"This is the meal? This meat less thing?"

"Dry bones?

"No your highness, I mean someone who has no nutritional value at all."

"Oh! But that’s the same thing isn’t it?"

"Ahem!"

The guard came in between the charming larvae and the one which seems to be her guardian, and stopped the two from continuing their drama.

"She is not a princess in line anymore. So stop calling her your highness. And this dry bone’s is all that you will get to eat today. Be thankful! If it wasn’t for the current queen’s generosity, then you wouldn’t have even gotten this thing, and would have died starving in the cell."

"But she is royalty. How can she eat this ... almost dead and spoiled ant?"

"Pfft... Royalty my ass! She was, but not anymore. Your side shouldn’t have staged the coupe. You lost and now you are just prisoners of war. Now eat."

And the guard stopped talking after enlightening me with the current circumstances of the bee hive. Not that I wanted to hear, but who cares. And the lie detector said they were saying the truth.

{Intermediate knowledge has risen to lv 5}

Anyways this Smalltalk between the two parties lead to me understanding that there were two larvae’s princesses, and both had different followers.

And after this larva and her followers staged a coup, they got thrashed and were prisoned.

‘Hah…Fools.’

{Reading has risen to lv 5}

But then, the bee that was playing with me before, seeing that no one wanted to eat me hurriedly stood up.

"Sir, can I?" It asked the larvae guardian, who looked at him, annoyed.

"You want to play with him?" He asked to which that bee furiously nodded his head.

The bee sighed and allowed him to.

"Okay, go just don’t make it too gross."

"Yes sir." The bee started walking toward me, as my sensitive hearing picked up the larva talking to her guardian.

"Are you sure you want him to kill that person?"

"Firstly madam, that is an ant, and not a person. Secondly, he is just an ant, and not anything. Thirdly, as a future queen you need to be able to tell whose life matters and whose doesn’t."

"So that person’s life doesn’t matter?

"Exactly, and he is not a person. You know what, that is why you lost to your sister. If only you were as cruel as her, then things would have been a little different. Then you would’ve had more followers and… Sigh”

I couldn’t find fault in the bee’s statement, but what did he mean I am just an ant.

{Fury has risen to lv 4}

The bee who wanted to play with me stopped before my face and poked.

And the thing which he didn’t know would happen, happened.

I moved my front leg, and placed it on his arm.

"Huh you can mo..."

But I didn’t let him complete his sentence and forced my leg down. [Stab] activated and with [Bare handed mastery] at full throttle, my leg pierced through his arm.

But before the bee could scream, I retracted my leg back, and as the bee and his friends looked with their eyes wide opened at what had happened, I stood up slowly, and slashed my leg at his arm.

"Aaaahhh..."

*Ting*

[Skill: Slash gained.]

[Skill: Sharp weapon mastery gained.]

It finally cried, as I gained a new skill, and I once again attacked on the same arm at the same place, before the shivering bee could step back.

{Slash & Sharp weapon mastery have risen to lv 2}

*Thud*

And its arm fell on the ground.

“Ahhh…!!”

The bee fell on the floor from the pain, and I jumped at it.

Now, although it was in pain, it didn’t just stay there sitting on the ground when it saw me coming! He rolled away, and tried to stand up.

I activated [Concentration] and [Foresight] just for a little trip, and activated [Haste] for a second.

I didn’t let fury completely become heavy on my mind, like it had done before, and used haste just for enough time that I reached in front of the bee as it was standing.

[Stab] and [Pierce] activated, as I plunged my leg at its raising body.

{Stab & pierce have risen to lv 10}

I aimed for the head, but it swiftly moved away, and I missed; but not completely. My arm still managed to find its way in and pierced his abdomen.

My arm for some reason didn’t feel any resistance, and tore through his abdomen like it was paper.

"Ffffuckkk yyoouuu...."

{Fury has risen to lv 5}

It cried out as a mouth full of liquids arose with the words.

Some of them splashed on my face, but because my poison resistance was already high enough its poison had no effect on me.

Panicked, it stumbled, and then tried to fly away, but I moved a step faster than him, and took a bite at its wing.

{Perception has become lv 8}

{Haste has become lv 4}

*Crunch*

Chew, chew ,chew...

I tore his wing from him back and ate it as it convulsed on the floor, with his neck and sac touching the ground and it’s back raised up from pain.

{Absorption has reached lv 10}

I shook the messages away and saw the other ants finally snapping out of their stupor. They cursed at me, but I just smirked, and showed them my shinning pincer.

{Taunt has become lv 4}

But then my opponent tried to do something with electricity. It angered me a lot, but I controlled the skill, placed my other front leg on its chest, and looking into its eyes, asked him,

"What not satisfied yet?"

It once again spat poison at my face, which unfortunately didn’t reach me, as I had already seen him spitting at me through foresight

{Foresight has risen to lv 4}

"Fuck you!!" It yelled at the top of his voice, which angered me more and stamped his doom.

I then stabbed it in his eye, retracted my arm, stabbed it back in the wound on the chest, cut apart it legs and ate them one by one, held him from his antennas and lifted him up. Punched his face until his jaw broke, and the exoskeleton in his face cracked apart. Kicked him with my three free legs and then…

*Bam* slammed him on the floor.

And a large amount of level up messages arrived after that.

