In the dark night, the succubus Aphrodite and Surdak walked out of the small building one after another.
The cavalry patrolled back and forth along the perimeter of the military camp. Since there was a ghost-striped male ant tied to the small building, the guard here was even tighter. Moreover, the captain of the guard had to take his saber every once in a while to cut off the new growth of the ghost-striped male ant.
of legs.
The team leader on duty at night saw Suldak walking out of the small building with a lady, and quickly saluted with the five cavalrymen in the team.
Aphrodite looked around with some curiosity, even though it was night, it seemed that the night could not block her sight.
Surdak waved to them and said: "I'm going to look for weaknesses in this big guy later, which may irritate it. In order to prevent it from going crazy and hurting people, you guys remember to stay away later."
The captain of the cavalry battalion quickly saluted Suldak again.
The cavalrymen of these cavalry battalions obediently ran to stand in a row next to the torch, holding spears in their hands, swords hanging on their waists, and shields behind their backs. They looked at Surdak curiously.
Aphrodite stood quietly next to Surdak, her body becoming a little blurry in the darkness.
Although the succubus's flesh wings were chopped off by her companions, causing her to lose most of her magic power, Aphrodite was still an outstanding black magician. She took advantage of the darkness and slowly walked to the ghost-striped male ant.
The body of the ghost-striped male ant trembles instinctively. Its eyes are on both sides of its head, so its field of vision is very wide. Except for the blind spot directly behind the body, it cannot be seen. Even if it is standing behind the ghost-striped male ant, it can't escape.
Not out of its sight.
It just feels like this ghost-striped male ant seems to have become a lot slower. In Suldak's eyes, this ghost-striped male ant is about the size of a six-meter box truck. Maybe it is because of exhaustion of physical strength. Now it is
He didn't even bother to move his head.
The cavalry of that team stood beside the ghost-striped male ant. No one dared to be in front of the ghost-striped male ant. It always wants to spit acid. Once it is sprayed by the acid, even if it is washed immediately, the body will not be spared.
It will be burned into a large red area. Once it is not cleaned for a long time, the situation will become very serious and the skin will soon erode.
Aphrodite walked over, looked up at the huge body of the ghost-striped male ant, and showed a confident expression to Surdak.
In the shocked eyes of the cavalry nearby, Aphrodite stepped in front of the head of the ghost-striped male ant. The tip of the nearly one-meter-long giant pincer was at Aphrodite's feet. She stood in the mud wearing long leather boots.
In the sour liquid, there is no fear of the ghost-striped male ants.
The ghost-striped male ant finally had some reaction at this time. It wanted to open its giant pincers towards Aphrodite. Its dark red compound eyes were filled with the reflection of Aphrodite. Its body finally began to twist slowly.
He moved and tried to attack Aphrodite with his giant pincers.
The cavalrymen nearby took out their shields one after another, as if they were planning to wait for Aphrodite to be bitten by the ghost-marked male ant, and then rush forward to rescue the woman.
Naturally, these cavalrymen greatly admired Aphrodite's courage.
These cavalry all followed Surdak out of the deserted land. Many people knew that there was such a mysterious magician beside Surdak.
Aphrodite stretched out her slightly gray arms, and just before the ghost-striped male ants raised their heads to attack her, an endless darkness suddenly appeared in her eyes, and a shadow slowly appeared under her feet.
A huge dark red magic pattern formation appeared on the ground, like a huge spider web, containing countless mysterious runes.
The ghost-striped male ant made a rapid hissing sound from its mouth, and it shook its huge head as if it wanted to retreat.
Several chains were tied to the body, nailing it firmly in place.
Countless dark elements seemed to condense on top of Aphrodite's head, and then a huge black sphere emerged.
As Aphrodite chanted the spell, the sphere became clearer in everyone's field of vision. Slowly, the sphere took on the shape of an eyeball. The membrane in front actually had an eyelid, and countless blood vessels and nerves surrounded it.
The outside of the eyeball is tangled and intertwined.
When the spell ended, the dark red magic pattern array at Aphrodite's feet erupted into a foot-high red light.
A moment later, the magic circle suddenly disappeared.
Aphrodite opened her hands slightly, and the one-meter-diameter eyeball on her head slowly opened her eyes.
As if the eyeball had some mysterious power, the ghost-striped male ant was instantly attracted to the eyeball, and its head slowly adjusted with the eyeball.
A beam of gray light emitted from its eyeballs, and the ghost-striped male ant fell into a deep sleep with almost no ability to struggle.
"It's asleep. Even if you split its head open with an axe, you can't wake it up." Aphrodite took a few steps forward and stood in an oval-shaped compound eye that was larger than a dinner plate.
He looked at it carefully and then said to Suldak.
After hearing what Aphrodite said, Surdak couldn't wait to ask the cavalry to bring the ladder over, put it beside the ghost-striped male ant, climbed up the ladder to the back of the ghost-striped male ant, and stepped on the hard bones on the back.
