"You worthless lot! You can't even wipe out this handful of enemies! Useless! Keep attacking! And you lot, get over here and kill this barbarian! Rescue your queen!"
The Hrud queen first ordered her Warrior Bugs to continue surrounding and attacking the Special Operations Bosses, then looked up and barked orders at the Dragonflies hovering motionless in the sky.
On the ground, the swarming Warrior Bugs launched their fiercest assault. They split up the Special Operations Bosses, surrounded them, and charged in wave after wave.
The more frenzied the Hrud Norn Queen became, the more frenzied the Warrior Bugs' attacks grew. Whenever one wave died, the queen sent in another. The Special Operations Bosses began suffering casualties as well.
The swarm of Dragonflies descended from the sky, attacking Little Slick relentlessly in an attempt to rescue the queen.
A Dragonfly's sharp scythe struck Little Slick's arm with a metallic clang. The scythe chipped, while his arm did not even bear a white mark.
"Careful! You're hurting your queen! I've already shredded this brute's consciousness! Take it slowly!" the Hrud queen snarled.
Suddenly, a huge green hand filled the Hrud queen's vision.
That hand is so big...
That was the Hrud queen's final thought.
Little Slick slapped the python-like Hrud queen off his head, smashing her to pieces. Still not satisfied, he stomped on her twice more, only stopping once she had become an unrecognizable mess of minced flesh.
The Hrud queen really had deserved to die. If Little Slick had not swallowed the Sub-Terminal, strengthening the connection between his mind and his true body outside, that psychic ambush would have been enough to scramble his consciousness and leave him an idiot.
The avatar Boss Slick had painstakingly created would have been ruined just like that. The Hrud queen's psychic power