The Royal Military Academy's Impostor Owns a Dungeon [BL] novel Chapter 1256

Chapter 1256: In Their Wake

Well, for one, they didn’t actually need to attack large areas.

If they could locate the monster’s core and simply snipe at it instead, then they could even focus on using the tiniest stones. The same went for those creatures with obvious wings. If they could target those specific areas and bring them down that way, then they’d be able to conserve as much spiritual energy as possible without putting too much strain on themselves.

Honestly, if they could only use their space buttons or access the dungeon inventory, it would’ve been nice to take out the underwater pocket dimension. Then those with water-based attributes, like Killian and his tide, could maybe just flush the grounds!

Sadly, none of those options were in the cards for them, so they’d simply have to improvise.

Then again, Luca wasn’t planning on taking down every enemy to begin with. They only needed to clear enough of them to create a relatively safer path toward wherever the core might be.

Since they couldn’t properly scan the environment, which seemed to be the particularly tricky limitation of this dungeon simulation that had been endlessly frustrating poor D-29, they’d just have to do things manually.

Only, just as Luca was about to start another round of attacks, he was surprised when a bunch of bees suddenly gathered around him!

"Huh?"

Luca blinked, immediately looking around for Isabelle, only to spot the little Queen Bee hovering nearby with even more bees surrounding her.

"How come the bees are here? Did they all come with little Isabelle when we entered?"

Killian was the one who answered, stepping forward until he was standing right beside the flying Isabelle.

"We were surprised too. It happened while you were throwing that massive corrupted beast down, but it seems like she can actually summon bees from her hive now..." Killian paused to look at his own child with a hint of despairing amazement before turning back toward Luca. "And apparently, they’re here because she wants to serve as our lookout."

"What? Our lookout?"

Jax spoke up next, causing Luca to turn toward him, only to immediately notice that the redhead’s left cheek was suspiciously bright red!

"?!"

"She won’t stop pulling on my face because she wants to send the bees out to make it easier to look around," Jax muttered, wincing slightly as he gently touched his sore cheek.

As expected, that immediately got a reaction from the other adults.

Because wasn’t something like that a little too dangerous for such a young child and the even smaller bees?

But apparently, it was a completely different matter for the little Queen Bee.

While Isabelle might still be young as a sentient spiritual beast, she’d already spent a long time as the head of her own little kingdom. And if this was the kind of world she might eventually have to navigate, then perhaps it was also time for all her little subjects to start learning how to survive in such a dangerous environment!

Apparently, the white-haired man who smelled suspiciously similar to her princess friend happened to share that exact opinion.

Xavier listened quietly as the others voiced their concerns before offering a different perspective.

"If not in a simulation, then when else?" he asked calmly. "If she’s going to grow into something like Tortie, the guardian beast, at some point, then wouldn’t it be better to start preparing her through simulations?"

Right.

That actually made sense.

"Yeah, we figured the same thing too. That’s why we’re stepping up," Jax said, stretching both arms over his head. "Because doing this is basically a family affair, after all."

From the side, Ollie tilted his head.

"What family affair?"

Jax glanced over at him.

"You’ll need us to actually interpret what the bees are seeing. It’s one thing to send them out to scout, but the fastest way would be to share their vision so we can immediately report back on which areas look promising."

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Well, they’d said that earlier, even sounding a little confident as they did.

But to be completely honest, what Jax and Killian were seeing through the bees could only be described as hell, with a whole lot of blackened goo mixed in.

Thankfully, things became considerably easier once some of the flying creatures were taken down by those capable of launching long-ranged attacks.

And yes, Butler Gary and Head Maid Gloria actually managed to figure out how to launch those long-ranged attacks and at least target the smaller flying creatures!

Considering the gap between their abilities and Luca’s, there was obviously no way they could replicate what their Young Lord had done right away. But after seeing what their abilities could potentially become provided they continued improving, the two were far more confident about giving it a try.

And what do you know?

Maybe the looming threat of annihilation was enough to make them try considerably harder, because after several attempts, they eventually figured out that they could at least launch similar attacks as long as they got much closer to their targets.

Granted, calling them similar was definitely a stretch, but hey! Even as poor dupes of the original, they were still faring much better than they had only moments ago.

But their small victory came with its own complication, as the group had to split up just to bring the two members of House Kyros considerably closer to the edge of the metropolis, which naturally took a bit of maneuvering.

Meanwhile, the others stayed behind to protect Jax and Killian, who were left particularly vulnerable as they weren’t simply looking through one or two vision-sharing bees, but an entire group of them! With Isabelle doing most of the heavy lifting by providing the spiritual energy needed to maintain everything, the two fathers concentrated on sorting through the dizzying number of views, hoping to find anything remotely unique that could point them in the right direction.

While all that was happening, Luca was actually asking Xavier if it’d be possible for him to emulate his spatial bloodline ability.

He was hoping to have a much faster way of moving around just in case they needed it, and naturally, his husband didn’t need to be asked twice.

BAAAM!

Oh.

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