At the beginning, the ant colony was surging, and no grass grew everywhere it went, leaving only devastation. In just two months, the entire territory of the Centaur Hills fell, the York family decisively gave up the territory lacking fortifications, gathered their people to hide in the town of Blackcastle, and held out, waiting for backup, Ant-Man's troops once entered the west and south of the Kingdom of Gombis, the kingdom lord and the high-ranking clergy of the church were panicked, and asked Sylvia to take the initiative to attract the Ant-Man army outside Blackcastle Town, so as to gain buffer time for the kingdom to mobilize troops.

Everyone soon discovered that the ant tide has a single behavior pattern and does not know strategy and tactics, as long as the response method is appropriate, it is not difficult to destroy the ant-man army. With the exception of a handful of Ant-Man leaders, it has become the stereotype of human lords and ecclesiastical clergy that all Ant-Men are brainless bugs.

Victor's understanding of Ant-Man is a little deeper, and he guesses that Ant-Man is a special alchemy unit, with dull behavior, and its intelligence and learning ability are far inferior to even the newly created alchemy humans.

Fearlessness and absolute obedience to orders are the strengths of alchemic creatures, but they are also a major flaw. Those who are not afraid of death are particularly prone to death, alchemy humans have the ability to learn, and after a period of training, they are able to gain judgment, but on the battlefield, they are always the first to die. Ant-Man has neither the learning ability of an alchemy human nor the wild instinct talent of an alchemy mastiff. With three giant fortresses and steep cliffs hundreds of meters high, the Centaur Hills can keep them out of the swamp.

Victor's own experience has led Victor to ignore a simple fact - Ant-Man's hands, like humans, can grasp tools and use weapons.

From the perspective of monsterology, all creatures with dexterous hands are intelligent species with production capacity, and production capacity includes engineering ability.

Ant-Man's body structure is clearly suitable for large-scale construction, as they have six limbs and can stand up, while freeing up their upper and forelimbs and four hands. But no scholar considered that Ant-Man would dig tunnels from the ground to break through the large fortifications built by humans.

In fictional war stories, there are examples of tunnels being dug to break through the defenses of the city walls. But this kind of thing, whoever believes it is a fool.

In fact, it is more time-consuming and laborious for humans to build a small underground palace than to build a fortress, and if they dig tunnels to attack the city, they have to take into account the problems of soil collapse, water permeability, air flow, directional structure, and so on.

In the rapidly changing battle situation, when a large army is mobilized to dig a long tunnel, the commander's brain must be broken? How many years are he going to dig to dig out a tunnel? If the digging is shallow, he will hit the city wall, and if he digs deep, the soldiers will suffocate to death...... What's more, the defenders of the city are not blind, how can they watch the enemy dig tunnels slowly?

In fact, it's okay to watch the enemy make a fool, the army always has to consume food when besieging the city, not to mention the heavy physical work of digging tunnels.

The human kingdom has been at war with orc monsters for more than 9,000 years, and kobolds are monsters who are good at digging holes, but no human castle has been breached from the ground.

Unless, the enemy of the invasion is a natural underground race.

Issox's diary clearly describes Ant-Man's prototype as a Gross Zerg from the underworld, capable of secreting special slime, stabilizing the structure of the earth, and having a low need for air. If what the ancient alchemists said was true, the Ant-Man army was fully capable of bypassing the three major fortresses, choosing a cliff to dig out a path and break through the natural defense line of the Skylark Mountains. The Lark Mountains are more than a thousand kilometers long, and even if the Kingdom of Gombis gathers hundreds of thousands of troops, it will be unable to defend them.

The worst thing is that the behavioral characteristics exhibited by the last ant tide are particularly consistent with the two behavioral patterns of the Gros Zerg. The development pattern of the underground zerg is summarized by Victor as the expansion, collection, exploration, and destruction of the swarm, as well as the replacement of the old and the new of the race. To put it simply, a generation of insects is old and weak, and they are about to die, and the queen sends them out to die, which does not need to be controlled, and has the right to be used as waste. If these aging bugs encounter an enemy that can threaten the race, or a worthy target, the queen ant changes the second mode, prompting the mother to breed more swarm combat units, and give birth to the swarm herself, who will lead the swarm to wage war.

The preparation period for WAR mode is up to 20 years, and the power accumulated by the biters will reach their peak.

