Royal Jelly Feasting That Was About to Burst My Gut! (3)
The [poison resistance] shot up instantly!
The [poison resistance] shot up instantly!
The [poison resistance] shot up instantly!
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[The [poison resistance] has reached 42.]
My stomach was about to explode with how much I had crammed in.
I had no idea how much of that tangy juice I’d sucked down in one go.
And then.
My left hand could finally move again.
Now I was devouring the royal jelly with both hands at double speed.
What the hell!
My gut could explode for all I cared!
“Ahhurururepjjjup~ Hurjjaeojjapjafhurjupjap~”
Soon the royal jelly in reach was gone, scraped clean from the floor.
I rolled around the bee-hive floor, crushing the bugs stuck to my body while scooping up more jelly to stuff in my mouth again and again and again.
Slowly the dizziness from the poison faded away, and to my surprise my mind cleared completely.
It felt like suddenly switching from a blackout drunk to a fresh post-oxygen workout and shower in real time!
My liver’s detoxification ability……
had reached one hundred times!
“Uwaaaaa~~!”
I let out a lion’s roar without even thinking.
The bee-sting and Devil-Bee wounds all over my body suddenly felt fully healed, as if they’d never existed.
No, it was even better than that—my body felt lighter than usual.
“Jjakjjakjjakjjakjjak~”
The sound of eating jelly now had a satisfying rhythm to it.
[The [poison resistance] shot up instantly!]
[The [poison resistance] shot up instantly!]
[The [poison resistance] shot up instantly!]
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[The [poison resistance] has reached 100.]
[★ Title Acquired! ★]
Basic Poison Immunity
[Skill Point 1 acquired.]
[The [poison resistance] has reached the limit of the current physique.]
[To increase [poison resistance], first remodel your physique.]
Damn it.
I hadn’t raised every stat, just temporarily boosted poison resistance, so I couldn’t push past the F-class limit of 100.
Still, I lingered and sucked down a few more minutes of jelly.
I couldn’t raise the resistance anymore, but the thought that every bite would instantly give me a full stat boost meant I couldn’t tear myself away.
But……
As in every law of the universe, nothing lasts forever.
[Stamina has reached 100.]
[Stamina has reached the limit of the current physique.]
[To increase stamina, first remodel your physique.]
Stamina is at 100 now too.
Too bad, but it’s time for the meal to end!
It seems like it’s time to stand up.
You damn Devil-Bees!
You’re all dead!
I stood up while shaking off the Devil-Bees stuck to me like mayonnaise.
I also scraped up the bee-sting antidote shots scattered on the floor.
Bzzzzzzzz~
Tatatata~
Even in the middle of all that, the Devil-Bees kept attacking me.
But now I ignored them completely and started climbing up to the hive roof.
I’d fallen twelve meters.
Squish.
Bee-hives were made by melting and solidifying the wood component, so they weren’t especially sturdy.
Grip or footing wasn’t exactly reliable either.
But now I was level 18.
Thanks to the [Wall Climbing] skill that let me survive falling, I knew how to climb by relaxing my body and moving lightly.
Soon I was climbing up the mayonnaise mountain on the roof, following the hole I’d smashed while falling down.
I first dug through the mayonnaise to find my belt.
And when I poked my head out and wiped my eyes, I saw that the ground around where I was standing had collapsed in a huge circle.
Of course.
Bee-hives were physically decent but extremely weak to heat.
The material itself was like wax or paper, with a fundamental limit.
But when the mana-yu fire blazed like hellfire from the roof, the hive couldn’t hold on anymore and collapsed completely!
Except for the spot where digestion had already happened thanks to the mayonnaise, everything had caved in.
What a waste!
An enormous amount of royal jelly!
But…… I could restart the queen-bee business later.
First, victory!
I activated the [Double Jump] skill that had come off cooldown and flew out beyond the mana-yu blast radius.
While I was trapped in the bee-hive, the situation had completely reversed.
The three named Ogres that were supposed to lead the charge had completely disappeared.
Where did they go?
Looking closer, I saw three huge bee-hive piles covered in Devil-Bees.
Probably the Ogres had fallen and the Devil-Bees had moved in to cover them.
The Devil-Bee stingers should have been able to pierce Ogre skin though?
How was this even possible?
Right now I couldn’t even tell if the Ogres inside were alive or dead.
The 140 rotting legion members were mostly down and being eaten by Devil-Bees, and the remaining Ogres or young ones were just swinging their arms wildly in panic.
Only the two-headed Eight-Arms guy was staggering around like he was drunk, duking it out with the queen bee way bigger than his body.
But the queen bee’s movements were no joke.
She was perfectly blocking the Eight-Arms’ [Eight Arms Beatdown] with her long arms like a Grim Reaper’s scythe.
And sometimes the Eight-Arms’ flail or mace would break through the scythe defense and hit the queen anyway.
But the queen’s armor was so tough she barely took any damage.
I immediately activated [Earthquake] and landed hard in the center of the three points that were probably the Ogres’ fallen hive piles.
Kuhang.
A powerful force spread out in a circle from me.
Normally [Earthquake] knocked out living beings but revived the unconscious ones.
As the wave passed, the king bee, queen bee, and princess bee slowly raised their upper bodies.
