CHAPTER 500: UNDERSTANDING WEAKNESSES.

In this case, the best the fire ant could do was try to dodge. Because there was no way it could produce two fireballs, it could only block one of the lightning arrows and allow the other to strike it.

The blue arrow struck its wing and exploded. The explosion injured the wing and caused the fire ant to falter in the sky.

Arthur’s eyes lit up when he saw this. He quickly produced one lightning arrow and released it.

From creating the arrow to shooting it, the process took less than one second. By the time the arrow flew through the air and reached the fire ant, just about one second of time had elapsed.

The champion tried to evade the arrow by igniting its wings again. But it was too late, and its posture in the air was still imbalanced, so the arrow struck it in the head.

The blue arrow sank into the body of the fire ant and paralyzed it. Then it boiled the fire ant from within.

The intensity of the energy contained within the lightning arrow was so high that the release of that energy caused the water in the body of the fire ant to be boiled away.

What remained after the arrow was done was a blackened and charred corpse. That charred corpse began to fall to the ground.

Arthur patted Roar’s back and quickly said to him, "Hurry. Grab that corpse."

Roar shot off like a cannonball. He flew in a straight path towards the falling corpse at the fastest speed possible.

His speed was so fast that he crossed a distance of 3 kilometers and reached the corpse before it could reach the ground. Then Roar grabbed onto the corpse and dragged it away.

Arthur hurried him, "Go, go, go."

He didn’t want them to be too close to the entrance, so he urged Roar to create some distance as fast as possible.

Roar obliged and took them away. After they put enough distance between them and the tunnel entrance, Arthur’s heart relaxed and he laughed.

He was in a good mood, so he laughed. He also asked Roar, "So tell me, what have we learned about the weaknesses of fire ants?"

Roar replied, "They taste bad. They taste like burned food."

Arthur sighed and corrected him, "It is that fire ants can’t ignite their wings continuously and can only do it in short bursts. Fire ants also can’t produce more than one fireball at once, and there is a delay between each release of the fireball."

Roar agreed wholeheartedly, "Right, right."

Arthur just rolled his eyes at him. He didn’t bother to explain how he discovered those weaknesses and what they meant to their future fights because he didn’t think Roar would understand it.

Most importantly, it didn’t matter if Roar understood because Roar’s main job is not to fight. Roar’s job is to be his ride. That and to collect the loot.

Speaking of loot, Arthur used his divine sense to push and pull on the surrounding mana. He controlled the mana in such a way that he managed to use his mind to grab the corpse of the fire ant from Roar and pulled it to himself.

After getting the corpse, he stored it in his space ring. Then he said to Roar, "During the next fight, feel free to join in."

He said that to give Roar the opportunity to practice his skills and learn. After all, experience is the best teacher, and actions speak louder than words.

Roar was ignorant of his motives, but he still perked up when he heard that he could join the fight.

He began to hop as he asked in anticipation, "Really? Can I? Can I?"

Arthur replied, "Really. Go nuts."

"Yah," Roar said in celebration.

Arthur could only shake his head in amusement. But to be honest, he was looking forward to seeing what Roar was capable of.

As for him, he had noticed more than those two weaknesses of the fire ants. He also noticed that their exoskeleton was highly vulnerable to lightning.

The full scope of what he noticed about the strength of their exoskeleton was that the wings of fire ants were more resistant to lightning than their tough exoskeleton.

This wasn’t unusual after thinking about it. Their exoskeleton is metallic, which explains its incredible weakness to lightning.

And to be fair, the resistance of their wings to lightning wasn’t that much better than the resistance of their exoskeleton. The wing that was first struck and led to the downfall of the fire ant had also been scorched.

It was just that only the wing was scorched when it was hit. The lightning that struck it didn’t pass across to the rest of the fire ant’s body for some reason.

But when the lightning arrow had struck the body of the fire ant, the exoskeleton had offered no defense at all. Instead of blocking the attack, the exoskeleton had allowed the lightning to reach every part of its body and led to it being burned thoroughly.

After thinking of this, Arthur said with pride, "Maybe I was overreacting to think too highly of the fire ant. It is just a beast after all. A beast is even worse than loose cultivators."

"Beasts don’t have skills, techniques, and wisdom. They only use their innate abilities and fight instinctively. So even one with a small part of the golden core of a rank 4 being is at most equal to loose cultivators."

He wasn’t being harsh to beasts by comparing them to loose cultivators. In fact, they might be worse than loose cultivators because they are stupid and don’t use weapons.

Loose cultivators might only train their bodies and not use spells, but they can still use weapons and tools to make up for some of their weaknesses.

They also have wisdom and can quickly adapt to strange and new situations. This is why it is commonplace for the beasts at rank 3 to be inferior to their human counterparts.