"A what ?!" "a sand crawler killed my brother and his party?" "that's literally impossible."
"no we put a tracking spell on the beast that killed everyone there and the tracks were those of a Sand Crawler."
Steve just couldn't believe what he had heard. "did you catch the sand crawler?" Steve asked with a shaky voice.
"no, he ran all the way to the ant kingdom"
Steve squinted his eyes when he heard what Charles said. "then my brother must have already been avenged by those ants."
"yeah those ants are the scariest thing in this whole dukedom." some other people nodded in agreement. "THEN LET'S ALL DRINK TO OUR COMERADS WHO HAVE FALLEN!" "YEAHH!" everyone in the guild screamed.
If Smith was there he would probably think that they were even crazier than him.
---
A few hours ago Smith heard the humans get chased away. 'those ants are pretty damn scary' he thought.
Smith started to peak trough his little hole he made in the ants nest. Even at this moment he couldn't get over it, it was just way to big.
Smith kept on wachting the ants when he smelled something which drived his primal instinct wild.
He looked around the ants nest for the source of the smell. And he eventually spotted it. It was the body of a huge 8 meter long lizard getting dragged away by 5 ants.
'is that the other evolution option? ' he thought. 'Smith started to get excited the lizard looked strong, well it still died fighting the ants he guessed.
Smith first observed before he wanted to make a move. He didn't want to die for some blood.
After observing them for some time the ants brought the lizard just below him and threw it in some kind of pit which he couldn't see the bottom of.
'how the hell did I miss that pit?' . After a few seconds the pit disappeared again. 'what in the bloody hell is this place'.
Smith saw that there were no ants moving around the pit which now disappeared, so he quickly made the hole bigger and started to slowly climb down.
After 20 minutes of slowly climbing he finally reached the ground. Or so he thought, he fazed trough the ground. 'okay that's weird so it's like an illusion, but real.'
Smith started his decent again but way faster now. As he descended he started to smell the scent of blood a lot of blood.
...
After some time he finally saw the bodies, there were the bodies of a lot of different animals, humans and his target.
He crawled to his target and couldn't contain himself and started eating.
[gained 0.5% of blood sample]
[gained 0.9% of blood sample]
...
[gained 87% of blood sample]
After Smith reached 87 % it stopped going up. 'so can I evolve now?'
While Smith was busy with thinking. Hundreds of ants started to surround him.
"klik"
Smith looked up, 4 meter long ants and a lot of them, they all felt very dangerous.
A ripple of excitement and fear when trough his body.
Smith immediately started sprinting to the closest ant and tried to headbutt him. But the ant just dodged to the side.
Smith also changed his direction and tried to attack it again. But he got grabbed by some pinchers.
Smith couldn't escape them. But he quickly calmed down as he felt no killing intent coming from the ants.
The ant that grabbed him looked a lot different than the other ants there. His pincers were a lot longer and didn't have pointy ends. Smith didn't ponder thinking about it as they moved back to the nest again.
When they reached the top the other ants started to move away and started to do their own thing. Only the large ant started to move to the middle. And kept walking.
...
2 days later
...
Smith saw a big Iron type dome appearing in front of him. 'what the hell is this'
As he came in front of the dome he saw just how big it was. It was probably around 50 meters high and 100 meters wide.
The ant started to move around the dome. Until they reached an big opening.
When Smith looked inside he saw a huge ant, it was atleast 20 meters long. 'well damn that's one big ant, probably their queen.'
Just as he was thinking that the big ant that held him dropped him off.
And then he heard a voice speak in his mind or that is what it sounded like. '"Hello are you also a reincarnated human?"'
Smith at first didn't react and just looked at the queen ant. "' if you don't answer I'll kill you"'.
'hm let's try something,' a smile started to appear on smith's face.
---
The queen looked at the little lizard that was standing before her. 'what is he doing with his face it looks disgusting.'
A second later she felt a strong killing intent coming from the little lizard. She also got a Stat notification.
[all stats have decreased by 0,1%]
'huh that's cute'.
---
Smith didn't really think that his ability would only do this little amount of Stat reduction.
"' yes I'm also a reincarnated human"' he answered.
"' cute display of ability you did there lizard, but what did you hope to achieve with it."'
"' nothing really I just wanted to test it out"'
"'next time you do something like that I'll feed you to my children, but I'll first ask my questions before I decide what to do with you."
"' what is happening above ground"' she asked.
Smith looked at her and said , "' nothing much just humans"' he answered.
"'...."'