Chapter 95: Roundbread Hill
Countless parasitic war beasts are flying, jumping, and roaring outside the protective net, and dense parasitic ants are passing through the protective net one after another, and going up along the city wall. Even if the corpses fell to the ground and piled up into small hills, they would not take a step back.
Blood poured down the carbonized bark of the rotten wood and into the swampy waters, filling the sky with blood and corpse gas.
This is the swamp, the fourth fortress built by the Legion of the Divine King, and here, the Legion of the Divine King has been attacked with a fierce attack never seen before.
- I'm the dividing line -
After stabilizing the [Swamp City] and [Bridgehead] defenses, the Divine Envoy King's legion built the [Stump City] fortress again, and gradually carried out the steady offensive tactics of the battalion, advancing towards the interior of the swamp area.
The swamp is mainly made up of large bodies of water, and the only land consists of two parts, one is a small area of land that is connected vertically and horizontally, and the other part is a number of scattered islands and reefs.
Parasitic ants and parasitic war beasts generally operate mainly on interconnected land, and there is almost no trace of them on the islands. After all, ants and many insects can't fly or swim and can't cross waters.
The advance of the Divine Envoy King's legion also followed the direction of the connected land, along the land bridge.
These days, there is fighting almost every day. During the day, the Divine Envoy King's legion relied on the fortress to resist the siege of the parasitic army, killing and wounding a large number of enemies. At night, the Divine Envoy King Legion, which takes turns during the day, will use tactics such as night attacks and smoke attacks to clear the nests of parasitic ants in the area of action.
After the parasitic forces around [Stump City] were completely eliminated, the Divine Envoy King's legion quickly chose the next location for the city.
It was a high ground about half a day away from [Stump City], and it was one of the few small hills in the swamp area, this hill was the commanding height of the nearby area, and its shape was unusually regular, covering an area of about several hundred square meters, except for a land bridge that connected to the rest of the land, all parts of it were adjacent to the water.
Surprisingly, there are no trees or shrubs on this hill, only a large area of wild grass is abundant, I don't know if it is because of the shallow soil. Such sights are common in the mountains, but rare in swamps.
What really attracted the Divine Envoy King's legion was the fact that the Flying Knights, who were acting at dawn and evening when the enemy's air force was not in action, found that a large number of parasitic ants were gathering here.
Every day, parasitic ants will set out from here to attack the Divine Envoy King's legions, and will return here in the evening.
Judging by the size of the number of parasitic ants alone, the protagonist suspects that if parasitic ants also have a main nest, then this must be.
In the past, when the scattered parasitic ant nests were cleared, the number of ants in each nest was not much, like the parasitic hunting sickle ant, there were dozens of nests in one nest, and the number of parasitic corn sweaters and paving ants was more, and there were thousands of them in one nest.
And the flying knights estimate that there are at least tens of thousands of parasitic ants in this nest.
Although there are a large number of enemies, the protagonist, who is already in a hurry to solve the threat in the swamp area and is in a hurry to return before winter, can no longer take care of it.
In addition, with the assistance of protective nets and ballistas during this time, the defensive battle went very smoothly, which also gave the protagonist confidence.
Moreover, parasitic ants and parasitic war beasts will only form an alliance during the day, and at night, after the parasitic ants return to the nest, the parasitic war beasts will not enter the ant nest, and will find a place to rest like ordinary insects.
In this way, the protagonist does not have to worry about encountering too strong resistance when attacking the giant nest.
Under the personal leadership of the protagonist, the two legions of the Divine Envoy King warriors carried a large amount of supplies, set out from [Stump City] at dusk, and began to build the city not far from the enemy's nest.
The ants are very experienced in building this type of small fortress, and they can usually complete the fortifications in a few hours. Then it will not be stationed on the same day, but will wait for the next day when the ant concrete is basically dry, and then bring a large amount of supplies to station.
Anyway, parasitic ants have limited IQs, even if a fortress pops up under their noses, as long as there is no Divine Envoy King warrior in it, and there is no strong aura left by it, they will not care, and they will not report it to the pale golden workers.
Among the parasitic ants, only these light gold workers have an IQ online, but they live in seclusion on weekdays, and there is no timely report from other parasitic ants, and when they find out that the fortress of the Divine Envoy King Legion is close at hand, it is too late to regret it.
But tonight, in front of the hill that was like a round bread, the ants couldn't find a suitable place to build the city for a while.
This is something that the protagonist did not expect, and no matter where you are, there will always be stumps, rocks, hills, and other terrain suitable for building a city.
But in this round loaf hill, there was not a single tree, not a stone, not a single piece of rotten wood, except for the perfect curve of the mound that did not look like a natural product, and the wild grass that flourished on it.
The round bread hill is bordered by water on three sides, and there are no reeds, calamus and other plants growing at the water's edge, only a small land bridge connects them in the direction from which the Divine Envoy King's legion came.
Now the protagonist is also a little dumbfounded, this huge round mound in front of him, you can see the top at a glance, and you really can't find a suitable place to build a city.
Actually, if you just build a normal nest, you can just find a hole in the loaf hill and make a hole above the water.
However, the construction of fortresses is different, especially the Divine Envoy King's legion mainly relies on killing and injuring enemies on open-air facilities to deal with parasitic ants, and generally needs to occupy a high place to gain a height advantage, and it is also convenient to erect protective nets and ballistas.
But now on the loaf hills, there is no such spot.
In the end, the protagonist retreats to the land bridge that connects the roundbread hills, a little farther away, and builds a fortress on a piece of rotten wood that has drifted over in the water and has been half buried in the earth.
Half a night was wasted looking for a suitable place to build the castle, and the new fortress [Bakery City] was not completed that night, and it was not completed until the next night.
After the completion of the Bread City, the interior is a criss-crossing passage and nest carved out of the rotten wood, and the exterior retains only a few entrances and exits on the top of the rotten wood, around which two walls were built with stones, ant concrete, and captured insect carapaces.
The entrances and exits and the walls of the city were surrounded by a broken branch of the rotten wood that was tilted upwards, and a protective net was hung on the branches, which were then opened and fastened to the bark of the dead wood, covering the whole [bread city] like a small tent.
Compared to other forts in the swampy area, Bread City is at a low altitude and slightly further away from the enemy's nest, probably more than an hour away.
But it's already a well-equipped fortress, and the protagonist even moves two of the three ballistae here to strengthen its defenses.