Some time ago, Victor sent two teams of alchemical creatures to the Everfree Forest to try to find the location of Ant-Man's lair. Based on the original estimate of the 15-year war cycle, the scout team should have encountered an army of Ant-Men on the savannah on the western side of the swamp, but they did not see a single Ant-Man.

The queen ant gave birth to the ant queen and postponed the war to 20 years, which can be explained!

No matter how strong the Ant-King's individual strength is, the Ant-Man army he leads will never be as easy to deal with as last time, and will definitely be able to give full play to Ant-Man's war advantages, such as digging tunnels.

Victor suddenly felt a headache when he thought of this, he rubbed his tangled eyebrows, pressed his impetuous mood, picked up the quill again, and while extracting the information recorded by X-3, he wrote records on the animal skin paper, trying to find a way to deal with the ant colony from the diary of an ancient alchemist.

"Maximo dismissed my suspicions, claiming that the Queen of Worms Alchemy Tower was placed inside the Great Rift, and there was no need to follow the traditional alchemy tower method, where the tower master controlled each racial alchemy unit. At first glance, his rhetoric sounded reasonable, but he couldn't hide it from me...... Maximo is hiding what I am really interested in, the stronger the autonomy of the alchemy unit, the more difficult it is to control, fortunately, their souls are scattered and weak compared to the total amount of soul fire in the alchemy tower, and they are not able to resist the will of the soul source, just as the life in the material world cannot resist the will of Tyron Riel, and always obeys the laws of the world in the form of life instinct. Because the cognate soul is one, the material world created by the Creator rejects all non-original wills, even Tyrone's father, the Serpent of Chaos, and his mother, the Bird of Light. ”

"The reason why the Abyssal Demons and the Sanctuary Protoss can still manifest on the physical plane is because they have the imprint of Tyron Riel. If they stay on the physical plane for longer and become more connected to the laws of the world, the elemental sea will slowly dissolve the will imprint of the Serpent of Chaos and the Bird of Light. At that time, the demons and the Protoss will no longer be able to return to the Serpent Abyss and the Light Bird Sanctuary, completely transforming into the life form of the material world, and losing the great will of eternal immortality. ”

"Under normal circumstances, high-level demons and high-level protoss cannot be killed at all, but the Sanctuary Protoss trapped some of the souls of the three primordial demon lords, preventing them from returning to the abyss blood pool, and handed over these souls to the high-level elemental envoys, who used the power of the elemental sea to wipe out the chaos imprint in the soul of the demon lord. These immortal soul fires, which have lost their demonic will, are the source of the soul fire of the Alchemy Tower, and the Demon Lord has been severely damaged by this, and we have developed the Void Alchemy. ”

"Each alchemy tower needs the alchemist to weave the will side, and the archmage will cut a small part of the soul of the tower master and ignite the soul fire of the alchemy tower. Through the soul fire of the alchemy tower, the alchemy creatures identify the will of the tower master as the root, so as to obey the orders of the tower master. If the soul fire of the Alchemy Tower is detached, the Tower Master cannot dominate the alchemy creatures. The Gros Zerg are different from ordinary creatures, their minds are connected into a whole, and no human can control hundreds or thousands of alchemy units at the same time, and the information transmitted by the leader of the swarm alone can break his soul. ”

"Therefore, it is impossible for the Queen of Worms Alchemy Tower to have a human tower master, and without the will brought by the human tower master to divide the soul, it is impossible for Maximo to activate the soul fire of the Queen of Worms Alchemy Tower. The source of the Gross Zerg is the king of the spirit realm, and his will is branded in favor of demons, but it belongs to the ancient god sequence of Tyron Riel, and it is his mission to open up the underworld. In the mid-to-late Dusk Era, the Spiritual King's underground race was defeated by the Abyss Demons and coveted the Earthly World, so they were hunted down by the Moon Goddess. Freya seized the power of the Spirit King, and this is how the Underground Elves were born. Due to the particularity of the spiritual connection of the Gross Zerg, the queen of worms is equivalent to the incarnation of the king of the spirit world, and even if the swarm leaves only one egg, the king of the spirit world will not completely fall. Therefore, I believe that Maximo and the others found the remaining incarnation of the Spirit King, captured his soul, and thus invented the Alchemy Tower of the Queen of Worms. However, they did not notify the Supreme Council, nor did they use the power of the elemental sea to wear down the will of the Spirit King. Otherwise, they could only get pure soul fire, and it was not immortal soul fire, and they couldn't even build an ordinary alchemy pagoda. ”

