Right at that moment....
The light within the ant queen's chamber suddenly dimmed and brightened back up over and over again, as if it was being illuminated by a dying fluorescent light bulb.
Jin-Woo raised his head. The large ball of light that Choi Jong-In floated up on the ceiling to help with the ant queen raid was flickering noticeably now.
'Is the magic about to come undone?'
At first, he absentmindedly thought like that.
However, it hadn't even an hour since the Korean Hunters stepped foot inside this chamber. So, how could the spell be dissipating already? Not only that, wasn't it a spell cast by a rank S Mage so he and his colleagues could safely carry out this potentially deadly raid?
There was no way such a thing could be true. In that case....
'…..Could it be?'
Could the Shadow Extraction he performed on the mutated ant be the cause? Just as this thought entered his mind....
Paht-!
The surroundings became completely dark.
The name of the novel is "Empire of Ants". It's a 1991 novel written by a French author Bernard Werber. At least, I hope it's that one.
MC names the ant "Beh-reuh" in the raw, but I decided to change it slightly to "Beru" instead. It's shorter, so it's easier to type, you see.