A Million-Army Army Sets the Wasp Nest Ablaze (Part 4)
At that moment, the dazzling bee was already circulating the almost-empty beehive, meticulously guiding its bombardment. It looked ready to completely burn out the seed of the leader wasp tonight itself.
Enraged, the 421st and hundreds of her sisters immediately rushed toward the dazzling bee and took to the air.
Chiiik
At that instant, the wing of one sister flying right beside 421 was tragically torn apart.
[...!]
Chiiik
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Drone 2, 3, 4...
In an instant, the sisters began plummeting, losing their wings.
From the darkness, something was flying in and precisely targeting their rising wings.
Wasps? This kind of maneuver?
Then, 421's eyes caught a tiny bee tearing through the leader wasp's wing. The size was clearly that of a wasp or perhaps even smaller.
But this tiny bee had terrifying hooks attached.
Damn it!
Devil-Bees!
The Devil-Bees had joined the wasps.
In the daytime, those guys couldn't even dare look at the leader wasps. They were few in number, weak, and their venom couldn't affect each other much.
Chiiik
Boom
But these guys could see just like in the daytime even at night.
Plus, their heads could rotate almost 360 degrees.
They were reaping huge rewards in nighttime aerial combat.
Bzzzzzz
Tatatatata
Again, that wing-clashing sound the guys made.
Different from normal wasps.
They had much larger and more delicate wings.
They circled with a shorter radius, could hover more easily, and even reverse thrust.
At that moment, 421 saw the belly of the dazzling bee only 50 meters ahead in the distance.
A queen bee-sized, gorgeous bee.
If I could catch that guy...
421 truly took to the air.
Countless leader wasps were plummeting.
But 421 rose into the air.
30 meters...
15 meters...
421 was now in the posture to land and spit.
And she targeted the guy at light speed.
And...
Boom
It landed! I got it!
In an instant, almost simultaneously.
Boom
Something stabbed her back and pulled out.
Chwaaak
At the same time, hooks like scythes raked her neck.
Enraged 421, still with her spit embedded in the dazzling bee's chest, turned around and bit at the attacker with her jaws.
But the Devil-Bees that attacked her simply grinned and slipped away in a swift backward flight.
Chiiiaak
In an instant, feeling burning pain behind her back, 421 sensed that her wings had been torn off.
Boom
And again, a short but fierce sting pierced her belly and pulled out.
Still, 421 pushed the sting deeper into the dazzling bee and held on.
What a chance to catch it.
Boom
Boom
Boom
Boom
Boom
When she couldn't run anymore, countless Devil-Bees swarmed and spit all over her.
The 421, covered in wounds all over her body, swung her six legs wildly, caught one, and bit its head off.
But these demon-like guys didn't seem to stop at all, as if they had no fear.
Chiiik
Her wing was torn again.
Boom
A sting again pierced her side.
And again, her neck was cut by those cold hooks.
That was as far as it went. She was badly injured, but because her armor was so sturdy, she wasn't fatally wounded.
Kwuaaaak
At that moment, from somewhere, a huge bee over 5 meters long flew in and pierced a powerful sting into her chest.
She couldn't hold on.
The sting that had been stuck in the dazzling bee pulled out.
421 confirmed what had pierced her.
The matriarch wasp!
Why did they... join the wasps?
In an instant, 421's eyes caught the dancing silhouette of the dazzling bee.
The light of the dazzling bee was gradually fading.
It wasn't rising light.
It was that she herself was falling.
Right in front of her eyes.
Within reach.
It could have been.
The queen!
An honorable flight with the beautiful males!
But 421's wing flaps could no longer damage her body.
Kwoong
Finally, she crashed onto the roof of some unknown tribe's sturdy house, tumbled a few times, and stopped.
421 looked at the moon hanging high in the sky.
In front of that moonlight, dozens of massive matriarch wasps cast shadows.
[Luck.]
421 let out a smirk.
At that moment, red fruits began growing larger and larger.
Fortunately, they missed and fell 5 meters above 421's head.
Soon, icy cold liquid flowed down and soaked 421's body.
Peng
Pwaaang
Explosions rang out, and the cold that had covered her body instantly vanished.
As if the whole body was burning with heat, the fire storm swept across the body of the hastily appointed commander.
Tatatak
Hearing the sound of her armor burning, 421 thought that at least her life had been fair.
Not unjust.
I did my best.
It brushed past.
The top.
Now...
Resting.
* * *
I kept looking back and herded the wasp.
Soon, a mega hornet chasing fiercely from behind appeared. The massive insect was creating such a strong wind that the wasp felt like it was being gently blown.
I instantly sensed that the mega hornet was speeding up.
The guy was using some kind of skill.
If this continued, we'd be caught!
I made the wasp's movements chaotic. The wasp, thinking the same, decided to react before I gave the command.
Kueeeek
The wasp rose vertically as if performing an Immelmann turn like a fighter jet.
The mega hornet, weighing it down, had to go a long way further before it could stabilize and begin rising vertically.
Then the wasp twisted its body back to the original direction.
