The royal ant said smugly, "This is why the queen risked the danger to her life to create us. It is because we are reliable and can protect the colony. We have been able to do that successfully for so long because of our diamond carapace. There's nothing you can do against it."
It has regained confidence in itself and its existence has been justified.
Helios's eyes glinted sharply. "We'll see about that."
"Why don't you go ahead and do that? I have nowhere else I want to be at this moment. Take your best shot. There's no rush. We have all day."
He ignored the taunts and jeers to focus on creating another light construct. This time it is a spear of light instead of the hammer. The white runes on his body shone brighter as he concentrated. He grafted some of his runes onto the spear so some runes appeared on the spear as it grew larger. They are the same light resonance runes on his body.
His audience continued to throw barbs at him as he worked.
