At first, the ants swarmed in, leaving no grass growing wherever they went, leaving only devastation. In just two months, the entire Centaur Hills fell. The York family decisively gave up the territory that lacked fortifications and gathered their people to hide in the Black Castle.

The ant-man army once entered the western and southern territories of the Kingdom of Gombis. The lords of the kingdom and the high-ranking clergy of the church were panicked and asked Sylvia to take the initiative to attack the ant-man army.

Attracted outside the town of Black Castle to buy buffer time for the kingdom to mobilize troops.

Everyone soon discovered that the ant tide has a single behavior pattern and does not understand strategies and tactics. As long as the response method is appropriate, it is not difficult to eliminate the ant-man army. Except for a very few ant-man leaders, all ant-men are brainless bugs.

The inherent impression of human lords and church clergy.

Victor has a deeper understanding of Ant-Man. He guesses that Ant-Man is a special alchemical unit with dull behavior, and its intelligence and learning ability are far inferior to even newly created alchemical humans.

Being fearless and obeying orders absolutely is the advantage of alchemical creatures, but it is also a major flaw. Anyone who is not afraid of death is particularly vulnerable to death. Alchemical humans have the ability to learn, and after a period of training, they can acquire judgment, but on the battlefield, they

They are always the first to die. Ant-Man neither has the learning ability of alchemical humans nor the wild intuitive talent of alchemical war mastiffs. With three giant fortresses and steep cliffs hundreds of meters high, Centaur Hills can completely block them in the swamp.

inside.

His own experience caused Victor to overlook a simple fact - Ant-Man's hands can grasp tools and use weapons just like humans.

From the perspective of monstrosities, all creatures with dexterous hands are intelligent species with production capabilities, and production capabilities include engineering capabilities.

Ant-Man's body structure is obviously suitable for building large-scale projects. They have six limbs and can stand up, freeing their upper limbs and forelimbs, a total of four hands. But no scholar has considered that Ant-Man will dig tunnels from the ground and break through the tunnels built by humans.

Large fortifications.

In fictional war stories, there are examples of digging tunnels to break through city wall defenses. But anyone who believes in this kind of thing is a fool.

In fact, it is more time-consuming and labor-intensive for humans to build a small underground palace than to build a fortress. If you are digging tunnels to siege a city, you have to take into account the problems of soil collapse, water permeability, air flow, direction and structure, etc.

In a rapidly changing battle situation, the commander must have lost his mind when mobilizing a large army to dig a long tunnel. How many years do you plan to dig to dig out a tunnel? If you dig too shallow, you will hit the city wall. If you dig too deep, the soldiers will suffocate to death.

...Besides, the city defenders are not blind, so how can they watch the enemy slowly dig tunnels?

In fact, it is okay to watch the enemy act foolishly. The army always consumes food when besieging a city, not to mention the heavy physical work of digging tunnels.

The human kingdom has been at war with orc monsters for more than 9,000 years. Kobolds are monsters that are good at digging holes, but no human castle has ever been breached from underground.

Unless the invading enemy is a natural underground race.

It is clearly described in Aesox's diary that the prototype of Ant-Man is the Groth Zerg from the underground world. They can secrete special mucus to stabilize the soil structure, and their demand for air is probably very low. If what the ancient alchemist said is true,

The Ant-Man army is fully capable of bypassing the three major fortresses, choosing a cliff to dig out a road, and breaking through the natural defense line of the Skylark Mountains. The Skylark Mountains are more than a thousand kilometers long, and even if the Kingdom of Gombis summons hundreds of thousands of troops, they will still be able to defend it.

No defense.

The most terrible thing is that the behavioral characteristics of the last ant wave are particularly consistent with the two behavioral patterns of the Gross Zerg. Victor summarizes the development model of the underground Zerg as the expansion, collection, exploration, destruction, and group development of the Zerg.

