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Chapter 77 - The Ant Nest

Ace makes his way to the scorching desert dungeon. 

upon entering Ace finds himself in the Earth clans territory which has nearly doubled in size since his last visit. 

Almost instantly Ace is trapped in a cage made of rock elements quicker than he could react to. Ace looks around and senses a guy standing tall and large outside the cage that brings off a huge aura of elements around the same power level as Ace.

The guy ignores Ace as he takes the restrained Ace to the main building where this guy lives.

"I am the leader of the earth clan, I've heard that you have been in this place a few times, I will challenge you to a duel. If you can beat me then I will leave you alone but if I win I will take your life." The clan leader says as he glares at Ace.

Moments later Ace finds himself in an arena full of people watching. Opposite him is the clan leader in what looks to be the nicest gear Ace has ever seen. After a quick look Ace can see that his armour is SS-Rank and his weapons and other gear are at least S-Rank. Worried Ace summons his shield and draws his sword.

The clan leader charges at Ace with a giant hammer in his hand. Ace looks at the clan leader and thinks to himself that he is moving very slowly. With ease Ace dodges the first strike and lands 2 strikes against the leader, although leaving very little damage against him.

Ace looks worried as the clan leader says "You think you can break my defences weakling? your speed may be annoying but I'll destroy you." He Smirks.

Suddenly multiple spears of earth form and get launched at Ace, Ace blocks all of the attacks with his shield. The clan leader launches a barrage of combat techniques and blessings at Ace. 

Ace easily dodges and blocks all the attacks, Ace stands tall after an hour of continuous combat while the clan leader exhausted collapses on the floor.

Out of breath the clan Leader says "I don't understand, you shouldn't be able to maintain that kind of combat for that long."

Ace replies "If you cant figure out why I'm still standing your not a leader." Ace puts his shield and sword away drawing his spear, swiftly slicing the clan leaders right arm off and leaving in victory. "I guess good gear doesn't do much if you don't have the combat experience behind you." Ace thinks to himself.

Ace heads out to the desert making his way to the cave to beat the guardian so he can travel to the glass desert.

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Upon arriving in the Glass Desert Ace immediately searches the area to find the ant nest. Quickly he finds something large enough South-east of him. Quickly he heads in that direction making it there in around 10 minutes.

Ace sees a huge mound of sand with 3 Giant Rock ant Soldiers standing guard at the entrance.

Ace heads towards the entrance drawing his sword and summoning his shield and activating Stat Boost. With a burst of speed Ace attacks the giant ants and within minutes killed all three of the giant rock ant soldiers.

Ace carefully enters the nest climbing deep into the nest, dealing with incoming Workers and soldiers easily.

After an hour Ace makes it pretty deep as crystals light up the cave walls, Ace stumbles across a large opening where 5 Giant Rock Ant Royal Soldiers stand guard to a closed off door made out of intricate metal designs.

Giant Rock Ant Royal Soldier

Blessings:

Swarm

Power level 20

Class: Enhancement

Description: The user gains 20% additional Strength, Stamina and Defence for every other Giant Rock Ant Soldier and Giant Rock Ant Royal Soldier in a 200-meter radius.

Rock Pincers

Power level 20

Class: Element (Earth)

Description: The user infuses their pincers with earth elements making them deal additional damage and increasing their hardness level.

Poison Neutralising blood

Power level 20

Class: Support

Description: The user's blood eliminates all poisons caused by a blessing of power level 20 or lower, causing the user to be immune to poison. The user can't use any poison blessings also.

Rock Fling

Power level 5

Class: element (Earth)

Description: The user can form rocks around their body and throw them as far as 5Km.

Stats:

Level: 230

HP: 100

Defence: 1750 (+1400) = 3150

Strength: 3075 (+2450) = 5525

Soul: 575 

Speed: 250 

Stamina: 300 (+225) = 525

Combat rating: 457

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Ace looks at these ants with fear as these are the ones that put him in hospital.

Ace quickly activates Forest guardian, Lightning Haste and Earth Spirit.

Quickly Ace's Aura rises with immense power, with insane speed Ace lands numerous attacks within the blink of an eye while also controlling 6 blades of water to attack the Royal soldiers while he assaulted them.

The barrage of attacks where too fast for the ants to keep up, taking little damage from the attacks but unable to land any of their attacks. 

Deciding to change things up Ace put his shield and sword away and draws out his spear, Activating Dragonification. Power flows through Ace as his body changes scales growing along his skin.

With the surge of power Ace manages to take them down one by one. Ace loots the body hoping for some good drops, Finding 3 Element blessing shards, 1 support blessing shard and 10 giant rock ant parts.

Ace walks over to the metal door and pushes it open, Once the door opens Ace sees a giant Queen Ant twice as large as the royal soldier ants.

Giant Rock Ant Queen

Blessings:

Soul Swarm

Power level 20

Class: Extraction 

Description: The user gains 1% permanent Strength, Stamina, Soul and Defence for every Ant like monster that dies in a 200-meter radius of the user.

Rock Pincers

Power level 20

Class: Element (Earth)

Description: The user infuses their pincers with earth elements making them deal additional damage and increasing their hardness level.

Poison Neutralising blood

Power level 20

Class: Support

Description: The user's blood eliminates all poisons caused by a blessing of power level 20 or lower, causing the user to be immune to poison. The user can't use any poison blessings also.

Rock Fling

Power level 5

Class: element (Earth)

Description: The user can form rocks around their body and throw them as far as 5Km.

Stats:

Level: 260

HP: 500

Defence: 1850 (+1850) = 3700

Strength: 3175 (+3175) = 6350

Soul: 575 (+575) = 1150

Speed: 300 

Stamina: 400 (+400) = 800

Combat rating: 564