I shoved through the bugs and ran first to jab the antidote into the king bee’s tongue.
Because the antidote only worked on the tongue, not other spots.
Utatata.
The awakened king bee swung her arms wildly, hitting herself to smash the Devil-Bees covering her to death.
I repeated the exact same thing for the queen bee and princess bee.
After getting the shot, their actions were identical to the king bee’s.
But they could only move their arms enough to get detoxed—they still couldn’t stand or move.
Damn it.
Kuuuaaaaaaaa~
Kuaaaa~
At that moment, the two heads of the Eight-Arms guy let out simultaneous screams.
When I turned, I saw a long stinger from the queen bee bee embedded in the Eight-Arms’ lower belly.
The queen’s stinger had paralyzed the named Ogres.
The Eight-Arms guy dropped all eight arms and collapsed in a pathetic slump.
As the queen trembled and pumped in more venom, the Eight-Arms finally fell with a thud.
Right before the queen raised her scissor-like mouth to the fallen Eight-Arms’ neck and cut off its breath……
I had only one choice.
I yanked out the remaining grenade from my belt.
and threw it with [Monster Throw].
This time I didn’t light the fuse for the Eight-Arms’ sake.
But Line Drive.
What a pain.
Swaaaac—
Pewww—
Crash!
The queen bee bee took the heavy mana bullet head-on and tumbled sideways.
Crack! Crack! Crack! Crack!
Ka-tang! Ka-tang! Ka-tang! Ka-tang!
At that moment, the Ogres who were slowly regaining morale started cheering from the underground 3rd floor.
Even the Devil-Bees seemed to have forgotten their insane attack instinct for a moment and switched to spectator mode.
They probably knew the fight was decided here anyway……
Ka-tang vs Queen Bee!
Champion of the 1st and 2nd floors vs Champion of the 3rd floor!
The queen bee shook her head and stood up.
Her wings were burned off, so she couldn’t fly anymore.
But she was still a D-class monster.
A tough opponent with life and resistance.
Plus, the queen bee eats only royal jelly.
The same went for the queen bee bee.
She was the owner of an enormous amount of stamina.
If this was a queen of that scale, there was nothing to say.
All-time record!
She probably had the highest life and resistance among the queens I’d found in the tower.
Actually, this was an unexpected development.
Originally I’d planned to gang up on her with my army.
But a variable appeared.
My army was in ruins right now!
In the end, I had to fight this monster alone!
Right then, the queen charged toward me at blinding speed.
Even without wings, her speed was faster than I expected.
I had to finish her with a mana-yu cannon shot!
Nothing else had a chance.
I pulled out one cannon and lit the fuse.
and threw it high with [Monster Throw].
For a moment, the queen bee bee’s eyes locked on the sky.
Then I pulled out two more cannons, shortened the fuses, lit them, and rolled them to both sides of the queen.
and immediately grabbed the last cannon, lit the fuse without hesitation, and hurled it with [Monster Throw] straight at the queen’s head.
When the queen’s head that had been looking up at the sky felt threatened and turned forward again, she saw the incoming cannon and twisted her body sharply to the side.
Kwaaaaooooang!
Strike!
The mana bullet that had been rolling left exploded properly right in front of the queen, setting her body on fire.
Kihiiiiiiieee~~
The queen screamed and thrashed around.
At that moment, the cannon that had been floating in the air fell and exploded with a boom right above her, sending more burning oil down onto the giant insect’s body.
Kihiiiiiiieee~~
Got her?
Please!
Please just die already!
The queen howled in pain and ran wildly, diving into the huge sinkhole that had collapsed thanks to the mana-yu.
What?
Suicide?
But the queen reappeared in my view.
She picked a cool spot, stepped on it, crossed the burned-out ground, and climbed into the mayonnaise graveyard.
And……
She burrowed into the mayonnaise and put out the fire on her body.
Damn it.
She learned?
Is that even an insect?
Right then, the queen crossed the burned-out ground and charged at me like crazy.
Swinging her two front mantis legs wildly……
I started running with [Double Jump].
Right away the cheering from the watching Ogres died down and turned into jeers.
Kikikikitikitiki~
Kikikikitikitiki~
Ogres only knew one thing—straight ahead.
Running away was basically defeat.
Anyway, I ran over and grabbed the two cannons that hadn’t exploded because I hadn’t lit them earlier.
This was the final one.
I had to end it with these two.
But whether the queen who had already taken one hit before would take these bombs was unknown.
I lit one and threw it.
The queen who had already learned about the poison earlier stopped mid-step with a huge tension.
But the cannon I threw was ridiculously short.
It exploded with a loud bang and black smoke right in the middle between me and the queen, with no real meaning.
But that was exactly what I wanted.
Smoke bomb effect!
I shortened the last cannon’s fuse, lit it, and squeezed out every last bit of strength from nursing to eating royal jelly and hurled an insane [Monster Throw] into the black smoke.
Into the black smoke!
A steel cannon shell at 100 miles per hour!
I couldn’t see the queen, and the queen couldn’t see the cannon!
So was this a hit or not?……
It depended on the gods!
Kwaaoooaang!
An explosion sounded inside the smoke.
Kihiiiiiiieee~~
……with a sound, the queen bee bee covered in fire appeared from inside the smoke.