Super Gene Ascension Chapter 20 (Patreon)

After texting everyone I was closed to. I went straight back into the Sanctuary and got onto Woody to head back towards the plains area.

As it was fucking go time. I was going to get some Super Geno points or... Well I wasn't going to kill myself directly.

But I had no doubts that fighting through an entire giant ant nest with each soldier ant being the size of a full sized horse was a death sentence.

I sighed softly as I looked at the already modified pit that led towards the ant nest that the legion of ants had fixed already. And with a sigh I said quietly.

"I am not Han Sen who will run into a pregnant Super Beast who will die and give up it's essence gem for it's child for me to steal." I muttered helplessly as Han Sen truly had some dog shit luck...

Like to say nothing of myself even if I got red Haki that could do internal damage. Han Sen, the protagonist coudn't hurt the dying mother nor it's child that was just born for days as he tried to get something from the Super class beast.

He could only steal the geno gem that the mother was trying to give to it's child to finally get Super Gene points from the First Sanctuary to get started.

I looked over towards the large mutant-tier worker ants, and I snuck over before I struck quickly and brutally!

I tore off the ant's head before I also cut off its backside to try to prevent it from releasing it's death pheromones.

'Now, the ants are constantly rubbing each other's antennae to tell each other apart. I need to wear the attenna, I guess.' I mused as I tore off it's attenna and tied them to my own head.

And from there I carefully approached the dark pit that led into the ant nest, with myself carefully turning on a chemical lamp that didn't rely on power, as advanced technology was still very much outlawed by the rules of the Sanctuary.

Then from my side, a large soldier ant approached with it's arm thick antenna, twitching and touching the form that I had slathered in the oil and dust that was on the other ant's head.

It's a twitching antenna touched the ones atop my head and it paused as though in confusion, but ants... Even Sacred Blood ones weren't intelligent enough for problem-solving.

It sensed this colony's pheromones, it smelled that I 'was' a worker ant and as I moved forward it clearly thought I was just going about my business.

Still, I knew that with how massive ant colonies were in size relation anyway. I was in for a good bit of exploration, and I needed to do it quickly lest the pheromones covering me go away.

I quickly went into the hole, I even jumped atop another ant to ride it as there was just so damned many of them in all directions and after a moment.

I realized I needed to find the queen not by following worker or soldier ants. But the caretaker ants in charge of transporting the young larvae through the various parts of the colony.

The ground of the colonies' tunnels and chambers was some very light brown with dark splatches and I realized that the walls of the colony were reinforced with like some kind of wood mash and glue. That the worker ants could make with their saliva after cutting down trees.

'Worker ants can make glue to reinforce the colony. While Soldier ants have compressed boiling acid in their mouths and backside for help in mining and defending the colony... That is certainly interesting.' I mused to myself.

As I had to cover my mouth at the noxious fumes from all the soldier's ants acid that filled the air.

Then a flash of white in my lamp light brought me hope. A line of smaller but still huge ants was moving large white ant eggs out of what could only be the Queen's chamber!

Unless... There was more than one queen ant in the colony.

And if there was more than one, and it wasn't a super tier creature I was going to fucking cry after being stomped on and hit dozens of times by the countless ants rushing around doing their things.

I carefully pushed into the Queen ant room and there she was. I didn't even need my lantern to see her as she was fucking massive.

Even the largest soldier ants were only the size of a large workhorse. But the queen? It was like three elephants decided to stand atop each other in height! It was more than fifteen meters tall alone!

It was also more than fifty meters long with it's birthing chamber or whatever fuck it was called being close to forty of those meters in question.

And the birthing chamber backside of the ant was semi-transparent with a glowing star of amber light pulsing as though a heart beat as countless eggs were cycled through the monster.

After a moment, I realized how... Perfectly designed it was. The queen's womb was like a giant pizza-baking tunnel that restaurants used, but the eggs were stuck to the walls of the womb and were moving evenly around the core of the womb until it was time for the egg to leave!

"Well... The fucking Life Essence is right there. And it is a Super Tier creature for sure!" I muttered as I carefully approached the queen before I paused at a heavy realization as the scales of the queen ant came into view.

The actual 'skin' of the ant queen was see-through. Was more than a foot thick, and if I tried to cut through it... 

I would have the entire fucking nest in a panic as the queen registered an attack on itself.

But even more importantly. The actual head of the Ant Queen was more than five meters in size... I didn't want to try to fucking cut through the neck of a little kaiju with a spear of all things if I could even break it's exo-skeleton to begin with.

"Fuuuuck! The things I... Even Han Sen and I have to do for power." I said with almost tears in my eyes.

As I was going to need to manually... Get that Life Essence out of the ant queen in the most direct way, so I didn't get killed by the inevitable swarm of ants that would come when I pissed off the queen by attacking her with my spear or Haki.