'Ant my ass! It's a god damn giant millipede!!!' Shiro thought cursing at the misleading name of the monster.
'No wonder the ants weren't as common closer to the obelisk. There's another species guarding it that's why!'
Millipedes were different to centipedes. While some may get the two mixed up, there are a few distinct differences.
First off, the Millipede have very short antennae compared to the Centipede. The physiology of a centipede is flatter compared to a Millipede which supported a more rounded chitin armour.
The centipede's legs are positioned outwards like a razor blade while the millipede's legs are tucked under its body.
In addition to this, the centipede was limited to a single pair of legs per segment of its body.
This is where this huge Millipede earned the name Hundred Blades. Unlike a centipede, the millipede has two pairs of legs per segment. Not only this, each segment is relatively smaller than the centipede's segments.
With each of the legs being composed of a razor sharp blade, Shiro shivered slightly just thinking about getting caught in those legs. Even with her MP and attack, the millipede would just wear her down in a battle of attrition.
'Millipede millipede… They are scavengers that are classed as herbivores. Yet obviously, this one wants to chew on meat.' Shiro thought seeing the 'Ant' move around.
'Since I can't base it on the normal standards, I'll learn as I fight.' She concluded.
Preparing herself so that her concentration was at its best. Shiro created two daggers for now.
When testing the capabilities of an enemy, one must be between the fine line of the danger zone and the safety zone.
Too far into the danger zone without sufficient understanding can be highly fatal. Yet, staying in the safety zone will restrain the knowledge you receive. Therefore, one must dance around these two zones carefully to get the maximum benefit.
'First, concussive shock. Test the reaction when robbed of its sensory.' Shiro thought as she dashed towards the millipede.
Twirling the blade by the handle, she threw it towards the short antennas. The speed was decreased dramatically as most of the force was focused on making it spin through the air.
The millipede raised its head as the daggers bounced on both antennas.
*CRR!
Freezing the antennas, Shiro jumped backwards immediately seeing the desired effect.
Without hesitation, the millipede rolled into a ball.
'Is that all?' Shiro thought with a frown.
*KISHIN!
The millipede's blade-like legs protruded from the side of its body while the shell spiked up abnormally like a porcupine's quills.
She wasn't sure how the millipede was generating the forces for it to spin on the spot, but she knew it was preparing to go on a rampage.
Pushing her palms outwards, a ramp was created with scaffolds to support the structure.
*KRKRKRKRKRKR
The sound of blades cutting through rock could be heard as she knew it was rolling around to try hit everything due to a loss of its sensory.
'Robbing the millipede of the senses will increase fight difficulty. Patterns become random as it would try to attack anything and everything.' She thought, dismissing the daggers freezing the antennas.
The millipede continued to roll, causing Shiro to frown.
Making a spear of ice, she threw it towards the millipede hoping for it to cause some damage.
Unfortunately, the spear was smacked downwards due to the millipede's roll and crushed under its armour.
'Armour is absurdly powerful. Fighting head on is not advised.'
Remaining calm, Shiro retracted all of the Ice as she waited for the millipede to unfurl itself.
It was only after 10 minutes of rampaging did it unroll itself.
Her eyes narrowed as she peered past the tens of blade legs it had under its body.
'With the blades being mostly concentrated on its underbelly, it may be a natural defence due to its weakness.'
Raising up her arms, Shiro gritted her teeth slightly as ice started to form under the millipede.
*CCRRRR!!!
The ice raised the millipede into air little by little as it tried to claw away at the ice.
Flexing her fingers, Shiro froze the bladed legs in their place
Making a sharp ice spear, she took aim and threw the spear.
*TSSSSS!!!!
Chemicals sprayed out from under the millipede as Shiro watched all the ice melt visibly.
'It has ridiculous armour, bladed feet and chemicals…unless you try to overpower it, you won't kill it in anytime soon. And if I try to fight it in a battle of attrition, it's not worth the effort.'
"However… I want to see just how I will pry your shell open." Shiro grinned.
Electricity sparked in her hand as she started to use her new skill. Sword Creation.
Running towards the millipede before the swords even finish being crafted, Shiro stepped down hard as a pillar of ice extended out and pierced towards its legs.
Four of the millipede's legs reacted as it cut the pillar into small sections that did it no harm.
"Surprise~" Shiro appeared near the legs as they couldn't retract in time.
