Chapter 190: Disengagement

Under the personal leadership of the commander of the Second Legion, Rambo Fo, the ten squads lined up in the usual dense formation, and slaughtered more than 60 hunting sickle fierce ants in a horizontal formation.

Just by looking at the number of troops engaged in battle, the ratio between the two sides is about eight to one. Although the protagonist already has a high evaluation of the enemy's individual combat effectiveness, he also believes that this kind of military advantage is a sure victory, especially since these Divine Envoy King warriors who fight are still battle-hardened veterans.

In the face of the aggressive Divine Envoy King Legion, these scythe-hunting ant warriors did not flinch, and the protagonist had to perceive the hatred in each other's eyes from a distance, which made the protagonist very strange.

The Scythe Warriors did not form a tight formation, but were more dispersed, expanding their defensive area and distributing them evenly in front of each of the Divine Envoy King squads, with no intention of concentrating their forces to hold or break through.

As the distance between the two sides approached, about a decimeter closer, the hunting sickle ant took the lead in attacking.

These warriors, though, prefer to rely on eyesight and bounce to carry out one-hit ambushes on prey and enemies. But if it comes to confronting the enemy head-on, they are not afraid.

One by one, the scythe ants scurried forward, then kicked their hind legs, and the soldiers of the Divine Envoy King's legion could only see the afterimages left in their place—they were moving too fast.

In the next second, the Hunter Scythe Ant Warrior fell from the sky and smashed into the Divine Envoy King's team, and the airflow and smoke swept away some of the Divine Envoy King Warriors who had an unstable foothold near the landing point.

Then, taking advantage of the destruction of the formation of the Divine Envoy King's squad and the panic, these Hunter Scythe Fierce Ants suppressed the nearest Divine Envoy King warrior with their big jaws, and then killed him with a sting needle, and then quickly jumped off the battlefield.

In this assault alone, the Divine Envoy King's legion lost forty or fifty warriors.

This tactic reminds the protagonist of the mantis he hunted at the beginning. The praying mantis used to bring great fear and threat to the protagonist, and later in the round-up of "Dongyang City", the praying mantis often used its bouncing and flying abilities to fight in and out of the round-up team, until it finally died at the hands of the protagonist due to the light enemy.

These scythes also follow the principle of one-hit, using bounces to make a surprise attack, and then immediately slip away to avoid being besieged by the superior army of the Divine Envoy King.

If it had been earlier, the inexperienced Divine Envoy King might have been exhausted by this tactic. But now, the Divine Envoy King's legion has encountered a variety of different enemies, and it has a lot of experience in dealing with the situation.

When the enemy descended from the sky, some of the Divine Envoy King warriors who were not shocked immediately launched a counterattack against the flying scythe fierce ants that flew down.

Although most of the Scythe Hunters were killed and evacuated at the first time, there were also a few Scythe Hunter Warriors who were slow or encountered fierce resistance and were quickly bitten by the Divine Envoy King Warriors who surrounded them.

Some of these surrounded scythe-hunting warriors quickly retreated, while others were surrounded by groups and could not get out, and then they were quickly dismembered by the small and agile number of Divine Angel King warriors.

In the first round, the Divine Envoy King's legion lost forty or fifty warriors, and the enemy also lost seven ants.

Such losses were severe relative to the number of enemies, but the Divine King's legion was greatly confident that they had successfully found a way to destroy the enemy.

When the Divine Envoy King's Legion gathered up the formation that had just been destroyed and moved forward again, these Hunter Scythe Ants hesitated and retreated slightly, it seemed that they were very sensitive to the number of casualties.

However, the protagonist has to stop the ten squads in charge of the attack.

On the other side of the direction, two new groups of enemies appeared, also scythes, one with more than twenty enemies, but the other with hundreds.

These two groups of enemies, together with the previous ones, numbered about two hundred in total, divided into three parts, and in addition to showing great hostility towards the legions of the Divine Envoy King, they were also wary of each other: they were far away from the threat of waving their teeth and claws, and they did not approach each other.

It can be seen that this is a hunting sickle ant belonging to three different forces, but due to the appearance of the Divine Envoy King Legion, they actually tacitly came to intercept it together.

This makes the protagonist big for a while, he didn't offend these hunting sickle ants, who knows what medicine the other party took to stop his own actions.

If you work harder, I believe that the Divine King's legion can also destroy the enemy in front of you, but it will only delay some time. However, the protagonist does not know if there will be more scythe ants, or even more nests of scythe ants, to participate in this battle.

If the situation develops towards the worst scenario, then the Legion of the Divine Envoy King will inevitably suffer heavy losses here, and the remaining parasitic ants, which were originally targeted, can also take advantage of this time to escape.

After weighing the pros and cons, the protagonist decides to retreat first, after all, the parasitic ants are now defeated, and they can't recover to a larger scale in a short time, and the area where the parasitic ants are now active should also have these hunting sickle fierce ants, maybe the two sides will fight to lose both.

And the protagonist is still confused about this emerging force, and he doesn't want to easily create another enemy. Killed one-eighth of the opponent's soldiers, and reluctantly gave an account to his own victims.

So the gods made the rear of the king's legion change into the front and began to withdraw in the direction from which they came. The ten squads of the Second Army Corps, which had been tasked with attacking, became the rear troops, and they slowly retreated step by step, full of vigilance.

In response to the sudden retreat of the Divine Envoy King's legion, the three teams of Hunter Scythe Fierce Ants were very cautious, they kept a distance of two or three meters, and slowly moved forward step by step. Perhaps due to their huge numerical inferiority, they did not pursue the retreating Divine Envoy King legions, but instead monitored their movements.

The Divine Envoy King's Legion withdrew to a hillock on the shore of a lake where they came, and the three Hunting Scythe Fierce Ant forces were separated from each other, and after seeing the Divine Envoy King's Legion withdraw, they did not catch up with this hillock, as if the hillock was the boundary of their territory.

In this strange atmosphere, the Divine Envoy King's army hastily ended its expedition and retreated to the temporary camp.

The protagonist doesn't think about taking a detour, but the flying knights who lower their flight altitude to scout find that the area is full of steam hunting sickle ants. Considering the opponent's excellent eyesight, the protagonist does not think that such a large force of his own can sneak through the opponent's area of activity without being detected.

The protagonist who returns to the temporary camp is depressed, and a good attempt to chase the poor man is interrupted.

What is the origin of these new scythes? Why do you feel that they are so hostile to the Legion of the Divine Envoy King? The protagonist feels the need to get to the root of these problems.