Online Cluster: Great Tomb
Chapter 10: Maga Antu
A clear-sounding snore, a flash of flashlight reflecting off, and information appearing on the device I was holding. Everything becomes very clear. I think he's sleeping.
I signaled to all of them to bow down, lower the flashlight, and not to sound too loud.
“Sssstt!”
I move my lips like saying “naga” without making the slightest sound while pointing towards the reflection of my flashlight.
Then I tried to flash towards where we were going down. Since it's still an ant nest, I don't think there's any point in us coming back. Besides, my stock of magazines is running low.
I gave a sign by moving my hand so that they would go through this place thoroughly to find a way out without waking the dragon.
It was simply impossible to fight a Boss-type monster with such makeshift equipment and a very small number of players. In addition, we were not very fortunate because this place was very dark. The only source of light was the flashlight we were carrying.
As I split from the others, I realized that this place was filled with coins and gold blocks. Just imagine how much credit I would get if I sold all this.
“Well, yasudah!”
I stopped the search and put everything I could into the inventory as much as I could. With this much gold I will have no trouble buying the weapons I want and modifying them as I please.
Well, even so, on top of this mountain of treasures, he was soundly asleep. I did not dare to flash at him for fear of waking him up.
To be honest this is the first time I have seen a Level 5 Beast monster. Even most sector bosses alone were only Level 4 Beasts.
After I finished putting in as much gold as I could, I tried to find another way out before finally someone flashlighted to the ceiling while turning it off and turning it on several times.
“Who is it?”
I approached the direction of the flashlight with the thought that it was a sign to gather by taking a detour. Sure enough, one of my members deliberately gave a signal. He is Lazy.
Fortunately, the other members thought the same as me. That way we can all get together.
“Try this!”
He flashlighted to a corner where a great many pebbles were piled up until it became like a small hill. On it we can see a shiny item due to the reflection of light from the flashlight.
“Bang, try joining! Others just in case well.”
I invited Bang Sema to climb the pebbles until when we were at the top, we saw three eggs of different colors. Dark green, dark red, and light blue that look like ice.
“Eggs, well?”
I did not respond to Bang Sema and looked towards the dark side where the dragon was asleep.
“She's female, well?”
I looked back at the three eggs in great confusion but at the same time thought of something completely insane.
“Bang, can you climb the rope alone? Get out of the nest, keep trying to run to the cabin. As soon as possible.”
He looked at me who was smiling widely with cold sweat all over his body and realized I meant to ask.
“Boi... You are already sane well?!”
“We are all crazy after the Four Star Quest just eleven doang.”
Instantly he painted the same smile as me with a great sense of challenge.
“Interesting..”.
“Try telling others to drop their valuables at you first, except C4. Keep going up again.”
“OK!”
While waiting for Bang Sema to return upstairs, I looked towards the eggs with an excited look. I asked Bang Sema to ask them to leave their belongings to her just for preparation.
No one knew when we touched the eggs. There could be a trap, or worse, the system could wake the dragon, right?
Moments later Bang Sema went back up and said they had left what they thought was valuable. I also gave away my things like weapons that I loved so much like the AR-15 and all my Credits.
Honestly, I only left the flashlight that I held as a source of lighting.
“Aready, Bang? Arriving at the cabin, blow up all C4s using their detonators. As much as possible we will catch his dragon.”
Well, in the future we just need to improvise because this incident is completely out of plan.
“Bent! … It's take!”
He gave five items in red with a cylindrical shape.
“This... beacon?”
“To draw his attention. I wish I could.”
“Still!”
I took and put all five into one of the empty pockets that were in my waist holster.
Bang Sema opened the inventory with her left hand and the other hand preparing to reach the eggs. He was seen taking a deep breath before finally putting the three eggs into the inventory and immediately running towards the rope where we came down.
...[.Maga Antu’s eggs has been stolen]...
...[00:00:59 before Maga Antu woke up]...
The notice suddenly appeared before all of us who were inside this place.I know because being able to see those at the bottom looking panicked.
I descended the pebbles casually towards them while looking towards Bang Sema who had started to climb up the rope to reach the top while using her mouth to hold the flashlight she was carrying.
“Oi, cuy…?! Why did Bang Sema ride alone?!”
Despite hearing Dimas' question, I put on the same face as before. It's just that cold sweat is coming out more and more.
