Earth With Dungeon: Saving the World With an Economic Boom

he’s slightly surprised by the seemingly endless mana, it is futile.
The clones are like fragile mirages.
If it strikes them with its aura, they’ll disappear instantly.

[Release Aura]

Thinking of the girl’s face contorted in despair.
Mothman Queen feels joy as it releases her aura throughout the surroundings.
The aura emanates from Mothman Queen’s body like waves, spreading to the surroundings.

The surrounding area was thrown into chaos by its aura, causing disturbances and completely disrupting the doppelgängers, which vanished like mist.

[Proboscis Penetration]

With a final strike, it thrusts toward the girl with incredible speed.
The frail girl, unable to keep up with that speed, manages to shift her body slightly and avoid a direct attack on her heart, but her shoulder is pierced instead.

It intended to absorb bodily fluids from her shoulder, but the girl clenches the proboscis, obstructing its absorption.
It chuckles at her futile resistance.
It raises its legs to cut off the hand gripping its proboscis, but…

“It’s over.”

It halts its movement as she lowers her head and mutters those words.
It wonders if she’s begging for her life.
It attempts to observe her with its compound eyes, but the girl lifts her head, wearing a smile as if her mischievous plan succeeded.

“What about it? Your mere three years of life? It would have been perfect if you asked me about that.
But I suppose bugs can’t help it, can they?”

Upon witnessing her nonchalant demeanor and incomprehensible words, it instinctively recoils, feeling an unfathomable sense of fear emanating from the girl before it.

“You… Dungeon bosses possess intellect.
You understand human language, and your thoughts are similar to humans.
I believed in that.
I thought if I created multiple clones, you would quickly adapt.
The easiest way would be to scatter aura in the vicinity and prevent you from creating clones.
I commend you for adapting on the second attempt.”

There was something in her eyes that gave me a sense of unease.
Something felt off about why she was speaking to me.

“Release of Aura.
If you use that, I won’t be able to sense small fighting spirits anymore, right?”

In an instant, it realizes the girl’s intention.
It tries to pull back its proboscis and swing its legs to cut her hand, but she releases her grip and creates distance.

However, losing the advantage of proximity is not a problem.
If the girl intended to divert my attention from her focus on the surroundings.

“Checkmate.
Let’s exterminate the pest.”

Then, a man clad in black stands in a distant location.
He appeared without giving any indication of his presence.
His aura is faint, concealing himself successfully, and it realizes this fact a bit too late.
Too late.

Mana begins to erupt from the man’s body, visible enough for it to perceive, and understand what he’s about to do.
It attempts to unleash shockwaves, but…

[Unleash]

With a snap of his fingers, dozens of slender pillars of fire, a few centimeters tall, rise from the grass.
The scent of burning fills the air, and it comprehends that all hidden eggs have been incinerated.

[Hyper Blitz]

It feels its body being shattered by bullets from behind.

As the dismembered Mothman Queen watches its body fall to the ground, it catches a glimpse of the girl, bloodstained, sporting a faint smirk.

She’s ignoring her tattered body.

With a chilling smile.

Mothman Queen ponders upon what it witnessed.

This girl continued to act without hesitation, even while injured.

Was this girl a human?

And then, consciousness fades away.