Cleanup X Wrapping Up

There was absolutely no suspense...

There was not even a struggle.

In the blink of an eye, Oboro's figure landed in mid-air beside Kourudo.

Behind him, winged ants fell to the ground, their corpses splattering with blood.

The fallen soul vanished into the air along with the black mist.

Gazing at the ant nests rising from the ground through the gaps in the tree canopy in the distance, he smiled.

Ta Bu slowly towards it.

Meanwhile, inside the ant nest.

The division Squadron Leader, who held opposing views to Kourudo and were preparing to leave their territory to carve out a niche for themselves in the human world, had gathered together, each explaining their plans. They were selecting territories from the outside world, such as the entire Mitene Union ... who would go to which country, and who planned to establish their own dynasty there, to avoid everyone crowding into one corner and causing conflict. Some Squadron Leader also wanted to form alliances; for example, Haggya the Lion extended an invitation to Cheetu the Leopard to help him build his power... however, the latter refused.

Cheetu didn't have such grand ambitions; he preferred the freedom of being alone to being with everyone else...

Haggya didn't care about this.

In reality, these Squadron Leader were already unlikely to cooperate, and they were only working together to serve the queen ant.

Now that the Queen is dead, there are naturally no more constraints.

So far, their understanding of the human world is limited to the NGL and the Mitene Union, thanks in large part to Peggy's continuous search for books and information on the human side.

"In that case... I'll be going now..."

"I hope you'll all still be alive when I see you again... Humans may be weak, but there are still some special Nen user. Be careful... don't get caught!" Haggya the lion, leading his two squad leaders, was the first to leave, giving the other ants a confident smile.

He firmly believed he could succeed.

"Hehe..."

Scorpion Zazan let out a cold laugh, "You'd better worry about yourself..."

As she spoke, she put her hands on her hips and strode gracefully toward another passageway leading out of the anthill.

Seeing this, the other division Squadron Leader also prepared to leave.

Apart from a few troublemakers like Haggya and Zazan, the remaining Squadron Leader who were leaving were relatively less rebellious... They simply realized that staying here was meaningless, and also wanted to follow the awakened human memories to find traces of their past lives.

For example, the Meleoron.

The ants scattered like birds.

Suddenly, in the next second, all the Squadron Leader changed drastically, and they all looked in one direction.

They stopped walking.

Meanwhile, in another cave, several Squadron Leader who were tending to the Queen trembled and turned around in astonishment...

Because an indescribable aura drifted in from outside the anthill through the cave.

The enemy is coming! The thought flashed through the minds of all the Squadron Leader.

Unparalleled power! It's... a human! "This aura... it's him!"

The red panda standing next to Peggy was horrified and fell silent.

"The man who killed Neferpitou!"

Outside the ant nest, Long unleashed Ghost Mist, causing countless souls to scatter and steal the souls of all the ants that were attacking him.

His ability is so convenient!

Without the fog obscuring the view, one could clearly see that ant colonies were continuously emerging from the exposed holes of the anthill, swarming out in droves, searching for the sudden intruder. However, because the fog was so thick and widespread, the ants were disoriented and couldn't find the fog's location at all.

Furthermore, if attacked by a ghost, one will die suddenly.

This made it easy for Oboro to enter the anthill.

No ants could get close to him...

Oboro used the technique of recitation, round.

Furthermore, his 'circle,' accompanied by a gentle mist, swept through every cave and underground space in the nest, seemingly penetrating every nook and cranny.

No matter how complex the anthill's structure was, under his control, the mist and souls were like tentacles that could extend into it... causing this map to light up in Oboro's mind, leaving no ant nowhere to hide.

"Huh? Trying to run away?"

Not long after entering the ant nest, Long stopped and looked up at the stone wall above.

Immediately, his figure transformed into a streak of Inazuma, speeding along the chaotic, maze-like passageway in pursuit.

Over there, the lion Haggya, accompanied by two captains, was running for his life in the cave.

"It's him? How could he be here? Wasn't this human severely injured by Neferpitou and left long ago?"

The scenery on both sides rushed past behind him as the three ants moved at their speed, and Haggya asked in great alarm.

If they could kill that Neferpitou, they could certainly take down these little minions! "Who knows..." Dragonfly Flutter also looked puzzled.

At this moment, all the ants in the cave received the instructions conveyed by the queen ant.

Gather all the ants, including the Squadron Leader.

