I Became an Ant Lord, So I Built a Hive Full of Beauties
Chapter 258: Toad Daddy Vs Ant Monarch

Chapter 258: 258: Toad Daddy Vs Ant Monarch

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"There are more outside the tunnel," he said grimly. "I can feel at least a thousand frogs. Four-star. Five-star. Maybe more. They’re closing in."

Akayoroi’s eyes flickered with heat. "You plan to fight them all?"

"No," Kai said. "Just the Toad father or whatever. The rest won’t matter once he falls. We will get an opportunity to leave."

As if sensing the threat in those words, the Toadfather bellowed.

BBBBRROOOAAAKKK!!!

The stones shook. The poisoned mist thickened to near liquid state, curdling with acidic spores. Dozens of frogs started croaking the same phrase again, over and over.

"Toad Daddy Toad Daddy Toad Daddy—"

Kai closed his eyes. He could hear them. Smell them. Feel their presence like a swamp pressing against his skull.

He inhaled once, deep and slow. "System," he whispered in his thoughts. "Apex mode. Now."

[System Notification: Confirmed. Activating Apex Transformation.

Initializing Morph: Predator Form – Apex Type.]

The change hit like lightning through his bones.

His skin shimmered, then cracked open in glowing fissures. Red chitin swept across his arms and chest like flesh armor forged in the void. Glowing red veins pulsed beneath the surface. A secondary pair of spectral legs erupted from his back and his tail lined with red streaks like aura lightning.

His eyes glowed molten. His antennae came out and extended, vibrating with sonic force.

His jaw sharpened. His hands became claws. The ant monarch had arrived. The frogs stopped chanting. Even the Toadfather blinked.

Kai cracked his neck. "Alright. Let’s end this disgusting opera." And he stepped forward into war.

"With Toad Daddy’s help I will carve your lungs," Kroak’thul hissed, "and serve them with fermented swamp wine."

Kai sighed. "I miss when my enemies used words that didn’t smell."

Kroak’thul raised his arms. "You will kneel. You will beg. You will apologize to every one of my prince’s thirty licking wives!"

Kai blinked slowly. "Dont you know anything else? Same disgusting dialogue again and again.."

Toad Daddy slapped his tongue against his chest. "SILENCE! You dare mock us?!"

Kai glanced at Akayoroi, then at the girls rushing, "We have no time. Let’s finish it."

"Toad Daddy," he said, stepping forward, "I don’t care how royal your slime is. You’re not leaving this tunnel alive."

Toad Daddy bellowed. His tongue flailed like a cursed skipping rope.

Kroak’thul disappeared in a blink. The battle had begun. Kai has already activated Apex Form.

Aura flared around him in molten red waves.

"Toad Daddy Slam!" the fat general roared, leaping higher than should be legal for his body mass.

Kai vanished just as the giant frog landed, shaking the entire tunnel. A crater formed. Eggs wobbled in the egg chamber.

Kroak’thul reappeared behind Kai, slashing upward.

Kai twisted his arms, locking the blade in place, elbow slamming into the frog’s face.

Toad Daddy belched a wave of toxic mist.

Kai skidded across the floor, coughing, his Aura Shell flaring in defense.

"I’m gonna puke," he muttered, staggering upright.

"You will die," Kroak’thul hissed, "with tongue in your ears and regret in your heart."

Kai snapped back, "I’d rather die than be serenaded by frog erotica."

He struck. His punch cracked Kroak’thul’s jaw. The frog’s left eye bulged like a broken melon.

Toad Daddy retaliated with a sweeping slap. The air behind him warped from the impact.

Kai rolled across the stone floor, shoulder plates scraping against the moss-coated rock as Toad Daddy’s slap just missed him by a frog hair. The impact shook the entire tunnel, knocking several mushrooms off the walls and crushing a hapless frog soldier who was trying to crawl away. The injured frog was flattened like a pancake and immediately croaked out, "Ribbit... I regret being born."

Kai snarled. "You should."

Behind him, the fog roared like a boiling kettle as the Toad Daddy reared his grotesque head again. Chunks of acidic mucus slid off his swollen chin and splattered on the floor, sizzling holes through solid stone. A miasma of corruption radiated from his bloated body, making the air feel like it was made of swampy soup and bad decisions.

On the other side of the chamber, the girls moved with furious speed.

Vel shouted, "Naaro, take the western path. It links to the hatchery chamber through the underside."

Naaro dashed forward like a streak of grey. "On it!"

Sha and Azhara barreled toward the egg chambers. Azhara was already stuffing eggs into a silk-wrapped satchel she conjured from her chest. "These babies are ours now!"

Sha muttered, "If one of these eggs got damaged, I swear I’m killing all the frogs."

Back in the battlefield, Kroak’thul leapt again, tongue flailing like a vengeful eel. He aimed for Kai’s ankle this time, clearly done with talking.

Kai stomped the ground.

BOOM.

The floor cracked. A shockwave burst outward, blowing back three nearby frogs like bowling pins struck by a truck. Kroak’thul’s tongue snapped like a whip and bounced off Kai’s Aura Shell.

[System Notification: EXP +40. Target Defeated: Four-Star Frogkin.]

[EXP +40. Target Defeated: Four-Star Frogkin]

[EXP +40. Target Defeated: Four-Star Frogkin]

Kai spun in place, grabbing the next frog by its throat and hurling it directly into the path of Toad Daddy’s incoming slap.

SPLAT.

The frog exploded like a balloon full of green soup. Toad Daddy blinked slowly. "You used my hand... to kill my own soldier?"

Kai shrugged. "Hey, didn’t you just kill many with your attack? Why are you acting like you care now?’

Toad Daddy howled and slammed both fists onto the floor. Acidic energy flooded the chamber. "I sacrifice them. But you killed them."

"You are an idiot." Then Kai whispered, "Let’s use Predator Instinct to find a path."

A moment later, a glowing trail marked the safest escape path through the surge. He leapt straight up, used the ceiling as a springboard, and kicked off it toward Toad Daddy’s face.

"Here comes the Monarch’s Kiss!" He delivered a spin-kick directly to the toad’s massive nose.

BOOM.

The general stumbled, roaring in pain, one nostril flaring like a burst chimney.