Strongest Superhuman System - Chapter 488

Chapter 488: The Queen’s Meal
Arit blasted forward toward the closest calamity class and dodged around it as it reached out to grab her! Her hand blurred into motion, and blood splashed over the ground as the monster’s head was easily cut off by her sharp nails! She swerved around another attack from a frog-type anima that tried to catch her with its tongue but her momentum caused her to slam into a third anima running towards her!

Arit was thrown to the ground, and she grabbed the long tongue of the frog as it lashed out again and dragged it forward forcefully! The frog flew toward her, and she roared while swinging it about before using it as a battering ram to slam into three more anima around her!

ROARRR!

An anima roared from behind, and Arit turned around in shock as she saw the beast in the air, trying to body-slam her! She immediately jumped back but was caught by the arms of a humanoid sheep with wide, bloodthirsty eyes as it tried to take a bite out of her! Arit growled as she reached back and grabbed its head before sinking her claws into its skull. A large crack echoed through the area! She grabbed the sheep and flew into the air with its corpse, heading toward the three Eldritch-class monsters that were still advancing, and threw the corpse at the nearest one!

The corpse slammed into its face, and Arit felt a flicker of fear enter her heart when the monster turned its eyes toward her with a grunt of annoyance. It raised its club to try and hit her, but Arit stayed out of its reach in the air and moved away to ensure it would miss! One hit from that club and Arit knew it would be the end of her!

Arit flew down to try and grab another anima, but she suddenly felt a massive force hit her from behind, and a sticky sensation traveled across her entire body!

‘Is this a tongue!?’

Arit turned and saw that it was a large chameleon-type animal that had pinned her down! The animal’s tongue had shot out from its mouth, holding Arit in place so the others could attack her! Arit immediately brought up her sharp nails and used them as a knife to cut the tongue! All of this took only one second, but that second was all the time the other anima needed to gang up on her! They all ran toward Arit, and she groaned as she was thrown to the ground!

‘I’m hungry.’

A deep feeling of emptiness spread inside Arit as her mana started to reduce to dangerous levels. Arit didn’t know it, but this feeling was mana exhaustion. It was the first time she had ever been pushed this far in a fight, so she was shocked by the sensation that overtook her. It wasn’t the same type of mana exhaustion that other superhumans said they felt. Instead of feeling tired, Arit just felt hungry. Desperate, even.

‘I’m hungry.’

An anima roared as it swung its large arm at Arit, but she grabbed hold of it, allowing it to carry her up! She swung around the anima and latched onto its back—then she ate.

The anima queen was created on the island by allowing a single QUEEN to absorb the mana from numerous anima and humans that were captured. The only reason the QUEEN came out from the pod looking like Arit was because Arit was the most complete organism that was put in the pod, and it considered her body structure ideal. Arit didn’t have any mana to be absorbed by the QUEEN, so she only served as a host for it. But all the other creatures were drained of their mana to serve as food for the QUEEN.

The ability to absorb energy from creatures never left the QUEEN, but since Arit had always been safe beside Mark and never needed to use her mana to high levels like she was doing now, the QUEEN had never needed to use that ability. But now, in a fight for its life, it was hungry once more.

The anima that Arit was holding onto released a loud roar of pain as it felt Arit sink her fingers deep into its neck! Her nails latched on like a vice, and she began to absorb mana from the creature! The anima reached back to try and get Arit off, but she held on tight, absorbing more and more mana until the creature finally stopped moving and fell.

Arit’s mouth split into a pleased smile as she sighed into the sky. The mana she absorbed moved through her body, replenishing her fatigue, and giving her more strength to continue fighting.

But she was still hungry.

Across the clearing, Sasha turned toward Arit in shock as she noticed one of her creatures being destroyed. This feeling was different from all the other times her monsters had died. Normally, Sasha could tell when her monsters were killed since she would feel it. But this time, it was almost like her monster wasn’t killed at all. The link connecting her to it was now so weak that it might as well be dead, yet the monster was still alive.

What the hell did that girl do to my monster? I can hardly feel any mana inside the anima. Don’t tell me she can drain mana from anima.

Sasha frowned in annoyance as this thought crossed her mind, but she didn’t let it affect her too much. Arit was an anima-human hybrid, so Sasha knew better than to be surprised by anything Arit could do! Instead, Sasha turned back to Luna to continue the fight they were having!

Luna was standing in the middle of a wave of ice and steam that swirled around her, preventing anything from getting close. Her eyes were closed, and it was obvious that she was concentrating hard on something! Sasha put her hand forward and ordered the Lion-based Eldritch to move forward and attack. The monster charged toward the swirling mass of ice and steam!

Suddenly, once the monster got close enough, the mass stopped swirling and morphed into hundreds of spikes that shot toward the creature! The lion growled as it jumped to the side and easily avoided the spikes! It continued to run forward while making sure the spikes didn’t hit it, but they were relentless in their assault! They chased the monster down, and eventually, one managed to stab into its side! Once that one stabbed into the monster, Luna raised her hand toward the lion and commanded the ice to heat up to unbelievable levels, creating a superheated bomb!

BOOM!

The ice lodged in the monster’s back immediately imploded, and it roared in pain as it lost momentum! Sasha growled and sent the humanoid-looking hippo forward! The hippo had a large snout, showing off its massive teeth when it snarled, and it bent low, immediately charging straight for Luna alongside the lion! The spikes shot toward the hippo, but its tough skin deflected most of them, protecting the lion that was following behind it! The lion-headed animal jumped to the side, clearing a path toward Luna! Its tail extended like a snake and shot forward!