Rust - Chapter 816



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RUST [RUST]-816

Maru’s swordsmanship was decisive.

Kkeudddeud-

All the antennae were cut off, regardless of whether they were princesses or queens. The princesses and queens who lost their antennae to the Nuclipse were literally rendered powerless.

Not only did he lose his sense of direction and balance, but his ability to communicate using pheromones was also nearly gone.

(Agreement. Breaking. Betrayal. Human. Violence.)

(Human. Attack. Human. War. Want.)

(pain. pain. suffering. stop. stop)

No matter what anyone says, the situation was over when they tried to control Maru with pheromones, saying things like “hospitality” and “service.”

(Misunderstanding. No. Purpose. Treatment.)

(Human. Mating. Good. Treat.)

[These kids. Treat? That’s what treat is? What’s wrong with trying to fuck me?]

Where did they stick out their flippers, pretending not to exist? The swords on the floor were even. As soon as they got caught, they cut off their antennae. Some of them resisted by spraying formic acid, but they could not penetrate the core armor’s defenses.

The ants, who saw that the ant mountain of conversion was blocked by the defensive barrier, engaged in close combat with their expensive and noble bodies, but it was impossible to handle the thorns that had been cut down by hundreds of thousands.

In the past, the method was to dodge quickly and strike, but now, Maru was using the method of relying on the shield and armor to penetrate and sweep.

And now. Maru’s assault tactics were like poison to the ants. They were being cut down and torn apart unilaterally without any attacks working.

(Human. No. Human. No.)

(Agreement. Violation. Monster. Human. No.)

[This is fucking crazy. Give me the antennae!]

Maru didn’t take kindly to the situation. If possible, he would cut off the antennae, but if necessary, he would just grind off the entire head.

As the pheromone translator alternately outputted pain, suffering, despair, and pleading, Maru turned off the translator. The situation that could be resolved through words had already passed.

In an instant, hundreds of higher-ranking entities were neutralized. If you count the guard ants, stealth ants, and maid ants that desperately rushed in and tore them apart, thousands of units were torn to pieces in an instant.

Now, the ants started to run away in a stampede as soon as Maru approached.

Crazy.

Struggling, Struggling.

The ants, whose communication among themselves was a mess, were tangled up and started to panic and bite their surroundings, regardless of whether they were princesses, queens, or maids.

Regardless, Maru began to weave together over a hundred ants like a tangled web.

It was made by inserting a curved needle like a fishhook into the cut place of the antennae and weaving it together. The ants were shaking when the needle was inserted into the sensitive place where the antennae were cut.

Whoosh-

As he pulled on the thin string threaded with a needle, hundreds of ants swarmed in. The shiny, glossy ant nest was now dirty with bodily fluids flowing from the cut antennae.

[Who is the leader?]

Maru, who had turned on the pheromone translator, asked the ants writhing in pain.

(Pain. Pain. Pain. Human. No.)

(Agreement. Broke. Human. Credit. No. Human. No.)

[Stop talking nonsense. Who is in charge?]

While Maru was searching for the real leader, the highest decision maker, the ant, a warning from the bio-robot came in.

Beep beep beep beep—- beep beep-

The link between the small repeaters and the bio-robots that had been spread before the bombing was connected, and a battle situation was entered at the center of the ant empire.

It was a battle between the ant suppression force and the ants themselves. The ants were overwhelming in number, but the power of the biochemical warfare special forces was too strong.

The ants were dying helplessly from the poison gas they sprayed. Instead of engaging in close combat, they tried to induce them into long-range combat by shooting formic acid, but this was blocked by those with the ability to manipulate air, water, and psychokinesis.

A powerful formic acid was sprayed towards the punitive force, but the air ability user created a defensive barrier using air, and dug a trap using formic acid into the ground, while the earth ability user and water ability user identified the trap on the ground and destroyed it.

Finally, the winged beasts attacked from the air, but were unable to penetrate the defenses of the telekinesis and air power users. The sight of them slaughtering the ants and coming in was truly impressive, worthy of the name of the punitive force.

‘Don’t you think I’m being too greedy?’

Even if they killed a huge number of ants, it would only be in the tens of thousands. In contrast, the ants surrounding them easily exceeded ten million.

I don’t know how much poison gas I brought, but it seemed impossible to kill all the ants that were rushing at me one after another.

What was more dangerous was that the ants that were not dead were falling behind. They would soon be given the status of princesses or queens and would start producing ants that were resistant to pesticides and poisonous gases.

‘If it’s Dan Brown, there must be a countermeasure for that.’

If we look at how Najuyeon changed the ingredients when making pesticides to prepare for resistance, the Empire will also have drugs to prepare for resistance. However, the problem is that it is impossible to eradicate ants with those drugs.

They weren’t just any ants, they were capturing humans to study and experiment on in their own way. The ants also had to come up with their own countermeasures against poison gas.

‘If it were a normal insect, it would be exposed to pesticide, develop resistance, then eat another pesticide and develop resistance again. But looking at what ants do, it seems like they will break away from that pattern···.’

If they were humans, would they be subjected to the same method over and over again? It was just a vague expectation that the ants that had mutated would not come up with countermeasures while humans were coming up with countermeasures.

The punitive force in the video fought hard. I don’t know why they didn’t run away but instead went deep inside, but they were pushing towards the center of the ant empire.

In the midst of this, the movements of the ants suddenly changed. About half of the encircling net suddenly began to fall back.

‘Sudden retreat?

It was a spectacular sight to see tens of millions of ants receding like the tide.

Beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep

Beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-

Beep beep beep

The bio-robots scattered all over the place began to sound their approach alarms simultaneously.

