Mobile Fortress Ant

From high above, a sea of black ants surrounded the entire hill.

Like a black tide, they advanced from all directions toward the summit.

Countless startled birds scattered into the sky, while the beasts in the forest fled in panic, unaware that they had already been surrounded.

Zhang Ping floated in midair, following Feng Laixian and Bai De forward.

Since he could fly, he was not especially nervous. He even had the leisure to use the Appraisal Technique on the black ants.

After several consecutive failures, he finally appraised the black ants' attributes.

[Appraisal Successful]

[Mutated Beast: Black Mountain Bow-backed Ant]

[Race: Mutated Ant]

[Potential: ?]

[Lifespan: 5]

[Tier: Basic Mutated Beast]

[Level: 5]

[Talents]

[Spiked Carapace: Carapace defense greatly increases. If the carapace has been shattered before, even harder spikes will grow from the broken area.]

[Black Ant Acid: Can secrete highly corrosive ant acid within its body.]

[Unified March: Individuals possess an instinctive connection with the ant colony, allowing them to understand the colony's movements and coordinate their march.]

...

These ants were not particularly strong individually. They could even be called weak.

The problem was that there were simply too many of them.

One glance was enough to show that there was no end in sight.

Whether Awakened or Mutated Beasts, aside from possessing one more supernatural ability than ordinary creatures, they were not actually that different from normal living things. When tired, they still needed rest; when hungry, they still needed food; when thirsty, they still needed water.

Any ability required a price to activate.

For example, Feng Laixian's Red Emperor Undying Body consumed his stamina while repairing his body.

Although many of Zhang Ping's abilities did not specify their cost, they still consumed something when used. Even the Appraisal Technique consumed a small