Worker ants, who are responsible for cleaning the inside of tree stumps, are the first to complete the task.

Although the cleanup was actually more difficult than planned, the inside of the stakes, which had been moth-eaten through countless passages, could not be used as an ant nest as envisaged in the project files.

These moth-eaten passages still contain a large amount of wood residue and borer excrement, which has been soaked in rainwater over the years and turned into a sticky, filthy, foul-smelling sludge. The ants had to clean up all the filth and dump it in the trench.

In addition, although the passages opened by the borers are also longitudinal and horizontal, they lack open nest rooms. Without enough nesting rooms, the ants would not be able to stock up on food and ammunition, nor would they have enough room for their armies to rest in shifts.

So the workers had to carve out the soft parts of the wood for the space they needed for their nests. Fortunately, there are many decaying places inside this stump, and it is not more troublesome than digging the earth. Some places that are too open and should be separated, such as tree cavities, are also partitioned with concrete.

The passage opened up according to the feeding needs of the moths is often not enough to meet the needs of the ants, and may even hinder the rapid mobilization of the Divine Envoy King Legion. The workers widened several main passages of entry and exit, and opened up a large number of partitions between the passages from the horizontal direction, making it easier for troops to move around the fortress.

Despite all these difficulties, the workers who worked inside the wooden piles were the first to complete the work.

They then left the stake according to the plan, returned to the temporary warehouse in the bushes below the northern slope, and notified the remaining personnel to transport the supplies to the warehouse of the stake fortress.

The construction team has sealed all the extra holes on the top of the wooden piles, leaving only a dozen holes that are not easy to be invaded by rainwater as entrances and exits. Underneath these entrances and exits are widened fast lanes.

But the construction of an earthen embankment around the stump was not yet complete, and for the first time, the ants were building the walls on the uneven platform, and the progress was slower than expected.

In particular, the stump is horizontally high in the west and low in the east, and it takes a lot of materials and ants to raise the earthen embankment to the east to the level of the west.

The east is beginning to turn white, and the time of dawn is coming.

The material handling team has moved all the supplies into the fortress.

The excavation team also completed the work at hand, digging an irregular circle of trenches along the tree stumps, and the excavated earthworks were temporarily piled up on the northern slope of the hill in addition to supplying the construction needs, so as not to affect the defensive operation.

On the north side of the trench there is also a wooden bridge, a natural tree root that crosses the trench. Although such an unrammable bridge would affect the fort's defenses, it would also facilitate the rapid replenishment of troops and supplies from the north into the fort, which generally outweighed the disadvantages.

Only the progress of the construction team is slightly slower, and most of the earth embankments have been completed, but the height of the east earthen embankment has not yet reached the level of the west side, and the top of the earth embankment between the east and west is in a straight line inclined downward. However, the current fortifications also have basic defensive capabilities.

The first rays of sunlight hit the earth from the horizon.

Overnight, a towering stump fortress has been firmly erected on the top of a hill, which is a veritable "night city".

There is also a "night city" in human history, and its construction process is even more thrilling.

This one-night castle is located in Japan, and according to legend, it was built overnight in the 9th year of Eiroku (1566 AD) by Oda Nobunaga's subordinate Kinoshita Fujiyoshiro (later Hashiba Hideyoshi and Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who ordered the Japanese army to invade Korea during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty) at the end of the Ryu River, which flows down the right bank of the Nagara River in Mino Province.

In the ninth year of Eiroku, Oda Nobunaga, the daimyo of Owari Province, intended to attack the Saito family in Mino Province, but he needed to build a castle that could be used as a base for advancement.

Previously, several fierce generals of the Oda family were in charge of this work, but they all failed under the attack of the Saito family's army. At this time, Kinoshita Toyoshiro took the initiative to take on the work, and this success became the beginning of his emergence.

Kinoshita Toyoshiro arranged to send two-thirds of the army to build the fortress, and the remaining one-third to defend against enemy attacks.

Previously, Kinoshita had transported the timber used to build the fort to the upper reaches of the Kiso River, and then transported it down the river on rafts, eliminating the difficulty of transporting or preparing building materials on the spot.

After the building materials arrived, Hideyoshi led his cronies Maeno Nagayasu, Koroku Wasuka and his younger brother Koichiro, with 2,000 ninjas, to create a Sumamata Castle on the edge of Owari and Mino Provinces overnight, known as the "Ink Mata Night Castle".

Later, Hideyoshi borrowed the power of the wild samurai of the local tyrant to attack the Saito army who were building the castle at night, and as a result, he won a great victory and ensured the safety of the "Night Castle". It also eventually laid the foundation for the Oda family's eventual demise of the Saito family.

Of course, this one-night city was built using wood as the main building material, which was roughly the level of a cottage in ancient China. If you were building an ancient Chinese city or a medieval castle in Europe, the night city would be nothing more than a fantasy.

- I'm the dividing line -

The protagonist, who had only slept for a while in the middle of the night, rode back on Xiaoqing and approached the new nest of parasitic ants to start scouting.

After discovering that the early parasitic ants have begun to leave the nest en masse, and a few enemies have begun to advance in the direction of the fortress, the protagonist returns to the fortress and reports the situation to the whole army.

The five hundred worker ants, who had been busy last night, retreated in the direction of the transit station under the protection of the escort group of the Fourth Legion.

The Second Legion, which had assisted in the construction of the fortress last night, returned to the underground of the fortress to make up for the rest, and the First Legion, which had rested and guarded in the outer fields, returned to the fortress to take charge of the town and continue to seize the time to build the earthen embankment on the east side.

The Third Legion, which was responsible for carrying supplies, was better rested, and they were ordered to go out to the south of the fortress and began to hunt down the enemy who dared to approach the fortress.

At first, the number of parasitic ants that came to the hills was small, and under the strangulation of the well-organized Third Legion, these lone or small groups of parasitic ants were quickly eliminated, unable to warn the nest. Even if a few fish are caught, the protagonist will guide the mobile team of the Third Legion in the sky to hunt and pursue.

So far, the parasitic ant nest has not found a nearby hill, and a strong fortress of the Divine Envoy King's legion has been quietly erected.

However, there is an increasing number of parasitic ants heading to hilly areas.

In the morning, it was time for the ants to rush to the scale insect herd to collect honeydew in large quantities after a night's sleep, and some parasitic ants with empty bellies could not wait to enjoy the delicious honeydew and began to make their way to the hills in groups.

With more and more enemy troops, the Third Army could no longer remain concealed while destroying approaching enemies.

Soon, parasitic ants discovered the Divine Envoy King Legion, and with the first warning signal, parasitic ants began to flee to the parasitic ant nest without being intercepted.

The Great War is coming!