The replacement of the old with the new. To put it simply, a generation of bugs is old and weak and is about to die. The queen sends them out to die. They do not need to be controlled and can be used as waste. If these old bugs encounter enemies that can threaten the group,

Or a valuable target, the queen ant changes to the second mode, prompting the insect mother to breed more insect swarm combat units, giving birth to the insect king herself, and the insect king leads the insect swarm to launch war.

The preparation period for war mode is up to 20 years, and the power accumulated by the insect swarm will reach its peak.

Some time ago, Victor sent two alchemical biological reconnaissance teams to the Everfree Forest to try to find the location of Ant-Man's lair. If calculated according to the original estimated 15-year war cycle, the reconnaissance teams should be on the prairie on the west side of the swamp.

They encountered an army of Ant-Man, but they didn't see any Ant-Man.

The queen ant gives birth to the king ant, so it makes sense to postpone the war to 20 years!

No matter how powerful the Ant King's individual strength is, the Ant-Man army led by him will never be as easy to deal with as last time, and it will definitely be able to give full play to the Ant-Man's war advantages, such as digging tunnels.

Victor suddenly felt a headache when he thought of this. He rubbed his tangled eyebrows, suppressed his impetuous mood, picked up the quill again, and extracted the information recorded by x-3 while writing records on the animal skin paper, trying to learn from the ancient alchemist

Find ways to deal with ant colonies in your diary.

"Maximo dismissed my doubts. He claimed that the Alchemy Tower of the Queen of Worms was placed inside the Great Rift. There was no need to follow the traditional alchemy tower method, and the tower owner controlled each racial alchemy unit. His words seemed very strange at first glance.

It makes sense, but he can't hide it from me... Maximo is hiding what I'm really interested in. The stronger the autonomy of the alchemy unit, the harder it is to control it. Fortunately, compared to the total amount of soul fire in the alchemy tower, their souls are

Scattered and weak, they have no ability to resist the will of the soul source, just like the life in the material world cannot resist the will of Tyron Riel, and always obey the laws of the world in the form of life instinct. Because the souls of the same origin are one, created by the Creator

The material world rejects all non-original wills, including Tyron Riel’s father, the Serpent of Chaos, and his mother, the Bird of Light.”

"The reason why the Abyss Demons and the Sanctuary Gods can still appear in the material plane is because they have the mark of Tyron Riel. The longer they stay in the material plane, the closer their connection with the laws of the world will be.

The sea will slowly dissolve the will imprints of the Serpent of Chaos and the Bird of Light. At that time, the demons and gods will no longer be able to return to the Abyss of the Serpent and the Sanctuary of the Bird of Light, and will completely transform into life forms in the material world, losing their eternal and immortal will.

.”

"Under normal circumstances, high-level demons and high-level gods cannot be killed at all, but the Sanctuary Gods trapped part of the souls of the three original demon kings, preventing them from returning to the abyss blood pool, and then gave this part of the soul to the high-level elements

Envoys, they use the power of the elemental sea to erase the mark of chaos in the soul of the demon king. These immortal soul fires that have lost the will of the demon are the source of the soul fire of the alchemy tower. The demon king was severely damaged as a result, and we also developed Void Alchemy

Technique."

"Each alchemy tower requires an alchemist to weave the will side, and the archmage cuts a small part of the tower owner's soul to ignite the soul fire of the alchemy tower. The alchemical creatures identify the tower owner's will as the source through the soul fire of the alchemy tower.

Thereby obeying the orders of the tower master. If you are separated from the soul fire of the alchemy tower, the tower master cannot control the alchemical creatures. The Gross Zerg is different from ordinary creatures. Their hearts are connected as a whole. No human can control hundreds or thousands of them at the same time.

Alchemy unit, just the information transmitted by the leader of the swarm can make his soul collapse."