Together we will resist the invading enemy.

However, at this critical juncture, who would be willing to carry out the queen's orders? Haggya and the others could already hear the queen's dying voice...

The only way to survive is to escape! There are so many ants, the man might not be able to kill them all... As long as they can avoid being killed, they can escape death.

Maybe those three were just blessed by luck...

Haggya, clinging to a sliver of hope, was thinking... when suddenly, its thick fur stood on end—a stress response unique to felines. Maintaining its astonishing speed, its lower body sank, its feet sinking into the mud, sliding a considerable distance, its paws digging into the wall to barely bring it to a stop.

It's trembling...

His facial features and expression were distorted... It was extremely terrifying.

Because footsteps came from directly ahead.

Along with it came black clouds and mist...

The passage was completely silent, but the footsteps of the newcomer sounded like hammer blows, each step striking the hearts of the three ants.

A moment later, they saw a figure walking towards them, one hand on the wall, stroking the gravel on the wall as he walked.

Haggya wanted to turn back... but it didn't dare.

"Where are you rushing off to in such a hurry?"

Oboro emerged from the darkness, looked at the three ants, and smiled slightly.

"How did he find this place?!"

Haggya was stunned.

The alarm had just sounded! The paths inside the anthill were intricate and the interior space was enormous... Why? Why so fast? Couldn't any ants have stopped him or hindered him? "I know where the queen ant is, I can take you there!" The lion suddenly spoke up, a sudden idea in his mind.

It... betrayed us!

"Um... no need."

But the man shook his head.

Suddenly, Haggya grabbed with both hands, lifted up his two unresponsive subordinates—the two squad leaders—and hurled them at Oboro like sandbags! Flutter and Hirin hadn't expected that, in this life-or-death moment, Haggya would choose to sacrifice them.

After throwing the squad leader away, Haggya didn't even look back and suddenly turned around and ran back the way it came! However, it had only run a dozen meters when the man who should have been behind it appeared in front of it like a ghost and walked past it as if he were strolling by... Even more unbelievable is that when it ran away, it didn't notice at all that its body had been cut in two, severed at the waist.

This caused Haggya's upper and lower body to become misaligned... Only half of its body remained suspended in the air, maintaining its charging posture.

"Too fast... How can humans be so powerful... at this level..."

It was only a second later that Haggya smelled the bloody scent floating in the air, and it realized... the blood smell wasn't just from Flutter and Hirin, but also from itself.

It's dead...

Realized it too late.

The lion's golden pupils trembled.

Immediately afterwards, the wreckage landed, and I watched as Long walked away.

In less than half a minute, Oboro found several more Squadron Leader in succession; these ants were his main targets.

Not a single one can escape.

The Neferpitou gave him more than just armor and magic power; those two points of armor seemed to have caused some changes in his body... causing his stagnant flesh and blood vitality to show signs of a bottleneck and cracks appearing. The only thing Long could think of was that since armor is related to physical defense, and defensive attributes are indeed related to flesh and blood, as the physical body becomes more robust, naturally, the body will also undergo some transformation.

Although it's not that significant... but maybe he can use this to break through from the third-tier superhuman rating to the fourth tier.

Of course, this is just his guess.

The system did not provide an answer.

In addition... Neferpitou not only has a soul, but she also lost her black mist.

Oboro's current area-of-effect attack has exceeded 100 meters... but the effect of the black mist is not as visually striking as that of the armor.

After all, what he had been developing was Thresh's Nen.

Due to limited energy, Senna's passive skill has been shelved and not studied.

Its effectiveness is naturally less.

"Aaaaaah!"

Inside a cave, the beautiful division Squadron Leader, Scorpion Zazan, retreated continuously, eventually being cornered by Oboro.

This cave has no other passages connected to it, only this one.

The former, in his panic, chose a path that led to his own burial.

However, given the inherent ferocity of Chimera Ant, even knowing they are going to die, they would never accept their fate.

Zazan stared at the smiling man, let out a roar, and severed his own tail, causing his body to change and even his voice to transform from a woman's to a deep, beastly growl. His writhing, swollen form exuded a violent and intimidating aura.

The burst of spiritual energy was even more astonishing.

"Not bad..."

Long chuckled and commented.

Among the Squadron Leader, Zazan was considered to be of a higher rank.

Its main strength lies in its physical abilities; after all, in the original work, even Feitan had difficulty inflicting damage on it... In the end, it had no choice but to unleash its Nen.

