The cold and disgusting aura of destruction was completely quiet, and the dying ghost-striped ant queen lying on the ground was also completely lying on the blood-stained grass, with only the sides of her ribs rising slightly, as if she was breathing slowly.
A tree vine hangs down from Surdak's head, and it is actually wrapped with a piece of tattered bark. There is no writing on this piece of tattered bark, only a faint breath of life. You can feel this piece of bark at a casual glance.
How extraordinary, the whole bark is full of magic.
The bark scroll fell into Surdak's hands.
Surdak re-unfolded the bark scroll, and then looked at the bark, and found that there was no text in any form, only some simple patterns like ancient murals, which described this story, that is
A simple ant is kneeling in front of a tree and a human being. The background of the scroll pattern looks like a dragon...
The ghost-striped red ants on the surrounding battlefield had completely stopped. The red dragon Iser probably had no appetite for those ghost-striped male ants, so he returned with some reluctance, and set off a strong wind when he landed next to Surdak.
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Then Surdak introduced such a soul contract to Yisel. In the end, the ghost-marked ant queen almost pressed her forehead against the scroll, leaving a bright red blood contract.
The ghost-striped ant queen then lay down on her back, looking like she was ready to be slaughtered in front of World Tree and Yisel.
"So, my dinner is gone?" The red dragon Iser looked at Suldak with a resentful look on his face, and sprayed two flames from his nostrils from time to time.
A huge bulge appeared in its abdomen, which looked like it had eaten a lot.
Surdak walked up to Yiser's side, reached out and gently touched the dragon scales on the lower part of its neck closest to the ground, and then said to Yiser's lowered head:
"Obviously... it's more useful to keep it!"
"But I also know that you put in a lot of effort to catch it, Israel. I will make it up to you." Surdak stood next to the red dragon Israel and shouted to it.
The red dragon looked at his body that was constantly turning into light. The dragon scales began to appear blurred. He didn't complain any more and directly said to Surdak in dragon language:
"It's good that you know that I don't have much time to stay here. Next time you encounter such a high-level prey, remember to call me in time...and next time I will definitely not be as easy to talk to as this time. By that time
I would eat them without hesitation."
With that said, Israel once again opened her huge mouth towards the dying body of the ghost-striped ant queen.
"I know, I will go to the secret room to see you again in a few days, and I promise to prepare a feast for you!" Suldak comforted Israel.
After Suldak promised to bring it some delicious food, Israel flapped its dragon wings twice with some joy, flew into the light door again, and disappeared together with the light door.
The red dragon Iser left the Bailin plane, and the huge burden in Surdak's spiritual sea of consciousness was relieved a little.
However, when he felt some sticky liquid coming out of his mouth and nose, he reached out and wiped it and found that a large amount of blood was pouring out of his mouth and nose, accompanied by strong dizziness...
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The Queen Ant signed a soul contract with the World Tree.
According to World Tree, the Queen Ant's signing of this contract scroll means that the entire ant tribe will forever become the slaves of World Tree and Surdak, and there is also a simple leaf mark on the forehead of the Ghostly Pattern Ant Queen.
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It's just that it was lying in a pool of blood on the grass, looking like it might die at any time. I don't know if it was deliberately pretending to be weak to show him, or if it was really injured like that. No matter what, it was.
It is a tragic gesture of a loser.
Even those ghost-striped red ants stopped completely, waiting for the judgment of Surdak and World Tree.
Surdak discovered that the number of red ants currently existing in the entire ant tribe is still extremely large. More than 60% of the entire red ant empire is composed of ghost-striped worker ants. What appears on the ground now is still the army of the red ant empire.
Most of the ghost-striped worker ants are still hiding deep in the ant nest.
The total number of all ghost-marked red ants still amounts to millions.
Next, Surdak ordered Samira to notify the lord army over the cave to suspend the pursuit of the ants. Now, to Surdak, these red ants are more like the ones he raised in the Worm Valley.
A group of cattle and sheep, even if they are slaughtered, there is no need to rush...
Then Gary Decker and Gulitem brought back the almost torn bodies of Andrew and Wolf Knight Tago from the battlefield.
