*Buzz*
Deafening noise of hundreds of thousands of wings flapping and cutting air felt like standing up-close to dozens of helicopters but Aaron was standing there gawking at the window of his Stats Menu.
Seconds earlier his instincts were screaming at him to whizz himself out of there with a few Teleports but now he feels like he's back on Earth and surrounded be some insignificant flies!
'Fuck! This Emphatic Resonance Skill is such a cheat.' The kid thought while looking at the thick cloud which had him completely surrounded everywhere in layers upon layers of Wasps.
*Whoosh*
Finally the first volley of attacks was aimed at him and the ones who started it were the much larger and faster Wasps.
These ones had Gold-Lines instead of Silver-Lines on their backs and some of them were comparable to him in size, however these extremely fast and intimidating insects were the minority in this cloud of Wasps.
Their total number stood at around ten thousand or so while the rest were split 70~30 between the normal Wasps and the Silver-Lined Wasps respectively.
The reason Aaron could tell all that because everything around him appeared to be moving extremely slowly!
Even the fastest of these Wasps, the Gold-Lined ones, were like turtles in his eyes and he could clearly see the trajectory of their flight coming towards him.
The kid used his Sapphire Staff to hit the ones in the vanguard and sent them crashing one by one against the ones behind them and with the least amount of effort he caused the momentum of these Wasps to halt without having to move a single step from where he stood.
'All I did was just touch them lightly to push them back but all of them actually died just like that! I guess having more than 130K of Physical Attack isn't something which these bugs can withstand, but this is just the beginning.'
"What the fuck!" Aaron gawked from shock once he activated Energy Bolt.
First was because the Skill consumed 50K of his MP bar which stands at more than 574K!
But of course he wasn't worried about the loss of some Mana or anything as such, the reason of his shock was his attunement with the wind 500 Meters around him.
His Energy Bolt was like a dome of air encompassing everything within this domain and all the poor Wasps were trapped within it and couldn't even budge or move their wings, all of them were left there in the air frozen and absolutely helpless.
The shift in the situation from deafening noise to complete silence was eery and frightening.
Even Lucy and both of her sisters which were watching through the Communication-Technique were left speechless once they witnessed it happen and feeling at a loss of words to express what's happening in the canyon.
But what happened afterwards made Nina and Heena stare at one another while seeing a layer of cold sweat accumulating around the forehead area.
The cloud of Wasps was gathered into a ball which kept shrinking more and more while rising in the air, the boy appeared standing there completely unharmed and pointing his Staff upwards towards the sky.
Wasps numbering, at least, more than 180~200k were bundled and squeezed forcefully into a ball no more than a few meters wide then propelled at insane speed towards the clouds then vanishing beyond with a fate and destination unknown for these Wasps!
"Hot damn! Did I just send these suckers to space or something like that with an Energy Bolt?" Aaron muttered while checking his current Level then grinned widely once he saw that he's already Level 19 and about to reach Level 20 already.
He immediately used his 24 Skill Points to raise Energy Bolt from Level 4 to Level 20 which is the maximum.
Energy Bolt Fire condensed Mana that explodes on contact with an enemy Energy Bolt Level 20 Mana Points Cost 500 Damage 400% of M/Attk Max Enemies Hit 4 Proficiency Points Locked (Max-Level)
Then he added the remaining 8 to raise Flame Orb to Level 10 which turned out to also be the maximum.
Flame Orb Creates and throws two burning orbs causing both direct and splash damage at targeted enemies. Flame Orb Level 10 Mana Points Cost 500 Direct Damage 250% of M/Attk Splash Damage 100% of M/Attk Number of Attacks 2 Max Enemies Hit 6 Proficiency Points Locked (Max-Level)
'I'm not in a hurry to add these Ability Points just yet and the same goes for my Neutral-Class Skill Points, I'd rather wait until for another day while accumulating Proficiency Points for Recovery, Nimble-Feet, and Identify before making that decision since I'm going to lack enough coins to Evolve these Neutral-Class Skills anyway.' Aaron thought before turning his attention towards the Pitch-Black Wasps which started coming out from the Hive's entrance.
