The protagonist sees a series of movements of the Paving Ant Barbarian Army from the returning Flying Knight, and he can't help but admire - this is the first time he has seen other ant races except the Divine Envoy King's Legion play a feint deception routine.

The common feint tactics of the human world seem simple, but they are also a manifestation of human intelligence. However, this deception is not unique to humans, in fact, some animals also use feints when hunting.

For example, when lions hunt bison herds, they often feint against adult bison, and when the adult bison is attracted and the herd is scattered, they turn around and attack the real target, the more accessible baby bison.

Wolves are more cooperative, and they also like to give priority to young animals that lack the ability to defend themselves. Wolves often have a clear division of labor, with those responsible for feints to attract rebellious adult prey, those responsible for taking advantage of the chaos to bite the prey to death, and reserve members who respond to feints against wolves. There are no young beasts, and this tactic is also used when attacking adult prey, to minimize the casualties of the wolves themselves.

It can be seen that the feint tactics and the actual deception tactics behind them have been engraved into the genes of animals in the long-term evolution of nature.

Unlike the "camouflage" deception of creatures such as the Dead Leaf Butterfly, the feints of lions and wolves are conscious actions that imply a high level of intelligence. And as a member of the intelligent race of ants in this world, it is natural that the paver ant has the intelligence level to use this tactic.

The essence of feints means deception, although the protagonist rarely sees the ants deceive, it is mainly because it is not necessary for the same race, making people think that the ants have almost no sense of deception. But as intelligent creatures, there are times when there is no need for ants to be "honest".

In Florida, USA, there is a species of ant - Florida ant (scientific name Formica archbold), which seems to be very ordinary in appearance, but it can attack and prey on trap alligators by "cheating".

The Florida ant will never simply and rudely declare war on the trap alligator, but before attacking the trap alligator, it will use a waxy substance made of a special chemical to smear itself on its body, and the waxy substance can have a good "transformation" effect: cover up the original characteristics of their race, and at the same time show the characteristics of the trap alligator.

In this way, when the Florida ant sneaks into the trap alligator colony, it will not be detected and counterattacked. It wasn't until they infiltrated the trap alligator colony that the Florida ant suddenly broke out and found a suitable time to violently spray formic acid, causing the trap alligator to die in confusion and confusion.

After killing the trap alligators, the cruel Florida ants do not immediately hunt the trap alligators, but take them back to their burrows to decompose. They even like to remove the head of the trap crocodile ant separately for home decoration, and how to dispose of the other parts of the trap crocodile depends on their mood and willingness at the time.

And even among the same species, ants also have "cheating" behavior: in some ant races, in addition to the queen, some female occupational ants are also fertile, but are not allowed to give birth.

In order to keep their offspring, these working ants will secretly lay eggs and try to mix their eggs into the eggs laid by the queen. Other workers will try to destroy the eggs that "shouldn't be there" based on the pheromones they smell in the laying ants.

In short, this time, Suzaku commanded the Paving Ant Barbarian Army to use simple feints and deception tactics, which also made the protagonist realize that he had been underestimating the wisdom of the ant race before.

The mysterious ants symbolize the invincible "strength", and the paving ants use "wisdom", and the duel between the two determines the final victory or defeat of the [Purple Leaf Li Cheng] battle.

- I'm the dividing line -

After the arrival of the reinforcements, Suzaku, who had been struggling to hold on, finally breathed a sigh of relief, after all, the defense line in the second half of the nest was already full of holes, and if it wasn't for the timely arrival of reinforcements, it might not last long.

Now, it seems that the whole battle situation is also starting to develop in favor of the paving ant defenders.

A large number of paving ant warriors suddenly appeared in the upper part of the already fallen [Purple Leaf Li City], and at this time, the mysterious ants had already gathered at the junction of the upper and lower half of the nest, attacking these connecting passages with all their might.

The paving ants have appeared behind the mysterious ant army, and there are many of them, and a steady stream of troops are coming.

The mysterious ants were already in the narrow underground and difficult to turn around, and they were attacked again, and many ants could not find a spacious place to turn around in time in the chaos, so they could only let the paving ant warriors climb their joints, backs, heads, and even hang upside down on their abdomen, compound eyes, antennae, and neck were attacked, but they could not fight back.

Moreover, the chaos is exacerbated by the fact that a large number of mysterious ants are crowding together, and even with good command, it is difficult for these mysterious ants to turn around in time in this chaotic and cramped environment.

Since most of the already fallen nests were unguarded by Mystic Ants, the Paving Ant reinforcements who launched the raid were able to work with the allies in the lower half of the nest to surround the Mystic Ants near the junction of the two halves.

After a fierce battle, the front line took advantage of the chaos to kill hundreds of mysterious ants, which was unprecedented since the battle with the mysterious ants.

At this moment, Suzaku even rekindled the hope of victory.

But hopes are dashed unusually quickly.

As the pursuing mysterious ant force on the ground eliminated the two paving ant cannon fodder legions responsible for feints, this enemy army followed the footsteps of the paving ant reinforcements, defeated the troops left behind on the ground, and also followed into the ground.

Now, it was the turn of the reinforcements of the Paving Ant Barbarian Army to suffer from the enemy.

The support force had to continue to intensify its assault on the main force of the Mysterious Ant while trying to resist the reinforcements of the Mysterious Ant. And the mysterious ant reinforcements came prepared, and quickly broke through several lines of defense.

With the main force of the mysterious ants finally completing the turn with difficulty, the defeat of the paving ant reinforcements is inevitable.

The secret passage through which these reinforcements entered the underground had been lost, and they were unable to open up contact with their allies in the lower half of the nest, and they were trapped in the upper half of the nest and slaughtered little by little. Although these reinforcements fought extremely bravely, even the male ant commander insisted on fighting to the end after knowing that there was no hope of escape.

But with the arrival of the second half of the night, the fighting in the first half of the nest calmed down - the reinforcements were all wiped out.

The arrival of this support army only temporarily relieved the pressure on the defenders of the second half of the nest. At sunrise on the third day, the mysterious ants began to retreat in all their hands, but they didn't retreat too far, just resting on the ground of [Purple Leaf Li City].

When the mysterious ants are finished resting, the general attack on [Purple Leaf Li City], which has no reinforcements, will be launched!!