The second (out of three) level of the Dark Realm is in a cave called 'Sarah Lake'.

Grey Spot dutifully patrols the vicinity of the lake, its tentacles on top of its head constantly swinging, collecting pheromones such as the smell of the lake, the vibration of the air, and the changes in temperature. It is a very common soldier ant, belonging to one of the many ant-people in the underground - the Sarah ant clan.

Ant-Man's form somewhat resembles a hybrid of a centaur and an ant. Their bodies stand upright from their chests upwards and are supported by the last two pairs of foot tools, while the front pair has evolved into claws that can be grasped, attacked, and even used with weapons and a variety of tools.

As a soldier ant born to fight, Greyspot's daily job is to ensure the safety of Queen Sarah and the hive. Its weapon is a stinger spear between its claws, and its bite and claw strikes are also very sharp. Greyspot is very good at fighting, and every part of its body can be used as a weapon.

There can be no sloppiness in patrol work, because the whole dark area has been very unpeaceful lately.

A terrifying clan of Mind Flayers returned to the underground, and it took them only a short time to regain a foothold underground, and with their powerful psychic abilities, they enslaved many races and monsters such as the Stoneblind Barbarians, Gray Dwarves, Rust Monsters, and even Purple Worms, and then began to wage war against several drow elven cities.

As for why this is so, the gray spots are unknown.

The war was widespread and intense. The Mind Flayers frantically scavenge the ground for any slaves and soldiers they can use, and attack the Drow Elves at any cost.

The drow elven city of 'Sastiria' on the third level of the Dark Regions has been destroyed by the Mind Flayers. At the time, one of Greyspot's kind was in the vicinity of the war. Through the unique collective consciousness of the Ant-Man Clan, Gray Spot can be regarded as directly 'seeing' the battle scene at that time.

It was an extremely shocking war, and a Mind Flayer Elder and more than a dozen Mind Flayer demons jointly controlled a purple worm hundreds of meters long. Grey Spot had lived underground for so many years, and he had never seen such a huge purple worm, not even a third of the size of it, and he didn't know where those Mind Flayers had found them.

The King of the Purple Worms, under the control of the Mind Flayer, frantically stormed the walls of the city of 'Sastiria'. Countless attacks in the city hit it, bows and arrows, poison, flames, thunder, and acid......

But those star attacks, for the huge body of the King of Purple Worms, were just tickling, and they didn't have much effect.

Even if the heavy city wall was protected by divine magic, most of it was collapsed by this huge king of purple insects in the time of a meal. The Drow Elven Mistress had to make sacrifices and invoke the power of the Spider Goddess to fight the Mind Flayers for control of the Purple Worm King.

Maybe it's because the cruel and ruthless Spider Goddess doesn't want to waste too much power on her useless followers, or maybe it's because her power is limited by unknown reasons, but even with the help of the Goddess, the Drow Mistress of Sastyria doesn't fully gain the upper hand.

The huge head of the King of Purple Worms, in the battle between the two sides, was directly exploded alive under the pull of divine magic and psychic abilities, and lilac blood gushed out from the huge headless insect body like a flood, splashing the entire battlefield.

After that, the slave armies of both sides began to fight frantically inside and outside the city, gray dwarf against gray dwarf, minotaur against minotaur, so fierce that you can't even tell whether the creatures around you are friendly or foe.

The drow elves are gradually losing due to their numerical weakness. The various Drow clans in the city saw that the situation was not right, and began to habitually intrigue and intrigue, all wanting to keep the strength of their clan.

The rout expanded from one point to the whole thing, and the city of 'Sastiria' was destroyed, and all the remaining creatures were enslaved again. And this returning Mind Flayer clan has established its own city on the ruined original site, 'Oredo'.

The original nest of the Sarah Ant Clan, to which Greyspot belongs, was not too far from the emerging city of 'Oredo', and was somewhat unsafe on the edge of the Mind Flayer's range. Because of this, Empress Sarah decided to relocate with her family, and after a long journey, found the vicinity of this cave with a freshwater lake.

This cave originally belonged to the mushroom people, but Grey Spot and its kind, under the leadership of the great Empress Sarah, wiped out all of them.

Ants eat mushrooms, and mushroom people are oversized mushroom people, so it is normal for them to be devoured by them.

Grey Spot had eaten those mushroom corpses at the end of the battle, and to be honest, it tasted really good. It believes that the tribe should catch some mature mushrooms and raise them, rather than kill them all, at least those mushroom people are also a type of ration.

The other soldiers never think about these issues, and Greyspot can sense this in the collective consciousness. But it is different, it will always think about some marginal issues, and will summarize and think about all kinds of information from the collective consciousness. But it's useless, it's a soldier ant, and fighting is its essential job.

It is not known what the original name of Sarah Lake was, but after they took over, it was natural to rename it after the Empress.

This underground lake is rich in food, with an abundance of blindeye fish, lampreys, and small transparent shrimp. There is no rain underground, so every freshwater resource is extremely precious, especially for Ant-Man.

The feeding of insect eggs and the growth of bacterial blankets are inseparable from a large amount of water and minerals.

In the middle of the patrol, Greyspot stabbed a large rock lizard to death with a venomous spear. Instead of choosing to eat alone, it uses its collective consciousness to call on worker ants to pick up food. But at this moment, another soldier ant in the distance suddenly sent a message of danger in the collective consciousness, and then this soldier ant suddenly disappeared in the collective consciousness.

Within eighty kilometers of the Empress, no creature would want to sneak up on the ants. If any individual perceives danger or is attacked, the entire ant clan will be immediately informed of the situation.

There's an intruder!

Along the way, more and more soldier ants converged, and the reddish-brown carapace of their abdomen reflected the glow of the glow rock and luminous crystal at the top of the cave, rolling forward like a raging lava flow.

However, there is also a small discordant color in this magma flow, and that is the gray spot. The reddish-brown carapace of its abdomen was covered with rock-like marks, which gave it its name.

The battle ahead has begun, and the enemy is another Ant-Man clan.

Greyspot received an order from a nearby ant guard in the collective consciousness, and he and dozens of other soldier ants approached the battle site from another corridor as the order required.

The enemy is a large group of Ant-Men with black carapaces. Greyspot had never seen them before, and no one in the collective consciousness knew the name of the ant-men. This means that before today, they had never crossed paths, and the reason for this battle was not revenge or anything else, it was simply to survive.

And wars for this reason are often more brutal than revenge.

It seems that the Ant-Man clan also moved out of their original lair and came to this place closer to the surface because of the battle between the Mind Flayer and the Drow Elves.

These guys want to get us away from here the same way we drove the mushroom people, and Greyspot will never allow that to happen. It and its companions were more familiar with the nearby terrain than the Black Ant-Man, and they swooped out from the middle and rear of their enemies, cutting them off entirely.

The black and red corpses fell in pieces, and the poisonous spears in the gray claws continued to thrust, killing one enemy after another. As a soldier ant, it is born to fight, without fear, without fear, or even enthusiasm.

But as the battle progressed, something special suddenly appeared in its thoughts. Something called 'emotion' that I want to vent out.

Just after another black Ant-Man fell, the sensation reached its extreme.

"All glory to the Empress", Grey suddenly shouted in the collective consciousness!

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