[Flying Frag Ant Queen LVL 25 – Boss – Enraged – War Form]
HP: 195,000/200,000
MP: 300,000/300,000
Not only did the queen's appearance change, but also her stats. Her HP increased from 150,000 to 200,000 while her MP gained a substantial boost of 100k.
Iris was about to attack but Shiro stopped her.
"Let me make the playing field fair first." Shiro said as mana gathered in her palms.
Using her passive cold aura, she enhanced the freezing power of cold aura with her tier 2 ice magic.
*CRRRRR
The entire ruin started to freeze over as Shiro was now able to attack the ant queen wherever the ice was present.
The queen's eyes glowed slightly when she saw the ice.
Shiro felt her body shiver for a moment as she recognized an incoming danger.
"Dodge!" Shiro called out so Iris fazed.
Quickly rolling to her left, Shiro turned a portion of her body into snow.
*BOOM!!!!
The spot they were in exploded as They quickly turned to the spot and saw a fire javelin.
"You've got to be kidding." Shiro muttered seeing the queen shift to the fire element.
"It can switch elements?" Iris asked, surprised. She quickly turned back to the queen.
The armor was tinted red showing the element as Shiro realized the queen could probably use all of the basic elements.
Iris flicked her wrist up and created a holographic spike towards the queen.
A semi-translucent orb appeared around the queen as the spike shattered on impact.
"A god damn mana barrier powered by 300K MP, you've got to be kidding me." Shiro said annoyed.
She didn't mind fighting against the queen, but for her to drain 300k worth of mana along with the 200k worth of health was an insane task.
"Oh this is going to be a battle of attrition isn't it?" Iris groaned
Narrowing her eyes, Shiro had an idea.
"We just need to force her to waste all of her mana." She said
Using her snow magic along with her ice magic, Shiro changed the weather of the boss room.
Crouching down, Shiro made a ramp towards the boss.
*BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM
The boss sent several fire spears towards Shiro as she countered with her own ice spear.
Jumping off the ramp, Shiro made two daggers in her hands and slice towards the queen.
*PON PON PON PON PON!
Several hollow echo's rang out as Shiro sliced away at the shield.
Iris wasn't standing around either as she created her saws again, she decided not to fight the Queen head on like Shiro however created multiple saws to distract the queen.
Most of them were shot down by lightning however the few that made it steadily dealt damage against the barrier.
Swinging her hand downwards, Shiro created another ramp of ice as she dodged a breath of lightning.
Pressing both daggers together. Shiro made a Nano Craft Sword and sliced upwards.
The queen flew backwards, dodging the strike, however it flew into a holographic spike that pushed against the barrier. The spike was quickly destroyed.
Shiro landed hard on the ground and quickly looked towards the queen.
Quickly flipping backwards, Shiro dodged a blade strike from the queen. Mid-flip, Shiro created a dagger and threw it towards the queen.
*BOOMMM!!!
Detonating the dagger, Shiro saw ripples spread out on the mana barrier.
[MP: 230,000/300,000]
"Only 70K????" Iris complained.
Shiro then got an Idea.
"Iris, do you think you can teleport inside of the barrier?" Shiro asked, swiftly dodging another fire javelin.
"I might! Keep it still for a second!" Iris replied
Shiro slammed her palms onto the ground as an ice pillar shot out the ground as it aimed for the queen.
Opening the mandibles on her mouth, Shiro could see the queen use fire breath to melt the pillar.
Flicking her wrist, Shiro caused a giant ice clamp to close in on the queen.
*BOOM!
The clamp caused a huge ripple in the mana barrier as the queen was jammed between the two clamps.
Iris took the opportunity and teleported into the barrier, landing on its back with two daggers in hand
"Surprise!" She said, stabbing into where the queens wings met her body.
Iris created a saw and hit its neck.
*SKREEE
The Queen screeched and shook violently to get Iris off, she slammed her arms outwards and destroyed the clamp. Iris couldn't hold on for too long and got flung off, the aggro of the queen on her.
Iris tried to teleport to the ground to avoid impact but that didn't get rid of her velocity, causing her to roll on the ground a bit before finally being able to stop in a sitting position
Pushing more mana into her wings, the queen dashed towards Iris, who immediately fazed and teleported to Shiro.
"Well that solves it, I CAN teleport in there" Iris said, looking at the queen who was momentarily confused at the loss of her target.
"Ready to explode this thing?" Shiro grinned, handing Iris two Nanotech Daggers.
"Definitely." Iris replied, taking the daggers.
"Hide for now, I have a plan, when I call out, immediately stab those into the queen." Shiro instructed, looking at the queen who redirected her target back to her. Iris nodded.
Making a few tiny ice bullets in her hand, Shiro decided to try increase the queen's rage so that she would fire off large scale attacks and drain her mana faster.
*Don don don don
The bullets tapped at the mana shield as the queen looked around but became furious when she couldn't find Shiro.
'That's it, keep going.' Shiro thought.
The queen's body became a mix of red and yellow as it flew upwards.
Shiro dashed towards a pillar and used it as cover.
Lightning and fire gathered around the queen's mouth as Shiro understood the queen wanting to wipe the area with a single attack.
Her goal was for the dagger to interrupt the queen when she's still charging her attack. However, she needed to time it correctly as interrupting too early wouldn't drain as much mana and interrupt too late means the queen firing the death beam off.
She eyed the attack as pressure was at an all-time high.
"Now!" Shiro called out, as Iris teleported behind the Queen again and stabbed the two daggers into her body, immediately teleporting away.
The timing was a little early as the attack was around 75% charged. However, any further would be dangerous territory.
Clenching her fist, Shiro caused the daggers to explode.
*BOOOOOOMMMM!!!
This caused a chain reaction as the breath attack was forcefully stopped. Since it wasn't fully ready, the attack exploded in the queen's face.
[MP: 130,000/300,000]
[HP: 120,000/200,000]
'Not bad.' Shiro thought since the failed attack managed to wipe out almost 100k worth of mana and almost half of the queens health. Though she only had 5,000 mana left herself.
Iris teleported back to Shiro
"Just a few more times and this fight is over!" Iris said, though Shiro didn't hand her another nanotech dagger. Instead it was a grenade.
"Hm?" Iris inspected the Grenade as Shiro avoided another attack from the Queen.
[Nanotech Ice Grenade]
[MP: 3000/3000]
Meanwhile Shiro avoided some more attacks from the Queen. Due to the two daggers having exploded from its mana wings its flight wasn't as stable anymore.
The queen glared at her hatefully as four of her blade legs opened up. Flying towards Shiro, the queen slashed her legs at Shiro's body.
Twisting her body to avoid the blades, Shiro created another clamp around the queen.
The queen immediately tried to break the clamp however Iris reinforced the Ice clamp with her holographic creation.
*SKREEE
The Queen screeched, breaking the clamp, however the moment it opened its mouth Iris teleported in front of it.
"Bon Appetite!" She said cheerfully, shoving the grenade inside the queens mouth before its mandibles could get to her.
Iris kicked off the queens head to Shiro, grabbing her and flying as far away from the ant as she could. Shiro wasted no time in detonating the bomb so the queen couldn't spit it out.
*BOOOOM
A powerful explosion rang out, Iris was disrupted in the air and fell but Shiro landed on her feet and caught her.
What was left of the Frag Ant Queen was a decapitated body with ice spikes jutting out of it.
"Wow that delt a lot of damage..." Iris muttered, teleporting next to the queens dead body.
"Well having a grenade explode inside of your mouth tends todo that." Shiro replied, walking over to the body. They were both a bit fatigued.