“The artifact can we postpone. Our priority now is to dragon as we can until the cup is safe!”
“Piala?! Brother Rei, instead of the one that Kak Sema brought the egg yah?!”
“Iya.”
I answered the Princess while looking at her.
“More, there are three eggs.”
I continued while taking out one of the flares that Bang Sema had given me and turning it on.
...[00:00:11 before Maga Antu woke up]...
“You've nitip the goods to Bang Sema, right? Shouldn't be a problem. Anyway, it's just a game. I have one command ... Die!”
I raised the beacon overhead while looking at them with a serious look.
...[00:00:00 before Maga Antu woke up]...
A flash of red light instantly looked like it was open. Then our beach began to feel vibrating along with the red light seemed to be getting higher.
As I threw the beacon towards the red light, I realized that it was the eyes of Antu Maga. At that moment I realized how big the monster before us was.
“Ah, she is much bigger than I thought.”
When Maga Antu bared her fangs, I froze just because I saw the size of one of her fangs as an adult. But if this is the case we can't give enough time for Bang Sema to escape.
“For all those who still have C4, spread it around him!!!”
It only took one sentence, before they finally all ran round while opening the inventory to take out all the C4 they had. Leaving me and Fadli who were being watched over by those very intimidating eyes.
“Then it is, Rei. I went to the cabin first. What do you want to make?”
“Ah, please tea deh.”
I answered Fadli's question very casually as if nothing would happen. Before he started running right to the front Maga Antu while saying “OK!” very clearly.
I kept silent while looking at all of them while lighting a second flare. I saw Dimas, Zia, Haqqi, and Rei twisting from the right side while throwing a C4. While Novan, Princess, Lazy, and Shah from the opposite side.
When Maga Antu noticed that Fadli was running right at him, his head came down quickly and bit Fadli completely. Of course the dead player's body will soon be gone.
“Dia... fast, well. Despite its giant size.”
Maga Antu roared very loudly. It was really very loud to the point of shaking around and even I saw some members who were too close to him die instantly. I tried to cover my ears, but it seemed useless.
In the end all those who ran around Maga Antu started to fall and disappear one by one and left me one with the giant dragon.
I survived because of my distance from him. But still, my condition was immediately deaf and unable to stand with my head added feeling very sick to the point of feeling like breaking.
When I couldn't move, his head headed towards me until it was right in front of me. I felt an overwhelming fear that even this was the first time I felt it.
There's a fluid that keeps coming out of between her fangs. It was not saliva, but something that had a kerosene-like aroma. Without a second thought I threw the beacon I was holding towards his mouth.
The moment the flare I threw came into contact with the liquid, the fire immediately crept into his mouth and burned its insides. But he looked like he felt nothing even when the inside of his mouth looked burnt.
He opened both his jaws and I could see the fire vortex inside. I also realized that this creature could not be harmed from inside or outside.
“Ah... ahaha! Looks like you're not an easy boss to beat, well.”.
He spouted a fire that instantly reduced my body to ashes and returned to the cabin.
***
When I opened my eyes, what I saw was the view of the cabin rooms made of wood in the classic style everywhere. There were also other male members, except for Fadli and Bang Sema.
“Welcome.”
Novan greeted me with a funny tone, but I ignored him.
“Come out!”
I immediately ran outside the room and saw Fadli heating the water.
“Oi, Fad, what?”
“Um... tea?”
“Jeez really want to make?! Get out! Everyone out!!”
I ran outside the cabin and tried to look towards the nest. Seen from a distance Bang Sema was running as hard as he could towards the cabin. I tried to swing my hand at him while shouting.
“Baaaang!!! Detonator!!! Ledakiii!!!”
I can see him opening the inventory while running and taking out the detonator before finally activating the detonator.
Our ground was shaking wonderfully. Even from a distance, we could all see the effect of the explosion that made the sand there thrown high up like a giant sand pillar.
“Now, how do we take part queen?”
For a moment I wanted to answer the question of the Shah, from the direction of the origin of the explosion came out countless ants. Likewise, a large landslide was seen entering into a giant hole.
We were all unable to say anything after seeing something gigantic that was trying to fly from the depths of the hole.
“No way he's still alive!!”
“He is immortal or how is woe?!”
I myself could not respond to Zia's response and Lazy saw the creature flapping its wings and landing on the rubble of the anthill and burning all the ants that came out.
“Maga... Antu...?”
