Chapter 35: “Deas of Resentment”
Based on Riley’s investigation, the bone army had sprung up from something like an armory near the goblin farm. For the sake of convenience, let’s just call it a cemetery.
“All right, I’ll go. Sugaru, you stay here. Kerry, why don’t you come along too?”
“Yes, Boss.”
Rare walked through the caves accompanied by Kerry. When the ants had extended the tunnels to connect the great forest to the prairie, they enlarged them for humanoid races to be able to walk comfortably. These underground routes had handrails installed and, since there were no lights at all, they made traveling along them very safe once you got used to them.
She eventually wanted to install some lights, but right now she didn’t know of any light sources that didn’t use fire. Since the ants navigated the underground tunnels using their feelers, the only ones who needed light were Rare and the four catkin girls, so she would put off the thought for later.
While proceeding down the tunnel, Rare touched base with Riley, then instructed Sugaru to send infantry to keep the enemy confined to the area around the cemetery.
Their destination wasn’t that far away from the queen’s chamber. Rare and Kerry would soon arrive beneath it, after which they would head for the door leading to the surface so they could meet up with Riley.
Emerging into the cemetery, there was indeed a large army of bone-type enemies there. However, she couldn’t tell skeletons apart from any other kinds of monsters at a glance. Part of the army was outside the cemetery but being harried by ants, while the rest of it inside the cemetery was being constrained by other ants from spreading out.
“How convenient. All right, I’ll just go ahead and try it out now. [Necromantic Barrier].”