After having looked at durth fruit information, he began to put some fruit in his inventory. Because for Bruce it could be very important, even if he doesn't know how to make potions, he just needed to eat them.
Finally, he was now leaving that place, so he began to walk in a specific direction, one that the trees were not so visible as, even if he was in a forest of course.
When he walked for about a few minutes, a cave could be seen in the distance, so he went towards it quickly, could be very well used as a shelter, for when night came.
Bruce then saw that the cave was quite illuminated, although the light was not made by torches or other materials that could illuminate the area, but rather was made by luminous rocks, all that golden light made the cave look like a treasure chest. So he went in a little longer to find out what might be at the bottom of the cave.
He saw that there were ants, but he stopped to think, "Ants have always been so big up close?"
Those ants were huge, their big red eyes gave way to being able to cause fear. All six of that animal's legs had white stripes, it has little thorns on each leg. Her antennae looked like torches, her entire body structure seemed to burn.
Bruce quickly used his Appraisal to find out what he was dealing with.
[ Name: None]
[Level: 12]
HP: 3,742/3,742
[MP: 210/210]
[Race: Ant Korthus]
[STR: 74]
[VI: 37]
[AGI: 10]
[INT: 5]
[SAB: 5]
[LUK: 5]
[A powerful ant, its jaw has enough may to be able to knead steel. Their physical strength is strong enough to be able to lift something 20 times their weight, but because they are quite heavy because of their exoskeletons, they can not have a great speed, but have enough resistance to get around]
"The statuses are quite absurd to her level..." Thought Bruce.
There were about three ants, but only the ant Bruce had used seemed to be the strongest of the group, the others seemed younger, while the other adult. The ants now seemed to be looking toward Bruce. Because of the weight of those creatures, the ground was shaking at that moment. He saw that the ants moved quite slowly. So that could very well be a way to fight the creatures.
The ants repeatedly began to emit a rather strange sound, it did not seem to come out of their jaws, but from the antennae. At the same time, they began to drop a type of liquid on the floor, the liquid had its color in a dark reddish tone, it seemed just something normal.
But when looking at the liquid began to dissolve the ground at a rapid speed. He began to retreat a little, but when he was going to start running a projectile went towards him, in an instant by instinct he managed to deflect, but the stones behind him were now melting.
"What the hell was that, these things are acid or lava..." Said Bruce.
The attacks of those ants caused a certain danger to him. Then he began to prepare his mana arrow. He didn't leave the arrow at its maximum potential, but it just made her a little stronger. It didn't matter if the arrow at that time wasn't in its utmost power. The arrow hit one of the young ants in the legs, they looked irritated by that attack.
When they quickly attacked again with the same projectile, but the difference was that this was bigger, because the ants attacked in one direction. So the attacks came together.
Normally, he wouldn't be able to swerve from before, but because of the level increase and, with his status points, caused an increase in his instinctive speed. So the attack was prevented again.
Although the creatures' attacks were rapid, their attack could not last long enough in the air. So attacks could be avoided from afar, should he have to get close to the ants, he might not be able to swerve so easily against these creatures.
He then began to keep a safe distance from the ants' attacks, when suddenly they began to emit a kind of sound from their before, a sound wave began to directly hit Bruce.
"Hey, what's that?" Thought Bruce was feeling weaker and weaker when he heard a sound.
[You are currently being affected by a Debuff]
[His speed and instincts were lowered by 10% for 5 minutes]
[The effect will remain until all source of the causer is eliminated]
"What, what are you doing here? That's a lot of slutty" Bruce said angrily.
With that sonic attack, Bruce began to use his red flames, throwing a large burst toward the ants. The attack hit the ants hard, but it seemed that the attack had no effect.
[97 damage was dealt]
[82 damage was dealt]
[40 damage was dealt]
To find out what happened so that your attack was practically ineffective. So he quickly used his Appraisal to find out about the other ants.
[ Name: None]
[Level: 5]
HP: 1,160/1,242
[MP: 110/160]
[Race: Ant Korthus]
[STR: 22]
[VI: 9]
[AGI: 4]
[INT: 2]
[SAB: 2]
[LUK: 1]
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[ Name: None]
[Level: 3]
HP: 945/1,042
[MP: 70/140]
[Race: Ant Korthus]
[STR: 18]
[VI:5]
[AGI: 3]
[INT: 3]
[SAB: 1]
[LUK: 1]
After collecting information from the other ants, Bruce began to forcefully load his mana arrow to hit one of the ants, but was interrupted by the adult ant's attack with his strange liquid, so he quickly deflected the attack, but the attack just grazed him.
[300 damage was dealt to you]
Bruce felt a sharp pain in his body, his skin was bruised, as if it were a second-degree burn. He instinctively put his hand, the pain of the burn began to hurt even more. When he removed his hand he saw that the wound was turning purple, it was hard to see what terrible the wound could be, but he knew how bad he was by the feeling of pain.
The ants then launched another attack on Bruce, on account of him stopping by the wound caused by them. He immediately saw the attack and tried to swerve, but because of the pain of the wound he could not.
[125 damage was dealt to you]
[95 damage was dealt to you]
[500 damage was dealt to you]
"Calm Bruce stay calm, please you have to stay firm" thought Bruce feeling all that acute pain running through his entire body. His whole body was looking like a second-degree burn. Then he quickly began to run, to manage to deliver an attack of his arrows to the weakest ant.
1...2...
*Bang*
[597 damage was dealt]
The weaker ant's head was destroyed, although the attack did not kill her at the time, it was virtually immobilized by the great damage done. The sound of the other angry ants were heard by him. He was now prepared to deviate from their attack, for a mistake could end his own life.
This was the first time Bruce felt so much physical pain, although he found those strange creatures that attacked Alozo. That wasn't the same, it was different... The attack was totally directed at him.