Chapter 59: An Unprecedented Battle (5)

The ants gathered on a small natural platform coiled at the base of the stump, waiting for the enemy in the water to land.

Parasitic water spiders and parasitic dragon lice hovered in the water. These two insects, one dexterous, have a total of six arthropods that are four long and two short, and they can swing far on the surface of the water with a single flick. The other is more powerful, although the dragon lice is just as swift underwater, but its huge size, powerful jaws, and short paddling feet all show a sense of power.

Like the air attack that just ended, this enemy from the water is an enemy that the Divine Envoy King's legion has never faced, and the ants have a natural fear of water, so they only dare to wait on land, and will never approach the mysterious, dangerous, and ominous waters.

The stalemate between the two sides did not last long, and the dragon lice and water spiders, already infected with parasites, could not suppress their bloodthirsty instincts and began to try to approach the shore.

The first to approach was the parasitic water spider, which was much faster.

These water spiders are not spiders, but an insect called water strider, and water spiders are just its common name.

Water strider is an aquatic hemiptera insect in the family Aquarium paludum Fabricius, which inhabits still water or slow streams and can also live on land for a period of time. The body color of the water strider is dark brown, and the body is slender, about 22mm long, and it is very light; Its forelegs are short and can be used to catch prey; The midfoot and hindfoot are elongated, with oily hairs that are water-repellent and allow water striders to float above the water. When it moves, it is usually a mid-foot swing and can move forward quickly.

Water striders are sometimes confused with another type of silver spider called a water spider, but the former is an insect and a six-legged one, while the latter is an eight-legged true spider.

Now, the Divine Legion was confronted by nine parasitic water striders, paddling at such speed that they were nine tiny speedboats. You must know that these water spiders can move at speeds of up to 1.5 meters per second, which is 75 times their body length, which is equivalent to a 1.8-meter-tall human man running 135 meters in one second, and it doesn't take a second to run the 100-meter track.

The ants have limited vision, and these water spiders seem to suddenly teleport in front of them, which is really shocking.

Whether it is the protagonist who is watching the battle from the high place of the ant mound, or the male ant commanders who are preparing to fight on the front line, they are serious, and the enemy is extremely fast and menacing, and it seems that it is very difficult to mess with.

Soon, as they approached the water's edge, nine water spiders suddenly jumped en masse, about 2 centimeters in length, and jumped twice as high and as far as their length.

The enemy has landed, and the formation of the Divine Envoy King's army is still immovable, which is the embodiment of strict organizational discipline and the magic weapon to defeat the enemy.

Water spiders on land have obviously lost their speed in the water, but their huge size is still extremely powerful when faced at close range.

But then, the performance of these water spiders surprised the warriors of the Divine Messenger King...

The water spiders are used for movement on their back four legs, and the short front two legs are dedicated to predation, and these water spiders neither rush up to try to break the war of the Divine Envoy King's legion, nor do they use their jumps to break into the core of the military formation. Instead, he stopped in front of the front of the Divine Envoy King's army, waving his short forelimbs, trying to hook out one or two Divine Envoy King warriors to kill.

The attack was rather clumsy, with the ants hugging each other covering each other, their jaws wide open, constantly trying to bite the short forelimbs of the water spider that stretched out.

Some water spiders were really accidentally bitten, and then they were immediately dragged into the line by dozens of ants and bitten to death. Others were in vain, and instead could only retreat under the counterattack of the ants, and their combat effectiveness was laid bare—what looked like mighty bales, but in fact they were useless.

Of course, the water spider's huge pin-and-needle-like mouthparts are still lethal, but they also have to grab their prey with their forefeet and have time to calmly stab venom and digestive juices into the prey.

The closely coordinated ant warriors will actively rescue their companions who are accidentally caught, and the water spiders will not have a chance at all.

After perceiving the parasitic water spider's fierce internal attack, the Divine Envoy King warrior took the initiative under the leadership of the team commander and quickly killed six water spiders, and only three wounded parasitic water spiders escaped back into the water.

However, these water spiders who fled back caused the death of several warriors of the Divine Envoy King's legion. These gods made the king warriors hang on the water spiders and bite them, and they were brought into the water by the water spiders who fled quickly before they could break away.

On the surface of the water, the water spider regained its ferocious nature, and soon killed these unfortunate Divine Envoy King warriors.

The parasitic water strider did not dare to land again, and the three parasitic dragon lice that had been hovering near the shore just now began to move.

These dragon lice are a little longer than water spiders, and they are round and round in shape, looking like beetles and a bit like cockroaches. But they are much more ferocious than the vast majority of beetles or cockroaches, and are out-and-out overlords of the water, known for eating everything.

The ants regained their dense formation, ready for a new wave of enemy attacks.

And defeating enemies from the air and water spiders one after another, the Divine Envoy King's legion has been adapting to the battle a little bit. As long as the parasitic dragon lice dare to land, the warriors of the Divine Envoy King will not be afraid - ants are the overlords of insects on land!!

However, the parasitic dragon lice did not fully land, they fell one by one at the water's edge, their butts sticking out of the water and rushing towards the Divine Messenger King's legion, their heads still stuck in the water.

Just when the protagonist watching the battle was puzzled, the tails of the three parasitic dragon lice suddenly rushed out of three powerful water columns.

The dragon lice's water cannon spray was very short, but it was very powerful, and the formation of several squads that were directly hit was scattered at once, and several ordinary soldiers and even commanders were directly knocked unconscious.

However, the water cannon attack did not cause a direct attrition of the Divine Envoy King's legion, and the wounded were only unconscious.

But the real danger is that due to the narrowness of the combat platform and the natural slope, some of the ants were carried by the current and fell into the water, and were immediately killed by the parasitic water striders who heard the news.

On the platform, the protagonist is surprised by the dragon lice's attack methods, but he doesn't know that dragon lice in the human world don't spray water like this at all, but dragonfly larvae water flies have this water spraying skill, but they are also mainly used for fast movement. The dragon lice in this world still have a different evolution from the protagonist's world.

Fortunately, parasitic dragon lice can't carry out water cannon attacks unscrupulously, they need to wait a minute or two before they can be fired once, after all, it takes time to absorb water.

Of course, the Divine Envoy King Legion couldn't stand and be beaten, and they began to try to fight back!