The sword formed fully in her hands as she twisted her body and cut the legs.
*KREEEE!!!
The millipede screamed feeling 6 of its legs cut off in one go.
"Aiya~ Just as sharp as I remembered." Shiro grinned.
The sword was a metallic black in colour, mechanical details could be seen around the guard and the hilt. It was a simple looking sword but its sharpness was something to be feared.
[Nano Craft Sword LVL 24 (Blue)]
+30 Sharpness
+25 Bleed
+10 Critical Rate
+5 Critical Damage
+30 Severing
Skill: Razor Edge
Use 400MP to gain +20% cutting strength for the next attack.
MP – 3600/4000
Quickly kicking her legs so that she flipped backwards, Shiro avoided the chemicals the millipede spat at her.
Mid flip, she sliced towards the chitin and left a slight groove.
'Hmm, seems like the best way is for me to attack the bottom.' Shiro thought, preparing herself.
Landing softly, she slammed her hands down and created a wall of ice just under the millipede raising it up into the air.
Once again, the millipede tried to use its chemicals but Shiro was way ahead of it.
Clutching her fist, the ice pillars lifting the millipede up exploded into a myriad of spikes penetrating its weak lower body.
Chemicals went everywhere as Shiro had to shift her location several times to avoid getting dowsed in corrosive liquid.
Dragging the sword on the ground, Shiro dashed towards the underbelly.
*KRRRRR!!!
The sword ripped through the soft armour with barely any resistance.
Using Faded Snow Movement, Shiro quickly avoided some of the bladed feet trying to kill her.
Twisting her body, she escaped from under the millipede.
[HP: 43,000/80,000]
Her attacks proved to be extremely effective as the health was dropping rapidly.
Sensing its doom, the millipede wanted to take her down with it.
Curling into a ball, the millipede's chitin spiked up as Shiro narrowed her eyes.
"Oh you M*******!!!" She cursed seeing the abnormal mana density.
Running would prove foolish as her defences are too weak to survive the self-destruction of a level 25 boss.
Shiro quickly dissembled her sword to regain her mana and used [Harden].
[Harden]
Harden's your skin for increased defence.
+35 DEF and -20% damage taken -20% AGI
Duration: 30 seconds.
Cooldown: 2 minutes.
A silver metallic sheen seems to cover her body as she placed her palm on the ground and used the remainder of her MP to create a giant wall of ice.
*BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM!!
Layers upon layers of Ice walls shot up in front of Shiro as she quickly braced for impact.
*BOOOOOMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It felt like the entire Dungeon shook as Shiro was blasted backwards from the explosion. Even when her ice walls absorbed most of the impact, the force hitting her body still launched her backwards.
Rolling on the ground a few times, she made sure to use her arms to protect her head.
When she finally stopped rolling, Shiro quickly put her guard up in case any blade ants wanted to ambush her.
"Fuuu….." She sighed out seeing that there was no danger and checked her HP and MP.
[HP: 950/7300]
[MP: 80/11,300]
This was the first time her HP and MP have dropped so low in terms of the overall percentage.
Stumbling on her feet, Shiro limped towards the obelisk.
What used to be the space for a boss fight was now covered in corrosive chemicals, flesh, blades and armour.
Looking around, Shiro was sure the walls per pushed back by quite a remarkable amount as the explosion must have taken some of the cave walls with it.
It was a known fact that Dungeon walls are one of and if not THE strongest material known ever. The material scaled up in level as the higher level the Dungeon, the sturdier walls.
For the boss to be able to shave off quite a few layers of the wall, shows just how absurd that explosion was.
"[Collect]" She collected her look straight away as she knew there won't be a mana stone.
When the monster self-destructs, the mana stone was used as the source and gathering point.
Therefore, there won't even be a shard of the mana stone left.
The loot she got wasn't too bad but she had no use for any of them.
Recycling everything, Shiro sat down by a rock that wasn't coated in corrosive liquid.
Whilst waiting for her HP and MP to regen, she decided to have a look at her current food stock.
[E Rank Mana Stone x84]
[D Rank Mana Sone x40]
"40 D rank mana stones should last me a while." Shiro muttered as she laid on her back and threw an E rank mana stone for her mouth to eat.
It took her quite a while to regenerate everything as she wondered if she should stock up on some health and mana potions.
