I Became an Ant Lord, So I Built a Hive Full of Beauties-Chapter 406: Call to the Hall part One
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While walking Kai checked his new status window of Five star rank. Kai says, "System, show me my status window."
[Ding! System notifications:
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Name: Kai (Elite Warrior Ant)
Species: Monarch Devourer Ant
Titles: Humanoid Ant Monarch. Rulerβs Guardian. First Flame Father.
Titles effect: All ants below host level submit to him. All Rulerβs below host level submit to him. Bonded offspring growth +10% while within lair.
Level: 50 (βββββ)
Exp: 0000/1000
HP: 5000/5000
Aura: 5000/5000
Lifespan: 50+ years (+20 from new rank up)
Strength: 500
Speed: 500
Stamina: 500
Soul power: 500
Unallocated stats: 215
Ultimate Skill:
1. Essence Eater
Sub skills: Essence Overlord, Devourerβs Bite
2. Monarch Brand
3. Predator Roar (Active) Current unfocused radius: ~3 km (effect scales by target rank).
4. Crown of Wrath β First Crown (Passive/Toggle)
5. ??? (Locked/Unknown, βI will decide and add it later.β)
Subordinate Slots: 9/ 20
Silvershadow Rank 4β , Shadeclaw Rank 4β
Skyweaver Rank 4β , Vexor Rank 3β , Shale Rank 4β , Flint Rank 3β , Needle Rank 3β , Wolf: Rank 2β , Lirien 5β ,
Branding costs 400 Aura per target. Branded subject evolves into Ant-Hybrid form retaining original racial perks + colony synergy. Brand obeys Monarchβs direct commands, range limitless once bond stabilises.
Unique skill: Lusterβs Mark
1. Mia- impression points: 40 (Seven Star ant)
2. Luna- impression points:75 (Four star bunny)
3. Akayoroi- impression point: 60 (Four star ant)
4. IKEA - impression point: 20 (No star for now)
Inventory: Soul-Bonded Storage Cube (4x4x4)
Item: Many liters of star crystal liquid, Essence liquid 105 liters, meteoroid star iron many kgs, and a few tons of Beast meat. Two Nine star rank cores.
Skill Set: (Duration: 5 minutes without any cool down.)
Antenna Sensory Boost β Sensing enemies through vibration and pheromones.
Workerβs Resilience β Briefly buffing stamina at the expense of fatigue earned.
Tiny Tank β Hardening the exoskeleton for greater resilience.
Antβs Instinct β Enhanced resource finding but with a few bugs.
Reflex Mode β Movement speed increased; use at your own risk as it is unstable.
Adaptive Armor (Passive): Exoskeleton can adjust to reduce damage from different types of attacks.
Predatorβs Instinct (Passive): Enhances detection of threats and weaknesses in enemies.
Pain Resistance (Passive): 50%
Soul Core Mastery Effect Upgrade: βGlobal Mark Resonance (One-way): Host may open a soul channel to any subordinate marked by Monarchβs Mark or Lusterβs Mark, regardless of distance or plane. βAura Cost: 100 per 1000 km transmission. Cost scales linearly; no upper distance limit recorded. βChannel direction: Host β Subordinate only. Subordinates may reply only when the channel is open. (For Now, without their own soul power they canβt contact Kai)
Apex Form+ (Active) Enhanced apex manifestation. Increased height/mass; denser plates; reinforced mandible torque; forelimb power-up; dorsal aura vents for short-burst thrust and ground-shock. Cost: +20% more aura than Base Apex. Base Apex remains available (lower cost/impact, different silhouette).
Kin Egg Devourer (Chamber Rite) Authorize a devour-rite inside the sanctified egg chamber: embryos compete/absorb until only the strongest remain.
Survival rate: 1β10% (1% floor guaranteed if aura guidance is maintained).
Advantage: Survivors hatch at the same rank as the egg-layer, with heightened cohesion to the Monarch and accelerated first-march maturity.
Constraint: Chamber becomes dedicated to the rite for the full cycle; cannot pause once begun. Consort morale/ethics should be considered.
Aura Cost: -200 upon per use. ]
A few moments later...
They came behind because Kai asked, and because the way he asked said this was not a small talk.
He moved through the upper galleries with Miryam asleep in one arm and his spear on his back. Alka had set them down on the spine of the mountain and gone to roost two ledges below; Skyweaver and Azhara walked tight at Kaiβs flanks, both cut and dusty, both walking anyway.
Silvershadow shadowed them with his injured hand tucked against his ribs, face calm in the way that said pain could wait. Shadeclaw was already in the main hall when Kai arrived, head bent over a slate of running notes.
Flint, Shale, Needle, Vexor and Wolf took posts by habit without being told. Luna and Akayoroi stood together, Luna pale but steady, Akayoroiβs chin up. Naaro waited at the nursery threshold with her four ant-legs braced and her human eyes bright. Lirien, soot marking one cheek, slipped in near the back and folded her arms.
No one spoke first. The main hall held their breath with them.
Kai set Miryam gently on a warm pelt atop the low table beside him, tucked her cloak under her cheek, and let his hand rest on her hair for one slow count. She slept hard, lashes clumped from dried tears, dried blood still streaked along her temple where Alkaβs wash hadnβt reached. He lifted his hand and turned to the circle.
"Listen," he said.
They listened.
"In the east there is a man with a grin who calls himself vice general," Kai said. "His name is Mardek. He took Miryam with a net. He gave her drugged bread. He killed her friend in front of her to make her small. He sent a hundred to fetch me. I answered." He explained the rest.
Shifts moved around the room β fur, chitin, steel. Lunaβs fingers dug into the edge of the table and then eased when Kai glanced at her. Azharaβs mouth had no jokes left in it. Akayoroiβs eyes went sharp and then warm again, as if she had to remind herself that the child was breathing now. Shadeclawβs jaw ticked once. Silvershadow said nothing at all and didnβt blink.
Kai didnβt hold them there. He told it clean in ten sentences: the cage, the dagger, the first fall, the elite line, the crown that came when he roared, the cutting, the shell, the ten minutes the girls bought for him with knives and wings, Alkaβs carry, Mardekβs voice promising he would march by dawn, Skyweaverβs count of three more armies in the desert beyond him.
"Four troops," Shadeclaw said, low.
"Four," Kai agreed. "Mardekβs five hundred are the closest. He lost many tonight. Not enough. He will still reach us in five or six hours if he runs by night. The others will not be far behind."
