Solo Leveling: Ragnarok – 57



Episode 57

In Gangnam there are private spaces that only VIPs can use.

Queen Bee.

This room salon which means queen bee was one of them.

But among them all Queen Bee was a little special.

Only Hunter.

In other words it was a unique establishment that only accepted people who had awakened their abilities as customers.

Of course because the price of alcohol was so high it was mainly used only by upper-middle-level hunters who could make good money.

It was only a few months ago that Vice President Lee Min-seong first discovered Queen Bee.

But when I came to my senses I realized that I had become a regular here.

‘…since when did it start?’

Even in his confusion Lee Min-seong realized that he was currently trapped in something like golden jelly.

‘weigh.’

A familiar taste on my tongue.

It was honey.

Lee Min-seong soon realized what this familiar taste was.

‘Royal jelly.’

It was the scent of the high-quality liquor he enjoyed drinking at Queen Bee.

A conversation I once had with Madam flashed through my mind.

-Madam what on earth is this drink? I looked elsewhere but it wasn’t sold anywhere.

-Hehe. It’s a trade secret.

I asked several times but Madame would always change the subject with a suspicious smile.

If it had been my usual temperament I could have pressured him and forced him to find out but I thought it was cute that he raised his sassy attitude even against himself an A-class hunter so I left him alone with the intention of playing with him.

But now that I think about it I think I may have been possessed by something from then on.

Lee Min-seong looked helplessly at Madame’s figure beyond his sticky golden vision.

Madame was still smiling at herself.

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At that smile anger welled up to the top of my head.

But something is strange.

As time passed his anger was gradually dissipating.

And what comes into that empty space of emotion is…

‘What is this feeling? ‘What the hell!’

Lee Min-seong gritted his teeth and tried to reject that feeling.

But Madame was muttering as if she thought even that side of herself was cute.

“Rejecting it is useless. You’ve already eaten too much royal jelly. So stop now…”

Madame’s delicate hands touched the necklace she always wore around her neck.

The green jewel embedded in the necklace shone brightly.

[Be faithful my worker bee.]

“…!”

Gurgling!

The moment when Madame Ani Queen’s whisper struck my mind.

Lee Min-seong opened his eyes and trembled.

And an instinct that I didn’t know existed sprouted in my head.

‘…my queen.’

* * *

Once upon a time there was a monarch.

Queresha the king of bugs and the lord of plague.

The dimension where Queresha was located was a world infested with hundreds of millions of poisonous insects.

In that world Queresha was originally just a bug.

The bug that was the softest and smallest than anyone else.

Originally it was a weak little creature that should have been eaten by a larger natural enemy or rotted away by the venom of a stronger poisonous insect.

But Quresha survived that terrible place.

Instead of just running and hiding it grew little by little by eating the corpses of bugs that were bigger and stronger than itself.

By absorbing the abilities of those bugs.

Accumulating that terrible poison in your body.

Quresha grew stronger and stronger.

When the poison accumulated in the body becomes stronger and more severe than any other insect.

Quresha became the king of that world.

and.

Queen bee ‘Arsha’ was a resident of that world.

‘…I was really embarrassed when the great and strong Quresha died.’

The existence of a monarch at one level is important.

The world of bugs which was a hotbed of strife existed as a strong colony centered around Queresha.

However the moment Quresha died the remaining insects began to show their ambition to take over the empty space.

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‘I don’t even know the topic and I dare….’

In that confusion Arsha realized her destiny.

queen.

Arsha who was originally born as a queen bee thought that she was worthy of being the next monarch.

I had no doubt that if there was anyone who could succeed Quresha it was only me.

However the world that had already lost its monarch was torn into pieces and scattered into the gaps between dimensions.

It was quite coincidental that Arsha who had been wandering through the gap in that dimension was able to arrive on Earth.

‘No it was fate.’

As soon as Arsha arrived on Earth she imitated herself as a human.

And more human than anyone else he naturally blended into the earth.

Unlike the demonic beasts from other dimensions who ignorantly tried to take over the Earth with only their power and died Arsha chose to adapt like an extremely insect.

No to put it nicely it was an adaptation but in reality it was parasitic.

‘I can’t believe I the queen end up like this….’

Arsha felt ashamed.

There are no worker bees.

A queen bee without worker bees was as good as a useless being.

In the original dimension Arsha had numerous worker bees. However among all those bees he was the only one who escaped from the gap in the dimension.

‘We need to increase the number of worker bees.’

If it were other demonic beasts that died while trying to take over the Earth they would not have been able to endure this situation and would have moved hastily.

Because they are ignorant.

‘If you simply use your strength alone you will inevitably die in the end.’

Arsha was able to learn that painful lesson through Quresha’s death.

‘Because the strong and great Quresha is also dead.’

The war of monarchs seen from afar was truly a clash of huge and powerful beings.

But Arsha knew her own worth.

‘I who have not even become a monarch and who do not even have worker bees cannot move hastily.’

This kind of patience was Arsha’s true strength.

Arsha persevered and persevered deeply into Korean society.

And I tried to understand human society.

