Chapter 228: Shouting Love from the Center of the Lord's Castle
Chapter 228: Shouting Love from the Center of the Lord's Castle
I caught a glimpse of the four in the rear moving to the side as I dealt with the enemies rushing me from the front and back.
Damn, there really were a lot of them. But once Sara and Diana moved to the side and finished regrouping, they’d be able to focus solely on attacking. This might end surprisingly easily.
Of course, the fastest way to finish this would be for me to invest more points into my Charm stat.
I’d tried to do it earlier, but the Queen Ant’s interruption had stopped me.
But the reason I was trying to end this fight as quickly as possible was to finish before the girls in the back went into heat from my Holy Ground Proclamation.
If I raised my Charm stat now, after all this time, it would be like I was deliberately trying to get them aroused.
It’s fine. I can do this.
Even now, the Transcendent Species were going down after just a few hits.
The only variable was that ridiculously huge Queen Ant, but her presence wasn't necessarily a complete negative.
From what I’d seen earlier, she didn't seem to care much about her own kind getting hurt.
Whether it was because she was in heat from my Saint's Touch or because she was confident she could just lay more eggs, I felt like I could definitely use it to my advantage.
Like this.
Kieeeeeeeeh!
The Queen Ant let out another shriek and charged toward me.
The sound was still as noisy as ever, but I felt a sense of relief knowing there were no more eggs left for it to hatch.
I glanced behind me and moved so that the ants swarming from the rear, myself, and the Queen Ant were all in a straight line.
The Queen Ant, truly seeing nothing else, charged straight for me, crushing everything in its path with pincer jaws larger than my entire body.
To be honest, I felt a little uneasy watching the Transcendent Species, which had seemed resistant to physical attacks and had even mitigated my own, get sliced apart by the Queen Ant's jaws without any resistance.
But I couldn't afford to be scared.
I’m a man who doesn't know the meaning of fear! Who do you think this Guwon is?!
I’m the Saint who can make even a girl with no erogenous zones cum!
I faced the charging Queen Ant head-on, not dodging, but instead thrusting my palms out alternately, firing off consecutive waves of Saint's Wave.
Kiiiiiiit!
Its shriek grew even sharper than before.
But its charge toward me didn't slow in the slightest.
No, if anything, it had grown more ferocious.
As the Queen Ant closed in, I immediately made my next move.
Its body was so massive that trying to dodge to the side at this close range was already too late.
But its large size also meant there was enough space between its body and the ground for someone like me to pass through.
I immediately slid under its body.
And as it passed right over me, I pummeled its belly with a flurry of punches, my fists wrapped in the aura of Saint's Touch.
How’s that? Making you leak, isn't it? So hurry up and die from my awesome technique!
The moment I had that thought, as if it had read my mind, the Queen Ant's legs seemed to give out, and it collapsed without losing its forward momentum.
Huh? Wait a minute! Cumming is fine, but at least wait until you've passed completely over me…!
“Gwaaack!”
That sound most certainly did not come from my mouth.
It just… it wasn't me.
Being ground against and crushed under the Queen Ant's collapsing body was quite unpleasant, but it didn't actually do much damage.
Unlike before, its weight wasn't crushingly heavy.
Could I lift it if I really tried?
Its body weight had decreased to the point where I could entertain such a thought.
I see… You succeeded in your post-birth diet! Good for you! I hear that’s incredibly hard! Well, I wouldn't know, being a man and all.
In any case, I was able to slightly lift its fallen body and crawl out from underneath.
It was still twitching a little, so it didn't seem dead, but seeing it sprawled out like this meant it must have taken considerable damage… or rather, felt considerable pleasure.
And the basics of causing death by pleasure involve hitting them with continuous pleasure while they're dazed like this, driving them insane.
I climbed on top of its limp body, wrapping my legs firmly around the segments of its torso to secure myself.
The view from up here was spectacular.
The burst corpses of the ants it had team-killed stained the surroundings in every direction.
Some of them were just newborns. What a tragic sight.
But don't you worry. I'll send your mommy to your side soon enough.
A child needs their mother, after all. Ugh. Why am I so kind?
I raised both fists, enveloped them with Saint's Touch, and brought them down like I was delivering pounding punches.
Twitch!
The moment my fists landed, the Queen Ant reacted so violently that my body, perched on top, was shaken intensely.
Good reaction!
I squeezed my legs tighter so I wouldn't fall off and rained down an even more furious barrage of punches.
Kuuuiiiiiik!
It began to thrash about, probably trying to shake me off.
But an ant, tragically inflexible, had no way of reaching me on its back.
It flailed its wings desperately, but I was positioned above the wing joints, so it had no effect on me.
If anything, it was only killing more of the surrounding ants.
Holy Ground Proclamation is truly something else. To see them struggle to reach me even as they're being killed by the Queen Ant's thrashing.
With the situation like this, it started to get a little fun.
It looked as if I were riding and controlling the Queen Ant, slaughtering the other ants.
Back in my original world, I used to think this whenever I saw dragon knights in fantasy novels, comics, or games.
Wouldn't it be stronger if the knight and the dragon just fought separately?
What's the point of riding it? The knight can't even reach anything with his sword from up there, right? He can just shoot sword waves? Isn't that a waste of mana?
Alright. I admit it. I was too negative back then.
Now that I was actually riding an ant, I thought I could understand how a dragon knight felt.
This… is fun!
I crawled across the Queen Ant's body and positioned myself right on top of its head.
Then, I grabbed its antennae with both hands and began to control it with Saint's Touch.
When I used Saint's Touch on my left hand, it turned left. When I used it on my right, it turned right.
Perhaps because I was directly stimulating its antennae, the ant's primary sensory organs, the Queen Ant responded instantly every time I used Saint's Touch.
