"H-he's riding the Doom-Queen! Does that mean?" Heena paused on the stairs then turned to look backwards at her team leader waiting for her to give confirmation to the answer which she has already concluded.
Nina returned to her seat while feeling thankful that they wouldn't have to go fight that Doom-Queen in their heavily intoxicated state, "Yeah. Little Ron must've tamed it somehow like he did to Paws, in both occasions he used the same black stones and ended up having the same result."
Heena muttered: "However this time his target wasn't a harmless little cub but a dangerous adult Queen of the Doom-Vespas plus some of her strongest Royal-Guard, I just don't know what to expect, what to believe, and what to deny with this kid anymore."
"Yeah. We live in a crazy world indeed, this boy is the perfect example of being enough to birth chaos and make miracles anywhere he goes." The beauty looked at her sister and added : "Just look around you Heena, are we not witnessing a miracle here?"
"Indeed. The day we took Snow this place was a dumb but now the Villagers are much happier, especially during the night, while the kid's house is like a small palace." Heena looked through the balcony at the organized gardens which keeps growing bigger and lusher thanks to Ria's efforts, the swimming pool which she never seen or heard about any noble family having any out in the open instead of building them within the secrecy of their harem.
"He's extremely wealthy instead of being dirt poor like we expected him to be after Snow left.
"He already has an Army of people under his service.
"He has connections with four Village-Leaders which rely on him and listen to every order he gives like servants getting instructed by their Lord.
"Now with the Doom-Queen and its Royal-Guard under his control, little Ron controls a force on both ground and air!" The beauty took her seat next to her team-leader afterwards and stared at the sky where the kid is riding his new pet while her sister Lucy is riding on top of one of the Gold-Guards and the rest of the Doom-Vespas are following them.
'Turns out the Hive still had a few tens of thousands of unhatched eggs plus about the same number of young, immature wasps getting taken care of by the workers and this Queen is able to lay thousands of eggs everyday!' Aaron thought while looking at the wasps following their Queen's Guard obediently despite him and Lucy sitting on the back of two of their leaders.
'Tens of thousands of workers are below ground taking care of all the work while the ones in the Queen's Guard are her mating companions whenever she's ready to be fertilized.
'Chief Peter's Village would've been in a big trouble if I didn't tame Nephrite, you do like that name huh? It suits your color best.' He rubbed its head once Nephrite excitedly sped up ahead of the swarm.
"I bet there'd be a lot of airborne creatures in the Beast-Wave but with you and your Hive's help things are going to be extremely different and less difficult to tackle, go down Nephrite." Aaron patted its back and commanded it to land on the top floor of his house.
"Whoa! This is so scary," Lucy jumped down from her Gold-Guard and landed unsteadily on the balcony, "Your Doom-Queen is so much faster than this one, he couldn't keep up at all." Afterwards she kept patting one of the Gold-Guard's legs while drinking some of the Ginger Ale, the Royal-Guard ignored the woman and moved away to stand next to its Queen.
Aaron gave Lucy a side-glance before smiling and saying : "This makes us even, right? Don't go on saying something like I didn't honor my earlier promise with you or anything like that now! And please call her Nephrite." Afterwards he retrieved a jar of Honey, a few jars of different fruit Jam, some Vanilla-Essence, then Teleported to the kitchen to retrieve an empty, wide, and deep bowl and some of the minced meat Betty and old geezer Todd were leaving to marinate in the spices.
Lucy was disgusted once she saw the kid mix everything then give to Nephrite to eat and the Jade-Green Wasp's eyes brightened before nudging the boy gently with its head before digging in.
*Buzz*
Nina and Heena's arrival wasn't welcomed by the Queen's Guard and their minion Drones.
But with a single thought Aaron was able to order Nephrite to calm her followers and they all settled down once its antennae moved.
"Muahaha... Did you see me fly? I bet you two are jelly in the belly after seeing how awesome I looked up there! Don't worry girls, I gotcha. Nephrite and me are best friends and whenever you feel like venting some steam and screaming your lungs out just ask your cute and lovely sister for permission." Lucy was having fun bragging.
But Heena and Nina just rolled their eyes before smirking, "I bet she thought we didn't see her almost fall on her ass coming down just now."
"Indeed. I bet she thought we forgot how she quickly hid herself inside her Centipede's mouth when things got really dangerous instead of prioritizing the kid's safety, sister Snow would be really proud of her once she hears about it." Nina didn't hesitate and kicked her sister while she was down.
"Dont!" Lucy panicked and her confidence deflated instantly.
Nina looked towards Aaron and could personally feel his Soul-Waves. These Soul-Waves were deeply colorful, wild, and extremely dangerous!
"What happened to you?" The woman asked once she saw Aaron looking at her and smiling after noticing her studying him with her eyes.
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"Let's just say that it's my enemies worst mistake to gang-up on me with numbers, this time the result was insane because I was outnumbered against two hundred thousand plus enemies." The kid muttered before adding : "I still need Nephrite and her swarm to do something in the Mice cave, you're welcome to join but don't get in my way because I don't have much time left." He patted Nephrite and it followed him towards the basement gate.
Lucy, Heena, and Nina climbed over the backs of three Gold-Guards and were carried there because these bitches were drunk yet refusing to admit it despite walking awkwardly and stumbling all the way while climbing the stairs to the top floor.
Heena asked after seeing Aaron unlock the metal gates and push them effortlessly despite their heaviness.
She saw Roger struggle in opening them on his own and barely being able to do so slowly while using all of his strength!
"Are you going there to exterminate the Fuzzy Phosphorus Mice?" Heena asked.