'It would probably for the best if I stocked up. At least then I can regenerate my health and mana quickly.' Shiro thought.
However, as handy as health and mana potions can get, they also have their own backlashes. Mainly due to the skill of the creator who made the potion.
Examples being low tier health and mana potions having adverse effects later along in the line.
These effects can be a decrease of total HP, slow MP recovery and so on. Only the higher quality health and mana potions provided barely any adverse effects.
'I think I'll stick to my Passive Regeneration for now.' Shiro concluded. There was another skill she would like to get, it was the top tier regeneration skill of monsters called [Cell Rebirth].
It was a skill that is both passive and active as the monster can use its own MP and exchange it for health. The known limits of this skill were the power to regrow anything that doesn't destroy over 80 to 90% of your body.
Just remembering the sight of a level 100+ monster regenerating all of its lost HP made Shiro curse at the perverted skill.
With that being said, she wanted the skill as well since it would increase her survivability by a large amount. Not only that, she was currently a monster so there may be a chance for that in the future.
Giving her body a stretch, she opened the obelisk and tapped the final floor. The boss floor.
The room was oddly shaped as it had an open sky that was sprinkled with stars. The surroundings seemed to be the ruins of an open Colosseum as Shiro spotted the boss.
The boss had an armoured body like the rest of the ants but there was one HUGE difference.
[Flying Frag Ant Queen LVL 25 – Boss]
HP: 150,000/150,000
MP: 200,000/200,000
The boss hovered in the air was the transparent wings flapped at incredible speeds.
"…" Shiro stared at the boss with a bland expression.
Flicking her finger, a huge ice spike shot up as the queen wanted to evade.
Suddenly, the tip of the spike opened up like a flower as the smaller spikes pierced the wings, suspending the queen in mid-air.
"When you expose such weak wings and stay in the same spot, you're asking to be killed." Shiro said without a smile. Her azure eyes bore into the queen's eyes as Shiro created two daggers whilst the queen seemed to be shocked.
*KSH KSH!
Slicing the wings off in a few simple movements, Shiro kicked the queen's head as she leapt off and landed softly.
Enraged, the queen's body started to enlarge as the armour became the colour of quartz with a slight rainbow pearlescent tint onto of the quartz.
From the wounds of her old wings, neon blue mana gathered together to form 2 pairs of wings.
"Much better." Shiro grinned at the feeling of challenge.
[Flying Frag Ant Queen LVL 25 – Boss – Enraged – War Form]
HP: 195,000/200,000
MP: 300,000/300,000
Not only did the queen's appearance change, but also her stats. Her HP increased from 150,000 to 200,000 while her MP gained a substantial boost of 100k.
"Let me make the playing field fair first." Shiro said as mana gathered in her palms.
Using her passive cold aura, she enhanced the freezing power of cold aura with her tier 2 ice magic.
*CRRRRR
The entire ruin started to freeze over as Shiro was now able to attack the ant queen wherever the ice was present.
The queen's eyes glowed slightly when she saw the ice.
Shiro felt her body shiver for a moment as she recognised an incoming danger.
Quickly rolling to her left, she turned a portion of her body into snow.
*BOOM!!!!
The spot she was in exploded as Shiro quickly turned to the spot and saw a fire javelin.
"You've got to be kidding." Shiro muttered seeing the queen shift to the fire element.
The armour was tinted red showing the element as Shiro realised the queen could probably use all of the basic elements.
Not staying still in the same spot, Shiro pivoted around her hand before flipping once more. Flicking her wrist, 3 ice spears shot out from the ground towards the queen.
A semi-translucent orb appeared around the queen as the ice spears shattered on impact.
"A god damn mana barrier powered by 300K MP, you've got to be kidding me." Shiro said annoyed.
She didn't mind fighting against the queen, but for her to drain 300k worth of mana along with the 200k worth of health was an insane task.
Narrowing her eyes, Shiro had an idea.
'I just need to force her to waste all of her mana.'
Using her snow magic along with her ice magic, Shiro changed the weather of the boss room.
Crouching down, Shiro made a ramp towards the boss.
*BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM
The boss sent several fire spears towards Shiro as she countered with her own ice spear.
Jumping off the ramp, Shiro made two daggers in her hands and slice towards the queen.
*PON PON PON PON PON!