In Suldak's view, the bodies of both of them were almost completely cold, but the blood in their bodies had not completely solidified, and there was no breathing or heartbeat. Even Tago's entire body was covered by the sharp claws of the ghost-striped ant queen.
A huge bloody hole was dug out, and the broken vertebrae made his body look extremely damaged.
Surdak's Holy Light Technique could not save them. Thinking that Andrew had been following him with all his heart in the past few years, Surdak saw him lying on the grass with blood on his face, and sat down on his butt.
Next to Andrew, he took out a white silk handkerchief and wiped his blood-stained face.
The frost wolf Bonita on the side was also crawling beside the wolf knight Tago, constantly licking Tago's cheek with its long tongue, and letting out low whimpering sounds from his mouth.
Surdak thought that there would be some price to pay for killing the ghost-striped ant queen this time, but these costs were somewhat unacceptable to him.
At this time, he suddenly had the urge to rush over and kill the ghost-marked queen ant lying in a pool of blood with one sword, and then completely peel off the dark golden magic skin from its body. The complete life magic patterns on its body made Su
Erdak drooled at the sight.
Just when Surdak regretted not being able to kill the enemies for Andrew and Tago with his own hands, a tree vine hung down in front of Surdak again. The tree vine exuded powerful vitality, and at the same time, a spiritual power was transmitted into Suldak.
Erdak's spiritual sea of consciousness is also the only means of contact between World Tree and Surdak.
"Don't worry about it, my friend, I have a way to help your two companions recover, but before that I need to ask you, are you willing to use such a precious opportunity on your two companions?
?" World Tree asked Surdak in the sea of spiritual consciousness.
"Of course I am willing..." Suldak replied without thinking.
"Well, Lord Surdak, you must remember that with this kind of treatment, with my current ability, I can only help you once a year. These two times are because I promised to give you some compensation before."
While the World Tree was chattering some thoughts into Surdak's mind, it condensed a drop of water full of life on the end of the tree vine.
One of the drops fell on Andrew's face, and the other dropped on the empty chest of Wolf Knight Tago.
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After World Tree's introduction, Surdak understood...
The reason why World Tree signed a slave contract with the Ghost-patterned Ant Queen is entirely because the Ghost-patterned Red Ants are the main force that cleans up the giant mushrooms in the Dark Worm Valley, so World Tree cannot completely eliminate the ants in the Dark Worm Valley.
Giant mushrooms grow on the World Tree, and the spores are everywhere in the rotting trees, which can never be cleaned up.
As long as there is rotten wood, there will be spore mushrooms. Because the mushrooms that grew on the older generation of World Tree were full of nutrients, they naturally formed giant mushrooms. These giant mushrooms can also be regarded as one of the biological chains of decomposing rotten wood.
The presence of too many spores and giant mushrooms will accelerate the decay of trees.
Back then, the ghost-patterned red ants were also the guardian beasts of the older generation of World Tree.
Unfortunately, as the ghost-patterned ant queen gained rudimentary wisdom and selfish thoughts, the old world tree was bitten and corrupted by ghost-patterned red ants and giant mushrooms, and eventually fell down...
After obtaining the life essence of the World Tree, the Ghost Pattern Ant Tribe turned their backs on the World Tree. Instead of giving the World Tree seedlings the most precious drop of the source of life, they sealed it in the stomach pouch of the Ghost Pattern Ant Queen and prepared to digest it alone.
It's a pity that the ghost-striped ant queen has not been able to digest this source of life for thousands of years...
On the contrary, over the past few thousand years, the entire ant tribe has been slowly degenerating.
In the nearly thousand years since the World Tree fell, the giant mushroom spores have been extremely prosperous.
But when the nutrients in the roots of the World Tree were exhausted, the huge roots turned into rocky valleys. The giant mushroom spores in the valleys continued to absorb enough nutrients and slowly shrank.
In the end, the giant mushroom forest can only cover the entire valley. Even so, the mushroom forest has begun to become increasingly petrified in recent years, and there are fewer and fewer new mushrooms.
Today's giant mushrooms can no longer provide enough food for the red ants with red stripes, so the red ants with red stripes try to hunt outside the valley...
This food chain slowly shrank and became what it is today.