"I missed one!" Kyle shouted. "Gimme a sec!"
Then, he charged forward.
"Stop!" Selene shouted as she saw the scout vanishing behind the hill.
She knew what this meant.
An army of warrior ants would soon come charging over the hill, and this idiot was running right into them!
"I'll be done quick!" Kyle shouted as he ran past the hill.
"Oh, shit!" Selene heard Kyle shout from behind the hill.
Selene wasn't sure what she should do.
If she charged over the hill, she would be entering the Hillstalker Nest, which could kill her.
But if she retreated, this maniac would die for sure!
In the end, she gritted her teeth and told Skweera to charge forward.
Skweera landed on the hill and looked at the ant nest.
She was prepared for a battle, but when she actually saw the nest, the only thing she could feel was shock.
There were so many dead ants!
Then, she noticed Kyle pulling his hammer out of a dead warrior ant.
"Turns out, I missed a scout and three warriors," Kyle said, looking back at her. "No idea where they were. I was here for like three days, and they never showed up."
Selene didn't answer and just looked at the dead ants.
Skweera slowly walked forward, taking a sniff of the ant corpses occasionally.
"Did you kill all of that?" she asked.
"Well, duh," Kyle answered. "I told you I dealt with the ant nest. You should take a look inside. There are way more in there."
Skweera sent signals of anxiety to Selene.
The Hillstalker Ant pheromone made it nervous.
"Wanna see?" Kyle asked with a bit of excitement.
He wanted to show off his first genocide.
"No, thank you. Skweera doesn't fit in there," Selene answered awkwardly.
That was when Selene saw something that shocked her once again.
Kyle tore off the leg of a Hillstalker Ant and drank the insect juices.
She couldn't even say anything.
This guy was committing suicide!
"It tastes disgusting, but I need Ether," Kyle shouted.
Selene just looked at Kyle in confusion and shock.
He would die any minute now.
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Aaaaany second now, the wild Ether would kill him.
Very soon.
"Hey," Kyle shouted from the other hill. "Can we move?"
Selene just looked at Kyle.
"Why are you not dead?" she asked.
"I'm pretty strong," Kyle said with a proud smile.
"No, I meant the Beast Ether. You just consumed Beast Ether," she said.
"Oh, that," Kyle said. "I'm half-dwarf."
"Half-dwarf?" she asked, "but I thought you were an Adept."
"I am," Kyle said. "I got the human Aspects of Power, but the dwarf ability to eat beasts. Neat, right?"
Neat?
That was…
Selene became silent as she realized how much of an advantage this was.
Kyle was human, but he could advance simply by consuming beasts.
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