Boom! Boom! Boom!
The space around the elder tree shook and rumbled at the force of its tree roots slamming into the ground. The sudden eruption of battle immediately startled Lilith, Zorbek, and the palace guards as they shot up abruptly from their resting spots in alarm.
The treants on the other hand, simply open their eyes for a brief moment before closing them and continued their hibernation. Since the 'birds' didn't cackle alarmingly, it meant there weren't any intruders. Evidently, they were used to the ant's persistent assaults on a regular basis.
However, it hadn't been a full 9 hours since the last battle between the elder tree and ants. Even if the ants attack frequently, it shouldn't be this frequent, right? Their kind would eventually be killed off at this rate, especially when the elder tree was slaughtering them like ants in both the metaphoric and literal sense.
"Do ants usually attack this frequent, elder?" Leon asked curiously.