With a resounding thud Raith finally landed on a flat surface, tiled in fact and that made him wondered how much of knowledge these ants possesed to be able to do this. He saw the way the red ant was behaving the other time and from that alone had presumed that they were a formidable life forms that somehow have been able to evolve.
But that was expected of high rank gates, just like the S rank gates he was in three days ago. The red elves, the red orcs and the wyverns‐ they all were brilliant life forms.
So this wasn't exactly surprising, but the fact that they were ants tempted to draw his interest and curiosity everytime he thought about it. He longed to see their king even before he pushed the door in front of him opened.
Revealing to his eyes was a dark room, wide in length and bread and with a dark atmosphere, there was nothing spectacular although the intricate designs and carvings on the wall were to be noted and the statue of arms that were situated around the wall were a spectacle.
But Raith had seen even more beautiful design from monsters, and with what was in this room, he couldn't spare another thought for evaluation of the room. No, not when there was this magnifying presence in front of him.
Raith's sense of comparison naturally kicked, he began to wonder which monster was of equal match between the monster in this room and all the monsters he had faced,
'Briceus... no'
It was not that Briceus was not strong but Briceus was a rather different being and it wouldn't do justice to lump him with the leagues of monsters.
The presence in front of him was pure primitive, ragged and enormous– ba-dum
ba-dum
ba-dum
Enormous enough to cause his heart to race, for the first time Raith was gripped by two feelings that he could not settle for one– the excitement of fear and the excitement of battle. As much as the thing in front of him was tremendously powerful Raith could sense an Intimidation exuding from it– others would have cowered in fear but Raith was gripped by excitement, having his heart forged in battles over the past few months were indeed a good thing.
If not there's no way he would react to such a situation like this– with joy, great feeling of joy, like a mad man a grin spread across his face.
[MULTIPLE COGNITIVE RESONANCE] had also done a good job in keeping him informed of the ant's might even though he had not clearly seen its form, all sought of information had entered his head the moment he entered the gloomy but grand palace.
"Are you the strongest human?" The thick voice reverberated through out the walls of the palaces as the king took closer steps to Raith coming out of the darkness.
Raith was bewildered, what he expected not what he saw.
A white haired human with pale skin, grey eyes, all his features were exactly like a human, he found it very hard to believe that this monster was a ant.
[You are using Appraisal]
[Target Status]
Name: Dharma
Monster type: Evolved Soldier Ant
Level: 211
HP: 210,578/210,578
Magic points(MP): 11,321/11,321
[Skills]
- The sin of pride
- Maximum Defense(passive)
- Brain Eater(Active)
- Fire Charge(active)
- Icicle(active)
- Wind blast(active)
- Torrent(Active)
'It's a named monster'
The monster senuored him in level, HP and even magic energy.
'How is a monster like this so strong?'
Although the second skill on the lost did catch his attention but it was disgusting to want and it also explained the reason while humans head were being harvested. He didn't want anything to do with defenses so the rest of the monster's skill was not particularly interesting to him, not when he now even had an ice skill too and could do magic.
"I have a question for you." Raith spoke, not minding that the ant had asked him a question before now.
The ant's white brows lowered.
"I asked you a question first."
"Calm down, I will answer your question. There are more pressing matters." Raith responded, darting a straight face into the ant's eyes. The ant could tell that he was not mere– not with the intimidating aura that he exuded.
"This clothe, it is not from this world, is it?"
The ant scrunched up its eyes.
"You are a peculiar human. I am yet to meet any like you. I have eaten the brains of humans from that world and this world and I am yet to find a human that is aware of the presence of both worlds..." The ant smiled widely, "I can't wait to eat your brain." He said with a thinned in pupil, looking like a crazy bastard.
'He said two worlds.'
"You mean Therut?" Raith asked, to be sure since he of all people knew there exist more than two worlds.
The ant's eyes glinted with ecstasy, "You must be a native of that place of you know the name. Did you perhaps escape to this place like my master?"
"Your master?"
"In due time, the world of Therut shall know destruction, after being away for so long. He has finally come back to wreck havoc on the world and destroy the archons."
Raith squinted his eyes, '...a ruler? If the person that named him is a ruler, and a native of Therut, then–
His eyes widened.
There are still a lot of people whom he cared about in Therut. He couldn't stand still and watch the world go in ruins. Was what ran through his mind, but immediately a coldness seeped into his heart as he thought about those people.
Now, he felt more at peace than ever.
'...I don't really care... they can all perish.' The thoughts in his head resonated a cold red aura, that gently seeped out of his eyes as he locked them with the ants eyes and opened his hand.
The black. ring crawled towards his palm.and materialized to form a beautiful black sword.
"You too... go on." the sword said to the ring in his finger.
[You have equipped
