Not only that, Gawain released the entire Ant Army, which surrounded the forest like an ocean tide.
Red, green, blue, white, black; large, small, fast, slow... all kinds of ants emerged from the void and flooded across the land.
They were no longer ordinary creatures. With Wenren Sheng's enhancement and the puppets' own power, their bodies had become partially mystified, allowing them to hide within the Origin Realm.
This was thanks to countless rounds of mutation and renewal—an advantage of lower species that humans did not possess.
Without anyone controlling them, their mutations were very slow. It took millions of years for natural selection to produce effective mutations, but with deliberate human cultivation, the speed of targeted mutation could be greatly accelerated.
When Wenren Sheng cast his gaze over, even he could not help but marvel slightly at Fat Doll's rate of growth.
After all, he had barely concerned himself with it throughout all this. He had simply let Fat Doll do as it pleased.
Yet it had taken this summoning style to such extraordinary heights.
This was perhaps related to its innate traits. Its former body had been a Humanoid Wood, skilled at concealment and transformation. What better way was there to hide than among countless members of its own kind? Combined with its passive enhancement, an ant that appeared frail and tiny actually possessed the strength and speed of an adult.
With numbers in the hundreds of millions, perhaps even billions, along with rapid replenishment, only the Intelligent Mechanical Legion could likely compare to it in sustained combat capability.
At that moment, even Wenren Sheng was slightly astonished, let alone everyone else.
Maple Father suddenly felt both fortunate and afraid.
If Gawain had been one of those hot-tempered Otherworldly Users, his little village would likely have ceased to