Chapter 258: Chapter 258: Revealing the ants to the family (1)

They talked for a little longer, where the Baron kept fuming, and the Baroness and Theo were the only ones having a productive conversation.

Half an hour later, Theo was finally done with the questions, and his mother was satisfied with the answers.

"There is one last thing, mother." Theo spoke and got up, "There was one more reason the primordial beast even came in contact with me. It was curiosity at first. It didn’t know what my affinity could do, and only after I explained it did it start panicking." Theo spoke and came toward Clara, and said something to her. She nodded and left the study after bowing her head toward the Baron and the Baroness.

"Please wait for a moment."

The Baroness nodded while the Baron stared at Theo with a frown.

"For a primordial to get curious... just what did you do?" he asked with squinted eyes.

Theo just smiled awkwardly and didn’t answer, which made the Baron ’hmph’ in annoyance. It seemed to have been a new habit he picked up from somewhere.

"Do everything you can to get your beast strong, Theo. The next gate that is announced, you’re either going with your brothers or me."

"Honey!"

"What? If he has left the academy, I need to do some things to let him experience the same things, if only better." The barons argued, "And you knew how dangerous the academy was too. We still sent him there, didn’t we?"

"You know the difference between a gate’s difficulty and the academy’s is like day and night!"

"Well, I am not sending him to a red one outright; it will be a smaller one."

They kept arguing, and Theo just shook his head with a chuckle. When he looked at Elias and how tense he was, Theo couldn’t help but want to laugh, but seeing the moment was heated, he didn’t.

Alfred too sighed when he saw them bickering as if it was a normal occurrence when it came to their children.

After five minutes, a knock came to the door and Alfred opened it, revealing Clara who had come back.

Only this time, there was a trolley in her hand.

"Young master, are you sure?" Elias spoke in a whisper near Theo’s ear.

The Baron and the Baroness noticed that, but they didn’t say anything. Their whole focus was on the block of soil moved by the trolley in front of them.

When Clara finally stopped, she moved back, and Elias did the same thing.

"This is what I was telling you about, master. It’s ants." Alfred spoke after appearing in front of the Baron as if he had just teleported.

The Baron’s eyes widened for a moment before they went back to just curiosity.

"Father... mother... can you both please stand and come near here? I would like to show you something."

Both the Baron and the Baroness gulped in fear this time.

They got up and came close to the block only to notice an opening in the front.

"I want you both to do anything but panic. I have everything in control."

Theo took a deep breath and opened the channel of bond between him and the ant queen.

’Send the Ember Worker ants and the Aqua ones separately, then all the other ones that are still normal.’

He spoke, and after a second of delay and a wait of a few seconds.

First, the charred carapace worker ants came out of the block of soil and went down the trolley in a line before making a small cavalry block that looked like a square.

Theo had taught the ant queen some basic formations that it seemed to know before too.

The Baron crouched when he saw the ants not moving anymore. They just stood there in formation like it was the most normal thing to do.

The Baroness just panicked, and Alfred was looking at them with curiosity.

But it was not done. The group of Aquamandible worker ants came down too, making the same formation just beside the first group.

This time, the colors were all different from before, and anyone could tell they were of different affinities.

"Theo... what is the meaning of this?" the Baron spoke in a perplexed voice.

"The ants are all mostly level 3, honey."

"They are."

"Please brace for it, another group is coming up."

"Wha—" The Baron stopped midway when he saw the brisk small black-colored ants come down the trolley in a line.

Their eyes widened when there seemed to be no end to them.

They made small squares for each 100 of them there were.

And just like that, eight of these squares were made in front of him.

"...Most are level 1, some are level 2, and only a few are level 3 here..." the Baroness spoke.

Theo took another deep breath. If he wanted the help of his family, he needed to be transparent about things he could still reveal.

"Clara, pass me that box," Theo spoke and got passed the box right away.

He opened it, and the Baron saw a small grey rat inside it.

Theo picked it up from the body with the head out in the open, sniffing around.

"Ant queen, paralyze him." Theo spoke after keeping it down.

The ant queen didn’t take long to step out as if she was right at the door of the ground.

When the Barons saw that swollen ant, a set of memories flashed in his mind. He looked at Theo with a frozen expression.

The ant queen quickly did the thing with the rat and communicated through the bond. Theo finally placed it down, and the Baroness picked one leg slightly up, preparing for the time when it runs and she kills it right away. Nobody wanted rats in their home, no matter if it was a small house or a big castle.

But to their surprise, the rat was just stunned in one place.

"Embermaw cavalry. Attack the grey rat with your ember resin. Run back to the same place after you do that." Theo spoke out loud.

At this point, the Baron and the Baroness were already shocked beyond measure, but when, after a few seconds, the ants actually moved forward, the last nail of the coffin was driven in.