Life Mission Chapter 235:
Volume 9 / Chapter 235
TL: LightNovelCafe
Editor: Hungry Panda
Cha Jun Sung arrived at his destination and folded his wings .
He plummeted hundreds of meters to the ground, the ground cracked and a crater formed . It was an impactful entrance .
He is on a large mountain between several small cities .
The mountain is surrounded by the small cities, so it is a location in which it is naturally easy to get surrounded .
Is this why he was being watched by the mutants?
“I’m here . ”
A level 8 roar that could not be the result of a living organism’s vocal chords, resounding like several loud speakers combined, swept through the cities and mountain .
Mutants experienced a phenomenon of mental decay and stopped what they were doing, trembling in fear .
There are no level 7s nearby . The strongest mutant is level 6 .
An unimaginable gap .
They all looked up .
The Bomb Ants detected the arrival of a top predator and dug deep into their caves, hiding without any movement .
Cha Jun Sung’s body grows smaller .
He became the size of his body when he is a human . He is going to go into the ant hill .
He can’t go in with his normal form because the hole is small .
Cha Jun Sung roared again . He did it inside the ant hill this time, so the effect was amplified and spread to all corners .
The terrain is complicated .
The scale of the cave is impressive . There must be hundreds or even thousands of rooms . It is fitting for the habits of ants .
When Cha Jun Sung went around the ant hill freely, the Bomb Ants began to weakly express their hostility . They seem like they might attack at any moment .
“Queen, Queen Bomb Ant . ”
Cha Jun Sung passes food warehouses and hatcheries where they breed disgusting larva and newborn Bomb Ants .
The places are repeated, so he is getting confused as to whether he has already been somewhere or not . He didn’t care however, because it was fairly interesting .
He kept searching, and half a day passed after he entered the cave . There are still a lot of places he needs to look, but he is getting used to it .
“Huh?”
Bang!
He didn’t have a chance to even react . A Bomb Ant approached him on the wall, stuck to Cha Jun Sung’s back, and exploded . The gunpowder is different . It is smoky and smells **** . The smell of ammonia is accompanied by a shockwave, and a sharply fragmented hard shell and bones fly as debris .
That was the beginning .
Bang bang bang!
One time is hard, two is easy . The Bomb Ants saw their comrade’s intense self-destruction, and jumped in one after the other . It was just like bombing .
Cha Jun Sung inflated his coat thickly in the midst of the exploding ant hill . The Bomb Ants’ explosive power is pounding on his entire body .
‘Pretty good . ’
There was no big hit . But there is a reaction from his coat when this is repeated hundreds of times .
Each Bomb Ant’s ability is barely middle level 3 . Their self-destruction and distinctive characteristic of swarming together makes them level 4 .
“They block it desperately . Always making it so obvious . ”
Cha Jun Sung didn’t get overwhelmed by the explosions, and went forward . If they need to fight, even lower levels will attack an upper level . The Queen must be nearby . He is sure that they are sacrificing themselves and self-destructing in order to protect their precious Queen .
“I can’t… see . ”
Boom boom boom!
Cha Jun Sung’s tail goes up like a snake . Then it became sharp like a needle and penetrated the Bomb Ants jumping at him .
They became skewered on the tail .
His tail went back down and Bomb Ants littered the floor .
Immediate death without the chance for them to explode . He killed a fair number, but that many more showed up .
The hole in the cave grows larger .
As that happens, the attacks lessen .
How much have they dug in?
A public space as large as a gym appears . At the center, there is the Queen Bomb Ant the size of a house, with dozens of level 5 Bomb Ants . They are all looking at the same thing . Cha Jun Sung .
“It feels like I’m facing a few apartment buildings . ”
The public space must be connected to every path in the cave, because there are hundreds of holes . Bomb Ants pour out of them .
“Follow me . You’ll have to take a big sacrifice, but I’ll help you revive your tribe . You could take over this entire area . ”
He is speaking in human language, but he didn’t attempt a conversation . They will know by instinct why he has come into the ant hull .
The Queen makes a movement toward Cha Jun Sung . It translates to, ‘Everyone attack . ’
Thousands of Bomb Ants jump out of the holes in the wall . They overlap with each other, making it look like a wave .
“The Queen lays the eggs, right?”
He doesn’t know whether she is a hermaphrodite or if she mates .
He will kill everything that comes at him .
He’ll let the Queen and the few level 5s live .
Bomb Ants have a high reproduction rate and speed, so one can become a hundred within a day as long as there are no obstacles in the vicinity .
If they confirm his strength with their eyes rather than their instinct, they will know . There’s no need for him to make the effort to explain .
***
The battle ended in less than an hour . Of course, Cha Jun Sung is the winner .
The Queen didn’t declare her surrender until Bombs Ants were no longer jumping out of the walls and the only troops she had were in the public space .