“Sob! Mommy is so sorry! But my sons, my daughters, don't you worry. The pain will only last a moment. Mommy will follow you soon!”
I spoke for the mute Queen Ant, voicing its feelings as I indiscriminately slaughtered the surrounding ants.
The Queen Ant massacred those around it, while over in the corner, Sara and Diana unleashed a merciless barrage of ranged attacks on the enemies that were further away.
Thanks to this, the number of ants began to decrease at a much faster rate than I had initially expected.
The only worry was that I wasn't receiving any heals.
Don't tell me Leia's already gone into heat and turned into a Gumiho?
No way, right? It couldn't be. It hasn't been that long since I activated Holy Ground Proclamation.
Besides, she managed to hold out before until I brought her to climax once with foreplay.
I wanted to check properly, but my vision was shaking too much on top of the thrashing Queen Ant to see anything clearly.
And then, the time finally came.
Kieeeeeeeeh!
Driven mad by the continuous Saint's Touch, the Queen Ant began to roll around wildly, ignoring my antenna controls.
Its thrashing was so violent that I lost my grip on its antennae and was thrown into the air.
But even as I was launched into the air and fell back to the ground, I continued to fire off Saint's Wave.
Anyone could see this was its final, desperate struggle.
You can only call yourself a proper damage dealer if you can land the final blow at a time like this.
Sharing my sentiment, Sara and Diana, who had been attacking the ants swarming from the passage, also focused their attacks on the Queen Ant.
Ruuuumble!
And finally, the Queen Ant's body collapsed.
It let out one last sorrowful cry, then fell to the ground and finally stopped moving.
“Alright!”
After the Queen Ant fell, the cleanup was remarkably simple.
The Transcendent Species had been guarding it closely, so they had all been wiped out when it was thrashing about.
All that was left was to deal with the soldier ants swarming from the passage.
They were the kind of enemies that went down with a single Saint's Touch anyway, and since they were coming from a narrow passage, they were easy to block off.
I ran toward the passage, drastically shrinking the range of Holy Ground Proclamation again.
Good. This is perfect.
It didn't take much longer after that.
Neither Leia nor Silvia would go into heat from Holy Ground Proclamation now.
Even that exhibitionist Archmage over there was holding up fine and slinging spells.
Dealing with the soldier ants was easy, but it was a time-consuming task.
There had been just too many unhatched eggs.
By the time the soldier ants finally stopped swarming, it was the middle of the night.
“Pant, pant, pant. Is it finally over?”
My life force, which had skyrocketed when I reached level 100, was now completely bottomed out.
Actually, it was already running on fumes by the time I defeated the Queen Ant.
That's why it took even longer to deal with the soldier ants; I had to rely on Sara and Diana for the actual attacks, only briefly turning on Holy Ground Proclamation now and then.
The Queen Ant had appeared in the evening, which meant we had been fighting for nearly half a day.
We only came to the 2nd floor to kill time since there was no danger, so how did we end up in such an intense battle?
I wanted to just flop onto my back right then and there, but I still had things to do.
“Is everyone okay?!” I shouted as I rushed over to where the women were.
All four of them were a complete mess.
It seemed they couldn't avoid taking any hits while fighting that many enemies. Their clothes were torn in various places, and they were in a sorry state.
Silvia, who had been at the very front blocking all the attacks, was in the worst shape. Her gleaming armor was covered in scratches. What's more, she was lying motionless beside Leia, seemingly unconscious.
But thankfully, it looked like Leia's healing magic had done its work, as there were no visible wounds.
“Guwon, are you okay?”
But from their perspective, they seemed more worried about me than themselves.
Sara approached me, looking like she was about to cry.
I pulled her into a tight, strong hug to prove that I was still fine.
“Guwon…! Sob, I’m so sorry. My… my divine power…”
Behind me, Leia spoke through tears, unable to even stand properly.
I see. No wonder I wasn't getting any heals.
“I-It's okay! Don't cry! I'm tough, so there's no problem at all!”
In truth, my life force had gotten so dangerously low at one point that I had to chug all the emergency potions in my inventory, but I'd keep that a secret from Leia.
“Diana, are you okay too?”
“Mm. My apologies. To think this happened while I was here…”
“What’s there to be sorry about? You were reincarnated, so your level dropped. It can't be helped. Don't worry about it.”
Diana seemed to be feeling down.
I gave her head a few gentle pats and walked over to Leia.
“What happened to Silvia?”
“Well, she was trying to protect me from a surprise attack by a Transcendent Species and was gravely injured…”
But I couldn't see any noticeable injuries on Silvia.
Ah, so Leia must have poured all her healing magic into Silvia.
That made sense. There was no other reason for Leia's divine power to be completely depleted.
Later in the fight, I had drawn all the aggro, so the rear guard shouldn't have been attacked at all, yet I still hadn't received any healing.
Hearing Leia's words made me feel even more grateful to Silvia for holding the line so steadfastly.
At the same time, I was hit with an incredible wave of guilt.
For a brief moment, I had felt relieved that it was Silvia who was badly hurt, not Leia.
I had thought it was better for Silvia to be injured than the healer, since there would be no one to heal us if the healer went down.
I could try to fool myself with that logic. But I knew better than anyone that wasn't the real reason.
And that made the guilt even worse.
“Is she okay?”
“I’ve treated all her visible wounds for now. But she hasn't regained consciousness yet, and I don't know about her internal injuries… Sob, I'm so sorry. I wasn't good enough…”
“No. Leia, you did your absolute best.”
Listening to Leia, I fell into thought.
No, was there even anything to think about?
I decided to make a choice.
“Everyone. I'm really sorry. I'm so sorry, but could you please give me some space for a moment? I think I need to use Healing Sex.”