The sky is covered with dark clouds, and dense raindrops keep falling. This season is the most rainy time of the year, and there will be heavy rain every two or three days.

"This damn weather."

Guis cursed and wiped the rain off his face. This kind of weather was definitely the worst for the sentry. The rain covered the sky and he couldn't see anything two or three hundred meters away. Guis was wearing a heavy coat.

Coirui climbed up to the beacon tower. When he saw the pile of firewood soaked by the rain, he could only shake his head with a wry smile. These firewood could no longer be lit at all. After the rainy day, they had to be dismantled and replaced with new dry firewood.

For a post with only three people, this is a lot of workload.

Giese was a soldier under Victor. He and two other comrades were stationed at this post to perform security duties under the orders of Captain Nelson. Their main job was to monitor the entrance to the Great Swamp.

Since no trace of the ogre was found in the Western Mountains, Victor concluded that the ogre tribe must be in the Everglades, because the old ogre would not come out of thin air. Therefore, Victor ordered Nelson to go to the Great Swamp.

Build a sentry at the entrance, set up a beacon tower, and station three soldiers. In order to ensure the safety of the soldiers, Victor specially equipped them with three alchemical crows. Once the alchemical crows warn them, they will immediately light the beacon, and then

Retreat on horseback.

The water-soaked raincoat was very heavy and uncomfortable to wear on him. Keith decided to go back to the shack to take shelter from the rain. As soon as he entered the shack, he heard Lev yelling strangely at him: "Giese, you are lazy, you should be here now."

You are on duty."

Ignoring Lev's teasing, Geese said with an apologetic smile to a middle-aged soldier: "Head, it's raining too much outside, I can't see clearly at all. Anyway, there is a dust falcon monitoring the entrance to the swamp. I want to come in first to take shelter and wait for the rain."

Once it stops, I will continue to be on guard."

"You should take a rest first, I'll go take a look." Matthew, a middle-aged soldier, put on a raincoat and pushed the door open and walked out.

Outside the door, the sound of rain was deafening. Matthew couldn't help but shiver. He cursed secretly: "I have only been comfortable for half a year, and this little rain scared me?" He tightened the raincoat on his tight body,

Matthew rushed into the rain without hesitation and headed towards the observation deck.

Matthew is an old man of the War Bear Mercenary. He has led two new recruits to perform guard duty here for a month. Matthew knows very well that no matter how bad the weather is, the guard post cannot be short of people. Because, if there is really a monster attacking,

The first person to escape is themselves.

The entrance to the swamp is a huge slope, and the warning tower is located on a mound two kilometers away from the entrance. In normal times, looking from here, the movement at the entrance can be seen at a glance, but now that Matthew has used his eyesight enough, he can only

You can clearly see the scenery about 400 meters away. Just as Giese said, even if you come out on alert, you can't see clearly what's going on below.

Matthew hesitated whether to go into the shed to hide from the rain. A dust hawk passed through the rain curtain, flew over crookedly, landed next to him, and let out a shrill cry at him.

"Little one, you won't be able to fly if you're soaked like this. Come on, I'll take you to rub your feathers and warm yourself by the fire."

Matthew was very happy to find a reason to take shelter from the rain. He picked up the Dust Falcon and wanted to go back to the shed, but the Dust Falcon didn't appreciate it and instead screamed even more fiercely.

The unusual behavior of the Dust Falcon caught Matthew's attention. He rushed to the edge of the warning platform and stared at the entrance of the swamp with his eyes wide open. What he saw was a vast expanse of white, but Matthew only felt his heart heavy.

The ground shook slightly, and Matthew's expression changed. He quickly lay down and put his ear to the ground of the guard post. The vibration was immediately audible, like thousands of horses galloping.

"Enemy attack!"

Matthew kicked open the shack and rushed in, wrapped in rainwater. Keith and Lev were startled and shouted: "Head!?"

"The enemy is attacking! Set the house on fire! Evacuate!" Matthew picked up the barrel and poured kerosene everywhere in the shack. When he saw the two newcomers standing dumbly, he said angrily: "Why don't you start the fire soon?"

