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It was a standing ant born from the genes of a fox, a wolf, and a human. Its thighs were thick and slender, while its arms were incomparably slender, unlike the limbs of an ant. Its mouth protruded outwards like a canine, with two canine fangs protruding from its lips. It had beastly eyes, and its entire body emanated an air of malice that was enough to make people feel disgusted even if they did not deliberately sense it.
At the moment, the ant was crouching beside a corpse with broken limbs, half of a right leg, a complete left arm, and half of a brain missing. It was gnawing on a long bone that could still be separated from a thigh, making 'crunch crunch crunch' noises as it gnawed on the bone.
Just as the ant paused and turned to look at Sei Itō, Sei Itō's figure abruptly appeared beside it. The five fingers of his right hand clasped onto its head, and without a sound, the ant's head was instantly separated from its body, the doubtful expression on its face freezing.
Poof! A second later, with a soft sound, a large amount of blood spurted out from the ant's corpse, pushing it heavily to the ground.
Throwing the head aside, Sei Itō summoned a whirlwind to disperse the foul blood that was descending around him. Moving his mind, he stored the ant's corpse into the Rubik's Cube and threw it in front of Emma in the ecological laboratory.
"I'll continue providing samples later, and develop a virus to kill them as soon as possible." Sei Itō spoke telepathically. Emma was still a little stunned by the sudden appearance of the corpse, and the voice rang in her mind.
"Yes, my lord." Emma replied to the void.
"Let's take a look at the situation while we're at it. If there aren't many survivors in the NGL Republic, let's use National Refinement! " "I wonder if I could summon the Heaven's Eye and the Earth's Gate that could only be summoned in the world of Steel Alchemists in this world!" Ito Sei thought as he leaped forward once more.
To Ito Sei, whose combat speed was close to the speed of sound and his combat power could even break the speed of sound if he used all his strength, these second-generation ants with innate wildness and strange psychic abilities were nothing but food to him. If it weren't for the fact that the NGL Republic was too primitive and the distance between the settlements was too large, he would have been able to defeat them easily. Sei Itō now, not just a dozen ant corpses, but dozens or even hundreds of them.
Still, that alone was enough for Emma, an Adjusted human, and the elites in the biological laboratory she was in, which was entirely made up of Adjusted humans, to find the ant's genes from the corpses and begin to develop a lethal virus.
Several days later …
Just as Ito Sei used his powerful strength to destroy a team of ants that came to capture him, the Magic Cube suddenly presented an information map in his mind. At the place where the five purplish black spots of light converged, one of the spots of light suddenly became bright and dim. Then, the other purplish black dot suddenly became incomparably dazzling and converged with the other three.
At the same time, the dozens of green-blue dots that had gathered around it paused for less than a minute before spreading out and distancing themselves from the purplish dots in different directions.
"Tch. They're actually spreading out … Is the Ant King born? " Sei Itō pursed his lips as he looked at the image in his mind. "What a pity. In another day or two, the lethal virus would be completely developed and put into use, killing all ants including the Ant Queen in one fell swoop! Now it seems. We can only wait. "
Feeling a little regretful, Sei Itō willed countless blue lightning bolts that spread out with him as the center. The ants that were about to flee were burnt to a crisp on the spot.
"But this is good too. I don't have to worry about the existence of the Queen's Guards anymore. I can directly break into the core and carry out a large-scale hunt!" Sei Itō's mind turned and he said optimistically.
Thinking of this, Sei Itō didn't hesitate and immediately activated Psychokinesis to fly up and quickly flew toward the Queen's Nest that didn't have any high-end combat power left.
In terms of speed in a straight line, Psychokinesis, which could allow the body to withstand up to four times the speed of sound, was undoubtedly the best way to travel. At such a high speed, Ito Sei soon arrived at the sky directly above the Queen's Lair. He looked down at the huge weathered stone pillar that looked like an unbuilt beehive and had a weird shape. It looked like a staggered coral.
