I Became an Ant Lord, So I Built a Hive Full of Beauties

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The tunnel entrance rumbled with a deep, rising tremor. Dust sifted from the cracked ceiling as shadows danced across the broken stone floor. Everyone paused. Outside the tunnel, even the smallest of the lizards on the trees perked up.

And then came the sound, it was an ear splitting cry that tore across the mountain air, like thunder being shredded by a thousand knives.

Kai’s eyes flicked upward. His eyes twitched. A smile crept across his bruised face.

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"She is here," he muttered.

With a whoosh that bent trees and scattered moss, Alka descended from the sky like an avian storm beast. Her sable feathers flared outward like twin curtains of night, shimmering with ocean deep hues. Her wings alone spanned wider than a warship’s deck. Her obsidian talons curled beneath her as she dropped lower, wind howling through the tunnel’s broken opening.

Outside, several frogs still lingered,scouts and lesser elites who had waited for the general’s arrival and command. Now, they looked up and saw doom.

The frogs croaked in confusion. Then in panic. One hurled a spear. Another launched a slime arrow.

Alka did not flinch.

She tucked her wings mid-dive. The projectiles missed her completely, sailing harmlessly into the trees.

Her claws gripped the edge of the tunnel like a god claiming her throne. Then, with calculated grace, she landed directly over the ruined trench, her weight sending cracks along the rim of the collapsed floor.

The frogs tried to scramble away. They did not succeed.