The blue sky hung low.
Yellow and gold starting to blend into it.
White clouds thick everywhere.
Moving faster than before.
Wind pushing them.
Inside the red mist—
Screams.
Explosions.
Dark shadows of xenomorph-like ants moving in different shapes.
Human-like hulking ants leading the rest.
The system spoke.
*"Great Sea Wall. Middle level fusion skill activated."*
A large amount of water rushed upward.
Spinning.
Turning into something close to a wall.
Massive.
Dense.
The giant royal guard ant stood before it.
Its mouth opened like a flower.
The system spoke again.
*"Middle level skill activated. Reigning Blast."*
A powerful blast of red and black energy tore through everything in its path.
The wind pushed by the force of it.
Reaching the wall of water.
A massive explosion followed.
The blast moving past it.
Finding the soldiers beyond.
Eating through them.
A dust cloud rose.
Many ants following through the opening.
Many soldiers found themselves on the ground after the explosion.
Some with swords still raised.
Some with shields still up.
Refusing to go down completely.
The system spoke again.
*"Abominable Mutation."*
The ant's scythe-like pincers opened.
Stretched.
Some parts becoming black oil.
Liquid.
Turning to whips.
The wind cracked with each movement.
Hands and heads flew through the air.
The whips more liquid blades than anything else.
Cutting through everything they touched.
The ants keeping their distance.
Using the reach of the whips to control the space between them and the soldiers.
Methodical.
Precise.
The dust cloud still rising.
The red mist still consuming.
The royal guard ants moving through all of it untouched.
Unbothered.
Advancing as the soldiers scrambled to regroup.
To find footing.
To find a way through something that kept finding new ways to kill them.
The yellow and gold in the sky deepened.
The white clouds moved faster still.
The wind pushing everything.
The mountain holding all of it.
The screaming continuing inside the red.