The reason the queen ant was rooted to the spot was because it was in the same pathway as Zirrack.
When it had passed the tribulation, the ant queen had awakened the earth element and due to the suppression that came from meeting someone higher in the pathway, it was paralyzed.
Unable to move or use its wings, the ant queen tried to spit out a highly corrosive acid from its mouth, but its body wasn't responding to its command.
To show how great the suppression was, the ant queen was completely consumed by fear, but it was unable to shiver as Zirrack kept walking towards it one step at a time.
"At this point, I don't know if the kingslayer title is still fit for me?" Zirrack said to himself as his hand lit up in darkish-purple flame and he brought it to the chest level of the ant queen.
Zirrack's flames were so hot that the ant queen's exoskeleton was melting like butter on a hot pan without him coming in contact with it. The ant queen was unable to scream in pain and could only watch as Zirrack's hand slowly made its way to its core.
"Let's make sure that none of these bastards are alive in the hive." Immediately Zirrack got hold of the ant queen's core, the rest of its body exploded into ashes.
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Once the manual override was over and the warping array was back online. The school principal Lovren decided to send Zirrack first because it would be easier to warp 1 person than bring back more than 20 people.
From the live feed of the test location, they saw when the ant queen had advanced to the King realm and watched as it headed in Blake's direction.
At that moment principal Lovren had thought that it was over for Blake, Luciano, and nobles, but to his surprise, they had pulled it off and had managed to escape.
He had mixed feelings about the nobles that had died, but he still felt bad for them. "Why do they have to involve kids in this."
Everything was ready, they he gave the command and the students were warped back to the school. Once the students appeared fire corps personnel began scanning the nobles for any trace of mind control.
What happened at the test could be considered to have in a way endangered the life of the emperor's son. Meaning a proper investigation was to be carried out.
They scanned their dimensional amulets and everything on them. When they got to the different pieces of jewelry on them they discovered that it was the source of the mind control.
Under further scanning, they found out that all of them had self-destructed the moment they were knocked out. This had erased 1 of the 2 chances they had in tracking whoever was behind it.
The last option was to interrogate the nobles with the mind control jewelries, but it wasn't the best of time so they were detained in their rooms under surveillance till they were to be investigated.
As for Blake who was still unconscious, he was given some mana regeneration potions and was dropped in his room to rest.
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Once Zirrack had eradicated all forms of life from the ant hive. The school began conducting investigations on how the ants were able to increase in both strength and numbers so quickly.
Once they confirmed their suspicions that it was a thranium vein, it was reported to Prince Bryon and multiple squads of ash corps were sent to the area.
Immediately they touched down at the test location, multiple arrays and barriers were set up. They went ahead to check how big the thranium vein was and it turned out to be quite a small one, but it was more than enough.
Once the size of the thranium vein had been checked, a massacre began. To to make the vein safe for mining, everything that could move in the area was to be hunted down.
If this was earth, the Synder empire would be under fire for wiping out the ecosystem of an area just because of a little mine.
Well, things were different in Infinite realm. The not-too-large thranium vein was worth more than 20 large gold mines because of how rare the pink crystals had become.
Also, the beast tide season was fast approaching, meaning the more beasts they killed the safer the city would become.
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The next day Blake woke up with a pounding headache and a grumbling stomach.
'How many days have I been out?' Blake held his head.
[6 hours.] The system replied.
'That was way shorter than I expected.' Blake thought as he stood up and left to take a shower.
This wasn't his first time of him passing out due to mana exhaustion. It had occurred multiple times when he first started practicing space freeze and void shift, but this was undoubtedly the worst that had happened so far.
[I would usually start with stating how many mistakes or foolish decisions you made, but that will be for later. You did a good job Blake, and I have to say you have grown a lot from when you came to infinite realm.] The system commended Blake causing a wide smile to appear on his face.
It was very rare for the system to commend Blake, most of their conversations were when the system was lecturing him or roasting him.
From the first time the system had commended him, Blake always got a feeling of having achieved something great. This was because the system had unconsciously become kind of a fatherly figure that watched his every step and made sure he didn't stray away.
With a smile on his face, Blake made a bow before going to take a bath before heading to the canteen to have dinner.
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At exactly the same time Blake had woken.
Unlike others who had gone straight to their room after they returned to the school, Sach had been moving around highly populated areas.
He was avoiding going to his room because death was literally waiting for him there, but it had gotten dark and he had no other option but to return.
"Here goes nothing."