Re:Ant Lord-Chapter 179: Getting Out!

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Azhara looked down at her new form. Then up at him. "I feel... whole."

Kai didn’t speak at first. He looked her over, slowly, like a beast sizing up a rival... or perhaps a prize.

His eyes traveled from the way her chitin hugged her hips, to the elegant curvature of her armored chest, now lifted like a throne of obsidian. Her legs were still thick with muscle, but now reinforced with insect-forged beauty. Every line sharpened, every shadow glowing. Her antennae twitched in perfect resonance, instinctively bonded like part of his hive.

Her wildness wasn’t gone. But it had been refined. She didn’t look like prey anymore. She looked like a beauty.

"You look... beautiful this way," he said, low and honest.

Her ears twitched. She blinked. That was the best praise she’d ever heard from anyone.

Kai turned to the Rift, voice flat but charged with finality.

"Let’s move."

[System Warning: Rift Instability Critical – 00:17 Remaining]

Kai stepped toward the portal.

"Hold on to me," he commanded.

She obeyed him instantly. She was hugging him from behind, arms locked around his waist.

Her large breasts pressed tightly into his back.

Kai grunted under his breath. "You’re not subtle."

"Do I need to be?" she whispered, breath warm against his spine.

Her soft antenna tickled the bare skin at his neck. Her hips shifted unconsciously as her chest molded to his back like puzzle pieces. She squeezed once on purpose. She wanted to feel Kai’s body.

Kai’s eyebrow twitched. "Focus."

He crouched. "Don’t blame me if you get crushed."

Her smile deepened. "Please do."

Kai growled under his breath, arms tightening.

"Transform." He thinks.

The Apex predator from beneath Kai’s skin in a radiant wave, a surge of aura that roared like a heartbeat of the Hive.

Chitin plates folded into place along his chest, shoulders, and legs, expanding with thunderous clicks as raw power armored his frame. The once human texture of his flesh gave way to something ancient, something absolute, a war form.

Antennae bloomed from his temples—sleek, segmented, pulsing with crimson lines that glowed faintly in rhythm with his heartbeat.

His claws snapped out, curved and obsidian edged. His tail extended, thick and ridged, wrapping down and then up like a living engine of balance and brutality.

Azhara gasped as her fingers sank into the deep ridges lining his waist. The armored plates were hot under her palms, not from temperature, but from energy. They hummed with life, like touching the outer shell of a god.

Then she felt it. His tail bloomed, a sharp, flexible mass, sliding between her legs as it completed its extension. She nearly jolted.

It wasn’t trying to grab her. But it fits between her thighs perfectly.

"Ahh"

Her eyes widened, her thighs clenched, and her breath hitched as the tail pulsed beneath her.

"Oh Hive... stars above... it’s thick... thicker than my knife." She thinks with a face that represents lust.

She bit her lip, her heart hammering. Her body pressed tighter against his back instinctively.

Perverted thoughts flooded her mind. "If this tail is this hard... How hard is that? And the tail feels good. I can’t imagine what his front will feel like. If I got pinned like this in a cave... I’d be ruined. Hunted. Bred. I will beg for it."

She wasn’t thinking like a soldier anymore. She was thinking like prey that wanted to be claimed.

Kai didn’t turn to look at her but his claws flexed once, and she swore the plates beneath her fingertips shifted just enough to tease her inner thighs.

Her cheeks flushed. Her body trembled, not from fear, but from craving.

He charged. The Rift Gate loomed into a shimmering crack of space barely the width of his palm.

[Aura Compression Active – Monarch Apex Mode: Engaged]

Kai flared every muscle, tightening his limbs, flattening his profile. The Rift Gate shimmered before him, an unstable slit in space, now no wider than a child’s foot. The edges pulsed violently, pushing back against him like wet stone wrapped in lightning. One misstep, and it would sever his limbs or crush him into nonexistence.

But he didn’t hesitate.

He roared, not just with voice but with aura.

His exoskeleton flared with shifting hues—onyx darkening to obsidian, veins of molten gold streaking through his carapace. Muscles bulged unnaturally beneath armored layers, every fiber under full tension.

"Let’s crack this thing open."

He slammed both hands on the edge of the Rift, claws puncturing the trembling veil of dimensional fabric. His palms ignited as the Void Friction Reaction shredded his muscles layer by layer.

Still, he pushed deeper.

[Skill Activated: Tiny Tank]

[Skill Activated: Adaptive Armor – Reinforced Compression Shell]

[Skill Activated: Worker’s Resilience]

His shoulders snapped backward, popping tendons and resetting joints to widen his stance. Kai bellowed, then forced his claws apart by gripping the threshold like it was flesh and he tore it.

The Rift screamed. It didn’t just resist... it retaliated.

Tendrils of dimensional backlash cracked along his arms like molten whips. His antennae buzzed violently. Blood spilled from his mouth, hissing into steam.

[System Warning: Aura Compression Exceeding Limits

System Alert: Fracture Detected in Left Forelimb – Pain Suppression Advised]

He ignored it. Pain was nothing.

His eyes locked on the glimmer for the open world, where Luna, Miryam, Mia, and many others await him.

"If I can’t crawl through then I’ll rip you wide open!"

He used all his might. His hand moved with terrifying momentum, speed-fused strength amplifying every twitch of his limbs.

[Predator’s Instinct – Triggered: Weakness Exploited – Dimensional Shear Point Located]

A subtle shift in space bloomed to his senses. Kai twisted. His entire frame coiled and he pummeled a punch into the Rift’s weakness, not once, but thrice.

BOOM. BOOM. CRACK!

The gate shattered open, for a heartbeat. A human sized fissure peeled like a wound in the world. Kai flung himself forward, slamming his foot into the lip to anchor momentum, folding his limbs in tight, and diving through the split.

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