Chapter 361 The Drula Mines Finish

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/SPLATTER!/

[DING]

[DING]

[DING]

[DIN…]

As chaos unfold and the Ants shuffled about in confusion, waving their antennas round as they tried to speak with one another, Dale heard a flurry of notifications which have been all shortly deafened by the cries of anger and rage of the bugs round him.

/SCREEECH!/

Nevertheless, none of these have been of his concern.

Utilizing Caladbolg, after reducing the brooding cells down, and slaying hundreds of prospect Ants, he rode it towards one of many many exits of the chamber, making his manner towards the following Queen by way of the tough tunnels of the hive.

/Shoosh!/

‘This methodology positive is best, it took me days upon days of exploration to determine the place the primary Queen was, and that was largely as a result of I could not spend an excessive amount of time within the hive without delay for the reason that Ants would swarm me after I killed too lots of them.’

‘There was one time I nearly bought myself caught in a room because of the Ant our bodies pilling up…’

‘Now I can simply breeze by way of.’

As he flew within the air, he seen he had a while to verify on his situation.

With just a few hand motions, Dale opened his Standing menu and checked his Stage:

[Your current Level is 79 (39.42%)]

‘It went up by fairly a bit, someplace round 25%.’

‘If I take down the opposite two Queens and the bugs in between… I will nonetheless lack a bit.’

‘In fact, there could also be extra Queens ready for me… Perhaps even different distinctive Ants… Okay, that will not occur.’

‘These are simply odd creatures, not some kind of alien species with distinctive breeds with totally different capabilities…’

With haste, Dale averted any extremely populated bug zones, opting to observe the longer path if it meant he was consistently shifting. New n0vel chapters are printed on

Inside one other hour, he arrived at his vacation spot, and inside 5 minutes of that, every part was up in flames… Ants ran up and down throughout the chamber, falling atop one another… Larvae bits rained down upon them, staining your entire room, the enormous Ants collapsed on the ground, unable to stand up on their very own, and the male Ants have been nonetheless confused that the Queen had stopped mating with them.

Shifting on from his pest management work, he moved deeper by way of the mineshafts, ultimately leaving its house totally.

Ultimately, the Mine rails stopped, the picket beams collapsed, and he reached an space with supplies scattered about, the top of the mines the place building was due, however not that of the tunnels.

“Huff… The air’s getting onerous to breathe…” Dale stated out loud as he rode Caladbolg

‘There’s additionally a wierd odor within the air… Like uh… Rotten Eggs.’

‘Fuel?… That does not sound good…’

‘We’re now previous the outdated mines, that is all new tunnels dug by the Ants… Or it needs to be not less than, one thing does not look fairly proper.’

‘I by no means had a lot of an opportunity to understand my environment earlier than, I shortly got here right here, killed the Queen, and left in haste.’

‘Checking the maps, these tunnels have not been added onto them, however they nonetheless exist they usually’re proportional in scale… Perhaps they dug the tunnels however did not map them but since they have been nonetheless being strengthened.’

‘Unusual nonetheless.’

“You already know, I am stunned, this proved to be fairly the expertise… I am deeply impressed by how deep these Ants dug.” David stated as he appeared round

He slid down into the whole and utter darkness.

Many risks awaited him, and perhaps his greatest menace wasn’t the creatures that prowled the shadows however the very earth round him.

Tens of hundreds of tons of rock stood above him, supported solely by the solidified saliva and architectural mastery of those bugs…

Whereas above he had sturdy shafts with easy floor, rails, picket beams, and outdated infrastructure to assist him, down right here, the one gentle he had got here from his orb spell and the scarce glowing mushrooms on the partitions.

These mushrooms grew in every single place however the Ants have been consistently consuming them. Some rooms have been devoted to their development, creating fairly an exoteric picture.

A single room a whole bunch of meters beneath the earth stuffed with large glowing mushrooms…

He questioned what sights this place needed to provide.

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/Slide…/

/Cease/

/Step…/

“… Okay. Right here we’re.” Dale stated out loud as he dusted his armor

“That was fairly the slide. Such a straight path is in contrast to that of what we noticed so removed from the Ants, it is nearly as in the event that they have been excavating with goal, to succeed in someplace relatively than to construct a brand new chamber.” David identified as he took a while to assume

“I used to be pondering that too. This passageway is a bit unusual as properly… I feel this wasn’t constructed by the Ants in any respect.” Dale stated as he walked across the place, his proper hand clutching onto his spear

“… This was constructed by the Miners, though I am uncertain why.”

“It is clear the final Queen chamber was a mining website because of its form and measurement, however the full lack of infrastructure round us is relatively harrowing, to assume the miners of the previous have been working in such circumstances is a bit…”

‘There is no gear mendacity round both, this does not seem like a mining website from that perspective… It is too barren.’

“However the query is why would they arrive to this point to mine when there have been so many ores above? And it isn’t like we’re seeing uncommon ores right here, it seems the identical to me.” He added as he put his left hand on the wall

“That is a superb level, however I feel I’ve an thought… Who was right here…” David added upon listening to Dale

“Keep in mind the Sewers? The passageway connecting the Church to the Southern Wall? It was all constructed with using magic.”

“Each single block of the passage was completely homogeneous they usually had been fused as in the event that they have been one singular tube, one which had been carved relatively than constructed. That is an apparent signal of Geomancy, as we mentioned earlier than.”

“I imagine that every part we noticed to this point is probably going a product of Geomancers, they dug these mountains and the Miners put in infrastructure after to make it protected for them to work.”

“Geomancers alternatively want no such safety, they concern not the stone so that they pushed deeper, perhaps on the lookout for one thing like rarer minerals for his or her research or simply for the sake of wealth.”

“And that leads us to now…”

“Yeah. However nonetheless, why would they be right here? And in the event that they have been right here, why are there no data of their operations? It is not like excavating mountains with magic was something particular for the individuals of the previous…” Dale requested as he appeared on the passage he simply crossed

“Above all, it appears they did discover what they have been on the lookout for given the unusual form of this hallway…”

“Then how about we go after them? Serious about it now will not give us any solutions.” David requested Dale as his curiosity started to rise

“That is precisely what I used to be enthusiastic about.” He replied as he began strolling

‘A brand new thriller, how thrilling.’

‘Many issues have been misplaced with the 100 years of sand and decay, perhaps this place has one of many many misplaced fragments that have been scattered within the wind…’

‘Nicely, sufficient with being romantic.’

Dale stepped ahead with dedication, going additional into the darkness.

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Notes