The Martial Unity

"Ants?" Kane raised an eyebrow. "Like, normal small ants? The type that are pretty easy to kill hopefully?"

"I'm afraid to disappoint you, but… these seem pretty non-standard," Rui murmured. "Come on, I found a pathway to it. We don't need to break through a bunch of tunnels this time."

The two of them quickly moved and followed a particular tunnel path that Rui guided him through before they eventually ran into an open wide space, yet it wasn't entirely unoccupied.

"Woah," Kane did a double take. "Is that… an anthill?!"

Even he could perceive the gigantic structure.

"It's an ant mountain, actually," Rui murmured as he sized up the gigantic structure. "It wouldn't be the first time a floor has contained a mountain-sized structure."

He recalled the sixteenth floor with the tree.

"So how many ants are there in the colony?" Kane gulped.

"Tens of thousands," Rui murmured. "On the low side as far as ant colonies go."

Rui could feel the various ants trickling in and out of the holes in the ant mountain, he could roughly gauge their number as he swept through them counting them in groups.

me we have to deal with tens of thousands of Squire-level monsters?"

be completely doomed since monsters outnumber Martial Artists immensely. Martial Art techniques are what make the battle fair. Monsters do not possess

effective applications of energy and power to produce superhuman results. This was why

strong as a grade-two Martial Squire," Rui explained. "On top of that, they're usually stupid as hell, and

single bite from them is ending you even if they are much

true," Rui nodded. "It is a nuanced matter, still, I'm pointing out a general trend. Regardless, I

the predator that hunted the Earthen Basilisk, which he evaluated to be on par with grade-ten Martial Squires due to its vastly greater physique. That was a monster

comparison, despite their numbers, he didn't feel

also has to do with how

action were so

predictive models, he was more interested in understanding how the colony

"I wonder if that's true

the science lessons," Kane scoffed. "Where is the

going on here. They don't ever leave the dungeon considering we haven't run into one before, nor have there been any

curiously observed what the ants

of the ants was on the ant mountain, working on the walls, seemingly gathering dirt from the floor while piling it on the walls

ants was gathering esoteric ore

were able to detect and mineral and organic ore

would scurry into the ant mountain deep into a complex array of tunnels,