Bab 123: Even neater ants
Over ten thousand ants quickly moved on a dead tree, towards a certain location.
Suddenly, one of the leading ants stopped in its tracks, causing the entire army, which was following behind it, to stop as well.
The ant stood completely still for around ten seconds, causing a tiny ant head to suddenly peep out from behind a nearby bush.
The moment the ant noticed this, it suddenly began moving, causing the army that was following behind it to split up.
Countless ants moved through the area, searching for their enemies, whilst a small group of ants, visibly larger than the rest, followed behind that, leading out.
Suddenly, the antenna's of the leading ants moved, causing it to freeze for a few moments before retreating.
It was unknown in where the fighting began, but in only a few moments, another group of ants had revealed themselves, and had begun fighting our own group.
For the next hour, the fighting continued, with both ant groups kept getting reinforcements, causing a rather worrying trend to begin.
Rather than lowering, the number of ants fighting on this battlefield kept increasing and increasing, as more and more reinforcements arrived from the two colonies.
Whilst the fighting was at it's peak, over fifty ants would die every single second throughout the battlefield, before being replaced by reinforcing ants, who continued the battle.
This was the status quo for around one hour, in which over twenty thousand ants had died.
But by the end of the hour, the scale of the battle once again changed, as another ant colony suddenly interfered, wanting to occupy this fertile place for itself
Sadly for all the ants involved, though, the arrival of this third ant colony seemed to have triggered a chain reaction.
Throughout this entire, rather small world of ants, small skirmishes began, as the peace that had been created after the 7th Great Ant war slowly shattered.
Sadly though, this was only natural, after all, all 7 previous ant wars had also begun over one single thing, resources.
In times of peace, the populations of the ant colonies quickly bloomed, causing extreme overpopulation to begin extremely fast, this was, of course, followed by extremely brutal warfare for food and resources, which sometimes destroyed more than ninety percent of the ant population.
Nevertheless, this cycle this continued, as on this day, the 8th Great Ant War had begun.
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As she stared at the huge enclosure of ants, that took up an entire large room, Guinevere couldn't help but shake her head.
"They're getting more and more accustomed to battle with each generation," mumbled Guinevere as she stared at the numerous ant colonies through the see-through wall.
Although not too long ago, Guinevere had introduced numerous new ant colonies into the enclosure, which had been bred from the other colonies, the number had once again begun dwindling.
"That's only natural, with the spell that mistress has cast on them making them more violent, as well as your efforts in breeding the most successful ants, it would be quite unusual if such changes didn't take place," said a weird female voice coming from behind Guinevere.
Hearing this voice, Guinevere couldn't help but touch her forehead, feeling quite a headache.
"What is it now?" asked Guinevere as she turned around.
"The children require sustenance," said a rather large ant, standing nearby the doorway.
Of course, compared to the ants inside the enclosure, this one was extremely different.
The first, and most obvious, thing that differentiated this ant from the other ants was its size.
If at first, Guinevere had been shown an ant the size of a dog, she would have been rather scared, but as she had witnessed the growth of the Earth Ant Queen herself, she did not feel anything in particular.
"Haven't I told you to tone down the birth of new ants, the area that Mistress has left for you is about to run out," said Guinevere with a faint frown on her face.
"Lady Guinevere, do not worry, I will not let the colony take up too many resources, It's just that I have made some changes to the colony," said the ant queen as she telepathically spoke with Guinevere, causing some doubt to appear on the latter's face.
Seeing this, the queen quickly continued.
"As the colony was beginning to run out of space to grow, I have begun increasing the efficiency of our living arrangements, starting from the walls themselves," said the queen.
"Formerly, the walls of the colony were merely tunnels in the dirt, which made them rather inefficient."
"Sadly, though, we could not remove much more dirt from the colony, as that would jeopardize its structural integrity," said the queen, causing Guinevere to nod.
"Right now, though, we have begun replacing this with walls created using dirt reinforced by earth magic, which could be extremely thin whilst also maintaining structural stability," said the queen.
Hearing this, Guinevere quickly nodded.
"That's a rather smart idea, so many more ants can you house right now?" asked Guinevere as she stared at the ant queen, who currently seemed rather cute.
"Although the transformation is not yet finished, we can theoretically fit around 60 percent more ants compared to before, but as our Earth Magic progresses, I'm sure we can squeeze around 10 percent more on top of that," said the ant queen, causing Guinevere to smile.
"76 percent more ants, even without mistress making any changes, I'm sure that I can feed that amount," mumbled Guinevere as she touched her chin, causing an excited look to appear on the face of the ant queen.
"Very well, since Lady Guinevere is in agreement, then I can be on my way," said the small ant before walked away on it's six legs.
'I guess even ants can be cute when they are happy,' thought Guinevere as she stared at the departing ant queen.
Without warning, both Guinevere and the Ant Queen suddenly froze, as both of them felt something connecting to their minds, or rather, someone, someone that both of them had longed for.
Status Power Mingguan
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