At once, ants began crawling out one after another from the countless ant eggs beneath it.
The rustling of ants crawling came simultaneously from above, below, far away, and nearby.
Now that the "demon" was dead, the Black Copper Mine had returned to the ant queen's control. It immediately commanded every ant to attack the enemies before it, intending to turn them into nourishment for the next generation of ants.
"Hehehe."
Faced with this situation, [Barbamon] could not help but laugh aloud.
It had just been worried that Dark might entertain notions like "capturing it alive," but now there was no need to worry at all. Killing them all would do.
"Lowly insects, all of you, all of you shall become this king's collectibles!"
[Barbamon] raised the [Death Temptation] wand high. Surging [Hellfire] poured from the wand and, under its control, transformed into a fire dragon that opened its massive jaws and charged at the densely packed ants as if devouring them.
Whether they were black copper ants, black silver ants, black gold ants, or those golden-armored ants standing upright like humans, all were burned to ash by the [Hellfire].
Then, brilliant gemstone light suddenly emerged from those ashes.
—Everything it said just now was a lie.
—The great [Barbamon] was a miser who would not even spare the gemstone dust produced by weak little ants!
The black copper ants, black silver ants, and black gold ants all turned into gemstone dust, forming a tiny pile within the [Greed Demon King's Treasury].
The slightly stronger golden-armored ants became inferior gemstones that emitted only the faintest glimmer.
Only the golden ant queen had, at last, become a passable dark-gold gemstone.
But [Barbamon] merely tossed them into that pile of gemstone dust.
The treasury might be vast, but one day it would