Carapace, look for the fatal weakness of the ghost-striped male ant near its head.
The back of the ghost-striped male ant is covered with all kinds of sharp spines. When Surdak steps on it, he needs to be particularly careful to avoid those sharp spines.
Surdak discovered that the carapace on the head of the ghost-striped male ant is extremely hard. Even if the blood-red crescent moon is injected with a trace of the power of holy light, it cannot cut through the hard skull.
Although he had expected this, Surdak still took a deep breath when he saw that the sharp blood-red crescent moon could barely make any marks on the hard armor.
He then looked for weak points at the joints between the skull and thorax of the ghost-striped male ant. Unfortunately, the locations he found were almost always hidden deep in the gaps in the exoskeleton.
Aphrodite walked along the ghost-marked male ant's giant pincers to the skull, squatted down next to a huge armor piece on the back of the ghost-marked male ant's head, stretched out his hand to open the somewhat flimsy armor piece, and said to Su
Erdak said: "This is the biggest weakness of this male ant."
After saying that, she took out a dark dagger.
The edge of the armor piece looks no different from the surroundings, but the dagger can cut along the edge of the armor piece without any hindrance.
She opened the armor plate and asked Suldak to look inside.
Surdak took out the Holy Light Torch from his magic belt bag. The flame core of the Holy Light Torch emits a blazing white light, and the situation inside the armor plate is also clearly visible. There is a big hole inside, and it can be seen from the inside.
A light gray brain-like substance was clearly seen.
"This is the central brain of the ghost-striped soldier ants." Aphrodite introduced to Surdak.
"Even if you don't kill it now, it may not live long. Losing the control of the queen is like tearing up the contract unilaterally. Its brain is already dying. This is the curse of the God of Magic.
"
Aphrodite pulled out Surdak's saber, thrust it in and stirred it casually.
The ghost-striped male ant's body began to tremble convulsively, and soon he was completely paralyzed in the field. The vitality of the ghost-striped male ant's body weakened little by little. The thick armor covering the body, as the life breath weakened, also began to tremble.
Fall off.
Aphrodite took out a handkerchief and wiped the sticky stuff off the blood-red crescent blade before inserting it back into the scabbard on Surdak's waist.
Then he wiped his hands in disgust and stood on the hard head of the ghost-striped male ant.
"Although this thing can be regarded as a second-level peak-level hell monster, it is extremely bulky and has no destructive attack methods. It is easy to deal with alone. As long as you are careful not to let them get into the ground and slip away, the main body
It's easy to deal with." Aphrodite bent down and held on to the ladder, saying as she walked down.
"These ghost-striped male ants always hang out among the ant colonies and rarely move alone. They often gather around the queen and are the closest guards around the ghost-striped ant queen." Aphrodite continued: "Usually there are only generals.
Only when the ants and worker ants are dealt with can we have a chance to hunt them.”
Surdak followed Aphrodite and listened quietly.
Aphrodite shook her dark purple hair when the night wind blew, walked back to the small building, and sat down on the sofa in the dark living room.
Suldak conveniently lit the candle on the table next to him.
Aphrodite said: "In the hell world, the underground demons like to eat this kind of ghost-marked red ants. Just like the people here raise cattle and sheep, they often raise ghost-marked red ants in captivity.
When devils hunt ghost-striped red ants, they try to hunt down those soldier ants that have little value in the ant colony. Worker ants are the builders of the red ant empire, and soldier ants are the guardians of the red ant empire. The biggest mission of the ghost-striped male ants is
It means mating with the queen ant. After mating, the queen will absorb the body essence of the male ant, so that more high-quality fraternal eggs can be born."
"Once a ghost-striped male ant grows up, he will basically follow the queen throughout his life."
"They usually hide in the deepest part of the ant nest. You can see ghost-striped male ants and queen ants outside the ant nest, which means that the ant nest has reached a cycle point where it can expand outwards. There are a huge number of ghost-striped red ants in the ant nest.
When ants are born, because the resources around the ant nest cannot satisfy these ghost-striped red ants, they need to rapidly expand outwards and establish a new red ant empire, which leads to the formation of such an ant tide."
"This kind of situation is very common in the hell world..."
Surdak asked seriously: "How did you defeat this beast tide?"
Aphrodite thought for a while and then said: "The easiest way is to kill the queen ant. Once the queen ant dies, they will become a piece of loose sand. Until a new queen ant takes over, they have no clear purpose and will only rely on
Instinct to survive.”
Surdak said in surprise: "Kill the queen ants? They are protected by the ghost-striped male ants around the clock. How can we kill them!"
Aphrodite frowned and thought for a moment, then squinted her eyes and said:
"New queen ants have wings after they are born, but these wings will fall off when the queen mates and lays eggs."
"Before a new red ant empire is established, the queen ant will never easily mate with male ants and lay eggs in order to maintain her ability to fly."