After Bang Sema reached our place, I told her to rest for a while as we watched the dragon burn every ant there was. Before he finally put his head into the sand and pulled a giant-sized ant with his jaw.
We all knew it was the queen. But he ate it, then went back to burning the remaining ants.
“Must volunteer him. Height may be more than 15 meters.”
I nodded in agreement to hear Bang Sema. Now we only have the three eggs we stole from Maga Antu's nest. But that doesn't mean there's no trace of an ant queen to take home.
The surviving ants try to fight back by shrouding the giant dragon in its body. But somehow we saw his whole body instantly blushing, then completely burning and killing all the ants in his body.
“Wah can't! He can't be defeated that!”
Right after I said that, he looked towards us with a still burning body.
...[.Main Quest to all player has appeared]...
...[.Defeat Ancient Serpent, (Maga Antu) before reach (City of Sand) in Sector 73]...
“EH?! Main quest?!”
I looked the other way and saw they were getting the same notice. Until now there had never been anything like a Main Quest. Never, to this day.
The sound of the flapping of giant wings began to sound. Our eyes are only on one point. Seeing Maga Antu who started flying towards us with her body still burning was much intimidating when compared to before.
“ALL GO INTO HUMVEE!!!”
In a panic we all tried to get into the Humvee by pushing each other. Fortunately the dragon did not land near us, but continued to fly towards the Northwest.
Even so, when he passed us, the humvee we were riding was quite carried by the wind. It even burned down our cabin made of wood just by flying.
...[00:09:47 before (Maga Antu) reach (City of Sand)]...
“Kak Rei, I think we have wreaked havoc deh..!”
I responded to the Princess who happened to be in the same vehicle as me.
“We are not the ones who are laughing. But he himself is malapartakanya ... Ah!”
I realized that if possible, hopefully there are still remnants of the ant queen that we can take to Sector 1 and complete this crazy quest.
“We try to their nest? Hope there's still remains we're looking for.”
They all just took my advice. The ones in this vehicle besides me are Princess, Bang Sema, Zia, and Fadli as the driver. The rest is in another vehicle.
When we got to the place that had been razed by the fire, there was almost nothing left. Some parts of the sand had even become glass and explained how hot the breath of the fire was.
To be honest, I feel a little compassion for the ants that are flattened between the sand, glass, and fire that is still burning. As always, when all hope is almost gone, there is always someone who can find a miracle between them.
“Oi, this isn't it?”
We approached Zia who called. He took out an ant leg that was burnt and had no shape anymore.
“Try, borrow.”
I took the foot from Zia's hand and called out to Shah.
“Syah, still have the tools?”
I asked for the same tool as when I saw the ant and Maga Antu information. We cannot judge just by looking at it. Especially being scorched like this.
“Still in Bang Sema.”
Bang Sema gave me the tool before I even asked for it. Before I used the device, I broke the leg in half and used one of them to look at the information.
We were lucky because it belonged to the queen. To be honest, even though I hope to be able to find it, but after seeing things like that it is very difficult to believe if there are still parts of his body left.
“Hahh. Fortunately, this is the queen's part.”
I let out a long sigh of relief then threw the remaining part at Dimas and asked him to keep it inside the inventory.
“Let's go home! We follow Maga Antu, racing, continue to enter the city.”
“That's it?”
I looked towards the Shah who asked that with a serious face.
“Sure ... blur! Then run out of writhing things like that, sure you still want to fight him?”
He shook his head strongly. Well, I expected it. After that we entered the humvee with the same members as when we came here.
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...[00:03:01 before (Maga Antu) reach (City of Sand)]...
In the end we caught up with Maga Antu and saw him flying high. Aware of the opportunity he would not attack us from that height, I asked Dimas and Fadli to increase the speed.
As we approached the city gate, we could see a lot - I mean, really very many other players had already gathered. Dimas and Fadli ignored them and turned on the horn many times to ask them not to get in the way.
We were forced to enter the city by using humvees to get to the middle of the city and finally down.
“Return to headquarters first. We can't stay here. Understand?”
After the Shah took back the humvee we had just used into his inventory, we returned to Sector 51 and decided to postpone exchanging the queen body parts for Sector 1.
Well, besides, I haven't been out of Cluster Online since last night. And sure enough, after we reached the base and I got out of the game, I was scolded and lectured by my mother.
...The End of [Arc. Killer Ants]...
