From the perspective of having a common and undying enemy of parasitic ants, "Dongyang City" and the hunting sickle ants should be friends and not enemies.

However, the first contact between the two sides was not friendly, and not only skirmishes broke out, but also killed and injured each other. Fortunately, the casualty figure is not large, and it has not yet reached the point of irretrievable vendettas.

In the days that follow, the protagonist sends heavily guarded emissaries several times in an attempt to communicate with them, but these attempts fail.

The Scythe Hunters will attack once the Divine Angel King's legion has reached a certain distance, even if they are far inferior in numbers, making it impossible for the two sides to communicate at all.

The protagonist had to give up this effort.

However, it is not easy to conquer the aborigines of these hilly areas militarily.

Although the size of each scythe's nest is not large, it usually has dozens to two hundred warriors. However, these Scythe Hunters are all natural warriors, and the protagonist estimates that every attack on a Scythe Ant Nest will require ten times the opponent's forces to ensure victory with minor losses.

There are hundreds or thousands of nests of hunters scattered in the vast hilly area, and it will undoubtedly be a protracted war to completely wipe out this area.

The protagonist has to give up his plan to hunt down the parasitic ants through the territory of the scythe ant. He could only comfort himself, with the Hunter's hatred of parasitic ants and parasites, maybe he didn't need to do it himself, and the Hunters would destroy the enemy.

After returning to the temporary camp, due to its proximity to the area where the scythe ants are active, in order to avoid unnecessary conflicts, the protagonist even ordered the Divine Legion to withdraw to the stump fortress along with the parasitic ant offspring in the camp.

- I'm the dividing line -

The war with the parasitic ants has been over for a month, and a lot of important things have happened during this month.

The main force of the Divine Envoy King's army returned to "Dongyang City" in triumph with a large number of captured materials, as well as aphids, scale insects and other resources collected in the conquered land.

Now, the honey source of "Dongyang City" has increased dramatically, and it has been able to supply normal needs and become rich.

The "Southern Fortress" that was originally built to defend against the attack of parasitic ants and the "Transit Station" that was built to transport supplies to attack the parasitic ant nest and was located on the way to the hilly area have also been retained.

However, with the demise of the parasitic ant forces, the strategic significance of these two strongholds has been greatly reduced, and the protagonist only stationed a hundred worker ants in each of these two strongholds, which are used as a liaison station between "Dongyang Castle" and "Stump Fortress".

The meaning of the "Stump Fortress" is still important. After the main force returned to "Dongyang City", the Third Legion of the Divine Envoy King remained in the "Stump Fortress", and they will be driven as a nail in the hilly area, closely monitoring the hunting sickle ants and parasitic ants here, in case the parasitic ant power will resurge one day.

The protagonist also transferred 1,000 worker ants and 10 flying knights from "Dongyang City" to the "Stump Fortress" to station.

Worker ants are not only responsible for maintaining the fort, but also foraging for food nearby, ensuring that the fort is largely self-sufficient in food. However, due to the small space in the "Stump Fortress", there is no mealworm farm, and the meat needed needs to be obtained by hunting, or cured meat from "Dongyang City" to replenish it.

The mission of the Flying Knights stationed in the "Stump Fortress" is to take off every day to reconnoiter weather permitting, both to detect the movements of the scythe ants and the traces of parasitic ants.

What makes the protagonist feel strange is that for many days, no matter how much the flying knights expand the search range, the remaining parasitic ants seem to have evaporated from the world, leaving no trace.

But the protagonist doesn't think that these cunning and tenacious enemies have been wiped out, and they must still be hiding in some dark corner and waiting for an opportunity to fight back.

On the contrary, after the absence of the parasitic ant, the enemy of life and death, due to the more cautious strategy adopted by the Divine Envoy King Legion, the scope of activity was limited to the vicinity of the "Stump Fortress", and the indigenous scythe hunting ants ushered in their good days.

In the summer when food is plentiful, new nests of hunting sickle ants appear every day. Some of these nests are based on the power established by the new queen of marriage, while others are split from larger nests.

A large number of nests began to spread towards the territory of the original parasitic ants, and soon approached the "Stump Fortress". It was only after the Third Legion of the Divine Envoy made several sorties to drive away some of the scythe-hunting ants that were approaching the fortress very closely, and the Assassins slowly mastered the rules and no longer approached the Big-Headed Ants' sphere of influence—a certain tacit understanding between the two sides.

The protagonist is also very busy in "Dongyang City" this month.

He went to visit Xiaoqing, who was injured and flew back to the "Dongyang City" on his own, and what saddened him was that Xiaoqing's wings were so broken that it was difficult to fly, and he could no longer be the protagonist's mount.

The protagonist can only let the two worker ants take care of Xiaoqing's daily life, and then announce Xiaoqing's retirement.

But out of necessity, the protagonist must have a strong and agile fly as a mount. And in order to ensure that the manipulation is handy, the protagonist himself goes to domestication.

Fortunately, the domestication of flies in "Dongyang City" has become quite large-scale, and there is a special farm responsible for cultivating fly maggots. Here, emaciated maggots are used as food, and only strong maggots are bred to pupae in the required quantities.

The protagonist quickly finds a suitable mount from a batch of flies that have just broken their pupa, a red-eyed and green-armored red-headed fly like Xiaoqing.

This new mount reminds the protagonist of the days when he met and tamed Xiaoqing, so the protagonist named it "Xiaoqing II".

Subsequently, the protagonist devotes himself to the training of Xiaoqing II.

Although there have been successful cases of taming Xiaoqing in the past, and "Dongyang City" has accumulated a lot of effective experience in training flying knights, taming new mounts is still a time-consuming and laborious task.

Not only did it establish rider dominance through constant punishment and rewards, but it was also necessary to create a dedicated saddle and get the mount used to the saddle, and finally a few weeks of run-in to ensure that the rider was able to control the mount at arm's fingertips.

So, for most of the month, the protagonist spends most of the month with Xiaoqing II.

The final result is also very satisfying, and the protagonist and Xiaoqing II have been able to cooperate seamlessly, just like the protagonist and Xiaoqing were with in the first place. The protagonist is finally able to soar into the blue sky again, and the feeling of flying is so wonderful.