'"Only me and you now," I said as I walked towards the giant ant.
"You all took my prey and ate them, I am here for payback," I continued as anger rose in me thinking of it again.
*******
In the cave only Aldin and the ant queen were there, there was tension in between them as Aldin approached them. The ant was also full of anger at seeing her children killed in, she released a loud screech out of anger, and in the air, the earth began to move, under the command of the ant queen, it began to attack Aldin.
Spikes fired at Aldin from all sides but he was able to avoid them thanks to radar, but they were extremely fast making it hard for Aldin to dodge, they grew in size, number and frequency by the second and it was becoming difficult to dodge the attacks. Once he got the chance Aldin pounced to where the giant ant was to see if its attacks would stop but that was a really bad mistake he had just made, now he was within the ant queen's range, her feet began trying to poke Aldin and he struggled to dodge them but he was still dodging the earth spikes that were getting fired at him, eventually he was hit by an earth spike caused cracks on his indestructible body and after the first him more hit him until the indestructible body broke apart giving the ant queen free reign to attack Aldin and it did, since Aldin had already fallen back since the first attack that took him out of his game, the claws of the giant ant stabbed the side of his body and so did the pincers, he was now bleeding and greatly hurt.
The claws dug into him and his body fell to the ground.
The white ring activated to save him but in a different manner than ever before, Aldin's body was moved back away from the ant queen before producing a giant flash that blinded the ant. When the flash of light was over, Aldin looked extremely different now, he looked like his adult self but without the scales, slit eyes and claws, rather he had an extremely pale body and his eyes glowed with white light and golden pupils.
He looked at the beast infront of him, it was ready to continue attacking but nothing could be done It had just lost its ability to use magic and the next second its flesh disappeared into nothing leaving only its stone, the next second Alind was on the ground in his child like form exhausted and unable to move but with no injuries.
While on the ground something new happened, the black ring on his finger was showing signs of activity as it started glowing showing the several inscriptions on it.
Back when Aldin was in closed cultivation he had forged that ring with a very rare material that Xander had given him without knowing.
As Aldin had been forging he came across a mutated butterfly that was not special for its power but rather because of what it could be used for, once grinded it could be used to increase the ability of to make will replenishing items and as Aldin forged it, it was meant to protect him in case he lost consciousness for a short time by forming a shield around him and also circling around him with attacks to defeat any danger that there would be around him.
Through the effects of the butterfly, the will in his ring kept on regenerating and keeping him safe despite its designated time has ended. The beast that had been attracted to him had all died. Also, some adventurers had come around and found Aldin unconscious but they could not get close to him to check if he was alive.
Kamar
It was in the middle of the night and I was on the lookout as the others were sleeping. Suddenly I could hear noises in the night, it was all coming from the ant nest that we had been planning to investigate, the others woke up too.
"Something is happening in there, I think we should leave right now, I do not want to be here anymore," Ulis said.
"He has a point, wake the others up we are leaving," Ferin said.
"No, i have to go in there, I feel something odd in there," Adam, the passing adventurer who had joined us on the hunt.
"No, we can not, we have no idea what is in there and I am not going to get myself killed," Ferin shouted out, he was livid at being told to stay and go into the ant nest.
"You can leave if you want, I am staying behind, I need to go inside," Adam said as he and his escort walked into the ant's nest with his guard right behind me.
"Good riddance," I told them as me and my teammates left.
*******
Adam and his guard got into the ant nest, as they were walking forward Adam's guard would deal with the ants that they would come across. Out of nowhere, they heard a loud screech and the next moment Adam felt a strange energy that was in the air, it disappeared seconds later, and they moved on to the location where the sound was originating from. As they moved further into the tunnels they began to meet several beast corpses on the ground, they finally came to the hall Aldin was asleep in, wires of condensed light almost cut of their head but Adam's guard took out his sword with his arm that had a gauntlet on, he cut down the wires before they could get to Adam. Others came at them but they were all cut down, the more they cut them the more formed, the ring on Aldin's hand began to glow even more, a change was taking place in it, something else was also happening to it, this was all thanks to what Aldin had changed into a couple of minutes prior.
On the ring next to where the arrays were drawn something began forming, the shape of a tiny butterfly formed on it.
Meanwhile, in a white space, a sentient being was forming, a tiny ant with butterfly wings to be exact, it was white and had a soft white glow to its blue colour.
'Where am I? What am I? What is this?' the little ant butterfly asked itself.
"Welcome," A voice said from the area around it to the little ant butterfly.
"I know you are confused but maybe I can explain everything to you," The voice continued this time as a woman who formed in front of her. She placed her finger on the little ant butterfly's head and information filled it's head.
"So that's how it is," the little ant butterfly said.
"I will do this in service of you my queen," the little ant butterfly said with a bow before it faded away.
Back to the real world where Aldin was lying on the ground, the butterfly had now formed fully on the ring in his hand.
Aldin still lay on the ground as Adam and his guard tried getting close to Aldin, they were very close to where he was, and the guard had dealt with all the obstacles they had in their way, but just as they got to Aldin a pressure fell on them and they were forced to a prostate position kneeling to the ground.
At that moment Aldin began to stir awake, all the protections around him began to fall but the butterfly mark on his ring still remained and the pressure on the men.
Aldin Randell
When I regained my consciousness, I was still on the ground, my body felt very fatigued, as I turned around, I saw the corpse of the dead giant ant there. I looked behind and found two men bent down on the ground on their knees.
"Who are you?" I asked them but they were unable to answer.
They stood that way until in the end they rose up from their position sitting up.
"I would like to first of all know what a kid is doing in this dangerous place?" one of the men in front of me asked.
"I am not a kid, I am a fully fledged mage," I said.
"This is no joke, you might have some power and think you are a genius but that does not make you a mage, you are lucky you are still alive in this cave," the man continued he then held me by the scurf of my shirt and wanted to drag me, unfortunately, I had had a very awful day and experienced somethings that made me grumpy, as he was about to pull me, I acted on instinct and was about to throw him to the side but the arm of the man next to him held me firm, I did not even notice him get next to me