"Boom!" It wasn't until more than a second after he arrived at the scene that the sound of something breaking through the air that should have arrived first sounded in the sky, making a thunderous sound.
Amidst the roar, an army of ants rushed out of the nest and scattered to check the surrounding situation.
Sei Itō smiled slightly when he saw this. He jumped high into the clouds in the sky and began to accelerate the friction between the clouds and the convection between the gaps, filling the clouds with positive and negative electrons.
"Boom!" Soon, a bolt of lightning flashed in the clouds stirred up by Sei Itō. This bolt of lightning was like a signal. More bolts of lightning began to brew in the clouds, leaping and galloping, until the sky was filled with lightning and thunder, as if the God of Thunder was about to arrive.
"Thunder Fall!" Just when the number of bolts of lightning accumulated to a certain extent, Sei Itō used his discharge ability as a guide to guide the countless bolts of lightning in the clouds to form a thick lightning pillar that was enough to wrap around the strange stone pillar below and bombarded it downward.
How did the lightning fall so fast? Almost in the blink of an eye, it passed through the space between the sky and the ground and bombarded the thick strange stone pillar.
"Boom!" In an instant, the world lit up, and then a violent roar echoed between heaven and earth. At the same time, a large amount of gravel flew out from the huge weathered stone pillar, flying in all directions like bullets, killing some of the unlucky ones standing outside the range of the impact!
However, this stone pillar was the only supreme object in the wilderness after all. In terms of form, it had existed for an unknown number of years. It had already been bombarded by lightning countless times, and it had long been forged by the lightning energy to be incomparably dense. Therefore, even though the lightning attack this time was more powerful, it still couldn't destroy it in one fell swoop.
Sei Itō raised his eyebrows when he saw this. Once again, he used his discharge ability to guide the new bolts of lightning hidden in the clouds, forming a new lightning attack that bombarded the stone pillar below. In order to make the lightning attack more concentrated this time, Sei Itō deliberately reduced the breadth of the lightning, compressing it into the shape of a lightning javelin, and shot it directly at the center of the stone pillar's top.
"Boom!" Another loud noise reverberated between heaven and earth. The effect of this attack wasn't as exaggerated as the previous one. However, the effect of the dense attack was even greater than before. It directly pierced through the stone pillar that had already cracked from the previous attack, and pierced into the hollow space inside the stone pillar.
Under this attack, the large number of ants that had been left inside the stone pillar were immediately burned to ashes by the high temperature produced by the lightning. Among them was the ant queen, who was already on the verge of death, and some of her loyal subordinates.
"What dense world power … It's been a long time since I've experienced this feeling." Sei Itō sighed softly as he absorbed the world power produced by the ant queen and her subordinates' deaths.
"The lightning energy here can still release a less powerful lightning strike. I might as well use it!" Sei Itō thought as he felt the electronic friction in the clouds. He casually used his ability to guide all the lightning in the clouds, forming a lightning strike that was more than twice as powerful as the previous two strikes, and bombarded the stone pillar below.
As the lightning strike disappeared. The clouds in the sky completely returned to calm, and the clear blue sky returned to its previous appearance.
"Let's go down and finish it." Sei Itō, who didn't observe the result of the lightning strike, said softly to himself. Then, he leaned down and rushed back to the ground. His body turned into an afterimage, and he launched an attack on the ants that had survived the three lightning strikes and seemed to have returned to check the situation.
After a while. Sei Itō didn't stop until he could no longer sense any life around the stone pillar. He stood still, exhaled softly, and dispelled his combat state. He turned around and walked in the direction where the ant king and its three guards left. The location in front of him was the neighboring country of the NGL Republic — Dongtuo Republic.
…
"Looks like someone has helped us solve the most difficult task." A thin and small man stood one kilometer away from the weathered stone pillar. His skin was dry and wrinkled, and his earlobes were as big as Buddha's. He had a goatee, and only a bunch of hair was left at the back of his head. It was tied into a ponytail by a colored cloth. He looked to be in his eighties, and he gently stroked his beard and said with a smile.