The mega hornet received resistance from the enormous momentum and bent its body. But every time it did, the guy's unbelievable speed was slightly reduced.
For several boring minutes, the chase continued.
When the mega hornet narrowed the distance,
the wasp made weird maneuvers to widen it again.
But I gradually felt the wasp tiring out.
Moreover, the clever mega hornet was now predicting the wasp's movement direction, reducing its course and showing its intelligence.
If this continued, it would really be caught.
The moment even the tail was bitten, we were finished!
My eyes were fixed on the dazzling searchlight, the only light in the darkness.
Faster!
Faster!
At that moment, the searchlight began lowering its head.
The long light path gradually lowered in altitude and began illuminating a point right below it.
"We're done! Twelve bytes! That's the finish line! Fly straight!"
The wasp understood and flapped its wings with all its strength.
As the wasp flew straight, the mega hornet also closed in with fierce momentum.
Just a little more!
Just a little!
Just until that light!
Then...
Thud
The mega hornet bit the wasp's tail.
Squish.
The startled wasp used its last strength to push out a few meters, and the guy's tail was completely pulled off.
The mega hornet also didn't stop and came in with its final high speed.
The light was now right in front.
"Fold!"
At that moment, the wasp folded its wings simultaneously with my command.
And the wasp's momentum flight began with no power left.
Through the huge net.
Please!
Please! Pass through!
Shuuuung
Done!
It escaped.
I turned my head.
A massive wasp was charging toward the huge net we had just passed through.
Considering its weight, no matter how thick and tough the net was, it wouldn't hold.
But I had faith.
The guy would have to slow down.
Pwaaarak
My prediction was correct.
The mega hornet twisted its whole body to reduce speed upon colliding with the huge net.
The wings!
It was because of its wings!
This net was specialized in weaving wings of this material.
When its four huge curved wings with cuticles started tangling in the net, the guy should have chosen...
To break through using acceleration even if it meant tearing the wings!
Or, to protect the wings, twist its body to get caught!
The guy chose to stand still.
And that was also the instinct of the leader wasps that had passed down for hundreds of millions of years.
Of course, escaping this net harder than steel of the same thickness wasn't easy. The battle with the net's manufacturer beforehand would be even harder.
But the mega hornet looked like it had confidence.
The arrogance that no creature here, including Ultrafly, could defeat it.
At that moment, the owner of the net began to move, feeling the vibration of a major event in its life.
A 30-meter Titanula revealed itself from the top of the huge spider web, with eight long legs.
The 40-meter leader wasp spread its huge jaws in a threat display.
Then the colossal spider also revealed its fangs and carried venom.
With the spotlight on, this would become a legendary fight recorded in the history of the 4th basement level.
But I didn't feel like watching the fight between the two giant species for long.
Chiiik
I pulled out the flare.
Instantly, the spotlight was half-covered and the surrounding brightness dropped sharply.
The wasps and the spider looked up in the middle of the imminent fight, probably wondering why the moonlight had suddenly grown dark.
At that moment, the object covering the moon entered the eyes of the two giant species.
It was a huge sphere.
And that huge sphere was descending at high speed.
Bzzzzzzbzzzzzz
The spider might not know what it was.
But the queen of the leader wasps would know perfectly.
The trap!
The wasps, driven into a corner, were selling their lives!
This time, the trap the queen had seen was probably larger and more spacious than any she had seen before.
It was the super-large trap made by joining the special unit that had been waiting without participating in the airstrike from the beginning and the unit that had returned after completing the bombardment.
[Whoa. Whoa, look. It's all being eaten. I'm going to kill them!]
The leader wasp boasted, but none of the wasps replied.
And they stopped in the air about 50 meters away from the spider web.
In the queen's eyes and the spider's eight eyes, it finally entered.
All of them were holding the colorful balloons.
And those balloons were falling all the way down simultaneously with the light of the second flare I pulled out.
Huge umbrella-shaped fire nets made of balloons.
Inside the radius of the spider web, there was nowhere to escape.
Chwaaaaaak
The massive wasps and the massive spider instantly got drenched in thousands of oil bombs.
The spider web also suddenly became soaked in the harsh rain, with mana dew clinging in threads.
The mega hornet moved its antennae.
[Wait. Peace.]
Noisy.
I sprayed fire from the flame thrower's nozzle without regret.
Fusuhaaa
As the flames accurately hit the mega hornet's body, the fire spread coolly along the queen's body.
The same for the spider side.
Furrururuk
In an instant, the entire spider web melted away.
As the two giant species wrapped in flames were released from the net, they plummeted straight down.
Pwaang
Pung
The flames below spread in a circle and rose with the momentum to burn the entire forest.
Among the balloons dropped first, those not caught by the spider web or the two giant species all fell to the ground and pooled, so the explosion of the huge flames was only natural.
The Titanula was desperately trying to move its body in pain and fire the forest one by one. The mega hornet, not giving up yet, was rolling its body back and forth to extinguish the fire stuck to it.
But the mana was strict.
After all those reckless attempts, until the movements of the two guys finally slowed and stopped, it scorched them without any mercy.
And the status window appeared.