‘Nothing much.’

In the end Arsha realized that human society was not much different from that of bugs than she thought.

‘This is a world where the more toxic person wins in the end.’

However that power was expressed as ‘money’ rather than ‘poison’.

That’s why Arsha didn’t immediately make Lee Min-seong a worker bee.

In order to turn an A-level hunter into a worker bee he had to constantly poison himself with royal jelly.

‘It’s not too late to use it for other purposes first and then turn it into a worker bee.’

If it had been any other guy he would have been reaped as a worker bee right away but Arsha’s patience made this choice possible.

In fact thanks to that choice Lee Min-seong attracted more hunters to Room Salon Queen Bee ‘as a human being’.

His social position and fame had many uses.

‘I was especially surprised when he even brought stardust.’

The moment Arsha saw the stardust she realized.

The fact that demons created this.

And its uses too.

‘Demons also hid in this world like me.’

But it seemed like the demons had adapted to this place in a different way than themselves.

As the queen bee she goes into hiding to increase the number of worker bees.

Demons use humans as stardust to amplify their power.

‘…This could be useful.’

What if you strengthen humans with stardust and then turn them into worker bees?

Stronger soldiers will be born.

However the amplification effect of existing stardust was too weak.

So I persevered again.

May the demons improve the stardust’s performance through more experiments.

And the person who distributed the most stardust was Lee Min-seong.

An unlucky chaebol whose inferiority complex exploded when his driver awakened to S-class status.

Arsha clicked her tongue as she looked at Lee Min-seong who was transformed into a worker bee while trapped in her royal jelly.

“…It was such a waste. “I was looking forward to you becoming S-class someday.”

If that were the case Lee Min-seong would have become even more of a celebrity dominating the Korean hunter world.

Then his position as the one who controlled Lee Min-seong behind the scenes also increased.

More hunters.

More power.

More power.

And in the end…

“It would have been possible to have a worker bee with the power of an S-class hunter.”

But these results weren’t bad.

In fact it was the first time that I was able to harvest a class A worker bee.

If an A-level hunter suddenly disappears it would attract public attention so Lee Min-seong had not been made into a worker bee until now.

“Ugh….”

Inside the golden royal jelly Lee Min-seong gritted his teeth with a painful expression.

His eyes were shining golden.

“Ugh…!”

“Hmm?”

what?

A puzzled expression appeared on Arsha’s face.

A completely different reaction from the worker bees I have made so far.

Is it because it’s class A?

Lee Min-seong was forcing his body to move in royal jelly.

“Rejecting mutation?”

“Grrr! “Wow!”

Lee Min-seong was already out of his mind.

But even in that situation Lee Min-seong’s body moved instinctively.

‘I… I…’

I gritted my teeth so that the blood in my neck almost stood out.

“…Immigration!”

Phew!

In the end Lee Min-seong lost his courage and ran out of Royal Jelly.

The body was already in the process of being transformed into a bug but it did not listen to Queen Arsha’s orders and went berserk.

“Aaaah!”

In his head he constantly heard orders to obey the queen but Lee Min-seong refused those orders even as he rolled around on the floor in pain.

‘How dare someone treat me…!’

Are you giving orders?

Eventually Lee Min-seong stood up and two pairs of wings spread out from his back.

Kwaang-!

“for a moment! “Where are you going!”

Arsha looked in astonishment at the back of Lee Min-seong flying through the wall.

* * *

Tiring!

[You have completed ‘Daily Quest: Strong Body Skill Training’.]

100 push-ups: completed (100/100)

100 sit-ups: completed (100/100)

100 squats: complete (100/100)

Running 10km: Done (10/10)

※However you must carry Ammut on your back.

[Completion reward has arrived.]

[Do you want to check your reward?] (Y/N)

“Haaa… I was in pain today too.”

[Hehehehe! Little Lord you have worked very hard! However I became stronger as I worked hard so today is also a rewarding day…]

“It’s noisy.”

Today again Suho who went to Ammut for the daily quest collapsed on the bed.

Although I recovered momentarily as a compensation for completion the mental aftereffects of completing the high-intensity exercise that broke my bones and tore my muscles did not easily go away.

Whining!

However Suho’s cell phone continued to vibrate next to his bed.

“…What is so loud?”

Suho frowned and picked up his cell phone.

Emergency text messages were coming to my cell phone.

emergency disaster text

[Hunter Association] A-class villain Lee Min-seong appears in Yeongdeungpo-gu Seoul. Evacuate and beware of future attacks.

“what?”

Suho opened his eyes wide and stood up.

[trot! A-level villain Lee Min-seong attacks other hunters!]

[The appearance of an A-class villain hunting down hunters!]

“It is unprecedented in Korea for a class A villain who is wanted to attack other hunters while giving up on escaping. ” -Expert A

The internet was on fire due to the sudden incident.

Suho was surprised and was checking the articles when he suddenly got a phone call.

-Hello this is Baekho Guild. Are you Hunter Seong Su-ho? I was worried because you didn’t answer the phone.

“yes?”

-Vice-guild leader Baek Mi-ho is looking for you.