Several hollow echo's rang out as Shiro sliced away at the shield.
Swinging her hand downwards, Shiro created another ramp of ice as she dodged a breath of lightning.
Pressing both daggers together. Shiro made a Nano Craft Sword and sliced upwards.
The queen flew backwards, dodging the strike.
Shiro landed hard on the ground and quickly looked towards the queen.
Quickly flipping backwards, Shiro dodged a blade strike from the queen. Mid-flip, Shiro created a dagger and threw it towards the queen.
*BOOMMM!!!
Detonating the dagger, Shiro saw ripples spread out on the mana barrier.
[MP: 250,000/300,000]
"Che, only 50k MP was used so far." Shiro muttered as she slammed her palms onto the ground.
An ice pillar shot out the ground as it aimed for the queen.
Opening the mandibles on her mouth, Shiro could see the queen use fire breath to melt the pillar.
Flicking her wrist, Shiro caused a giant ice clamp to close in on the queen.
*BOOM!
The clamp caused a huge ripple in the mana barrier as the queen was jammed between the two clamps.
The queen's eyes glistened as she slammed her arms outwards and destroyed the clamp. Pushing more mana into her wings, the queen dashed towards Shiro.
Stomping down hard, Shiro caused a giant wave of ice to shoot towards the queen but she sliced it in half easily.
What greeted the queen, however, was a giant blizzard.
Snow obscured her sights as she tried to sense Shiro but failed.
*BOOM!
A sudden explosion of ice surprised the queen as the attack hit behind her.
Flicking her bladed hands, the queen sent several wind blades over to try cut Shiro.
Unknown to her, a pair of azure eyes were tracking her.
[MP: 225,000/300,000]
Shiro sighed softly seeing the mana she managed to take off. However, she had already used around 7000 of her total mana leaving her with just 4000.
Making a few tiny ice bullets in her hand, Shiro decided to try increase the queen's rage so that she would fire off large scale attacks and drain her mana faster.
*Don don don don
The bullets tapped at the mana shield as the queen looked around but became furious when she couldn't find Shiro.
'That's it, keep going.' Shiro thought.
The queen's body became a mix of red and yellow as it flew upwards.
Shiro dashed towards a pillar and used it as cover.
Lightning and fire gathered around the queen's mouth as Shiro understood the queen wanting to wipe the area with a single attack.
Pinching three fingers together, Shiro made a thin dagger.
Her goal was for the dagger to interrupt the queen when she's still charging her attack. However, she needed to time it correctly as interrupting too early wouldn't drain as much mana and interrupt too late means the queen firing the death beam off.
She eyed the attack as pressure was at an all-time high.
'Now!' She thought, throwing the dagger with her full strength.
The timing was a little early as the attack was around 75% charged. However, any further would be dangerous territory.
Clenching her fist, she caused the dagger to explode.
*BOOOMMMM!!!
This caused a chain reaction as the breath attack was forcefully stopped. Since it wasn't fully ready, the attack exploded in the queen's face.
[MP: 130,000/300,000]
'Not bad.' Shiro thought since the failed attack managed to wipe out almost 100k worth of mana.
Naturally, this included the charge up and the explosion the barrier absorbed.
However, she too was left with just 2500 MP.
'I should take it down from the skies.' She thought as having the queen fly around was going to increase the duration of this fight.
'Actually…' Shiro grinned as she had an epiphany.
She started to sprint towards the queen without cover whilst launching small ice bullets to gain its attention.
The queen glared at her hatefully as four of her blade legs opened up. Flying towards Shiro, the queen slashed her legs at Shiro's body.
Twisting her body to avoid the blades, Shiro grabbed one of the queen's armour plates.
The force felt like it could tear her arms off as she gritted her teeth.
The queen thrashed her legs around as she tried to kick Shiro off her back.
Using Faded Snow Movement, Shiro avoided the blades as she pulled herself on the queens back with some difficulty.
Pressing her palms on the gap between the 2 pairs of wings, Shiro narrowed her eyes.
'Mana Extractor, Transfer Vent.' Shiro thought as she couldn't make anything more with the remainder of her MP.
A device was being created in her palms as it ate into the queen's shell causing her to scream.
The nano bots were ruthless as they ate away at anything blocking their path so they could make the device.
The device had its own limits as Shiro was borrowing from the queen's mana pool to make up for what she lacks.