"I have to say that Maximo is so bold that he dares to intercept the weak will of the king of the spirit world and use him to create the alchemy tower of the queen worm...... No, it can't be considered an alchemy tower at all, and the will of the king of the spirit world will awaken and grow stronger in the body of the insect queen. If they can't come up with a convincing way to control me, I would rather risk being killed by the teacher than bring it to the Supreme Council...... Only actual control is the path of alchemists, they have deviated from the glory of alchemists, I cannot tolerate ......"

"Mr. Douglas really knew me, he agreed with my insistence, and asked me to believe that he was also a follower of the elements. The Queen Alchemy Tower that Maximo and the others built was just an expedient measure, and the ultimate goal of the Esoteric Order was still to persist in the study of the Void Creation Technique, so that the alchemists could continue to pass it on. ”

"Teacher Douglas assures that there is no big problem with the Queen Alchemy Tower, and I am officially involved in Maximo's research. But I didn't expect Maximo to ask a young and beautiful mage to answer my questions. Her name is Angelina, an intermediate mage, who is both Maximo's servant and his lover. There are many examples of the combination of mages and alchemists in the empire, but the alchemists of the famous family only combine with the elements of the famous family. Maximo disguised his death, departed from the famous family he came from, and combined with an insignificant mid-level mage practitioner, it can be seen that Angelina is full of weight and is a key figure in this research project. Angelina personally came forward to communicate with me and show their sincerity to me. Hehe, they wouldn't be able to do it without the participation of the great Issox alchemists......"

Angelina's talent for sorcery coincided with the laws of the Spirit King, and she heard the other man's whispers and found the small swarm left behind in the depths of the Endless Forest. The king of the spirit realm was seriously injured, his self-will was almost exhausted, and he had no strength to develop the number of Zerg dependents, and he was about to fall completely. ”

"This is the special thing about the king of the spirit world, the other ancient gods have fallen silent at the end of the twilight era, otherwise the abyss demons and the sanctuary gods will not set foot in the material world, but the king of the spirit world relies on the spiritual energy connection of the Zerg family, and survives until the moonlight age....... however, the disadvantage of the spiritual connection is that the upper limit of the number of the Gros swarm depends on the soul fire strength of the king of the spirit world, and there is no bottleneck in the number of blood descendants created by other ancient gods. Ancient elf literature records that during the peak period of the Spirit King, the number of Gros Zerg was only about 20 million, and the number of ancient elves was 6 times that of them. Angelina found that the Gros swarm numbered less than two thousand, and the queen's strength was weakened, leaving only the Kun Seed Instinct, which could no longer be counted as a wisdom seed. Ancient gods such as the Moon Goddess, Mother Earth, and Gluttonous Monarch are now only scattered, not fallen. The king of the spirit world is indeed about to fall completely, but luckily Angelina has found a descendant of the Gross Zerg, and she almost became a god killer. ”

Angelina slaughtered the remaining Gros swarm, leaving behind a queen egg. Maximo tried to use this insect egg to make a special alchemy tower, and the method they took was to ask an archmage to split the soul of the insect egg, and then seal the divided ancient divine soul fire in the elemental rune crystal made by Maximo....... they didn't expect it, but it actually succeeded. Maximo they were ecstatic, weaving the will to sideload that rune crystal. This work must be done by Angelina, whose laws overlap with the authority of the Spirit King, and can control the Gros Worm Queen in place of the Spirit King through that elemental rune crystal...... Considering that the lifespan limit of the archmage is no more than 200 years, once Angelina is destroyed, it is possible that the Gross Swarm will reunite the main consciousness of the Spirit King. In order to prevent the alchemy swarm from getting out of control, Maximo and the Archmage decided to design the underlying structure of the Elemental Rune Crystal, in accordance with the rules of the Supreme Council. The patrol cultivated by the Supreme Council made it possible to unlock the elemental rune crystals and force the soul fire of the alchemy swarm to be extinguished. ”