"Therefore, it is impossible for the Insect Queen Alchemy Tower to have a human tower owner. Without the will brought by the human tower owner's divided soul, it is impossible for Maximo to activate the soul fire of the Insect Queen Alchemy Tower. The source of the Gross Zerg is the King of the Spirit World.

, his brand of will is biased toward demons, but he belongs to the ancient god sequence of Tyron Riel, and it is his mission to open up the underground world. In the middle and late Twilight Era, the underground group of the King of the Spirit World was defeated by the abyss demons, and coveted the above-ground world, so they suffered

After being chased by the Moon Goddess, Freya seized the power of the King of the Spirit World, and this was how the underground elves came into existence. Due to the special nature of the spiritual connection between the Gros Zerg tribe, the queen of insects is equivalent to the incarnation of the king of the spirit world. Even if the swarm of insects

With only one egg left, the King of the Spirit World will not completely fall. Therefore, I believe that Maximo and the others found the remaining incarnation of the King of the Spirit World, captured his soul, and used it to invent the Insect Queen Alchemy Tower. However,

They did not notify the Supreme Council, nor did they use the power of the elemental sea to kill the will of the King of the Spirit World. Otherwise, they could only obtain pure soul fire, and it was not immortal soul fire. Even an ordinary alchemy tower could not create it.

"

"I have to say that Maximo and the others are too brave. They actually dared to secretly intercept the weak will of the King of the Spirit World and use it to build the Alchemy Tower of the Queen of Insects... No, that cannot be considered an alchemy tower at all. The King of the Spirit World

The will of the Insect Queen will awaken and grow in strength. If they can't come up with a control method that convinces me, I would rather risk being killed by the teacher and report to the Supreme Council... Only actual control is the way to go.

The path of the alchemist, they have deviated from the glory of the alchemist, I cannot tolerate it..."

"Teacher Douglas really understands me. He agrees with my persistence and asks me to believe that he is also a follower of the elements. The Queen Ant Alchemy Tower created by Maximo and the others is just a stopgap measure. The ultimate goal of the Secret Order is still to persist in the void.

The study of creation has allowed alchemists to continue their legacy."

"Teacher Douglas assured that there was no big problem with the Queen Ant Alchemy Tower, and I officially participated in Maximo's research. But I didn't expect that Maximo asked a young and beautiful mage follower to answer my questions. Her name was Anjie

Lina, an intermediate mage, is both Maximo's servant and his lover. There are many examples of the union of mages and alchemists in the empire, but famous alchemists only combine with famous elementalists. Maximo pretends to die and leaves.

Coming from a famous family, combined with an insignificant mid-level mage follower, it can be seen that Angelina is of great importance and is a key figure in this research project. Angelina personally came forward to communicate with me to show their sincerity to me. Haha,

They can't do it without the participation of the great Alchemist Isoks..."

"Angelina's witchcraft talent coincided with the laws of the King of the Spirit World. She heard the other party's whisper and found the small insect swarm left by the other party in the depths of the endless forest. The King of the Spirit World was seriously injured and lost his will.

It is almost exhausted and has no strength to further develop the number of Zerg kin, and is about to completely fall."

"This is the special thing about the King of the Spirit World. The other ancient gods all fell silent at the end of the Twilight Era. Otherwise, the Abyss Demons and the Sanctuary Gods would not have set foot in the material world. However, the King of the Spirit World relies on the power of the Zerg descendants.

Psionic connection, surviving until the Moonlight Age... However, the disadvantage of psychic connection is that the upper limit of the number of Gros swarms depends on the strength of the soul fire of the king of the spirit world, while the blood descendants created by other ancient gods do not have a numerical bottleneck.

According to ancient elven literature, when the King of the Spirit World was at its most powerful, the number of the Gros worms was only about 20 million, while the number of ancient elves was 6 times that of them. Angelina discovered only a few Gros worms.

When the number of ants reaches two thousand, the power of the queen ants is so weak that only the instinct of the queen is left, and she can no longer be regarded as a wise species. The ancient gods such as the Moon Goddess, the Mother of the Earth, and the Gluttonous King are now only dispersing their wills, not falling.

