Re:Ant Lord-Chapter 176: Monarch Evolution

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Then— Something flickered in Kai’s vision.

[Ding! System Notification – Rank Advancement Available

Threshold Reached:

Current Level: 40

Evolution Limit: 3★

Host is now eligible to evolve to 4★ Rank.

Do you wish to begin the Rank Advancement Protocol?

[Yes/No]

Warning: This evolution path is irreversible. Please prepare before proceeding.]

Kai’s footsteps stopped instantly. The air shifted.

The winds that had been lazily drifting over cracked glass and scorched soil suddenly turned still, as if the land itself awaited his decision.

In the far cliffs, glass clinked faintly, echoing like distant bells.

Slowly, Kai lifted his right hand—calloused and cracked from battle, still scorched with faint lightning marks. The place where the storm had touched him was now faintly glowing, not with pain, but with invitation.

He flexed his fingers once. Tightened the fist. Then he opened it again, then Tightened the fist, Then he opened it again.

[Yes]

"I’ve earned it," he whispered.

And the system agreed.

The battlefield lay in eerie silence, only the faint crackle of dissipating aura clung to the wind. Kai stood alone on a shallow rise of shattered stone and scorched meteoroid glass. His body bore the grime and glory of victory. Blood, his and others were dried across the plates of his armor, yet none of it mattered now.

Because the system spoke.

[System Alert – Rank Advancement Available

Current Status: Level 40

Evolution Threshold Unlocked

Requirements to evolve to ★★★★ (4-Star)

25 x 5-Star Beast Cores – Collected: 4/25

Insufficient.

Alternate Route Detected:

Lower-rank beast cores and star crystals can substitute for missing cores at 10:1 ratio.

Would you like to proceed with resource substitution?

Yes /No ]

Kai’s crimson eyes narrowed. He had been saving the Cracked Lightning Heart, the thunder beast’s core reserved for a future moment. For Miryam or to forge a weapon. It wasn’t something he would burn now. It got star meteoroid iron infused. He can’t waste it.

But this... "But rest was doable."

He had collected dozens of four star rank cores, hundreds of three star rank, and many two and one star, all scavenged from fallen beasts, even looted from the corpses of rivals. All of that filled his Soul Cube like junk—until now.

[Ding! System Notification –

Initiating Monarch Evolution Path: ★★★★

WARNING: Evolution quality will depend on the host’s physical condition, essence purity, and potential rating.

System Tip: Evolution Potential can be increased by consuming Star Crystals with beast core.

Detected: 47 x Star Crystals

Would you like to convert and absorb all Star Crystals to improve mutation quality and get greater potential?

Note: This process will consume all stored Star Crystals permanently. ]

[Yes / No]

"Of course, use everything." Kai replied.

His hand clenched. "Yes," he said aloud.

[Confirmed. Substituting all available cores and star crystals...

Total Equivalence Calculated: All star Cores

Surplus: Funneled into bloodline refinement potential.

Warning: The following items will be consumed permanently:

All one Star Beast Cores, All two Star Beast Cores, All three Star Beast Cores, All four Star Beast Cores, Three Five star cores, 47 x Star Crystals

Begin Absorption? [Y/N]

Kai’s chest rose.

He looked to the sky once. It was gray and swirling.

"...Do it."

The moment he confirmed, the world changed. A vortex formed around him. The air bent inward, like space itself was inhaling. The Soul Cube released its contents—light, essence, and spiritual mass, all poured into him like a tidal flood.

He didn’t scream. He didn’t kneel.

But his body bent, trembling with strain as every nerve, cell, and plate of his Monarch Ant form began to rupture and reshape.

[Evolution in Progress – Initiating Monarch Reforging Protocol]

Skill Hidden Abilities Being Enhanced...

Adaptive Armor → Adaptive Apex Plate

Tiny Tank → Compact Mass Shielding

Predator’s Instinct → Predation Supremacy

Bloodline Affinity Boost: +10%

WARNING: Structural Exoskeleton Transition Imminent – Brace Yourself. ]

Cracks burst across his chest. It was like glowing molten seams split his body like a volcano about to erupt. A plume of scarlet aura surged from his back.

His antennae spasmed, lengthened, coiled back into obsidian spirals as if to touch the sky.

His legs, once lean and functional hardened, the joints exploding outward with new layered plating and curved hooks designed to anchor into terrain or enemies.

Kai roared. A sound not of pain—

—but of power returning.

Muscle flexed under carapace. Segmented armor split open then resealed, tougher than ore, smoother than glass, and steaming with aura that burned like the sun.

A new tail burst from behind, no longer simply an ant’s abdomen, but a weaponized mass, ridged with hardened plates and loaded with unseen muscle.

His fingers cracked, elongated into sharper claws, pulsing with inner energy. Then his head— Oh, his head.

His helmeted crest reshaped, the bone structure beneath fusing into something regal and horrific. Like a crowned predator.

His eyes ignited, not red, but deep scarlet-gold, as if magma itself lived inside them.

[Transformation Complete

New Form: Monarch Apex Predator (Form – Switchable)

Human Form ↔ Apex Form: Shifting available at will.

Physical Enhancement Multiplier in Monarch apex Form: x3

Aura Pool Increase: +120%

Soul Core Manipulation: Unlocked (Arthur note: details later.)

Congratulations, Host. You have become something worthy of the Hive’s fear. ]

On the sidelines... Azhara fell to her knees. She wasn’t praying. She wasn’t submitting. She was breaking.

Every curve of her body quivered. Her hands trembled as she reached toward him, unable to even touch the air between them. The aura was too hot, too heavy. The very ground beneath her knees steamed with the pressure rolling off Kai’s new frame.

She had seen strong beasts from males before. She had seen warriors. She had seen predators. freēwēbηovel.c૦m

A strong gust of Kai’s Monarch aura goes in all directions.

But this? This was not a king. This was a god of insects. A primal deity of force and domination.

Her thighs pressed together involuntarily. Her lips parted. She gasped. "His aura is... inside me." Then moaned. And climaxed.

Azhara threw her head back, her back arching as waves of involuntary pleasure shot through her from brain to claws. Her tongue lolled from the side of her mouth as tears streaked down her flushed cheeks. Her breath came in ragged bursts.