"It's a mental attack!"
The Level Three Great Wizard Lokas immediately recognized the queen ant's attack method: it wasn't an elemental attack, but a mental attack.
Mahad heartache. Just a moment ago, the Queen Ant's mental attack had cost him several hundred slaves.
"Capture the queen ant!" Mahad shouted angrily.
Although the queen ant is a level three ant and has a level three male ant protecting her, Mahad has more than a hundred level three slaves behind him. With just a casual command, dozens of level three slaves will attack.
If the cave weren't so small, there would be even more level-three slaves available.
Leo slightly raised his eyelids and glanced at the queen ant being repeatedly ravaged by more than a dozen level-three slaves. If they weren't trying to capture her alive, this queen ant wouldn't have survived for more than ten seconds.
As for the male ants at level three who wanted to protect the queen, they were torn to pieces the moment they met.
Male ants that live only in the Ant God World have certainly never seen the slave army that has conquered countless worlds.
Mahad's slaves, in particular, were all hand-picked and extremely powerful. Just by looking at the scars on their bodies, you could tell that these slaves were definitely above average in strength and had rich combat experience.
If these slaves were returned to their original world, each of them would be a chosen one of heaven.
Using this carefully selected army of slaves to deal with a single male ant is a complete waste of resources, like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.
The third-level queen ant only lasted for half a minute before being cut into half and tied to Mahad.
These third-level slaves, fearing that Mahad injured by the queen ant, nearly beat her to the point of near death. Not only could she not launch any attacks, but she could barely breathe.
"End the battle quickly, then return to the mothership to complete the mission."
Seeing the queen ant so badly beaten, Mahad had no choice but to suspend the cleanup mission and send her back to the mothership. If she died en route, a large portion of the battle merits would be lost.
At Mahad's command, everyone quickly killed the remaining ants on the battlefield, and then orderly returned to the surface from the cave they had come from.
As Yaoyao watched the cave where the queen ant had tried to escape, she flicked her little paw, and one of the male ant puppets left the group and ran towards the cave, whose destination was unknown.
At the same time, some things inside the cave that no one had noticed quickly disappeared.
Mahad particularly enthusiastic about completing tasks, venturing into every hole and cleaning up every single ant.
He didn't miss a single potential queen ant; he was practically a wizard's model.
It was tough on these wizards; they had to follow him underground every day, working tirelessly in caves.
Five years passed like this. On this day, even Leo opened his eyes, which had been closed for several years, and got off the male ant puppet.
"It's over?"
Yaoyao asked in a low voice.
Leo shook his head. "I can only skillfully use mental energy to stimulate my Bloodline. I don't need to focus all my attention on it; just a portion of my energy is enough."
Practice makes perfect. Over the course of five years, Leo no longer needed to concentrate on controlling his mental energy to stimulate his Bloodline; he had developed muscle memory for it.
He even managed to complete the previous stimulating work using only 50% of his mental energy, leaving 50% for Leo's daily use.
Leo then had time to carefully observe his surroundings. In the narrow cave, everyone was struggling to move downwards.
Over the course of five years, not only did Leo develop muscle memory by controlling his mental energy to stimulate his Bloodline, but Mahad gained a more accurate grasp of the ant queen's movements.
Before entering the cave, they will gather information based on feedback from slaves and scout wizards. They will only attack when the probability of the queen ant's presence exceeds 80%. Otherwise, they will move to other caves to search for other possible queen ants.
He also knew that clearing out ordinary ant armies wouldn't yield much merit; only by capturing the queen ant alive could he maximize the value of his strength.
The information Leo saw in the Wizard World has been updated; the oasis in the Ant God World is indeed occupied by an ant colony.
Those plants and other rare organisms are indeed crops cultivated by the queen ant, but the queen ants that can occupy the oasis are all from super-large colonies.
Small ant colonies typically dig deep into their burrows to search for valuable resources deep underground to feed their queen.
There are countless ant colonies in the entire Ant God World. In five years, Mahad alone captured fifty-seven queen ants alive, ranking first in the number of queen ants captured.
The Ant God World is a medium-sized world, and with this method of digging deep burrows, the ant colony's population has indeed reached a terrifying number!
According to the intelligence Leo saw on the information platform, the wizard army had captured more than 100,000 queen ants over the past five years. The map showed that the area that could be cleared was less than 5% of the Ant God World.
