The Queen's Death

I kept approaching the big ant, but it wouldn't budge from its place next to the queen.

Once I got close enough, I jumped with all the force my legs could gather and ended up on the ant's head.

It felt me land and tried to make the queen get me off of him, but the queen didn't even react to its request.

"Poor guy, you just need to try a little harder, and so do I." I jumped down onto the back of the ant then grabbed a spike perpendicular to its head, and started pushing.

I pushed as hard as I could but my feet kept slipping so I propped myself on another spike, this one on its back, that would more easily allow me to twist its head.

Again, I started pushing, this time his head began to spin and the screeching intensified since even a little rotation from its head is abnormal.

"Let me help you with your neck pain!"

While I was slowly decapitating its subordinate, the queen just sat there, laying eggs.

"Such a loose hole, it can't even stop laying them. Am I even allowed to say that? Well, it wanted to eat me... But I wanted to kill them first... Am I actually the bad guy? Meh, what does it matter now?"

I kept pushing, and each second, the ant's head kept rotating and the screeching started to die down, but I didn't stop, and soon enough, a sort of click was heard and the ant's head fell to the ground, the body following shortly after.

"Still no soul... Are all your minions soulless? Well, that would mean that at least you have one, right?" I jumped down to the ant's jaw and its giant mandibles looked pretty sturdy so I changed out my armor.

"Are you reeeaadyy!? Here I come!" I began sprinting toward the queen while it kept pumping out eggs, seemingly unbothered by my attack.

"Hmm... This won't work out, you are supposed to get up so we can fight, not caring about broken eggs, otherwise, how can I spin this around to me being the good guy?"

The queen didn't respond.

"Come on, please! Please let me take your soul! Maybe it's blind, or am I too far?"

I again started walking towards it, and when I passed a threshold she jumped up and started running at me.

"I was right! Now how can I defeat her?" I didn't have time to think of a plan as the ant was already right on top of me, getting ready to impale me with its mandibles.

"I don't doubt you can eat me whole, but we should get to know each other first."

Crouching and dashing to the right, I could see a clunky movement in its mandible, it was slower than the other one.

'Noted.' I tried to jump on top of her but it moved out of the way and I ended up back on the ground. 'Truly agile.'

It again dashed toward me, and I tried doing the same thing, but this time, when I was under its mandible, it dropped its head. I couldn't dodge in time so I was trapped under its head with a stray spike impaled in my leg.

'How does it even know where I am? This thing is blind.' With my hands and my good leg, I started lifting the queen's head, and eventually, I managed to escape.

After getting away from it, making sure to be as silent as possible, the queen again turned to me, knowing exactly where I am.

'So it's not sound... Maybe magic... or just maybe..." I turned my head to the ants left in the room, there were about thirty and they were dispersed as to cover every part of this place. Previously I thought they were just standing around or something, only now did I realize.

I started sprinting to the closest one and the queen tried to follow but its pouch was too full of eggs to get any significant speed. Even with my useless leg, it couldn't stop me from taking away its only way to see.

One after another I systematically butchered each and every ant, and after a short while, we were the only ones in the room. I again tried to jump on top of it, but again it dodged and went in for an attack. This time I actually dodged it but it was close.

'What did I miss!? Why can it still see?... Unless, can it see through my eyes? This is a long shot but it might be worth taking the risks.'

So I closed my eyes, but strangely enough, I could still see, only then did I remember I now had four. So after closing my other set of eyes, I started running to the queen.

I could hear her screeching at the fact she couldn't see, desperately calling out for her underlings, but no one would respond.

Once I got close enough, I jumped to where I thought the queen was and this time managed to land on its back, being scratched by its spikes, but nothing debilitating.

First, I tried doing the same thing I did with the second big ant, twisting its head off, but the queen was too rigid, when I did that the queen felt me and tried to get me off, but as it couldn't reach me, its efforts were in vain.

'Hmm... Maybe this thing also has the weak spot? But if it decides it wants to sit, I will surely be crushed by the weight... But I have to try it.'

I slid off of the ant onto its legs, and when I reached the same height as the spot, I jumped, flying right under it.

Using a spike made of the horn material, I stabbed its soft spot, it was harder than even the armored ants shell but the spike managed to penetrate it.

Once it was in, the spike split off at the end so I could hold myself. With another spike, I jammed it in the same hole so I could make it larger. I wasn't planning on going into the ant, but if it goes down...

"Oh, you must be kidding me!" As soon as I thought my victory is close, the ant dropped to the ground.

I could feel my body dropping rapidly so I had to open my eyes.

I was about ten meters off the ground, and at the speed we were dropping I would be there in a second.

As my legs were going to be smashed in first, I reinforced my knees and bones with the ant armor. I did the same to my spine, since I was never injured there, I didn't know how long it would need to heal.

Then, a moment later, I reached the ground, my legs were strong enough to almost completely stop the momentum but I was pushed down on my ass.

My arms that were still stuck in the queen were being stripped of their flesh as they were pushed deeper inside.

"Shit! Shit! Shit! Agggh!" I pushed back with all my strength and in a split second I made a kind of stopper so my hands won't slide deeper in, then I tried standing up.

I managed to push it up a little and used the chance to slide my leg under me, then, using the leverage, I managed to lift it even higher, and soon enough, I was again standing.

'This is great, but how can I get out of here?...' I remembered something, when I fought the giant centipede I made a saw to cut it more easily. 'What if I do that again... but better!'

I morphed the stopper into a saw without disrupting its functionality, now, a row of teeth were pressed against the side of the hole.

"Are you ready? Hup...!" I threw the queen up and using the saw I cut a small line before it came down. Once it landed on me, I tried holding it up but I was pushed to my knees, I pushed the ant up then again. This time I was only put down into a squat, and using the momentum I pushed back and managed to cut even more.

My arms were almost at maximum reach so I brought my right arm back to the center then pushed the ant up again, only using my left arm to cut. With another push, I felt that I cut something inside.

The queen made the most horrible screech I ever heard then jumped on its legs before dropping again.

I managed to absorb the impact better than before but I was still put on my knees. The ant jumped to its legs again then dropped down.

"So this is how you want to play, huh?! I can do this too!"

Once it started getting up, I began sawing away at its shell, with each moment, more and more of its shell was getting cut, and the closer I was to the side.

"It's about time we end this, isn't it?"

My cutting about reached its side so I changed my position, now standing upside down, hanging from a spike, cutting away.

'This fight is so boring... Hmmm!' The ant fell on its side, the side I was on...

*THUD*