Boom!
A fireball exploded, scorching a large swath of ants. But the ant corpses were immediately trampled beneath the feet of the others, and fresh ants rushed forward one after another.
Whoosh!
A wind blade flew out, shredding a line of ants. Yet within seconds, the ants on both sides closed in toward the middle, restoring the formation.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Richard condensed more than a dozen Blood Spears and fired them into the center of the ant swarm. They quickly exploded, coating the ants with large amounts of corrosive energy and taking their lives. However, the ant formation was not disrupted. In just a few breaths, the gaps were filled.
Richard frowned as he watched. He noticed that the number of ants was truly immense—so immense that they could completely disregard casualties and fight them with sheer numbers. Moreover, they were not blindly expending their forces. They were using every life they lost with extreme efficiency.
For example, when facing the spells of their group, many ants would leap up and trigger the spells in advance before they struck the surface of the swarm. The jumping ants would certainly die, but they reduced the damage suffered by their companions.
It was practically biological slat armor.
As a result, while the spells' power could not be entirely nullified, it was greatly weakened. An attack that was expected to deal ten points of damage to the remaining ants could now inflict at most five, perhaps even only three. Even more astonishingly, ants crippled by damage would actively throw themselves at the next spell to die. If dying once was not enough, they would do it twice; if twice was not enough, then three times. They would not stop until they were dead, maximizing their own value.
For instance,