Cha Jun Sung had counted the Bombs Ants while he was fighting them . Actually, Odin did it for him .
Since it was through artificial intelligence, it calculated the number of Bomb Ants that Cha Jun Sung killed with a margin of error at a little over 10,000 .
This is less than they had expected, but this is understandable when considering the other mutants surrounding the mountain that keep the Bomb Ants in check .
As the Bomb Ants are living organisms, they need to eat in order to survive . They need to go out and hunt regardless of the knowledge that the environment is disadvantageous to them .
The mutants maintained balance by killing the Bomb Ants that come out to hunt . That is why the Bomb Ants kept dying and being born . The cycle of the ecosystem made it impossible for them to expand their power .
“Odin . Where’s the closest city?”
[There is a small city 4km west of this place . ]
He is going to flip a nearby city and provide the Bomb Ants with food . Once their numbers increase, he will direct their attention elsewhere .
They need to take over nearby areas in order to take on Tyrant and the Rage guild .
“I’m a farmer! I need to lay the seeds if I want to harvest . Alright . Shall we go scatter the seeds?”
Cha Jun Sung leaves the ant hill .
***
Cha Jun Sung arrives in a small city with an estimated population of 50,000 to 60,000 . But that doesn’t mean that many mutants are living here .
He doesn’t know what the laws are .
Their law is disorder . They dislike area overlap since birth, so the land and population are inversely proportional .
There are just a couple thousand mutants living in the small city .
Of the cities near the mountain, this is considered one of the lower ranks .
Cha Jun Sung swept the outside first . He attacked the vital spots . He wrapped up dozens of the corpses with his tail and took them back to the ant hill .
He did this multiple times and delivered his simple message to the Queen . She understood because she has basic intellect as a level 6 .
After that, hundreds of Bomb Ants followed Cha Jun Sung around .
Battles were left to Cha Jun Sung . The Bomb Ants watched and then moved the corpses back to the ant hill .
They are porters, not soldiers .
There was no damage and the acquirement of food went smoothly, so their numbers increased quickly . After a month, they recovered from the damage that Cha Jun Sung incurred .
The small cities that he used as hunting grounds became ghost towns where nothing was living, whether they be humans or mutants .
Nearby cities disappeared one by one .
As that happened, the Bomb Ants grew stronger .
When they swallowed the 4th city, their numbers exceeded 50,000 .
“No more . We can’t go beyond this . ”
Queen Bomb Ant speaks to Cha Jun Sung .
Cha Jun Sung rejected her, saying he wants more mutants and he wants a stronger power .
A 50,000 head count is difficult even for mutants living in groups .
Checks start to come in if the number grows too high .
Queen Bomb Ant succeeded in populating the local area without much difficulty thanks to Cha Jun Sung . That is why their ambitions aligned .
She wanted to have a larger territory than she had now .
But Cha Jun Sung knows .
There is no end to greed . It is a definite that there is no end to giving aid .
‘The bigger problem is that she’s resisting my dominion . ’
The Queen Bomb Ant was forgetting how she gained such power and was starting to get arrogant .
If she becomes more confident, she might rebel .
So he’s against helping them obtain more power .
Pressure from an upper level to a lower level, from a predator to prey for dominance isn’t like brainwashing . It is making them surrender by force .
[I’m stronger than you, so obey me . If you don’t, I’ll kill you . ]
There is only one result if the prey surpasses or challenges the predator in dissatisfaction with its own strength or influence .
‘She’ll probably use the power she created with my help against me . ’
No chance .
Why did he raise the Bomb Ants? He didn’t do it for someone else’s benefit . He did it for himself . He can’t leave the situation to lose control .
Cha Jun Sung ignored the Queen Bomb Ant .
He wanted to just kill her, but all of his efforts would become for nought .
Cha Jun Sung became dominant over Queen Bomb Ant with force, but Queen Bomb Ant was born a queen . She has the support of the Bomb Ants .
If their pillar dies, their social structure will be destroyed . That is why he can’t just kill her because he wants to .
‘Cunning **** . ’
She is watching his psychological state .
She is testing his patience and seeing how much she can go against him and how much he will forgive .
It has only been a month since they met, but the Queen Bomb Ant has developed . She is evolving little by little . The force she rules has gone from 10,000 to 50,000 .
There has been mental growth in maintaining an expanding military force .
Odin said that the phenomenon seems to be that her mental capacity is growing as she gains responsibilities . It hasn’t been proven scientifically .
They do not know exactly how mutants evolve . But they do know one thing . A high level mutant develops as the number of mutants they dominate increases .
‘I’ll have to kill her once this is over . ’
He wouldn’t have taken away everything they achieved if she had been decent, but she tests him too much . She’s one to stab him in the back .