The Mana Extractor was used to take the mana that was being fuelled into the wings and the Transfer Vent was used to give Shiro some of the mana.
Sweat was dripping from her head as she was pushing her creation a little. What she had unlocked right now was Nano Tech Engineering Tier 1. Both the Mana Extractor and the Transfer Vent were something she should have made when she was Tier 3.
The cost was low, but the physical burden was huge.
Blood started to drip from her hands as the nano bots continued to be produced trying to form the device.
When the device was finished, there was a pool of blood dripping from her fingers as Shiro had to endure the pain.
Her HP was also dropping little by little as she tried to create something out of her league.
Naturally, the queen wasn't letting Shiro stay on her back. But no matter how she tried to shake Shiro off, she kept an iron grip stopping herself from falling.
[Crappy Mana Extractor Prototype]
-93% efficiency
'I know it's crap but did you have to title it Crappy Mana Extractor?'
Activating the Crappy Mana Extractor, Shiro let a minuscule amount of MP enter her as the wings of the queen shimmered. The amount of mana that was being absorbed compared to the amount being transferred to her was very inefficient.
However, the main goal of the Mana Extractor was to drain the Mana from the queen.
[MP: 0/300,000]
When the MP was completely drained, the queen plummeted towards the ground as Shiro kicked off the back and landed on her feet.
She flinched when she felt the pain emanating from her right arm.
[Nano Tech Corrosion – Right Arm – 9 days 23h]
'Figures…' Shiro thought as this was to be expected. Forcing her body to produce something of a much higher tier had dire consequences. If she tried to make the items 5 tiers higher than her, the backlash would be permanent.
However, the silver lining was that the queen had lost her entire shield.
[HP: 189,000/200,000]
[MP: 0/300,000]
On the other hand, her MP was full and it was just a matter of time before she drained the queen of her health.
Shiro was about to dash forward but stopped when she felt a shocking pain tense up her nerves.
*SSSSS!!!
Sucking in a breath of cold air, Shiro forgot how much Nano Tech Corrosion truly hurt.
Reaching her left hand towards her right hand, Shiro made a frozen brace as it would hold her arm in place whilst she fought.
The pain was still there, but it wasn't as bad.
Flicking her left hand, she created several ice walls as she blocked a slash from the queen. In the time she recovered from the pain, the queen recovered as well.
'Such a waste…' Shiro thought as she could have dealt the queen so much damage.
Since her right hand was busted right now, Shiro opted to reduce the queen's health with bombs and long ranged attacks.
Making a dagger in her left hand, Shiro braced herself.
Dashing towards her, the queen opened all four bladed arms and cut towards Shiro.
An ice pillar erupted under her as Shiro dodged the strike.
She gritted her teeth as she endured the pain from her arm.
Stabbing her dagger into the ice pillar, she twisted it and a myriad of ice spikes shot out from the pillar.
Due to the close proximity of the queen and the pillar, she wasn't able to block it and was struck several times.
Letting go of the dagger, Shiro controlled the ice to make a gap and launched the dagger into the queen's face.
*BOOMMM!!!!!
The dagger exploded into a cluster of sharps dealing more damage to the queen.
Enraged, the queen twisted her body and became a cyclone of relentless blades.
Shiro hopped off the pillar lightly as she made a ramp to cushion her fall.
Flicking her finger upwards, a spear shot up from below the queen's legs and stabbed into her torso.
Unfortunately, it wasn't able to pierce her torso causing Shiro to frown.
Making sure she kept her distance, she whittled the queen's health little by little.
[Flying Frag Ant Queen]
HP: 1/200,000
MP: 0/300,000
Here was the biggest problem. Unless one can deal a fatal blow, a monster will stay at 1 HP.
Though the monster will still have a hard time on 1 HP as its armour would be weakened by a large margin allowing for adventurer's to have an easier time to deal a fatal blow.
Shiro was drenched with sweat as she had been fighting continuously for around 2 hours whilst also enduring the pain from her arm.
Creating a Nano Craft Sword, Shiro threw it towards the queen and it fell just below her feet.
Swiping her left arm, an ice pillar propelled the sword into the body of the queen. Killing it for good.
"Finally…" Shiro muttered as she sat down with fatigue.
Laying her body next to the queen's corpse, she closed her eyes and waited for her stamina to recover.
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