It is the northwesternmost sub-nest on the south bank of the entire Great River, and it is also the northwesternmost stronghold of the Divine Envoy King's territory, a barren and non-existent lair.

It is bordered by the river to the north, and the entire nest is built on a cliff on the bank of the river, with the entrance and exit facing the river to the north.

In this year's war between the Divine Envoy King Legion and the Queen Ant Legacy faction, this is the territory of the Queen Ant Legacy faction, the "real main nest" that the male ants who rule this place have long been subjugated to.

However, after the Divine Envoy King's legion severed the connection between the Northeast region and the Great Detour, some of the secondary nests here and nearby became isolated islands.

Later, the main force of the Divine Envoy King Legion who had conquered it quickly pacified the place, killing the original male ants, and this place has since been under the rule of the Divine Envoy King Legion. In just one year, the head of the city here changed the banner of the king, and it was actually subordinate to three groups of forces.

The Divine Envoy King's Regiment, who has been appointed to rule this place by an old male, is the old king of the original main nest and one of the few members of the old king's council faction who submits to the protagonist.

Because of the Flyhawk rebellion and many other reasons, the protagonist trusts the returnee of the original main nest, so this old male ant is sent far away to this also unappreciated secondary nest and demoted to the king of a secondary nest.

In the eyes of the male ant class, the king of the main nest has the highest status, followed by the ordinary king of the main nest, and finally the king of the local secondary nest.

Even if the king of the local sub-nest is a local overlord and often has thousands of ants under his hands to drive, he still can't raise his head in front of those kings who can only command fifty ants in the main nest.

Fortunately, this male ant has no ambition, it belongs to the kind that was mixed when he was young, and when he is old, he does not have the kind of strong competitiveness that ordinary ants have, even if he is "assigned" to a remote one, he has no dissatisfaction.

Generally speaking, the border cities of a kingdom are often of certain military importance. Across the river is the territory of the Paving Ant Barbarian Country, and to the west is the mountainous area occupied by other ant races, so it stands to reason that it will not be so neglected.

But there are exceptions, the big river in front of you is the widest section of the river in the basin, and when the river freezes in winter, even on the best days of the sun, paving ants are very easy to freeze if they want to climb through such a vast layer of ice.

Therefore, the paving ants often choose to cross the river in a narrow section of the nearby river, knowing that there is a heavy defense of the big-headed ants, and they will never fight the idea.

What's more, both sides of this section of the river are two or three meters high cliffs, which may have been washed out by the floods of the river in summer, and it takes a lot of effort to climb the cliffs up and down the river in winter.

There is no threat from the Paving Ant Barbarian Nation, but if you need to face the threat of other ant races like this, you won't be so ignored.

But although it is located on the border, further west in the mountains, it lives a very aggressive leaf-cutting ant, which prefers to operate only in its own territory, and the water from the wells of the big-headed ants does not interfere with the river water.

In the past ten years, except for the civil war involving the Divine Envoy King Legion and the Queen Ant Inheritance faction, there has not been a single war, and it is really a nest of peace.

Maybe it's because life is too dull that the previous male ant ruler can't wait to join the Queen Ant Inheritance faction to fight against the Divine Envoy King Legion, but his vision is a little poor, and he finally dies and dies.

In addition to being militarily ignored by both the enemy and us, the sadness is that the local economy is not good.

The building is built on a cliff on the bank of the river, and under the cliff is a tidal flat, which is flooded by the river all year round. Even when the dry season in autumn and winter is exposed, there is only silt and pebbles, and only the occasional small shells are better than nothing.

The flatlands on the cliff face are also barren, full of rocks, some tenacious weeds grow, and there is no vegetation or insects.

The food source mainly depends on a small amount of hunting income, the collected plants, the mushrooms that grow in the damp place by the river and some shells, small shrimp and other food collected by the river, the whole nest adds up to only 3,000 ants, and it can only support so many ants, and it is also a small nest on the south bank of the whole river.

However, because this place is too poor and too remote, whether it was belonging to the faction of the Great King's Council before, or the later Queen Ant Inheritance faction, or now under the rule of the Divine Envoy King's legion, there is very little food and troops to be recruited from here.

I'm the dividing line

The ants in the dark underground nest** have shrunk up for the winter.

The only male ant's dormitory is located at the bottom of the nest, next door to the only queen's dormitory on one side and a conference room on the other. This pattern is similar to that of most big-headed ant nests.

In the winter, the male ant, who was already dying, became even more lazy, and he did not even bother to inspect the nest, and stayed alone in the house every day lying on the ant silk bed, and only the worker ants who delivered food regularly could confirm that the ruler of the nest was still alive.

It may not be long to live, and according to the age of this male, it may soon be necessary to replace a young male ant in the prime of life.

It's so remote that many of the nests don't have the dried sweet fruit and honeydew that they have from elsewhere, but the older male ant doesn't care, he didn't have so many luxuries when he was young, and even the supply of salt was cut off from time to time.

For example, the salt barbecue made him very satisfied.

I'm the dividing line

Unlike the dark but warm underground, the outdoors is a snowy scene.

It's December, and it snows a lot of snow in the winter, and it didn't stop until a few days ago.

The whole world has completely lost its vitality, except for some old green trees exposed under the heavy snow.

At such a season, it seems that except for the movement of the wind blowing and shaking the trees, the whole world has been pressed the pause button.

But there are exceptions, such as on the surface of a large river, there is a short thick black line slowly moving.

Looking down from the sky, the black line was clearly not a roll caused by some wind, but if you zoomed closer, you could see that it was a few hundred Destroyers, heading south on the snow-covered ice.

The Destroyers have the Mystic Orb heat in their bodies to provide protection from the cold, and they are the only ones who dare to climb over the snow-covered ice.

There is no warning in front of them!