"The worker ants and soldier ants in the ant colony are born for the red ant empire. They usually obey the queen's instructions unconditionally, but they cannot tolerate the queen not reproducing for a long time."
"Since they have opened up a new empire of red ants, and since they have chosen to go south through this canyon, once they are unable to attack the Dodan Canyon for a long time, the queen ants will definitely make a desperate effort to push the ant army up. When there is nothing behind them, we will sneak attack
The best time."
Surdak wanted to take a closer look to see if the queen ants were really what Aphrodite said.
A series of explosions sounded from the north wall, which was catapults throwing gunpowder outside the city.
Since Andrew, Samira, and Gulitem were all guarding the city wall, Surdak was not in a hurry to inspect the city wall at night. He currently needed to peel off the life magic pattern from this ghost-marked male ant.
The body of the ghost-striped male ant is too large, and its hard carapace is difficult to process, which takes a lot of time.
During the night, several more corpses of giant ghost-patterned soldier ants were delivered to the military camp one after another. The soldiers responsible for transporting the giant ghost-patterned soldier ants reported to Suldak: The current situation on the city wall is relatively stable.
Surdak did not rush to the city wall to check the results of the battle.
Aphrodite waited until the last moment before stepping through the Gate of the Void and returning to Pussy Mountain.
This ghost-marked male ant was also very troublesome to deal with. Suldak had to deal with it until dawn before completely peeling off the life-marked male ant.
This piece of life magic pattern is very large, and the cut leather spread on the ground is as big as a double bed. Even if this leather with the life magic pattern is refined, it is not suitable for making magic pattern colonization clothing.
…
Just before dawn, a group of wounded soldiers were pulled down from the city wall.
Suldak had just finished processing the magic pattern of life on the body of the ghost-marked male ant, and was squatting on the back of the ghost-marked male ant to remove the fallen armor pieces when he heard two veterans rushing into the camp carrying a stretcher.
A veteran was lying on a stretcher covered in blood. His left leg was cut off half an inch above the knee. Although the wound on the broken leg was strangled by a rope, blood still continued to spurt out. It was dramatic.
Under the pain, the veteran howled heartbreakingly.
The broken leg was held under the armpit by the veteran carrying the stretcher.
Suldak quickly jumped off the back of the ghost-striped male ant, pointed to the door of the small building, and motioned to the veterans carrying the stretcher to carry the injured into the medical room of the small building.
Blood flowed all the way, and Surdak followed behind.
The pain made the veteran's face look a little distorted, but Suldak still recognized him.
He is a veteran of the cavalry battalion. He was promoted to a first-level warrior a few days ago and became the captain of the first squadron of the third squadron of the cavalry battalion.
Entering the treatment room transformed from the guest room, Suldak lit the holy light torch and placed it beside the bed.
A ball of holy light condensed in the palm of his hand fell on the wound of the veteran's broken leg. The wound was stained with some acid and rotten liquid. Judging from the stubble of the wound, it was obvious that it had been cut by giant red ant pliers.
Suldak ordered two other veterans carrying a stretcher to tie him to the bed, and then asked the two veterans to leave.
He opened the sacrificial altar, and then sacrificed the head of a moon-blade fire wolf, allowing the veteran to first have the divine blessing of the 'Blessed Body'. Then he held the pale-colored broken leg in his hand, bowed his head and thought for a while.
, thinking about how to reconnect this broken leg.
The cross-section of the broken leg wound is quite large, and even if the broken leg is re-sutured to the left leg, it will probably be difficult to heal.
Suldak patted the veteran's cheek hard and asked him: "Do you want to save your leg?"
The veteran endured the severe pain and nodded vigorously.
Surdak directly pulled out a magic sealing box from his magic pocket, threw it on the floor with a bang, took out a power-type life magic pattern from it, shook it in front of the veteran, and said to him: "Then we will
If you make a bet, you will owe me a large amount of money whether it succeeds or not. I estimate that you may have to pay it back for a long time..."
This time is considered a bold attempt by Suldak...
Because he knew that even with the blessing effect of the 'Blessed Body', it would be difficult to reattach the veteran's broken leg.
He thought of the ritual of implanting the magic pattern into the colonization clothing. Although that ceremony allowed the colonization clothing to perfectly integrate with the body of the person being cast, it could also be regarded as another form of treatment, and it also required the use of the magic pattern of life as a treatment.
Bridges connect broken legs together.
The ceremony lasted for nearly an hour. The veteran was tied to the hospital bed and woke up from the pain and then passed out. This repeated several times until someone finally lifted him off the hospital bed.
Nika, who arrived at the small building in the morning, was responsible for bandaging the veteran's injured leg. Suldak had no time to deal with such a trivial matter. There were many injured soldiers outside waiting for his treatment.
Before the veteran was carried out of the ward, Suldak asked him: "Whether it will succeed or not depends on how well the recovery and integration goes in the past three days... By the way, what is your name?"
"...My name is Hudson, Commander!" the veteran said weakly.