Chapter 100 - Ant Map

"Pet!" Fily whispered cautiously at Petunia who was now using her knowledge of chemicals for making traps on the door.

And when Fily saw this, her initial instinct was to step back and look cluelessly at Petunia who already made the floor beneath her ice.

"Oops, sorry I spilled." Petunia whispered while pointing at the door. "They're just right there." She said and attempted on putting out the candle lights which Fily stopped her from doing so immediately.

"I've got a plan," Fily said while watching her stat-hut connection die.

"What happened to this?" Petunia said and clawed her Stat-hut bell softly.

"I told Venedette to cut off all comms." Fily said and shook her head, "But that's not important right now.."

"You told Venedette what?!" Petunia whispered to her aggressively.

"Just…" Fily tried to explain again, "I happened to get in contact with the Crone's leader and I think I may have found a way to remove this light disruption system from the anti-gravity system of this island but first, we need to capture one of them."

"Wait, slow down… You did what? By just sitting there?" Petunia said while getting weirded out by the progression of events that just happened while Fily was just sitting in a corner.

"The mastermind behind these Crones. I happened to get in contact with him and found an idea of how to destroy this light disruption system without getting the anti-gravity system of this island involved." Fily repeated with much emphasis on the most important words.

"These Crones had a mastermind behind them? No wonder they were able to do such genius things without even being genius in the first place." Petunia said and exhaled in relief. 

"Yes, now help me capture one of them," Fily said, getting straight to the point due to their time limit of just how long Venedette and the whole island could last without the comms system.

"O-Okay… How long do you think that is? And are we going to just leave this- this lightsum like this?" Petunia said, pertaining to the light disruption system.

"Light- what?"

"Lightsum," Petunia said but quickly covered it up, "Never mind I just made up a name for it, I feel so pressured that I can't help  but think of useless things to calm myself down, like naming new potions, etc." Petunia explained briefly while looking at Fily apologetically who, on the other hand, just smiled at her.

"It's okay, just calm down, we have at least ten minutes to kidnap them," Fily said with that signature smile of hers which comforted Petunia a little bit from feeling too paranoid but also pressured her more at the same time.

"Okay… so, how are we going to pull that?" Petunia asked as if doubting her own ability.

"By using your skills!" Fily smiled excitedly.

"Boss is taking too long to respond. Do you think this is broken?" one of the three guys from outside said.

"Meow." Petunia meowed intentionally and loudly as she could for the people outside to notice her.

"Y'all hear smth?" another guy said.

"I think it came from here." The Crone said while her voice was getting closer to the door.

"Well then? What are you waiting for granny? Go check it out, now!" the first guy said again and pushed the granny to the door based on the sound that it made.

When the granny stepped back slowly, Petunia gave Fily a nod and went behind her immediately.

"B-But, how about the boss' orders? Shouldn't we wait for his orders first?" The Crone said with her old granny voice as if she was scared but the guys were not falling for her tricks.

"You should still go inside and check it out." The guy said which left the Crone with no choice.

But the moment the Crone opened the door, she was immediately sucked into the pitch darkness which even the guys weren't able to see.

"What the-?" the other guys said and followed after the Crone, but the moment they stepped inside the pitch-black tunnel, their feet immediately slipped on the frozen floor and got stuck with gum all over their bodies.

"Is that all?" Fily asked after seeing the three enemies wrapped around gum and sticking on the ice track in front of her feet.

"There's one missing-" Fily quickly realized when Petunia lit up the candles again.

"Got you!" the other guy said when he almost caught Petunia by the door but Fily quickly reacted with her Super Puff, shutting the door behind the guy who managed to keep his balance despite the slippery ice on his feet but was still weak to Fily's super Puff.

Thankfully, Petunia was able to keep her balance using the Gummy cloud as her platform and go against the current of Fily's Super Puff, tacking the guy to the door using her gummy control powers.

"Good job," Fily said out of breath after Petunia finally finished gluing everybody either to the freezing floor or to the door using her sticky formulas.

"Why can't I communicate with them-" the Crone complained while struggling to get out of the sticky gums that were wrapped around their body and glued them to the frozen floor like it was a spider's web.

"Comm's down, granny," Fily said after drinking a healing potion from Petunia's stash and reached down for their foreheads.

"Now let's see your tunnel system down here," Fily said and proceeded with her mind hacking inside her Mind Palace where she would be most comfortable and efficient in doing so while Petunia placed fragile ice balls in their mouths with sleeping potions inside.

"See you in dreamland~," Petunia said and smiled at them as she watched the ice balls crack and melt in their mouths.

"I got it," Fily said not long after and proceeded to draw a sketch of the tunnel system's map on the floor that resembled a random ant colony's tunnel system at most.

"Well, that's unexpected," Fily said while thinking about her brother who literally made these people make a bigger version of an ant colony's tunnel system.

"Wow, that's big." Petunia said after seeing Fily's perfect drawing.

"Okay let's go, I'll send this map to Venedette once the comms are up," Fily said and proceeded back to her Mind Palace for the isolation of the lightsum to the island's Anti-gravity system.