The King of Beast Trainers
Chapter 345 - 196: Strike at the Heart!!_2

Chapter 345: Chapter 196: Strike at the Heart!!_2

Pointing to the sky where stars were visible, he said, "Fly high, then tuck in your wings and jump down."

"Find a height that’s enough to cause serious injury. I refuse to believe you won’t get hurt jumping from over ten thousand meters."

"Roar?" The King of Sudden Death staggered, his large eyes filled with confusion.

He looked at Lu Ran with the same gaze one would give a devil.

Does it really need to be this extreme?

"There’s another method. You compress thirty times the thunder and lightning energy onto yourself, I’ll light a fire, let yourself explode with a thunder flame explosion and sustain injuries. Choose one."

Lu Ran didn’t believe it—want to get injured? There were plenty of ways for that.

The King of Sudden Death fell into deep thought.

......

Some time later.

Prepared and rested, Lu Ran finally set foot on Uvillas Island.

[Teleportation complete.]

[Current location: Uvillas Island (Secondary Secret Realm)]

[Difficulty: Legendary]

[Challenge mission: Assassinate the Ant Queen.]

Lu Ran, Mr. Husky, King of Sudden Death, and Dark Crow had just been teleported and were not directly in front of the Ant Queen.

Seeing this, a weight lifted off Lu Ran’s heart.

As the core of an Ant Kingdom, the Ant Queen would definitely be heavily guarded by soldiers.

In most secondary legendary secret realms, there’s only one Lower Overlord Boss. Yet, in this realm, there are thousands of ant minions. How the hell are you supposed to fight that?

Even with a Middle-Level Overlord Beast, it’s certainly tough to face a well-trained ant army and succeed in defeating the Ant Queen amidst them.

But having been teleported to the edge of the island, on a stretch of beach, Lu Ran came to a realization.

Slowly fighting to the very heart of the Ant Kingdom to challenge the Ant Queen would be the most foolish approach.

Even the King of Sudden Death might not be a match for the Ant Devil Creature formed by countless soldier ants.

If legion techniques couldn’t challenge higher levels, what good were they?

To conquer this secret realm, the optimal solution seemed to be to take them out one by one. Without seeking out the Ant Queen’s trouble, first deal with the enormous number of weak ants before they combine.

By the time the Ant Queen responds, she won’t have many forces left.

Otherwise, it would mean finding the exact location of the Ant Queen, sneak in stealthily, and before the ant swarm and Ant Queen can react, assassinate the Ant Queen in one fell swoop.

In any case, one must not allow the Ant Queen the chance to command her swarm. Otherwise, the difficulty of the secret realm would be too exaggerated.

Upon entering, Lu Ran said, "Dark Crow, first use the Eye of the Evil God to scout the situation on Uvillas Island. See where the Ant Queen and the ant race’s main forces are located."

"Caw!" Dark Crow nodded.

He began to scout the island’s situation through the Eye of the Evil God.

Soon, the Eye of the Evil God opened at various locations on the island. Dark Crow hadn’t realized until now, but after a look, he gulped, finding that there were no other life forms left on the island. Almost only the giant black ants were crawling everywhere, searching for the scarce plant resources to use as food.

If nothing unexpected happened, these ants would soon turn their attention to the sea and begin hunting fish.

Next, his Eye of the Evil God started to scout even deeper, uncovering an independent kingdom beneath the island’s surface—this was the stronghold of the Uvillas Ants.

When these eyes opened underground, Dark Crow felt even more uneasy, because there were even more ants below the ground, forming an almost pitch-black mass, more outrageous than the Crow Swarm he commanded. These ants were busily building and expanding their nest in an orderly fashion, clearly organized. Fortunately, these ordinary ants were all of the extraordinary race and were not of a high level. However, the sheer number of them was overwhelming. Dark Crow could estimate there were definitely tens of thousands with just a cursory glance.

And that was just one location.

If all the ants on the island were counted together, their number would undoubtedly be impossible to estimate.

"Caw..." At the island’s edge, Dark Crow continued to cautiously peer deeper. The Eye of the Evil God finally reached the innermost part of the ant nest.

Dark Crow’s eyes opened at the top of the nest, looking downward, he saw a terrifyingly large ant, as big as a dragon or elephant, sleeping amidst a pile of food.

The powerful fluctuations it emitted made Dark Crow feel that it wasn’t as strong as the King of Sudden Death but was far stronger than both himself and Mr. Husky.

Having confirmed the queen ant’s exact location, Dark Crow began to survey the surroundings and noticed that the queen was indeed protected by layers. The number and quality of ants around her were particularly high.

"My lord," a trickle of blood slid down from Dark Crow’s eye socket as its red pupils turned toward Lu Ran. Lu Ran was treating it as Dark Crow reported the findings of its scouting.

"That many?" Lu Ran was taken aback. Originally, he thought that a few thousand would be about right, but if the entire island was covered in ants, that was an unbelievable level of proliferation.

Moreover, the underground ant colony was so dense. To clear them out one by one would take an eternity. However, the only piece of good news was that the queen was currently asleep, which should reduce her sensory awareness.

Lu Ran looked at Dark Crow, grateful that he had made a contract with the third creature, Dark Crow. Otherwise, finding the queen ant’s exact location would not have been easy.

Without the exact location of the queen ant, conquering this Secret Realm would definitely waste a lot of effort.

"My lord, what should we do?" Dark Crow asked.

"The number of enemies exceeds our expectations. Trying to clear out a part of them first is too strenuous and, during the process, there’s a huge possibility of being discovered. Let’s try if we can directly assassinate the queen ant," Lu Ran sighed.

"But..." Dark Crow was about to say that the location of the queen ant was complicated and guarded by a horde of subordinates. Sneaking in there would be as hard as climbing to heaven without the Space Attribute. But it quickly focused, giving a sharp look towards the King of Sudden Death.

It felt that Lu Ran’s method of assassination was different from traditional methods.

King of Sudden Death: ???

"That’s right, our biggest advantage compared to other challengers is that we’ve located the queen ant without their awareness."

"Before our first attack, the other worker ants and the queen herself are very unlikely to detect us."

"King of Sudden Death, do you remember the ’preparation process’ during the training in the Training Secret Realm just now?"

Lu Ran looked up at the sky and said, "Later, we will fly directly above where the queen ant is located and carry out an aerial attack! King of Sudden Death, you will jump from the utmost height and shape yourself into a thunderbolt. We will strike at the heart, and see if we can penetrate the earth and kill the queen directly!"

"Physical strength is also a form of destructive power."

"Let’s try this tactic first. If it doesn’t work, we’ll switch to another."

"Woof!" "Caw!" Both Mr. Husky and Dark Crow’s eyes lit up. Brilliant, Dark Crow’s lockdown plus Thunder Dragon Missile would definitely be enough to give the queen ant a hard time.

Mr. Husky’s paw and Dark Crow’s wings both patted the Thunder Dragon General. There was no helping it; who told you to be so strong?