An ant colony consists of a queen ant and her male soldier ants. The smallest ant colony on record consists of a queen ant and tens of thousands of soldier ants.
The largest ant colony on record consisted of a queen and an army of over 300,000 ants.
Terrifying numbers
The ant army in the Ant God World is probably comparable in number to that of a typical large-scale life form.
Leo originally wanted to end the expedition quickly, return on the mothership, and take the opportunity to absorb more stellar energy to accelerate the evolution of his Bloodline. However, judging from the current progress, it would take at least fifty years to deal with the Ant God World.
If it's any slower, it could take a century!
As for the three World Lord of the Ant God World, they showed no intention of appearing. They simply descended onto the battlefield, let out a howl, and then disappeared without a trace.
Perhaps the World Lord the Ant God World, also knew their advantages. These wicked wizards wanted to completely wipe them out, but it would take decades to do so. So they simply stopped showing themselves and prevented the ant colonies from forming a large army to counterattack, keeping them all huddled underground.
The meaning is clear: it's telling the wizards, "If you're so capable, then take them out one by one and see who gives up first."
"The queen ant is just ahead!" the scout shouted.
"Earth dragon, clear the way!"
With practice, Mahad commanded the earth dragon to rush out of the cave, swallowing all the ants that blocked its way, expanding the cave, and allowing the wizard army to catch up with the queen ant as quickly as possible.
This kind of operation had been carried out many times before without any accidents, but for some reason, the expression on the face of the Level Three Great Wizard Lokas was somewhat off.
"Master Lokas, what's wrong?"
A wizard noticed that Lokas looked unwell and asked him a question.
After Leo shut down his senses and ignored external affairs for a long time, Lokas became the highest-ranking member of the bodyguard team.
His abilities earned him everyone's respect.
"My senses can't detect what's down there; it seems to be sealed off by some force," Lokas said cautiously.
"Since the master says so, then everyone should be cautious."
When Lokas reported the unusual situation below, someone informed Mahad, but Mahad only became slightly more cautious. For the past five years, he had been relying on his strength to easily defeat these ant swarms, and had not yet encountered an opponent who would allow him to unleash his full power.
As long as the one below isn't the World Lord, he has nothing to worry about.
Just do it.
The more dangerous the place, the more battle achievements one can make.
If we include all the wizards on the expedition, which wizard has such a powerful team? If he runs away at the slightest difficulty, then who can complete the cleanup mission here?!
Lokas's slightly uneasy expression remained until he saw Leo silently following behind the group with her eyes open, at which point he finally relaxed.
With this Legendary Great Wizard who can defeat Level Four Stigmata Wizard around, there are almost no difficulties in the Ant God World that can stump them.
The following question confirms that Lokas is not the World Lord World Lord; if he were, he wouldn't be so secretive.
If they are not the World Lord, then no difficulty can stop their team.
The battle went surprisingly smoothly, and they easily pushed their way into the underground cave as usual.
These burrows are the queen ant's activity area, or rather, her home. The queen ant is so large that she cannot live in the narrow confines of the burrow.
There must be a large cave, so finding the cave means finding the queen ant.
Previously discovered caves could only accommodate an army of a few hundred thousand ants, but this newly discovered cave is so vast that it seems to have no end in sight, and its depth reaches an unprecedented thousands of meters, making it practically an underground space.
"Squeak squeak squeak"
"Squeak squeak squeak"
The moment Mahad led his slave army into the cave, the light magic illuminated the entire cave, and the huge cave seemed to come alive instantly, with dozens of queen ant chirps echoing throughout the cave.
Countless ants crawled across the cave with the rustling sound of their footsteps, and this cave was connected to countless other caves, all of which were now filled with ants.
Preliminary estimates suggest that the ant army here numbers in the millions.
"The cave behind us is also blocked by the ant army!" a wizard shouted.
"It seems these queen ants aren't entirely brainless; they actually knew to lull us into a false sense of security first, then ambush us with their army, intending to kill us all at once."
Although the ant army far outnumbered Mahad and his group, not a single wizard showed any sign of fear.
They simply observed the ant army inside the cave. If this was all the queen ant had to offer, and she thought she could overwhelm them with sheer numbers, then she had misjudged the situation.