The workers were busy carrying out the Queens new orders. Which were to dismantle, separate and distributed the corpse of their fallen comrade between the storages of the colonies and drop some in the nursing ground for the newcomers of the colonies.
They were busy and needed all help they could get. The queen had sent out a messenger to call members from the far branches of the colony towards the ancestral nest.
She had also sent two teams of scouts some to scout for resources including new nearby colonies, while the other team was to search and escort back the first generation soldiers back from their expansion.
At a certain corner of the ancestral nest, a hole was opened and a unique yet strange ant walked out. This ant was drone yet it look slender and elegant, it wasn't rushing like the others as it was instead moving leisurely.
First it walk towards a Honeypot and drank to its hearts content, then it strolled casually to a certain corner.
'after using few hours to rest and study my soul sphere, I had learnt few things about it. Firstly, it seems my soul can only be in this orb like shape not to be shaped any other way, I'm not able to expand it and I'm not able to decrease it's size. second is, It's basically intangible, it can pass and faze through anything and everything. And lastly' with a single thought, five tentacles stretched out from the giant white light ball above the ant's head, this tentacles were massive compered to the feeler he could originally muster.
The size of the ball of light was around the size of a basketball and the tentacles were around the thickness of a pen and it's lenth cound extended as far as two wooden ruler.
'I can make up to five tentacles but that's not what's important. What's important now is if it would work or not' he thought as he look at a nearby passing ant. This ant wasn't carrying anything at all and was at the cast of a worker not soldier.
The next moment the ant sent some of his soul tentacles towards the worker ant. In the next moment, the head of the worker ant exploded. This in turn startled the nearby workers and the overseeing soldier, whom came over to check only to see the headless body of the dead worker. This puzzle it yet it simply didn't mind much as workers die every now and then in nest.
Not long after another worker came and took away it's corpse. All this time the ant whom was responsible was at a corner watching and pondering something in silence.
After a minute of brief thinking. He sent out same number of tentacles towards a passing ant, this time a soldier. It too exploded.
This time he quickly reacted and flew there (forgot he's a drone?). He started examining the corpse of the ant and was surprised to find out that it's entire head was not simple exploded but it was almost cleanly erased entirely without much left behind.
Seeing the supervising soldier coming towards the scene, he flew away to another area.
Upon reaching a good farming ground, he started experimenting. First he started by senting four tentacles yet the results came out good yet not what he wanted,as although the subject exploded an became unusable he gained a weapon against enemies. Then he uses three, which ended thesame way as the fourth tentacle but he had gain a little insight from the less reactive response compared to the fourth tentacles.
The reason for the explosion is the probably because of his soul force reacting and disturbing the mind of a (lesser) being. Afterall what he did is same as give an ant a human weight to carry not expecting it to break down. though it's more complicated than that,that's the general gist of it.
Afterwards he used two tenticles which slowly solidifies his thoughts on the explosive reaction. As he could 'feel' and 'see' through his soul, he could also observe the miniscule changes happening to things and beings around him, which includes things his soul manifestation is in direct contact with like the mind of the (lesser) ant's.
Afterwards he sent a single tentacle and immediately after it entered the mind fog of the ant it started cleansing it and it was cleansing it faster than it did his own. After all he used a simple thread like feeler while he used a tentacle as fat as a pen on this ant.
In less than four breaths the ant was laying dead on the ground and smoke was rising from his head. Suddenly the queen sent out a alarm against an enemy but they haven't seen the enemy. This in turn made him smile in his mind warily as he know he had been mistaken for the enemy.
'Ill stop for now.... Although I can kill most of them instantly, I don't want to get swarmed and dismantle' he thought with alertness.
For next two hours he simply walked around aimlessly while eating, crawling and having a good time. When the two hours are was up, he quickly started experimenting again but this time he split a single tentacle into four separate parts. Each part is slightly bigger than the first feeler slightly.
When a third generation soldier was passing by, he sent out a single part and it immediately made the ant freeze in its track. It didn't die but it's consciousness was slowly wiped away leaving it's body alive yet mindless.
'good.... ' he thought as he continued.
Sending another part out, he transformed one part into a restraining ball that covers the mind fog while he transformed the other part into broom like waves which he used to crash into the mind fog. The mind fog almost reacted violently but the restraining soul barrier forced it to not explode, but instead the fog started turning lighter.
'very good....' he mind smiled.
Five minutes later, he had managed to refine five droplets of liquified thoughts. During the process he had also leant a new ability, something like puppeteering as he used his soul force tentacle to manipulate the remaining fragments of the ant's mind to control the ant,this in turn made it so the other ants don't think of it as dead and dismantle it as food.
'now that I'm sure this refinement method is usable I can start refinishing from the weak and old, instead of leaving them to waste away in just food supply' he thought as he started formulating his plan on how to get more liquified thought droplets.
'but I still have a pending issue that weighing on my mind like looming shadow and that is...my lifespan' he thought, according to his estimations he was around a week old and would probably live for another two weeks.
'but I'll never live such a short and pointless life... Especially after I've discovered every boy and man fantasy, MAGIC. I've basically become marlen but in ant form' he thought as he compressed the sphere smaller and smaller till all the liquified thought's merged into a single larger drop.
Retracting the testicle part that had its end as a sphere,he emptied it in his mind with the new large droplet floating separately from the two former water droplets.
This droplets could somehow repel the mind fog. Suddenly he could fill himself free in his ant body,it seems as though the ant body had become much more agile but it was in fact still in its normal speed. As it seems it has only gotten smarter in its movement and responds.
'what an unexpected gain....Good, now what I'm I to do about my finite lifespan. Well I'll think about it as I farm for more liquified thought's... Where is the place for the old, weak and injured again?' he thought as he walked slowly into the dipper levels of the nest.
Im thinking of doing a mass release... then I'll update 'defied immorality' and 'blood judge'
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