Chapter 17: The Queen Comes

The Scythe Hunters are able to temporarily stabilize the front, and the protagonist is naturally optimistic, which can buy more time for his fleet to take shape.

However, as the scale and frequency of parasitic ants increase day by day, the depths of the swamp are like a white hole that is endlessly fighting for parasitic ants. In this case, it is unclear how long the Native Scythe Hunter Ant Coalition will be able to hold out.

According to the legend of the "Doomsday War" circulated among the Hunter Ant Hunting Ant Tribe, every certain year, sometimes hundreds of years, sometimes decades, parasitic bacteria will explode, and countless parasitic ants will emerge from the swamp and sweep the world, triggering a "Doomsday War". At this time, the hunters must abandon all internal disputes and unite to fight. But even so, the vast majority of the Scythe Warriors will die in glorious battles, and there will be not a single surviving tribe.

It's been a long time since the last "Doomsday War", and the indigenous scythe-hunting ant tribe with the longest heritage can't tell how many generations ago it was, only legends have been circulating.

According to the legend, the parasitic ants now act like a sign before the outbreak of the Doomsday War, and the scythe ants in the hilly areas have clearly not yet gathered their full strength.

The protagonist doesn't know how the outcome of each "Doomsday War" has been in the past, but the parasite still exists in this world, and the Hunting Scythe Ant Tribe has also survived, and both sides have not been able to eliminate each other in history, and this time if there is no external intervention, it is estimated that this result will still be the same.

However, this "Doomsday War" is too close to the territory of the Divine Envoy King's Legion, and it is very likely to pose a threat to the Divine Envoy King's Legion, and the protagonist cannot let this threat disappear naturally.

In order to be able to go north as soon as possible, the protagonist is determined to solve the threat of parasitic ants once and for all, and at least eliminate most of the strength of the parasitic bacteria, so that it will not be able to threaten his rear for several years.

Kite leading his warriors to join the Indigenous Scythe-Hunting Ant Coalition is a risky attempt, and if it fails, the protagonist can afford to lose dozens of Scythe Hunter Ant Warriors. And now it seems that the kite has succeeded, and the protagonist can also use this channel in the future to quietly strengthen the strength of the indigenous scythe hunting and ant alliance.

After all, the abundant output of the territory of the Divine Envoy King's Legion was enough to supply thousands of sickle-hunting warriors, a scale comparable to the combined strength of a large number of indigenous tribes in the hilly region.

However, this can only be used as a measure to prevent parasitic ants from threatening the protagonist's territory, and in order to completely eradicate the parasite, you must enter the swampy area that the protagonist is highly suspicious.

The Scythe Hunter Ant Coalition refuses to enter this forbidden land, and from the kite, the protagonist roughly learns that this swamp is a forbidden place for the Scythe Hunter Ant Clan, but the reason is unknown, anyway, the Scythe Ant Hunting Coalition will only passively defend outside the swamp and refuse to enter.

In the end, the protagonist's hope is still placed on the walnut ship fleet, patiently waiting for the fleet to take shape little by little.

- I'm the dividing line -

On March 28, 4, when spring was getting darker, the protagonist sat in [Dongyang City] and went to [Great Lake City] from time to time to inspect the progress of fleet construction.

But just today, a Flying Knight messenger from the main nest [Qingqiu City] delivered a message:

The messenger of the Big-Headed Ant Relic arrives and stays in [Queen Ant] City, proposing that the Queen of the Big-headed Ant Relic wants to meet with the protagonist.

[Queen Ant City] is the nest that was originally occupied by the Queen Ant Inheritance faction and called the [True Main Nest], located in the southwest border of the territory of the Divine Messenger King's Legion, bordering the territory of the Big-headed Ant Remnant.

After the Divine Envoy King's army defeated the main force of the Queen Ant Inheritance faction last year, they took over the nest and sent male ants to manage it.

The Queen Ant Legacy faction suffered an unwarranted disaster last year, and was attacked by the Queen Ant Legacy faction army - at that time, the Queen Ant Legacy faction's territory was divided by the Divine Messenger King Legion, and the army trapped in the [real main nest] was extremely short of food, so it had to choose the territory of the Queen Ant Inheritance faction as the target, hoping to capture a batch of food.

Although the Queen Ant Inheritance faction comes from a more developed area, after all, it has just settled down after a long journey, the territory is not large, and there are not many ant mouths, so it can only be passively defended in the face of a large number of Queen Ant Inheritance faction troops.

Despite the hard work of the beetle troops, the Big-headed Ant Remnants managed to hold the nest until they learned that the enemy army had been killed in the nest retreated on their own.

But this battle also greatly damaged the strength of the big-headed ant remnants, and they had no income for more than half a month, so they could only sit and eat. The fierce fighting also caused serious losses to a large number of elite troops, and more than half of the beetles were also killed.

After the queen ant inheritance faction army retreated, the big-headed ant remnant clan closed the border, did not interact with the Divine Envoy King army, and silently licked their wounds.

And the protagonist also forgets about this neighbor because he is busy with affairs. In fact, even if he thought about it, he wouldn't have any bad thoughts about this poor neighbor, after all, the Big-headed Ant Remnant had also taught the Divine Envoy King Legion some extremely practical techniques, such as beetle breeding, weaving, and fermentation.

The poor territory of the Big-headed Ant Relic Clan is not looked down upon, and the Big-headed Ant Relic Clan has no more skills to teach the Divine Envoy King Legion, for the sake of the previous friendship, the protagonist doesn't want to treat it as an enemy.

Of course, the protagonist has not forgotten that he promised to provide military protection for the remnants of the big-headed ants. In the protagonist's opinion, when the other party was besieged by the Queen Ant Inheritance faction, his own side besieged Wei to save Zhao and let the Queen Ant Inheritance faction army relieve the siege on its own, which was also considered to have fulfilled its obligations.

And the protagonist also promised the big-headed ant remnants that he would assist the big-headed ant remnants to return to their homeland in the future - I don't know if the other party came this time for this matter.

The protagonist has a bit of a headache, although he has unified the south bank of the Great River, and in the eyes of the big-headed ant remnants, it is already a very powerful country. But he knows that there are still many threats around his territory, and he can't spare his energy to help the other party return to his homeland in the upper reaches of the river, and it is even more difficult to send a large army to help him recover his country.

But the other queen can still be seen.,The protagonist likes to communicate with ants with a civilized atmosphere like the queen.,And his subordinates are more like primitive people who have just gotten out of the state of drinking blood.,It's only improved under his own hard work.。

"It takes three generations to produce a nobleman", the queen and nobles (queen ant and male ant) of the big-headed ant clan have that kind of civilized and noble style on the ants, which is not comparable to the flow of rolling.

Since there are no flying knights stationed in [Queen Ant City], the messenger who departs from here has spent several days trekking all the way to [Qingqiu City], and then the local flying knight will report the protagonist. The messenger had been waiting for [Queen Anton] for days.

The protagonist decides to return to the main nest [Qingqiu City] immediately, and after a little preparation, he will go to [Queen Ant City] with the Praetorian Guard.