"Soul science belongs to the branch of the law field, and the work of loading the will side must be led by the archmage himself, although I know a little bit about the will side weaving, but I am best at the field of elemental and bloodline evolution...... I don't know who the archmage is working with Maximo, but Mr. Douglas must know him. The teacher secretly sent an inspector to the test site in the Everfree Forest to inspect the swarm rune crystals. He could indeed unlock the underlying structure of that rune crystal...... I am sure that the teacher and Maximo will not make a fatal mistake on such a major issue. But I must send my own mage servant and elemental envoy to take a look at that elemental rune crystal...... My wife is up to the task. ”

"Raven set off, and they flew all the way on the dragon vulture, and it would be two months at the earliest. I don't intend to waste this time, the number of alchemy zergs is limited, and the war mode is not more than 600,000 units, their individual strength is already weaker than that of the abyss demons, and Maximo hopes that the alchemy zerg can self-detonate and increase their lethality. This problem, I can solve it, the body fluids of the old rubber fire beetle will gradually transform into combustible oil, as long as this special bloodline law is analyzed into the elemental law, the life span of the alchemy insect clan is close to the service life, and their body fluids will be transformed into rubber fire grease, which can be burned violently...... Well, the Zerg that are more than 13 years old can burn and self-detonate, and the Zerg under 10 years old are not afraid of the same kind of glue fire, preventing the entire insect colony from being ignited by the fire...... This design plan can prove my ability and value to Maximo and them, and help increase Raven's voice, but I still have to keep a hand, and I will not provide a design plan for the Zerg alchemy unit to self-destruct...... Unless, they agree to Raven's terms. ”

Victor stopped writing, and there was a hint of bitterness in his eyes, Ant-Man can dig holes enough to make people's heads big, and they are not all afraid of fire. The lack of information has led to huge holes in the defense system of the Centaur Hill. But at this point, it's useless to be in a hurry, I hope that more weaknesses of Ant-Man can be found in the information later in the ancient alchemist.

He lifted the quill and dipped it in ink, and went on to write:

"Raven and my mage followers have returned, and what Maximo and Angelina said is true, the rune crystal that can dismantle the queen alchemy tower is sealed in the Everfree Forest's Elemental Convergence to ensure its longevity...... Maximo was very pleased with the design I provided, but he was unable to provide me with the blood of the Ancient Behemoth's inheritance, and only brought back a message to Raven. Alchemist Biderolech has a drop of the legacy blood of the Nightmare King in his hands, and his alchemy tower is built on the elemental convergence point of the Nedaman Swamp...... I've heard of the reputation of this alchemist, who spends his days not doing his job properly, devoting all his mind to developing rune armor and rune weapons, and always advocating the power of the elements to promote nature...... Hmph, this guy is simply a disgrace to the alchemist, I have no dealings with him, and I don't want to deal with this kind of person. Maximo wants to get the self-detonation design plan of the Zerg unit from me with a single message? This is absolutely impossible, unless he gives me the blood of the Nightmare King's inheritance, his Zerg unit can only burn, not self-destruct!"

"The small differences between me and Maximo did not affect our cooperation in other areas, and the design of the Alchemy Tower of the Queen of Worms was new and unique, which brought me a lot of inspiration. However, the alchemist must abide by the basic principles of the Void Creation and try to ensure that the alchemy units are harmless to the Empire, and Maximo and I decided to reduce the type of Gers Zerg template and choose only the most basic and primitive Zerg form as the only creature template for the Queen's Alchemy Tower...... The six-legged Gros Zerg unit that can walk upright. ”

That's right, the Queen Worm Alchemy Tower is the current Queen Ant.

The rest of the information is all about how Isolx deduced the original form of the Gross Zerg, mixed with some daily trivialities. About three years later, he and Maximo completed the design of the Gros Zerg alchemy unit. The information came to an abrupt end, and he didn't know what happened to him later, but he left the memory storage crystal in the Alchemy Tower of Misty Mountain until it was unearthed by Victor.

The Alchemist's diary does not mention that Ant-Man will self-destruct, and it seems that Izox and Maximo have not been able to reach an agreement, and he has not given a design plan for Ant-Man's unit to self-destruct.

This doesn't seem to be too much to be happy about, hundreds of thousands of Ant-Men who can only make holes and are not afraid of fire have already called Lord Golden-Eyed to eat and walk away.

Victor put away his notes and sat alone at his desk and pondered for a long time, until the sky turned white, he finally got up and left the study, summoned his followers, mounted the Swift Bird mount, and ran in the direction of the church in Pinghu Town.