{Slash & sharp weapon mastery have become lv 5}

{Concentration has risen to lv 4}, {Clarity has risen to lv 5}, {Muscle memory has risen to lv 5}

{Mandible cut has become lv 3}, {Reflex has risen to lv 5}, {Haste has risen to lv 5},

*Ting*

{Skill: Kick, Punch gained.}

{Skill: Basic Martial arts mastery gained.}

*Exp gained*

And the last message determined its death.

But before I could cut its head, and eat it to state my hunger, two bee drones buzzed, and appeared in front of me out of nowhere.

I deactivated [Fury], and [Haste] and only used [Premonition], [Concentration], and [Foresight], and saw them both coordinating like real pros and attacking me from the both sides.

Two blurry yellow translucent arms came flying toward my face from my both sides in slow motion.

And then the real arms moved and came toward me at a rising 60 degree angle.

I stepped back and avoided them both, but before the one on the rights punch could reach my face, its angle changed and the fist moved toward his partner.

My brows flinched, as I couldn’t figure out what it was doing, but then, his fist turned once more and he rotated with the punch.

His body rotated, his wings fluttered slightly to give him lift and drive him forward, his leg moved and with momentum it came flying at break neck speed to literally break my neck.

I bent no simply sat down on the floor to get away from that vicious kicks, but as if everything was calculated I found myself staring at a stinger just a few centimeters away from my face and rapidly closing distance.

{Reflex has risen to lv 4}

I activated haste once again, and my body shuddered, my vision blacked for a second, but gritting my teeth, I still moved my head at the full speed that I could muster.

{Willpower has risen to lv 2}

But unfortunately it was too well timed; although I had reacted nicely, the Bee had somehow moved his stinger just at the right place to counter my movement.

{Reading has risen to lv 6}

Despair ran though my soul, hope became lost in a single second, and I closed my eyes as the stinger touched my forehead and pricked a small hole.

I waited for it to move and finish me, but the moment never came and instead a voice did.

"That’s enough. Let him go."

Happiness unsurpassed engulfed my heart and my eyes became wet for some reason.

I gulped, as that half inch stinger came out of my head and after moving in front of my eyes, it bounced behind the bee.

They both didn’t even gave me a look of disdain, and buzzed back to their previous place, and I was left alone to sweat.

The larvae came to the front from the back and spoke, "I m sorry, for the rude behavior of my friends. It isn’t their fault, they are just at the edge and have problem keeping their anger in check."

I couldn’t fathom what had happened for a whole minute and the larvae kept on staring with a disgusting, but sincere smile on its face. The lie detector proved that to be true.

{Lie detection has risen to lv 2}

I remembering my training with the princess stood up and fixed the frown on my face. Then bowed slightly and told her that it was okay. That I was at the edge too, so I could understand their feelings.

But before she could say anything else, a loud, very loud and heavy laugh came from one of the big cages at the back of the room.

"Not bad kid. Not bad. I like your style.”

*Ting*

[Skill: Wasp language gained.]

“Those fucking drones are looking down on you, but they can’t fucking see that you haven’t even had your first evolution yet. Don't give those sore losers too much attention, they dont deserve it."

And those drones suddenly jerked their heads to look at me. And their contorting faces clearly showed how astonished they were.

We all looked past the cages, and looked toward the end of the room. I activated clarity and for the first time I saw something lurking in the darkness of the cage.

It was yellow and the face was almost covering the half of tthe visible side of the cage. My skill reved up and when i finally saw what it was, I instantly stepped back.

That was not an insect, no it probably was an insect, but the thing I could see was only its face.

Its face alone was about three times my face. I couldn’t even begin to understand the kind of thing that it could be.

But then the voice from the second biggest cage came, and stunned me.

"Oh shut up~ Like, you have any idea how strong that kid really is. Born with your strength and size, you shouldn’t even talk about finesse and technique."

*Ting*

[Skill: Moth language gained.]

The voice was beautiful. It sounded too sweet and soothing, but the face didn't match its voicea at all..

What was there in the cage instead was a face, which was too ugly and scary for me to keep staring at it.

"Though I have to say, he performed quite a number on the bee there."

"Shut up moth! Don’t you try to butt in when I am making the speech!"

"Yeah! Are you going to fight me? Huh, you horny fucking piece of shit!"

"You just wait, and let me get out of this cage, and I’ll show you why you mother told you to stay away from a hornet."

I saw them bickering and left them behind.

Though they looked bad ass and dangerous, but they were also caught in the cage, so they held no problem for me.

I moved to where that bee corpse was, and started munching on it.

The bees looked absolutely horrified at my behavior and those drones were once again coming to fight me, but their larva queen stopped them.

"Let him be. He earned it."

I munched on the soft bottom of the bee and stood back up with my health fully regenerated, my hunger sated and my stamina back on full.

And checked my [Absorption] skill for possible evolutions.

{Absorption has reached its maximum level}

And is presenting you with the option to:

Disintegrate or Integrate.

And following my reasoning to fuck the world, I decided to disintegrate it into nothing.

*Ting*

[Skill: Dissolve gained.]

Dissolve: Spray acid from your mouth to attack.

[Skill: Acid Manipulation, creation gained.]

And the hornet once again asked me.

"Now what you going to do kid? I kinda like you, so want me to help you get out of here?"

An offer from a hornet wasn’t what I was expecting, and neither was he expecting me to say no, "No need." I said and with conviction replied back to his question, "I'll run away on my own."

{High luck has become lv 3}

And my way out finally came.