The Frontier Alchemist ~ I Can’t Go Back to That Job After You Made My Budget Zero

ough to dodge the rain of ant balls.

I protect my vital parts with my limbs, but the ant balls hitting me one after the other leave my body in tatters.

An ant ball grazes my hand and bends my fingers.

An ant ball catches my knee and breaks my kneecap.

An ant ball scratches my face and scrapes my earlobe.

All these ant balls rain down on me at the same time, but I hold on to my faint consciousness, and roll on the ground to lessen the damage as much as I can.

The pain is surpassing my limit.
It is going beyond pain, and feeling like a tormenting heat.

This suffering that seemed like it would go on forever suddenly stops.
It looks like that thing ran out of ants near its feet.

“It didn’t finish you, uh? No problem, I’ll give you more right away, ant man.”

Brags the enemy that looks like a village girl before she whistles again.

It’s a perfect opportunity for me.

I force myself to use the fingers that were bent by a direct hit, and try to take out the potion while still on the floor.

My bent fingers tremble, and I slowly take the bottle out, but it falls from my hand.

It rolls in front of my face, and I can see the enemy through the bottle.

Ants clad with purifying light answer her call and swarm out from the floor and walls to serve as ammunition for that ant man.

I think I used all the energy I had left in that hand, because I can’t lift it anymore.

Ants gather around ant man, and I muster up what strength I have left to twist my body.
Thankfully, my mouth is still safe, and I manage to use it to grab the potion bottle.

I gather strength in my jaw, and crunch.

I hear glass breaking, and after it cuts my mouth, the potion starts pouring out and filling it.