Entoma - Bug Whip

“Instead...c’meeeeere.”

A new creature coiled around her free arm. It was like a centipede—no, it was a real centipede, albeit over thirty feet long and its face, if it could be called that, had abnormally sharp fangs.

This was the strongest insect she could summon, Whip Bug.

Entoma began bracing her legs.

She’d collected most of the data she needed about the humans in front of her—their attack speed, destructive power, defense, evasion, mobility, and so on. The only thing she wasn’t sure of was how Tia would address the situation, but that wasn’t worth getting anxious about.

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When Entoma saw Gagaran out front with her weapon at the ready, she decided whose she would neutralize first and lashed out with the whip in her right hand.

The longer a whip is, the slower its tip will move—that was a given. It was natural even for someone with superhuman strength like Entoma. But that assumed the weapon was like any ordinary whip.

What Entoma wielded was the strongest summoning she could accomplish with her bug tamer abilities...

Normally a whip would approach in a circular motion, but this one moved in an impossible way. It approached Gagaran quick as lightning, like an extension of Entoma’s arm, twisting at acute zigzag angles. Even an adventurer who’d experienced all sorts of unknowns wouldn’t have had a chance to see or experience inconceivable movements like these—only a cross between a living being and a weapon could perform this way. It was utterly natural to be at a loss during one’s first encounter.

But her ability to dodge it nonetheless proved she was an adamantite-rank adventurer—the highest-rank adventurer.

Gagaran just barely avoided the bug whip, and it whizzed past the side of her face.

“Watch out!”

The same moment Tia screamed, Gagaran was sent flying—by Tia’s ninjutsu, Ring of Fire Bombs, which she set off knowing it would hit both herself and her teammate. As the flames and explosive blast enveloped the pair, the Whip Bug suddenly made a hairpin turn to pass through the space where Gagaran’s head had been.

Without Tia’s resolve to take drastic measures, the Whip Bug would have undoubtedly decapitated Gagaran. It was a decent evasive tactic, but Entoma’s attacks didn’t end there. As if bound by a leash, the Whip Bug abruptly changed direction and headed for sooty, blackened Gagaran.

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Volume 6, Chapter 9.2