The King of the Spirit Realm is really about to fall completely. Fortunately, Angelina found the descendant of the Groth Zerg, and she almost became a God Killer."

"Angelina killed all the remaining Gros swarms and left behind a queen egg. Maximo tried to use this queen egg to create a special alchemy tower. The method they adopted was to invite a

The archmage divided the soul of the insect egg, and then sealed the divided ancient soul fire in the elemental rune crystal made by Maximo... They themselves did not expect that they succeeded. Maximo and the others were ecstatic, and weaved

The rune crystal is loaded on the side of the will. This work must be completed by Angelina. The laws she is familiar with overlap with the authority of the king of the spirit world. She can use the elemental rune crystal to replace the spirit world.

The King controls the Gross Insect Queen... Considering that the Archmage's lifespan is limited to no more than 200 years old, once Angelina dies, the Gross Insect Swarm may reunite the main consciousness of the King of the Spirit World. In order to prevent the Alchemy Insect Swarm

Out of control, Maximo and the Archmage decided to follow the rules of the Supreme Council and design the underlying structure of the elemental rune crystal. The inspectors trained by the Supreme Council were able to unlock the elemental rune crystal and force the soul fire of the alchemical insect swarm to be extinguished.

"

"Soulology is a branch of the field of law. The work of loading the will side must be led by the Archmage himself. Although I know a little about weaving the will side, my best expertise is in the fields of elements and bloodline evolution... I don't know about working with Maximo.

Who is the Archmage? Teacher Douglas must know him. The teacher secretly sent an inspector to the testing point of Everfree to check the Insect Swarm Rune Crystal. He can indeed unlock the bottom layer of the Rune Crystal.

Structure... I am sure that the teacher and Maximo will not make a fatal mistake on such a major issue. But I must send my own mage followers and elementalists to take a look at the elemental rune crystal... I

My wife is up to the task."

"Ruiwen has set off. They are flying all the way on dragon vultures. It will take two months at the fastest to come back. I don't plan to waste this time. The number of alchemy zerg is limited, and the war mode does not only have 600,000 units. Their

The individual strength is inherently weaker than that of the abyss demons. Maximo hopes that the alchemical bugs can self-destruct to increase their lethality. I can solve this problem. The body fluids of the old glue fire beetles will gradually transform into flammable oil. As long as the

This special law of blood is analyzed into the law of elements. The lifespan of the alchemical Zerg is close to its useful life. Their body fluids are transformed into glue and fire grease, which can burn violently... Well, Zerg that are more than 13 years old can burn and self-destruct, but Zerg that are less than 10 years old are not afraid.

The glue fire of the same kind prevents the entire insect swarm from being ignited by the fire... This design can prove my ability and value to Maximo and the others, and will help increase Riven's right to speak, but I have to hold back and will not provide it.

The design plan for the self-destruction of the Zerg alchemy unit...unless they agree to the conditions proposed by Riven."

Victor stopped writing, and there was a trace of bitterness in his eyes. Ant-Man's ability to dig holes was enough to make people's heads ache, but they were not all afraid of fire. The incomplete information caused huge holes in the defense system of Centaur Hill. But that's all.

, there is no point in being anxious, I hope that more of Ant-Man's weaknesses can be found in the information behind the ancient alchemist.

He picked up his quill, dipped it in ink, and continued writing:

"Riven and my mage followers are back. What Maximo and Angelina said is true. The rune crystal that can disintegrate the Queen Ant Alchemy Tower is sealed in the gathering place of the elements in the Everfree Forest to ensure that it

Effective for a long time... Maximo was very satisfied with the design plan I provided, but he could not provide me with the inherited blood of the ancient behemoth. He only brought back a piece of information to Raven. The alchemist Bidroric had a drop of nightmare in his hand.
To be continued...