บท 125: Ferocious Ants
As she stared at her mistress, who had walked into the room alongside a giant ant, surrounded by around five hundred much smaller ants, Guinevere couldn't help but freeze for a moment.
Of course, only a fraction of a moment later, Guinevere broke out of her trance and quickly walked up to her mistress whilst holding the report she had just finished in her hands.
"Mistress, here's a report of what had happened whilst you were gone," said Guinevere, not showing any emotion on her face.
Hearing this, Beatrice slightly nodded as she picked up the report that Guinevere was holding.
In took Beatrice only a few moments to go through the first page of the handwritten report, causing her to faintly smile.
"Antonia, go and bring be some samples from the ant colonies currently at war, you should be much more suitable for this compared with Guinevere," said Beatrice, causing Antonia, the Earth Ant Queen, to quickly nod.
"Don't worry, mistress, it will be quickly done!" said Antonia, who was still very happy that she had been given a name by her mistress.
Only a moment later, the ant queen began moving, followed by the five hundred ants that had surrounded Beatrice.
At this time, Beatrice had turned her attention back to the report, causing her to flip to the next page.
As she continued reading through the report, a slightly surprised look couldn't help but appear on Beatrice's face.
"That's to be expected," mumbled Beatrice as she looked at Guinevere and stared in the latter's eyes.
Hearing this, a faintly worried look couldn't help but appear on Guinevere's face, but even so, she did not say anything and merely let Beatrice silently think.
"So, what's on your mind?" asked Beatrice as she looked at the look on Guinevere's face, causing the latter to finally speak.
"Mistress, did I do anything wrong?" asked Guinevere, causing Beatrice to shake her head.
"No, that's not it, I just noticed something very interesting," mumbled Beatrice before turning her attention back to the report.
Hearing the words of her mistress, Guinevere finally breathed one last sigh of relief, as if a weight had been taken off her shoulders.
After that, Guinevere turned her attention back to Beatrice, who was still reading the report.
It took Beatrice around five minutes to go through the entire report, which detailed everything Guinevere had done, as well as everything that had happened whilst Beatrice was gone.
Even though the end of the report was not nearly as polished as it's beginning and middle, as Guinevere had no time to edit it, Beatrice still felt as though the report was rather good.
But whilst reading the report, Beatrice was also doing something else.
'Her mind is still definitely under control,' thought Beatrice as she carefully felt Guinevere's mind, which felt rather fragile to her.
'Even so, she still has many more emotions compared to back before my trip,' thought Beatrice as she stared at Guinevere from a corner of her eyes.
After a few moments of hesitation, Beatrice finally shook her head.
'I will reinforce the Mind Manipulation spell before checking up on her soul,' thought Beatrice as she finally decided what to do with Guinevere.
As long as Guinevere's emotions did not interfere with her work or cause Beatrice to lose control of her, Beatrice had no reason to try to remove them.
Suddenly, though, the door to the room was opened, allowing Antonia to walk in, with her entourage of ants still following behind her.
At this moment, the ants following behind Antonia were holding over a dozen small metal boxes over their heads, causing Guinevere to faintly frown.
"Shouldn't there be more colonies?" asked Guinevere after Beatrice signalled her to speak using her hand.
Hearing this, Antonia couldn't help but shake her ant head.
"That is true, just earlier today there were many more colonies of ants in there, but all of them have been destroyed," said Antonia, causing a look of surprise to appear on Guinevere's face.
"What happened, why were they destroyed?" asked Guinevere, as she looked at Antonia with a rather worried look in her eyes, soliciting a glance from Beatrice.
"What other way can a colony be destroyed, they fought each other and annihilated the rest of the colonies in the 8th Great Ant War," said Antonia, causing both Guinevere and Beatrice to appear faintly surprised.
After reading the report, Beatrice now had a faint idea of what had happened to the ants whilst she had been gone, as well as off what the Great Ant Wars were, but compared to the previous wars, which had been greatly detailed inside the report, this one went much faster.
Upon thinking about this for a few moments, Beatrice, followed by Guinevere, walked forward towards the tiny cages being held up by the ants.
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"As expected, they are much more violent, that the previous ants," mumbled Beatrice as she looked at the ant inside the glass box, who was easily killing some peaceful ants.
'Not only that, but they seemed much better adapted for fighting than the other ants, no wonder this type won the Seventh Ant War and Dominated the Eight,' said Antonia as she looked at the ant in front of her.
Although this ant could not compare in the slightest against even the weakest of the Earth Ants, compared to normal ants, it was extremely ferocious.
This ant colony was originally made up of Gneognoid ants.
But after several culling, in which Guinevere left only the most successful ants alive, these ants had faintly changed, becoming much more ferocious.
This change culminated in the 7 Great Ant War, in which a colony of these ants won with ease.
Because of their victory, Guinevere had added a bunch more colonies of these ants into the arena, creating the slaughter fest that was the 8 Great Ant War.
"It seems as though there's nothing wrong with them, they should be able to regulate themselves after a few more wars," mumbled Beatrice whilst touching her chin.
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