands and warned charistically, but at the same time he looked bored.
The leader, Aron, was by his side and seemed fascinated with the egg and emitted a dark aura. This served to remind the slaves and the lower level bandits that they were here only to serve him.
Translocation has been enabled.
Marcel disappeared and in its place was the energy egg and in place of the egg was Marcel.
This took everyone by surprise, which yielded enough time for the skill to activate again, as it takes just 1.8 seconds to launch the skill at its current level.
This time, the egg was replaced with a royal guard who instantly defended himself against Marcel's instinctive attack that appeared a moment before or after.
And just like that, the hell began.
The egg was replaced with Aron who had to start fighting the royal guards and the ants.
Every 1.8 seconds, the egg was replaced with others, whether ants or humans, but only the bad guys.
Some tried to catch the egg, but at the last moment the egg disappeared by switching places with something else, human or ant.
Rowen remained calm and focused and tried her best not to look guilty.
"I have to speed things up. I'm running out of MP." He thought, and then the egg shifted, making a mob angry.
Marcel was… intrigued. He did not fight the guards, but instead teleported as soon as he spotted the egg and began a chase.
The army of ants set out to battle against all, whether bandits or slaves.
The queen remained on her throne, unable to leave because of her plight, but she looked rather furious.
Rowen didn't have time to think about it. He focused and visualized where the egg should go, was in the middle of an ant cluster in one corner, at the same time he activated Blink disappearing before the attack of three black ants against him.
The egg switched places with an ant and Rowen appeared before the egg about half a second apart and without hesitation took the egg that was the size of a red apple from Snow White films and used Translocation itself to switch places. with Marcel, who was over 10 meters away and had seen it all.
Marcel was attacked as soon as he appeared in Rowen's place, and Rowen used Blink to teleport behind the nest.
As soon as it appeared, he did not hesitate and snapped up the egg. As soon as he took a bite of the tastiest thing of all worlds, the egg melted and entered his mouth.
[Mission complete!]
[You have been given the ability to harness 80% of the egg's power.]
[You received 100,000.]
[You leveled out.]
[You leveled out.]
[Luck increased +20 points.]
[By the effect of the egg, you won:]
[Strength, Endurance, Agility, Vitality, Intelligence, and Wisdom increased +400 permanently.]
[+800 Skill Points.]
[HP, MP, fatigue and all wounds have been completely recovered.]
[Your Race: Human has been changed to: Chimera-Human.]
[You have gained the following passive skills:]
[Adaptation of Biological Power.]
[Genetic Mutation.]
[Sensory Muscle Adaptation.]
[You have earned the following Soul Skills: Primal Instinct, Primal Force.]
[Warning! Every cell in your body is mutating and trying to force a radical mutation over its entire genetic structure. To keep these mutant genes under control and quiet, you must remain calm and not forcibly lose consciousness. As long as your emotional awareness is functional, it will act as a guard and prevent mutations about your body and possibly your personality.]
[Good luck, because you will need it.]