How I Tame My Valkyrie Harem

Chapter 206: Queen Bee Part 2

I had trouble staying on my feet because of her power, but thanks to my resilience, I could still keep myself from succumbing to the pressure pushing me towards the ground. I couldn’t falter. Even in this situation, I had to fight the bee before she launched another attack.

With a heavy hand, I grabbed the hilt of my sword and pulled it from its sheath. The gleaming black sword felt heavier in my hand now than ever before. I remembered when it had still been a branch of the Yggdrasil tree, and all the physical strength it had taken to drag it.

"Ha, hahaha," I began to laugh nervously. "Compared to that weight, this is nothing special."

"I-Impossible!" the Queen Bee shouted, in a mixture of anger and frustration. "You shouldn’t even be able to stay on your feet anymore."

"Well, that just shows how much stronger I am than you!" I said, and without further ado, I charged at her as fast as I could with the weight of my body increased.

The sensation was like trying to run through a pool, as if I were fighting in territory that wasn’t mine, at a clear disadvantage. But despite that, with my agility stats, I could still reach the bee, even if I was slower than normal. My blade was ready to strike her.

"Hmph!" The Queen Bee raised her wings, quickly increasing her altitude and moving out of reach of my blade.

I hadn’t managed to hit her as intended, but I gained something even better. My body finally felt lighter, as if invisible shackles had released me. Graviray was an ability that immobilized the opponent, but it required concentration to use, which prevented the user from dodging and maintaining the skill at the same time.

"Damn you. Maybe I underestimated you a little, but don’t think you can defeat me so easily."

Her wings fluttered in the wind, increasing the distance between her and the ground more and more, making it harder for me to attack her with my sword.

"That’s what we’ll see. Fireball!" Without hesitating, I pointed the palm of my hand towards the insect and unleashed a ball of fire straight in the direction she was fleeing.

The Queen Bee might be out of reach of my physical attacks, but as long as she kept moving, she couldn’t use Graviray against me. That wasn’t enough to defeat her, but at least I would be on the offensive and wouldn’t lose my mobility.

I ran towards her, as if I were chasing a kite flying in the wind, except instead of trying to catch a string that had snapped, I kept firing Fireballs at the bee.

"You stubborn pest!" she said while avoiding the flaming attacks trying to hit her.

I was deliberately attacking where she seemed to be heading, guiding her towards where I judged things would be more favorable for me and always aiming at her wings. If I could at least destroy one of her little insect wings, the fight would turn more in my favor.

"Thunder!" After consecutive Fireball attacks, she must have gotten used to the rhythm of my attacks, which were certainly slower than the lightning that came as a surprise to her.

"W-What?" She even tried to dodge my attack, but I managed to hit her exactly where I wanted. The yellow lightning I fired struck her right wing, tearing away a piece of it as it passed through.

"Yes!" I celebrated. Now that I had hit her in such a delicate spot, her flight had been enormously impaired.

Her body tilted towards the damaged side, unable to maintain its balance. The only thing still keeping her above the ground was her left wing, which was trying with all its strength to keep the insect queen from falling.

"W-Waah! You’ll pay for this!" she said indignantly, but there wasn’t much she could do in that position.

In that humiliating situation, fleeing or using Graviray weren’t possible options for her. All she could do was receive my attack. I advanced towards her at my maximum speed, both hands firmly gripping my sword.

"Drain Sword!" With a swing of my sword, I cut the wing that had remained intact until then. The damage was so great that the Queen Bee fell to the ground, unable to fly.

"Aaaah!" She let out a scream as she crashed flat onto the ground.

While the creature murmured in pain, I ran towards her one last time. She had a card up her sleeve, something she had used in the book when she was about to die for the first time.

I ran, trying to seize the opportunity to deal more damage to her before she could use it, my black sword positioned to stab her.

"No! My life won’t end like this!" the Queen said in a determined voice.

When my blade was only a few inches away from hitting her in the head, the bee’s exoskeleton cracked. Like a shell, the crack continued along the bee’s body, splitting her in half. And from that rupture in her body, a flash of light emerged from her carcass.

I covered my eyes on reflex against the intense white light radiating from her.

"Aahn~" the Queen Bee said in a wondrous voice. "This form is more like what a real queen should bee~"

Her voice had changed—no. Maybe the right way to put it was that the way her voice reached me had changed. She was no longer transmitting her voice to us through telepathy. Now her voice was being carried to my ears like a normal human voice.

The Queen Bee described in SCRL is defeated by Leo and his party, but not before trying one last time by evolving to obtain new powers and destroy the enemies around her.

Her form was not nearly as grotesque as that of a giant insect. Instead, her body had taken on a hybrid, humanoid shape.

She had the shape of a woman, taller than me at 2m tall (6’6.74’’), with large breasts, a beautiful ass, a thin waist, and pretty legs. She now had human eyes with irises that mixed brown and gold.

In those aspects, she was truly beautiful, but one only had to look at her insect parts to tell that she was not human. She had her bee antennae on top of a helmet that resembled a bee’s head.

Clothes no longer covered her body, but aside from the area around her cleavage, the black and yellow pattern covered her skin like a second skin. Her legs and arms had a feminine beauty until they reached their extremities, where they were replaced by insectoid shapes that looked more like claws than anything else.

The beauty of her face was marked by two dark stripes, each one starting from the top of her forehead and passing over one of her eyes, as if they were tribal tattoos. From her back, her new bee wings opened for the first time.

"Aahn~" moaned the monster in the form of a woman. "Thank you, human. The battle between us made me awaken a potential I never thought existed inside me. For that, I am certainly grateful to you."

Her face, which had seemed filled with wonder, changed from one moment to the next. When I saw her face full of murderous intent directed at me, I ran towards her, preparing a quick attack.

There were only two meters of distance between us when she raised her hand towards me and called out her skill in a sexy voice, "Graviray~"

At that moment, the weight of my body increased, considerably reducing my speed. It didn’t feel like the first time she had cast her spell on me. It felt three, if not four, times stronger. My body couldn’t endure it, and I fell to the ground almost instantly, right at my enemy’s feet.

"Rick!" I could hear the voices of my Valkyries in the distance.

"Ugh!"

I tried to lift my face from the grass where it was buried, but while I could still barely raise it, an abrupt force came down on the back of my head, shoving me back into the ground.

"Yes, that’s right," the Queen Bee said in a sadistic voice. "The place for humans who insult my royalty is on the ground, right beneath my feet."

Her strangely shaped foot rubbed against my head, as if she wanted me to swallow the earth.

"Isn’t this much better?" she said in a happy voice while performing that little ritual of humiliation. "But I have to admit that you are strong. Too strong for a human. I never imagined that one of you at this level would reach my new home, but it seems I was mistaken."

Her foot seemed to grow heavier on top of me.

"I will make sure this never happens again by destroying all the human cities nearby."

She was confident. Too confident. Maybe the transformation had made her forget that I didn’t need to move that much to fight her. Even with that gravity and with her this close, nothing stopped me from grabbing her other leg.

"What—"

"Thunder!" I called out my skill even with dirt on my face, and from my hand pressed against her, a yellow bolt of lightning emerged, running through her entire body.