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Each and every one of these Wasps was as tall as an adult and their exoskeleton had this metallic feel to it and the kid could feel how superior these Wasps are compared to all three types he saw before.
"Finally taking me seriously eh! Come then." Aaron immediately noticed that there's only a little bit above 1,000 of these Wasps but once he invited them while activating Triple-Stars Skill since he was afraid of ending the fight in a single attack like before.
Not to mention that he was slightly afraid of using Energy Bolt or Flame Orb in this almost invincible state!
Especially after both of these Offensive-Skills were maxed.
But immediately afterwards he felt like cursing because the objects he usually uses to target his opponents is 3 of the Subi Throwing-Stars, however each and every single one of these small Steel-Weapons became the center of a much larger Throwing-Star which travelled lightning-quick to the targets and cut them like nothing before mowing the ones behind and around them like grass.
"20k MP ber projectile! This is fucking wasteful, at least the Energy Bolt Skill killed tens of thousands while these massive shurikens only killed about 100 of these Black Wasps each."
*Boom* *Boom* *Boom* *Crack* *Crash*
Right when the kid was feeling disappointed with the result he saw each of the Subi Throwing-Stars explode and not only kill the rest of the Black Wasps but also destroy the terrain which was indented inwards then the ground fell by dozens of meters.
Aaron intentionally choose to stand and test his own Defensive-Capabilities against this explosion while watching the current state of his HP bar like a hawk.
Yet it was reckless of him to do so but his Physical-Defense was in the [Mythological+1558]+4353.4% Grade which is something he doesn't even understand what it means!
Meanwhile Lucy and her two sisters were beyond shocked already, the first attack stole their breath away while the second wasn't as ridiculous but it was still surprising to see the boy withstand the aftermath of his own attack with his body without taking any measures of defense.
"H-he killed an army of the Queen's Guards just like that!" Lucy muttered while watching Aaron's hand blur then all the dust was picked up by a current of wind and sent away from his location which exposed the entrance of the Hive which became the size of a few football pitches already.
The amount of shock this woman has experienced so far left her as sober as can be right now.
"Nina." Lusy called before pinching her thigh while adding : "You better not be playing tricks on my with your illusions right now! Ouch that hurts, it really hurts."
On the other side Nina snorted while Heena rolled her eyes because even with her own light-hearted personality she can't laugh right now, this situation is just too odd, unexpected, and serious.
The boy which they've been tasked with protecting turns out to be so formidable that both of them immediately started making comparisons between him and the leader of their Sisterhood Branch back in Meteor-City!
The most frightening is that both of them truly thinks that even if the Grand-Elder joined hands with the Branch-Leader to fight this kid they wouldn't even stand a chance unless both of them started risking their lives by activating the Forbidden-Techniques.
Who knows what happens afterwards to the boy but both of these old ladies would certainly meet their end either during the fight or shortly afterwards.
While these three Whispering Sisters were deep in their own thoughts, Aaron was smiling widely after seeing his MP bar filling the lost Mana so quickly and thinking : 'The grade of my MP Regeneration-Speed is still [Above-Average] but the additional percentage is the highest of all else with +13,043%, I'd be so disappointed with myself if I had to rely on Potions and Food to recover my MP even in this invincible state.'
*Vzzzt*
The sound from the depth of the hole attracted his attention and a couple hundred or so Wasps came flying in a formation where the biggest Wasp was in the center while the rest were distributed in ranks around it.
The ones on the outermost layer were a size bigger than the Pitch-Black wasps and had a few deep Silver-Lines on their backs.
The second layer had Black Wasps with Gold-Lines.
The third layer was completely made up of Wasps of the Silver Color.