Bang! Just as he finished praising her, Long pulled one of his arms out of his pocket and swung it around.

Then, Zazan's left side of his body was crushed as if by an armored vehicle, his skeleton and flesh instantly shattered, and his massive body crashed into the wall of the cave, exploding into a mass of blood and flesh. The immense force caused the cave to collapse, and limestone began to fall.

Long slowly turned and left...

A short while later, they arrived at the Queen's residence.

The queen ant's royal family.

The division Squadron Leader, led by Peggy, were terrified, their eyes fixed on the entrance to the cave.

The dying queen had already sensed the successive disappearance of the 'signals' from several Squadron Leader.

He entered the ant nest alone and killed countless ants, including ordinary Soldier Ant whose life force had been taken away by ghosts... Oboro's clothes were still very clean, with not much dust on them.

He stepped into the anthill, into its most central area.

I also saw the queen ant lying on the ground, her body 'disemboweled,' and the remaining Squadron Leader...

Werewolf Welfin, Brobuta, Peggy, Meleoron, etc., in addition to the Squadron Leader, there are also some squad leaders, such as the Ortho siblings, the pair of ants who liked to shoot darts and were eventually killed by Killua, and the owl Holo, etc.

Some of these ants were preparing to flee... but returned after receiving the Queen's order.

Others realized that running away was useless, and that the better course of action now was to stick together... so they turned back.

In short, all the usable combat forces of the entire ant colony are right in front of us.

There are about twenty of them.

A strange and oppressive black mist, highlighting Oboro's figure, appeared in the ants' field of vision.

The ants' gazes held fear, awe, and blankness...

When the enemy actually appears before them, this direct impact intensifies their despair.

Because... the sheer aura emanating from humans is enough to erode their willpower and make it difficult for them to muster the desire to fight.

This kind of oppressive aura is very similar to that of the Chimera Ant King who had just left.

Are they all... waiting for me?

Long raised an eyebrow and joked.

"..."

The cave was deathly silent.

"Grown ups..."

At this moment, Peggy swallowed hard, and with an awkward gait, she stepped forward and knelt down directly before Oboro. Not knowing how to address this human, she could only speak with a respectful title, "We surrender. We deserve to be punished for our crimes against humanity. We are willing to accept any punishment and consequences. We hope... we hope you can spare our lives."

"Humans are kind-hearted beings who hate war, unlike us... We can serve humanity and provide various forms of assistance."

"Our king has just left; it will surely unleash its power upon the human world..."

Peggy lowered her head and spoke from the bottom of her heart in a pleading tone.

Long listened quietly, and only after it finished speaking did she continue, "You bow down to humans not because you feel guilty, or because you have suddenly realized something... it's simply because we are stronger than you. What makes you bow down is not human kindness, but the 'weapons' in our hands."

Upon hearing this, Peggy broke out in a cold sweat.

It's like a fishbone stuck in my throat.

"Also... there's nothing wrong with humanity being universally benevolent, but I'm not included in that category."

Negotiations failed!

After he finished speaking, the black mist that had been swirling and rolling behind him exploded like a tidal wave, sweeping out in an instant.

Immediately, the entire cave space became dark.

One after another, fierce ghosts darted back and forth, howling and roaring to their hearts' content...

This place has been transformed into Purgatory.

One by one, the ants fell to the ground, and the Squadron Leader was no exception.

Meleoron wanted to use his Nen to leave silently, but Oboro knew his ability all too well; his Ghost Mist filled every corner of the space.

The ability to God's Alibi is inseparable from Obo.

Among the dead ants were some who had helped the Association in its battle against the Chimera Ant King... but Oboro had no intention of letting them go. With Neferpitou missing from the Chimera Ant King's side, the Association would also have fewer external support, which would only make things a little more difficult.

However, Oboro did not see the octopus, Ikalgo, who had formed a friendship with Killua.

It might not have been in the nest to begin with...

"Humans... your end has come. My child... will become the ruler of your world, it..."

Through the fog, Oboro walked to the side of the ant queen.

The queen was unable to speak, but Oboro sensed her mental fluctuations.

It was a signal it conveyed before it died.

Her mission is complete!

"Don't try to make a fool of yourself with your ignorance."

Long said something expressionlessly.

Then, with a powerful stomp of its foot, it crushed the queen ant's head.