While the viewers were chatting in the comments, the Small Arcane Golem that had killed the broodmother began retracing its route.
This hive, now without its broodmother, would probably lie dormant for a long time.
As for dying out completely because its broodmother had been killed, that was absolutely impossible!
The Aqir were not ordinary insects that would be finished without a broodmother.
The Aqir sealed behind the Scarab Wall would find a way to solve this problem.
Those creatures were highly capable intelligent beings, and they had quite a few spellcasters and powerful combat units.
Even the allied forces formed by the night elves and some of the Dragon Aspects had been unable to defeat them completely.
In fact, the Aqir outside were their creations, produced remotely from across the seal.
The Old Gods could turn the Titan's stone and steel constructs into creatures of flesh and blood.
One could imagine how powerful their biological magic was!
As servants of the Old Gods, the Aqir certainly possessed some biological magic.
Using biological magic to cultivate insects into Aqir was a perfectly normal operation.
Like necromancy, biological magic was a thoroughly evil form of magic.
But the servants of the Old Gods did not care about such things.
Because they were the very embodiment of evil!
If their spells could work on intelligent beings, they would not mind turning intelligent beings into insects, or other indescribable Cthulhu creatures.
Having fought its way out of the Aqir hive, the Small Arcane Golem ran south toward the Scarab Wall.
It moved at close to the speed of sound, kicking up billowing clouds of dust in the desert.
The Silithus desert was vast, with yellow sand stretching as far as the eye could see.
There were not even drought-resistant plants such as cacti