The kid gave her a side-glance while answering : "Why would I even do that?"
"Did you forget about his deal with the 3 Village Leaders?" Nina rolled her eyes at her sister before looking towards the boy and asking : "Is your target the Erebus-Ivy Tree?"
"Among some other things." Aaron nodded while activating the diagram.
*Squeak*
"Let's go. Don't kill them." He ordered while having Nephrite fly through the portal to the other side and have her army ignore the provocation from the rodents on the ground.
'Last time I was here in this massive cave Sera was with me and my Vision was terrible.' Aaron thought while looking around from Nephrite's back who slowly flew a couple dozens of meters above the angry Mice.
'Now I can see the burrows where the rodents are living and the tunnel which the Poisonous Stone-Centipede used to go outside.
'I can clearly see the location where the 5 refined metal eggs used to be despite the destruction my Flame Orbs caused around here.
'I can see the Erebus-Ivy Tree and the Pitch-Black area around it where no rodent dares to approach! That must be the Black Sap which Tylus mentioned.
'But there's really a lot of Mice over here! Did these rodents take advantage of the opportunity once the Centipedes left the cave to truly occupy it?'
Aaron Teleported to stand next to a Vertical-Branch of the Erebus-Ivy before grabbing with both hands and tugging with all his power.
*Crack*
Beneath the thigh-wide Vertical-Branch he was able to see exactly what this Erebus-Ivy Tree is entwining its Vertical-Branches on top.
'It's really cold in here.' The kid thought while wiping the Black Sap all-over his hands in a napkin but it kept spreading on his skin from the palms of his hands and in seconds his arms were covered in a layer of Black Sap which ended up covering all of his body!
The freezing cold was biting at him from everywhere and Aaron shivered despite his mighty state.
However it was difficult for this cold to stop him from collecting more from this Erebus-Wood when he has the chance to do so, especially when his HP bar is barely losing any points before his HP Regeneration-Speed was quick to recover all of it.
Despite having the effects of the Ultimate-Growth Pill stacking with the effects from this Black Sap he was still fine and miles away from danger.
But the object underneath these Vertical-Branches is actually a piece of rectangular Obsidian which stands 35~40 Meters tall.
It's surface is flat and smooth like a mirror with delicate inscriptions and runes on each side of this Obsidian Monolith.
'What the fuck is this? Some alien shit?' Aaron kept watching the Obsidian Monolith while snapping Erebus-Wood like twigs then storing them in his Inventory Space.
The Fuzzy Phosphorus Mice didn't seem to like seeing some intruder barge into their territory and take the Erebus-Wood but they couldn't reach the ones who flew in the air or the one who stood waist deep within the puddle of Black Sap.
The rest of the rodents decided to head to the other side where the annoying light is provoking them but found nobody to attack in the empty basement.
'My instincts are screaming at me to keep away from this Obsidian Monolith, I better get out of here since I've got what I wanted and there's only 4 Minutes left before Emphatic Resonance's effect wears off. But I better take some of this Black Sap and start building some refrigerators in every Village so we can preserve the products which have short expiration dates.' The kid filled some containers with Black Sap then Teleported towards the diagram before activating it once again.
Oddly enough none of the Mice approached him because he was covered from head to toe with a layer of the Black Sap.
Nephrite and its Royal-Guards and the rest of the Wasps followed Aaron to the basement on the other side which was jam-packed with rodents but they flew up and kept their distance while the boy swaggered towards the metal gates and pushed away the rodents before allowing the ones he wanted to exit the basement to leave before closing the heavy gates behind them.
"Young master Ron?" Sherry looked from the balcony at the massive Doom-Vespas which the 3 Honorable Sisters are riding before looking at the kid which she can hardly recognize.
"Are we under attack?" Rhinne came out from her room and looked down then asked while rubbing her eyes.
"Can't you see that there's no Fuzzy Phosphorus Mice at all?" Aeona leaned on the rails of her balcony while saying so but her eyes were studying every detail on the Doom-Vespas, especially the Golden-Guards.
The Bow-woman looked at this rival of hers and snorted before retorting : "Just because Young master Ron gave you some sturdy Shield and a Weapon of your choice doesn't make you better than me."
The female Knight rolled her eyes before replying : "Just because your Arrows can't harm me doesn't make you weak, to each their advantages and disadvantages. From a distance you can toy with me and from up close I can toy with you, seems fair to me! don't you think?" The woman smiled afterwards and winked which looked adorably cute and her rival blushed deeply because this damn Guardian-Knight was insinuating dirty meanings in her words!
Aaron looked at Sherry and said : "I'm taking the upper-floor for myself, excuse me ladies." Afterwards he Teleported to the bathroom and opened the hot water faucet to the max, took off his clothes and jumped in the bathtub while thinking : 'One hour of invincibility was over so soon, now I feel like my balls are going to freeze over from the cold despite soaking myself in boiling water!' Then he retrieved the wooden-flask and opened his mouth to drink some Reindeer Milk because his Recovery alone was unable to compensate for the loss of Health Points.
The kid felt like his short-lived experience was like soaring in the sky like a falcon then immediately afterwards he plummeted to the earth and hit the ground face-first.
System : Water Resistance +1
'At least I'm gaining something from this torture!' Aaron thought while retrieving some food from his Inventory Space and started to eat to satisfy his hunger.
*Meow*
Paws came strutting into the bathroom with Nephrite standing at the door because its body wouldn't pass through the human-sized door!
Its Royal-Guards are staying on the roof while the rest of the swarm returned to protect the Hive.