Chapter 120: A New World (6)
Early the next morning, under the guidance of a messenger sent by the eldest king, the protagonist went to "Stone Pillar City".
The Courier is at the front, followed by the protagonist riding Tempeste from above, followed by fifty elite Praetorian Guards led by Mulan.
The protagonist looks up, and the towering boulders of Pillar City are visible from a distance, but with the vision of most ants, they can only see a shadow in the distance.
As the distance closed, the Praetorian Guards who had come here for the first time grew their jaws and trembled their tentacles, which was their expression of amazement, such a huge rock, they had never seen it in the first half of their lives.
After all, this unique rock eroded by wind and rain can only be found in the mountains, and is extremely rare in the plains.
Dozens of soldier ants and worker ants line up outside the entrance of the nest to greet them, and the Praetorian Guard team huddles the protagonist along the queue towards the entrance.
The Praetorian Guard team inevitably showed a surprised look when they saw the giant stone pillar for the first time, and the ants in "Stone Pillar City" were also surprised when they saw the ants riding spiders for the first time.
Even the acquaintance who greeted the protagonist at the entrance, the oldest Wang, was the first time he had seen the protagonist appear in such a way.
In the "Qingqiu City" before, the oldest king had heard that the protagonist could "fly" and could fly freely on flying flies, which was considered to be a miracle that only belonged to the king of the gods. But he lived in seclusion in "Qingqiu City", and he did not witness this scene with his own eyes like the public security king.
Today, it was discovered that the protagonist was riding a fly tiger that looked very unruly, and this fly tiger was extremely tame, which made the oldest king a little jealous.
In the opinion of the most old Wang, it is definitely a gift from God that the protagonist can fly on a fly, so taming a fly tiger is obviously also a gift from God. Why would God be so gracious to this newly emerging king of gods, and give him decrees many times, but be so stingy with me, the oldest king?
The eldest king adjusted his mood, fortunately, he is not so stubborn personality, in particular, he has a firm idea in his heart, a concept of supporting the queen ant and opposing the male ant class, he thinks that this is the system that is most in line with the instructions of the gods.
Hearing meaningless divine decree murmurs all year round, even simple-minded ants will inevitably become neurotic, and the oldest king has regarded the queen ant inheritance as a system set by God.
The God's willingness to heed God's call to the "true Lord's Lair" meant that he was an ally, and a strong ally was better than a difficult enemy.
The oldest Wang recovers from the shock of the first sight, and the protagonist jumps off Tempest's high back, with Mulan taking the reins and taking Tempeste aside.
The protagonist looks at the eldest king, this is not the first time he has met the eldest king, but the previous meetings were all in the conference room of "Qingqiu City", where a group of kings gathered for a meeting. It was the first time that they had looked at each other face-to-face like this.
The protagonist intersects with the tentacles of the oldest king and communicates in the manner of ants.
"Welcome, valiant oracle king."
The eldest king tells the protagonist that his arrival here means that he has obeyed the will of the gods and lived up to his title of king of the gods.
The protagonist is unimpressed, he is willing to come here, just for his own benefit. If he had to, he could have leveled it out if he needed to.
The Elder Wang guides the protagonist into the conference room underground, accompanied by ten Praetorian Guards, and the other warriors remain on the ground along with Tempest.
The entrance to Pillar City is a narrow crack in the stone, which cannot be entered with Tampest's size, so he can only stay in the wild.
In the conference room, the protagonist meets five queens and three males waiting there.
Some of these queens are inheritors who escaped from "Qingqiu City" with the eldest king, and some are the queens of the original "Stone Pillar City", who accepted the queen inheritance and joined this faction after the "Stone Pillar City" was occupied by the oldest king.
The original king of "Stone Pillar City" was killed by a sneak attack after the arrival of the oldest king, and the oldest king promoted three male ants who were willing to accept the idea of queen ant inheritance from among the young male ants who had newly broken the pupa to make up for the lack of number of ruling class.
The protagonist enters the conference room, and everyone connects their tentacles to the white pebbles on the ground to enter conference mode.
After some conversation, the protagonist can figure out the current situation of "Stone Pillar City", or the Queen Ant's Inheritance faction.
The queen inherits the faction, and in terms of political structure, the queen is respected. In addition to still having the most important duty of laying eggs, the queen is also involved in the management of the territory.
Male ants are still indispensable because the queen will have difficulty moving during the egg-laying season, and only after a period of stopping laying eggs will the abdomen return to its normal size. As a result, males often participate in domination as policy enforcers.
The supreme power holder of the queen ant inheritance faction is the queen ant council composed of the queen ant and the male ant responsible for communicating with the god (the oldest king, etc.), and the other male ants, whether they are kings or kings, are the second class responsible for execution, which is the biggest difference between the queen ant inheritance faction and the current king council faction of the big-headed ant kingdom.
In addition, young females who fly unmarried will also take on some of the duties of males, including the execution of government decrees and the command of battles. When there is no shortage of queens, some young females will give up their marriage and become unmarried females, continuing to perform their duties until they die.
At present, the older queens who have mastered the queen ant inheritance lack ruling experience, and they are still learning, and many affairs are actually in the hands of the eldest king.
The current Queen Ant Legacy faction is still very weak, in addition to "Stone Pillar City", there are three other nests nearby to join this faction, but their scale is not as large as "Stone Pillar City".
The queen ant inheritance faction's way to control these sub-hives is very simple, it is to send strong soldier ants to assassinate the original kings of these sub-hives.
Due to the fact that the Assassins possess scent information of the same clan as their target, they will not be stopped by the guards and will not alert their target. Without alarming the other ants, the Assassin would flee after killing the target, and then the "Pillar City" would send its own queen and king to take over the nest.
However, after the "Qingqiu City" announced the disappearance of the oldest king to the southern territory and asked the sub-nests to assist in the investigation, the ants of "Stone Pillar City" did not dare to expand their territory in this way because the smell on their bodies had the characteristics of the oldest king, so as not to arouse the alarm of "Qingqiu City".
At present, the territory controlled by the queen ant inheritance faction is these four nests, except for the oldest king, the ruling class only has eight queens, fourteen unmarried female ants, six male ant kings, and twenty kings. And the total ant population is only more than 2,000.