The fourth layer had the least numbers and only 9 Wasps of the Gold Color.
Behind these car-sized Gold-Wasps flew a Jade-Green Wasp which towered over every other Wasp in size!
"The Doom-Queen!" Lucy immediately ordered her pet to take her into its mouth because once this creature targeted her it'd be too late for her to do anything else.
"Should we go?" Heena nodded once she saw Lucy react carefully then asked her team-leader.
"No." Nina answered while shaking her head before adding : "Ron would've ran immediately if he feels like it's too much for him to face this Doom-Queen, and can't you see how wary it's of him despite facing him with this force of its Royal-Guards." Then both of them watched the kid and the Doom-Queen stare at one another in silence.
'This must be the Queen of this Hive and these are its Guards, I'm guessing it does have some functioning brain-cells since it didn't attack me and is studying me so keenly. Or is it that its instincts are so sharp that it can already sense the danger of retaliating against me? It doesn't matter because I've already made my decision.' Aaron thought before taking action.
Lucy, Nina, and Heena couldn't see his hands at all and all they could see was a blur but all the Black Wasps with Silver and Gold-Lines exploded after getting hit by the Subi Throwing-Stars which the kid threw at them using brute force.
The Doom-Queen reacted by ordering her remaining Royal-Guards to attack while it slyly attempted to escape as they sacrificed themselves to buy it time.
'It's definitely intelligent!' The kid thought while bending his knees slightly then pushing with his feet against the ground and jumping with all his power.
Like an Arrow getting loosened from a Bow, he soared towards the Doom-Queen before stomping one of his legs on the back of one of the Silver-Guards and it exploded after its metallic body contorted into an awkward shape.
Two steps later the Doom-Queen was within range of his Lucid Nightmare with the rest of its remaining Royal-Guards, 9 Gold-Guards and 5 Silver-Guards.
The rest were already Stomped to death on his way towards their Queen or flicked with one of the Subi Throwing-Stars before meeting their end.
"Submit and live, resist and die." Aaron landed on the back of the stunned Doom-Queen and said this while glaring at it as its Royal-Guards and itself were free-falling towards the ground helpless to do anything for 9 Seconds.
Of course the boy was just acting cool because this Doom-Queen certainly have an edge of over 500 Basic-Five Attributes over him in normal cases, he immediately retrieved 10 Summoning Crystals and activated Beast-Master.
Lucy, Nina, and Heena were blinded from what's happening to the boy because a gauze-like layer of thick black fog covered the area around the Doom-Queen and its Royal-Guards.
Oddly enough the rate of their descent towards the ground slowed down alot then the black fog scattered and the Doom-Queen was visible in the center of its remaining few Royal-Guards with the kid nowhere to be seen for the 3 Whispering Sisters!
Afterwards the Doom-Queen directed its gaze towards Lucy's Poisonous Stone-Centipede before vanishing and its 9 Gold-Guards moved towards Lucy's Pet with the 5 Silver-Guards following behind them.
"What happened to little Ron?" Lucy started to panic because its pet isn't an adult yet and despite the huge disparity in size between itself and these Doom-Vespas she understands that her Centipede isn't invincible or anything like that.
"I don't know! Just hang-on and wait for us." Heena said before getting up from her seat aiming for the stairs.
"Something is wrong here," Nina muttered while following her sister, "Little Ron wouldn't just leave Lucy high and dry if he fails to beat the Doom-Queen."
"Lucy." After hearing that voice every one of the Whispering Sisters looked in the same direction where the Doom-Queen appeared, "Won't you come out and greet your friend? And here I thought I'd make it up to you after what happened earlier, some fresh air would help... I guess you'll never know what it feels to fly in the sky like Sera then." Aaron's head appeared from the back of the Doom-Queen with a smug grin on his face.
He was leaning on his back with one leg on top of the other and drinking some juice while feeling the blanket-like layer of fur on the Queen's body lazily with one hand.