Miles looked at the hundreds of ants crawling from underground and the core in his hand. “You misunderstood. It was that tree that killed your friend!” Miles said while crying, but ants were getting closer and closer to him. Miles felt their levels and thought that death was upon him.

“I still have wings!” Miles thought as he fished out the stone gray orb from his pocket. It turned into a pair of wings with golden electricity. Miles hit the ground and floated, but the next second he regretted it. Among the flock of ants, several of them also jumped into the air and started to fly in his direction.

“Fuck!” Miles circled around the tree to ditch them, but their wings were their limbs, while Miles’s were a pinnacle-tier, Grunt-Rank orb. It was obvious which was faster.

The ants on the ground were attacking with lightning-based attacks. But their ranged attacks weren’t as strong. Ants’ main ability was using lightning to sense their surroundings, and covering their bodies to increase their melee attacks.

Miles looked behind and saw approaching giant ants. “You forced me to do this!” Miles said and a black phantom armor covered his body. Miles stopped circling the tree and started to float upwards towards the bird's nest.

He let the attacks from the ground hit him while protecting his body with energy. Although he wasn’t safe from the attacks, he was still able to defend. After all, compared to Alex's attacks, these were only pricking his skin.

When Miles was close to the treetop, he reached out his energy, and like tentacles, it separated into fifty pieces. Each energy tentacle hit a marking on the tree, triggering them all at the same time. The energy stored in the carvings was enormous. Miles felt as if a giant monster was staring at him from the treetop, but that was all he could at the moment. He drew the small, inconspicuous dagger from his belt. It was the gift his father gave him.

Miles let his energy fill the dagger, while the wind started to boil. He canceled the wing orb and made himself as small as he could. When giant winds fell upon them like a tsunami, Miles swung his dagger with everything he had.

The sharpness element and pinnacle-tier core merged together with technique and unboundless energy Miles unleashed, creating a phantom flash in the air, clashing with the descending wind. Although it wasn’t enough to stop fifty wind runes together, the effect lessened significantly.

While Miles was clashing with the wind, the ants on the ground were approaching the tree to trap Miles. While those in the air felt the incoming danger and tried to run away, but it was too late. The wind pummeled them to the ground with great force. These ants clashed with their kins while limbs and blood started to gush out like a river.

Miles looked at the ground, while the wind was hitting his back. He felt the armor was fully charged so he let the energy fill it. He took damage from two elements, so two elements appeared.

Miles looked at the fiery red and green element gushing out from the armor, as he cursed under his breath. “Why wood?”

Miles didn’t have time to think, he supplied the armor with energy, as the fire spread out like wind and fell towards the ants on the ground. It merged with the wind falling from above and embittered. When green wood energy fell towards the ground, it entangled the ants there with thick vine and tree roots. To Miles’s surprise, those too ignited and increased the area of damage.

But ants weren't weak either. Their carapaces were strong, to begin with, and with too many of them in the area, he was about to lose already. Luckily, Miles was aiming to destroy those who could fly, and escape from the battlefield.

Miles looked at the tangled ants crying in pain and fished out his wing orb again. Just as he was about to escape, a four-meter ant came out of the hole the others made. It looked a tad darker than other ants, and its eyes were burning with rage.

It looked at Miles with hatred, and lightning started to form in the air. It wasn’t anything like other ants. The lightning gathering in the air looked like the rage of the lightning god. It was cracking the air and was about to punish the mortals who defied it.

Miles wasn’t willing to wait. He turned and started to fly away, but how could he outrun lightning? It reached him in a short second and hit him behind his back. Miles felt his back had been penetrated by a scorching spear. He felt numb on his back, as he started to fall down.

Miles realized that the queen ant wasn’t following him, but was helping its children. Miles was thankful for his dumb luck. He uncontrollably fell towards the forest, while hoping he wouldn’t encounter another strong monster.

When he fell to the ground, the lightning was still crackling around his body. Even after being hit for so long, the persistent lightning wasn’t leaving his body but kept on destroying his energy armor. Miles’s ultimate armor filled to the brim, but it wasn’t a good thing. Miles couldn’t even stand up because of the lightning.

“Monsters are approaching Miles.” Coin alarmed him.

Miles looked in the direction and saw horse-like creatures with metal skins galloping towards him. There were at least five of them.

“Want to eat me, when I am weak?” Miles laughed with hatred as he let the energy in the armor gush out. The dark-colored fog surrounded five meters around him in a short second, and in the next, all the horses fell to the ground. So did Miles, in pain.