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The outside of the shack was wet and the inside was dry. Sprinkled with kerosene, it quickly burned. The thick smoke was no different from that of a beacon tower, except that the second outpost delivering the beacon could not see the situation here at all.

The three people set the shack on fire, picked up their spears and daggers, and rushed out of the fire house. As soon as they got outside, they gasped for air. Countless dark-brown monsters had surrounded them. These monsters were 1.7 meters tall, like centaurs, and were as tall as six.

They have dark brown carapace, and their heads are like enlarged ant heads. These monsters are like enlarged human-shaped ants.

Everyone behaves differently when they are in a desperate situation. Some are cowardly, some are brave, and Matthew is the brave one. Matthew is a mercenary and a warrior. When there is no way out, he chooses to embrace the warrior.

's fate.

"kill!"

Sitting on his crotch, twisting his waist, the spear stood straight, and the sharp spear tip cut through the rain curtain and stabbed the nearest monster. Matthew's assassination movement was very refined. He once stabbed through the mail-clad Sarah with a spear.

Soldier Sang, although he is no longer young, this stab is still unstoppable.

Green liquid splashed, the spear pierced the monster's neck, and Ant-Man fell softly to the ground. Matthew was excited, these terrifying monsters are not invincible!

However, the other monsters were more excited than Matthew. The death of their companions made them neigh happily. The neighs came one after another and were transmitted to the swamp. Even louder sounds sounded from the swamp. Ant-Man was responding to himself endlessly.

A look of despair appeared on Matthew's face. The ants swarmed forward and drowned this experienced warrior in an instant.

Seeing Matthew being torn to pieces by Ant-Man, Keith and Lev turned pale, unable to lift the weapons in their hands, and could only kneel and tremble in the heavy rain.

When the insect swarm separated, there was nothing on the ground except blood stains, fragments of leather armor, and a spear. A particularly tall Ant-Man came over, picked up Matthew's spear and waved it skillfully a few times.

Next, the fine iron spear danced faster and faster in its hand, turning into a ball of silver light and making a terrifying buzzing sound.

Ant-Man pulled his hand away, and the silver light dissipated instantly. He pointed the fine iron spear at Giese's forehead. Seeing that Giese didn't react, Ant-Man put his head in front of Giese and opened his huge pliers-like mouthparts.

, roared at him. Gith saw countless versions of himself in Ant-Man's compound eyes, kneeling in the mud with a panic expression. Gith's mind went blank. A few months ago, he was just an honest farmer.

, facing the terrifying monster, he had no courage to resist at all.

Ant-Man's head slowly moved away from Giese's sight. He carried the spear and stepped forward with his limbs. The other ant-men followed him and walked past Giese and Lev who were paralyzed in the muddy water.

It wasn't until the last Ant-Man disappeared in the rain that the two of them realized that these monsters didn't kill them.

Geese and Lev helped each other get up from the ground, gasping for air, tears mixed with rain flowing freely on their faces. They were grateful that they survived.

However, the ground was trembling, and the two farmers desperately discovered that a black torrent was spurting out from the direction of the entrance to the swamp. It was an endless army of ant-men. One, two, ten, or hundreds of ant-men came from Ji.

Si and Lev walked past, and they turned a blind eye to the two of them, but before they could rejoice again, an Ant-Man knocked them to the ground, and countless jointed limbs stepped over their bodies until they were trampled into pieces.

Pile of minced meat.

The boundless ants are like a black tide spreading in the hills of humans and horses. This is a land they have never set foot on. Today they are here. They grow in battles, plunder in killings, and feedback in death. This is

Ant-Man's mission.

Thick smoke was rising from the shed, and even despite the rain, the kerosene was still burning the wood tenaciously. Groups of ant-men walked past the shed, but they didn't know that a black crow was hiding in a corner.

, its wet feathers gradually become dry under the baking of charcoal.

Ten hours later, Ant-Man's army began to become sparse. At this time, the rain gradually subsided, and the alchemical crow jumped out of the gap where it was hiding. When Ant-Man was not paying attention, it quickly picked up an eyeball of an unknown person and swallowed it whole.

If it goes down, the bloody eyeball will give it enough strength to fly back to the hill camp.
Chapter completed!