‘What the f-‘

The news that the ruling class, including the princess and queen, had been attacked was relayed to the surrounding troops. Maru dragged the hostages(?) out.

Maru, who opens a path using the princess ant with its antennae cut off as a shield in front of the swarm of ants that suddenly rushes in.

[Everyone, stay out of the way. If you come near, I’ll kill you.]

The pheromone translator translated Maru’s warning, but the ants ignored it and rushed forward.

‘What the heck? The princess and queen are prisoners and you just rush in?’

As the saying goes, “One hand cannot stop ten,” it was difficult to guard over a hundred prisoners on Maru alone.

That’s why Maru took bold action. He quickly pulled the string he had stuck in the place where the antennae had been cut off, and the princess and queen ants were dragged in, lining up in front of Maru like a barricade.

Kwajik-

Living barricades writhing in pain bit the common ants that came to save them. At first it was a warning not to come near, but later the princess and queen ants started biting almost in a fit of rage.

As befitting a superior entity, she was a princess and queen ant who cut up ants that approached her in an instant with the cutting power of her jaws that were far stronger than those of ordinary ants.

Even though they released pheromones to save the common ants, the princess and queen ants, who did not have antennae to read the pheromones, could only follow the string that Maru was holding and swinging.

In an instant, the princess and queen ants were covered in the fluids shed by the ants. If it were before, the maid ants and other regular ants would have cleaned their bodies, but not now. The pheromones unique to the princess and queen were mixing with the fluids and starting to become cloudy.

Creek?

Crick?

Creek?

At first, they were just regular ants waving their antennae and hesitating for a moment, but then they started biting the princess and queen ants.

uh?

Maru was confused. He could not have predicted that ordinary ants would attack the princess and queen ants.

‘Antennae? Is it because you blew off the antennae?’

Whatever the reason, Maru’s judgment was quick.

Touched.

A powerful murderous aura swept through the surroundings.

‘also.’

Unlike the slaughtered rats, the damage to the ants was not that great. They were frozen momentarily, but the instant death rate was clearly different.

Maru was not disappointed and immediately swung his Nuclipse. The Nuclipse he had stuck on the spearhead began to swing in all directions as if it were a fishing rod.

The scene where the surrounding area that had been stabbed was completely blown away was surreal. The power displayed was so vicious that it was believable even if you just called it a supernatural ability.

It wasn’t writing, it wasn’t writing. It wasn’t cutting, it wasn’t cutting. It was like the area near the nucleus that was touched was completely crushed, as if a giant monster had taken a bite.

In an instant, the siege was completely destroyed by the thousands and then the tens of thousands, and Maru burst into life again.

!

!!!

The ants that had been rushing at him like crazy stopped in their tracks. The ants seemed to have grown tired of Maru’s power, who had single-handedly slaughtered them all. The attacks that had stopped for a moment were not able to continue and a standoff ensued.

Beep-beep beep- beep beep beep–

Information delivered by the bio-robot. While Maru was fighting frantically, the punitive force was fleeing after suffering devastating damage.

Tsk-

So you’re going in too deep.

‘Huh? What about those?’

The biochemical special forces sprayed gas, but there were ants that ignored it and rushed at it. So the ants that had developed resistance attacked.

Ants that have awakened their introspective abilities?

Whatever it was, it seemed difficult for the punitive force to retreat alive.

Whoosh- Only six of them reacted to the tugging of the string. There were over twenty of them if you count the ones that were wriggling, but only six of them were able to walk on their own legs.

Maru tied the six of them separately and hung them on his back as he had guessed. Even while he was doing this, the ants couldn’t bring themselves to come near him.

[Bombing. Breaking through the blocked hole and preparing a new hydrogen bomb.]

[Order given.]

A moment later, a huge explosion and flames shot out of the vertical hole. Once. Twice. Three times. As the explosion continued, ants fell from the hole like volcanic ash.

Pieces of charred ants fell like corn.

[Stop bombing.]

Puhwaaaaaaaah!

As Maru flew towards the hole, tens of thousands of winged insects also flew towards the hole. It was unclear whether they were trying to block the entrance and prevent escape, or whether they were going to find the enemy who was bombing them.

Regardless, Maru turned his jetpack to max speed, soaring straight up while grinding down any nearby wingtips with his Nuclipse.

Maru, who passed through a vertical crack 4km deep underground, ordered a hydrogen bomb attack unique to the Holy Kingdom.

[Shoot!]

[Launching a hydrogen bomb.]

A giant missile disappeared into the vertical shaft.

Quaddeck-

Flames shot out from the deep hole, exploding like a volcano. Moments later, a huge earthquake occurred and a space with a radius of over 15 kilometers collapsed into the ground.

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[Your Excellency the President. A huge artificial seismic wave has been detected at the coordinates presumed to be the ant base.]

“Artificial seismic waves? Nuclear?”

[It is estimated that a bomb of at least 120 Mt was detonated.]

“The punitive force···?”

It was clear that the Holy Kingdom had gone nuclear.

[Contact was lost after the report of entering the ant base.]

“······.”

Dan Brown’s face crumpled.

“Connect to the Holy Kingdom via emergency line.”

Ki-sun, who is in charge of diplomacy with the empire, received an emergency call.

[Yes? The Imperial punitive force lost contact? But why?]

So, what I’m saying is that Maru basically ‘nuclearized’ it.

What on earth could have happened that they just blew up the nukes without saying anything?

But still. Why do I have to hear about it through that old man?

Are you sick or something that requires you to tell me in advance and not use nuclear weapons?

‘Please turn on your blinkers.’

Ki-sun wanted to cry.