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Chapter 107.1
Chapter 107.1
Chapter 107.1
The Queen's Death
[Splash, Shvaaaaa!!]
"Hey! You idiot, idiot!"
I threw a smoke canister from the sticky goo like a spider's web and taunted the Fly Queen.
Taunting by throwing things might be considered childish, but back when I had a low tolerance for provocation, if someone did this to me in elementary school, I couldn't help but get angry.
[Sss!]
[[[[Bwaaaaaaa!!]]]]
Seems like the Fly Queen had a similar temperament as mine. It casually raised her arm, and as a signal, hundreds of giant flies attacked in unison.
"All right! First step successful, and take this, Sky Mucus Counter! (Kyubaa!)"
[Bwaaaaaa!! (Wan)]
[[[[Bwawawawaaaa!!]]]]
I spread the gooey substance like a spider's web all at once. Yeah, it was quite a sticky mess. As the rolled-up gooey dome deflated, the wing sounds of the pitiful giant flies caught in the dome disappeared.
"Stay quiet and behave there! (Dah!)"
With a parting shot, I made a hasty escape.
My enemy was the Fly Queen, and the small fry was sufficiently hindered.
However, only about one-fifth of the giant flies, numbering in the hundreds were caught in the mucus counter. So, I quickly set up traps and fled to a straight path.
[[[Bwaaaaaa!!]]]
"Here it comes Mucus Fog! Up! Down! Right! Left! Right! Left! A B!"
Generating mucus mist that seemed to retract its tail, I avoided the mucus film traps I had set up and dashed through the passage.
[[[Bwaaaaaa!! (Splat! Squish!)]]]
[[Bwaaaaaa!! (Squelch! Splash!)]]
[Bwaaaaaa! (Thud! Wet!)]
The traps reduced the number for each, and the last remaining giant flies were entangled in the mucus mist that covered the entire straight path, falling ungracefully.
"Haa Haa Haa"
(Damn it, as expected!)
Reaching the giant mucus wall I had set up in the straight path of the dungeon and looking back. There was that eerie reddish-purple light again.
The Fly Queen intended to use that maggot tsunami again.
"But that's anticipated too! So, here's a special gift! (Splash!)"
I took out a drum canister filled with gasoline from the spatial storage.
I had gone to a super-sized home center and bought this drum canister. Then, I climbed up the gas station pretending to refuel a motorcycle tank, opened the secret compartment in the gas tank, and filled the drum canister with gas.
It was a creation that required a lot of effort to make without arousing suspicion from security cameras at the gas station.
[[[[[Dobury doburyla! Docha docha dobewdodododo!!]]]]]
When the reddish-purple light disappeared, the expected grotesque milky-white giant maggot tsunami rushed in.
[(Kashu! Geshi!) Glongorongorongo (Dopopopopo)]
Facing such a giant maggot tsunami, I kicked a drum canister, spilling gasoline from its mouth as it rolled.
(Take it slow. If the timing is wrong, I might become a human torches.)
And, watching for the moment of contact between the two sides, I jumped back significantly.
"Now! Fade in and fire shot!!"
After I jumped backward into the gooey wall, the giant mucus wall enveloped me.
Then, before the Fire Wand in my right hand could be wrapped in mucus, flames erupted from its tip, igniting the dungeon floor soaked in gasoline.
"[Bo! Merarararara]"
"[[[[[Dobury Dododododododo!!]]]]]"
..
[[[[[Kyumu! Uboooooooo!!!!!!!!]]]]]
My vision was instantly dyed in deep red.
The impact struck the surface of the mucus wall, creating large ripples, and a tingling vibration transmitted through the mucus.
"[DodoDodoDodoOooo Gopo]"
But that was it.
There was absolutely no damage on our side. That's because the thick mucus wall provided a solid barrier, effectively sealing off the air on our side.
[Guruooooo Gopon]
Therefore, no matter how fiercely the flames of the crimson blaze danced on the other side of the mucus wall, the air compressed by the explosion within the dungeon passage turned into a solid barrier, and nothing flew toward us. The kinetic energy generated by the drum canister bomb should have pushed everything toward the giant maggots.
That's right; what I created was a makeshift cannon.
If the Fly Queen and I were to engage in a direct confrontation, no matter how much I thought about it, there was absolutely no chance of winning. If that maggot tsunami was unleashed, I would be left with no way to counter it.
So, I decided to harness the power of modern chemistry.
What I came up with was the familiar concept from games and movies: [A drum canister bomb left in the city filled with inexplicably flammable materials, which, when shot, explosively blows away surrounding enemies.] Further, I modeled the straight path of the dungeon as the barrel, sealing the rear with a thick mucus wall.
Then, I detonated the drum canister filled with gasoline, acting as a substitute for gunpowder. The projectile was a swarm of those repulsive maggots.
A giant maggot tsunami.
There were enough of them to block the dungeon passage, pressing tightly against each other. However, due to their movement, they hadn't completely blocked the passage. Yes, because if they did, I would get trapped in the passage. So, there was a slight passage for air to flow.
Now, what would happen when a gasoline-filled drum canister exploded?
The high-temperature, rapidly expanding air sought an exit and rushed there. As a result, all the kinetic energy from the explosion gets directed there, blowing them away dramatically like the projectile of a cannon.
[Gururuooooo~]
The vision was still entirely red, and the undulating condition of the mucus wall was entirely unclear. But, the fact that there was no damage on our side meant, for the time being, it was a success.
Burning water created by the chemistry boasts a heat release of 34.5 MJ/L for regular gasoline.
It filled a 200-liter liquid steel drum canister to the brim. Roughly calculated, the heat release per liter was about 8,670 kilocalories. Multiplied by 200, that's 1,734,000 kilocalories.
High-performance explosives like TNT are defined to have 1 gram equivalent to 1,000 calories. Therefore, the gasoline-filled drum canister, at full capacity, was equivalent to 1,734 kilograms of TNT explosive power.
However, in reality, how much power it possessed remained unclear.
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