Scion of Time Gaming System!

Chapter 153: Rushing to the Queen's Lair

Fatty Liam's body jerked slightly as bright sun-like flame rushed out of his hands and joined in the center of his palms to create a churning vortex of fire. Out of which fire burst out like whips and shoot towards each of the piles of the woods placed right in front of the holes. His flame ability was ten times powerful than before, as he had used the energy evolution technique to evolve his mana into sun elemental energy, as well as by using demonic beast's gloves that focus his flames into the center of the gloves, increasing damage by ten times.

The flame-controlling gloves were also the reason why he was able to control his destructive ability easily for now, but this item could only be used 3 times, before requiring immediate care and maintenance under the hand of an expert weaponsmith.

"An item with great properties, but its durability is honestly pretty shit. Or maybe it's because Fatty Liam's flames are just too powerful," Marvin internally thought as he looked at Little Ball.

"It's our turn!" Leilani's hands raised, magic power rushing out of her body, streaming forward like wonderful water waves.

"Sure, let's guide the smoke directly into the passageways inhabited by the worker ants through the holes in the walls," Marvin said as he activated [Myriad-Shaped immortal Vanquishing Sword Slash]. One could see that he utilized the magic power present in the surrounding areas itself for his purposes.

At the same time, Bai Yue saw smoke bursting out of the piles of woods being covered in a burst of flames, flowing directly inside each of the holes under the guidance of waves of mana emitted out of Leilani, as well as those controlled by Marvin's expert control over his myriad-shaped sword technique. The workload was split between the pair of husband and wife, each filling two of the four holes with ash-like smoke.

"Noah, how far are the worker ants?" Marvin internally asked as he focused on finishing his tasks at a faster rate than before, trying to fill the passageways with a large amount of smoke, but his worries were unfound.

I can sense a lot of rank-1 to rank-10 magical beasts closing in on the gamer with incredible speed, as well as a few demonic beasts below rank-6. It seems to me that your plan has worked. More than half of the worker ants have been attracted to the trap your created

Hearing Noah's words, Marvin's lips thinned into a smile. His plan was pretty simple. First off, he will set aflame multiple sets of woods. Then, he will fill the passageways inhabited by the workers' ants with smoke. He was sure that a lot of worker ants will come rushing out of their home ground to do something against the fire. And he wasn't wrong at all.

Now that they were soon to arrive here, he needed to set the second part of his grand plan into motion.

Marvin stepped back to a nearby wall with his wives, followed by Fatty Liam and Xiao Xie.

"Listen well, they are upon us. Our plan worked!"

A smile blossomed on the pretty faces of the two beauties as Marvin announced the good news to them, even Xiao Xie's eyes squinted into a crescent smile as she will be able to soon take her revenge on the ungrateful bastards that hid a lot of things from her.

"What are we waiting for then?"

"Let's activate the invisibility talisman!"

Except for Xiao Xie that could use one of its innate ability to become one with the surroundings and hide itself both physically and mentally from being seen and detected by any other creature, every single one of them held a piece of paper decorated with jet black and somewhat reddish lines.

The pieces of paper shone in jet black color as dark-red mystical patterns gushed out of it, covering them from head to toe within a few seconds.

At the same time, Marvin and the others saw one meter long ants with a cold look in their eyes and a body enclosed in dusty shells emerging from the holes in the walls, followed by three of the 3-meter tall ant generals, as well as an ant with a sickle-like legs, as they all clambered towards the burning woods hurriedly, trying to somehow stop the fire and the smoke from spreading.

"Hurry up and put out the fire!" The grand general of the ants commanded in a bestial voice.

Surprisingly enough, the workers' ants seemingly didn't seem to notice Marvin and his groups who were looking at them.

This was due to the power of the invisibility talisman that Marvin had created for himself and the members of his group so that the worker ants won't be able to detect them.

"This feels amazing. It's even better than my magic technique that reduces the presence of the entire group." Leilani said as she was able to determine that the patterns surrounding their bodies were able to cancel all sort of refraction by somehow absorbing light, itself.

When it comes to comparing the visions of humans and beasts, they were many differences but one thing was mostly same for the both of them. They were able to see other things because of light. That means that they can't see an object if light doesn't refract off of them.

"Keep quiet." Marvin motioned them to stay silent.

A few minutes later, he signaled them to follow after him. The group headed deeper inside the passageway which was inhabited by the Queen and her royal guard.

"A lot of the worker ants has snuck out from their lairs. The ones left insides the passages aren't even half of their total. Though we won't be fighting any of them, as long as our way isn't blocked by these beasts, we'll just silently head deeper into this huge passageway until we reach the queen.

Once we reach the queen, it will only take me a few seconds to a minute or so to enslave her. If the king is also there, I can take care of him. I only need you guys to hold the royal guard for me,"

As he said those words, the group nodded without any hesitation, agreeing with his plans. They knew that they just needed to follow whatever he says, and they will succeed in becoming the ruler of the entire ant colony.

First off, they will kill the beasts only if the path ahead of them is blocked by them. Secondly, Marvin will enslave the queen after quickly suppressing her. The several hundreds of worker ants won't attack them once their ruler and commander itself becomes Marvin's loyal servant. Lastly, they needed to do all that within a certain time limit. After all, the moment the ants put out the fire, they will start returning to their homes. Then, it will be impossible to reach the queen first without killing hundreds of worker ants.

Yet, each and every one of them was a part of their precious resources, one they would feel terrible heartache at sacrificing. Their purpose wasn't to kill the ants or start a war with their colony. It was winning without losing anything at all.

"It will truly be our perfect victory if we manage to enslave the queen that controls the entire colony without killing more than a dozen worker ant."

"Yeah, I think we might be successful," Bai Yue said. "Everything is going according to our plans."

"We should increase our speed. It will be troublesome if the ants put out the fire and march back to their spots before we even reach halfway to our destination," Marvin said as he pulled out talismans that increased speed for each of them to use.

An emerald light shone once the talisman was activated. Anyone could activate a talisman as long as they will it to activate. Even a mortal can use a talisman to kill a magical beast. This is just how terrifying a talisman can be.

They felt ten times lighter as the hazy emerald light glowing out from the speed-enhancing talisman covered their body. Their speed increased by more than a few times. They moved like streaks of lightning as they covered a distance of few meters every second.

The passageway was internally connected to dozens of other underground holes that lead to different ends. Along the way, Marvin used one of Noah's many functions constantly to scan their surroundings, avoiding troublesome situations such as encounters with beasts or meeting a dead end.

A few moments later, when the worker ants managed to put out the blazing fire by using the cold water from the clear stream nearby, Marvin and his group finally appeared before what seemed like an entrance to a cave.

They entered what seemed like a cave with a pond in the center of it. One could see water dripping from the holes in the center of the roof made out of stones and also dozens of white eggs resting on the floor. 

"Great! There's only two of them and five of us," Marvin said as he looked at the queen and her royal guard that stood in front of them.

Although he could see them clearly, the same couldn't be said for the ants. They weren't able to see Marvin and his party as they camouflaged by the power of the invisibility talismans.