Next to him was a young man wearing a black business suit, a white shirt, and a black tie. He had a pair of square-rimmed glasses on his face. His short black hair was parted in the middle, and he looked a little cold and arrogant. Next to him was a middle-aged man who was more than 1.8 meters tall. He was wearing a pair of grayish-black trousers and a white casual shirt. His face was square, and he had a pair of small sunglasses on his face. His long golden hair was casually scattered, and he looked at Sei Itō's departing figure with the old man.
The three of them were the president of the Hunter Association, Nitro, and the elite members Mo Laowu and Norman. They had received an urgent report and came to the NGL Republic to deal with the ants.
"That guy looks so young, and yet he's so powerful. I can't help but sigh. Young people these days are getting more and more impressive." Mo Laowu, the long-haired burly man, said with a chuckle.
"President, do you remember that guy?" Norman pushed the glasses on his face and asked.
"I've seen him before. He was at the Hunter Exam last year. I remember his name was Sei Itō." Nitro said with a chuckle with his hands in his sleeves.
"What do we do now? Do we just go back like this? "Mo Laowu asked as he looked at the broken ant corpses around the stone pillar.
"Since the most important task has been taken care of by that little guy, I'll leave the rest to the two of you. This old man will stand guard at the side," Nitro said to Mo the Fifth and Norman who were looking at him as he turned to leave.
"President, you're too humble." Norman said softly as he followed behind.
…
Sei Itō who had no idea that he was being talked about used the Rubik's Cube to lock on to the Ant King and his three guards as they entered the Dongtuo Republic. He stopped two kilometers away from the palace where the Ant King and the other three had entered. He sat on a tree branch with his legs crossed and waited for Emma and the rest to finish developing the virus.
Another two days passed in the blink of an eye.
In the past two days, although the Eastern Tuoluo Republic was still peaceful and peaceful, a large number of ant soldiers were created in the dark that ordinary people didn't know about. They spread out with the royal palace as the center and cleared out the surrounding villages. All the creatures that had limbs and could breathe were brought back to the royal palace. Some of them were made into ant soldiers by the guards and put back into action. Some of them were stored as food, and some of them were selected and made into puppet soldiers …
During this process, Sei Itō was also attacked by the animals that turned into ant soldiers in the forest. But for Sei Itō who has Mokuton Ninjutsu and is almost invincible in the forest, these ant soldiers that came to attack him were just food. They became the souls of the dead under his hands and contributed their soul fragments to Sei Itō.
And because Sei Itō did not escape, a large number of ants that wanted to get credit rushed to the forest to capture him, providing a large number of soul fragments for Sei Itō.
"It's finally done." Sei Itō who used Lightning Ninjutsu to kill an ant soldier suddenly whispered to himself.
“piu！” At this moment, accompanied by a soft sound, an attack flew through the air towards Sei Itō's body. However, just as it was about to get close to his body, a large electric spark suddenly appeared on the side of Sei Itō's body, blocking the object that wanted to attack him and turning it into a charred black substance.
Itō Sei didn't even look at what was attacking him. He turned his palm, and a test tube with a green and red liquid in it appeared in his hand. He flicked the wooden cork with his thumb, and the liquid inside spilled out.
After throwing the empty bottle aside, Sei Itō's figure flashed and directly disappeared from the sight of the remaining ant soldiers. He appeared on the branch of a big tree not far from them, and his body merged into the trunk of the tree.
Just as the ant soldiers were looking around for Sei Itō's trace, the liquid that was spilled by him instantly vaporized and was absorbed into the ant soldiers' bodies as they breathed.
At first, the ant soldiers didn't notice anything strange, but after about ten minutes of preparation, they all inexplicably fell to the ground one by one, curled up and twitched violently, and cracks appeared on their bodies.
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