The answer to this command was the sound of the bowstring pulling. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The second wave of rockets, which were used as heralds, successively streaked through the air one after another beautiful trajectories. The people who were lying in ambush in the pine forest below, after receiving this signal, began the next hunting operation.

More than 20 people, all of whom were hiding in the old trees around the open field at the moment. They are at the top of the canopy, condescendingly observing the mating of distant swarms of insects.

In order to deal with the infrared senses of the ground helm insects, Levi finally accepted the advice of the hunters: let them hide in the trees as much as possible while lying in ambush, and the higher the better.

The infrared vision of the ground helmet insect seems to be limited to 20 meters around the body of the human thermostat, and if the height above the ground exceeds this distance, it is naturally foolproof.

The ambush site was originally designed in this open area with this need in mind. In the vicinity, there are many tall old trees where people can hide.

Knowing that the order to attack had been issued, the people of the hunting party hurriedly checked the situation in the snow beneath them, and then came down from the treetops.

As soon as they landed, they took out thumb-thick bamboo tubes from the packages they carried. Unplug the plug and blow into the core that is bubbling with sparks, causing the sparks to burn again and turn into a rising flame. The target that needs to be ignited is not far from their ambush. The pines, which had been painted with asphalt in advance, were covered in silver as they were all around them because of a burst of snow, but the specks that remained on the outside, and the strong smell they emitted, completely exposed them.

These treated pines and connected shrubs just enclose the open field.

The people of the hunting team used the fire storage cylinder in their hands to light them one by one, and none of them fell.

As a flammable material with outstanding properties, these natural asphalt taken from the marshland ignite in its entirety after only a slight exposure to a high-temperature flame. Accompanied by billowing smoke, tongues of fire rolled wantonly, shrouding the vigorous old trees in the firelight. The black smoke, the red fire, and the white snow make up an eerie scene.

The mating insects in the distance immediately noticed the mutation.

Instinctively compelled them to stop mating rituals. The male moves around the female, forming a huge circle.

At this moment, regardless of their guts, they all scratched the ground with their belly footing, making a disturbing noise. The gusts of snow and dust raised were their harshest warnings.

The ground helmets glowed blue one after the other.

Ice crystals spread along their towering backs, accumulating layer by layer, and finally turned into a set of ice armor more than thirty centimeters thick, enveloping the entire back.

It's the arcane they naturally know - the Ice Helmet!

Under the protection of this layer of ice helmets, the Earth Helmet Worm's already quite terrifying defense system is now indestructible. The ice helmet is as solid as a stone wall of the same thickness. And, it also provides them with a counterattack weapon.

The layers of ice that make up the Ice Helmet can automatically burst under their control, turning into scattered pieces of ice to attack enemies.

These ices made of magic, at the moment of explosion, possess a terrifying piercing power no less than a strong bow and a strong crossbow!

The Burst Ice Helmet is a sustainable means of attack. Unless the Helmet Worm runs out of mana, they can be activated once every thirty seconds.

Even if you break through the Ice Helmet's attack and succeed in crushing the ice that makes them up, it doesn't mean you're done. Because what is next before you is their extraordinary chitin shell, which is not only stronger than three times the thickness of steel, but also has its own magic resistance arcane power, which is immune to medium-level arcane attacks.

The defense system of the Earth Helmet Worm is composed of these two layers, and they cooperate with each other. Among the Arcanes, it is second to none.

But Levi clearly didn't want to fight them.

He knew very well that with the person below, if the two armies really faced each other, the group of wolf-like insects on the opposite side could tear them apart.

Normally, five or six of his hunting team members would have a hard time dealing with one.

Of the earth helmet insects gathered here now, there are forty-nine male insects alone, and the overlord-level female insect who "fights ten at a time" has to be added. If you really bite hard, you can break his teeth.

So what was the purpose of his fire?

Levi held the binoculars in his hand, carefully staring at every move over there, and the corners of his mouth suddenly curled, revealing a fox-like sly smile.

Through the lens tube, he could see the "fierce battle" that was taking place in the open field.

After the male surrounds the female, he vigorously attacks the glowing area around him.

They spread their jaws, and a small cyclone lingered around them, flipping up and down. In the snow beneath them, tiny ice dust was constantly swept away and aggregated by the cyclone, turning into diamond-shaped crushed ice, shooting towards the surrounding burning places.

The ground helmet insect has a sensitivity to high-temperature objects such as flames, which can be hundreds of meters. In the environment in which they live, it is very rare for a tree to catch fire more than ten meters high. As it is now, a large circle of flames envelops them, and it is unprecedented. This unknown encounter makes them very timid. Even if it is usually a female insect who is not afraid of the sky and the earth, she is still afraid. Not to mention, those male worms that turned out to be cowards.

Usually faced with such a strange scene, the first choice of these males is to retreat.

This is also the instinct of many animals in the face of crisis: to hide in a safe place, such as a hole dug by themselves.

But at the moment, they are in the midst of a mating ritual. Because of the female insects around them, the hormone secretion in their bodies is excessive, so they have a second motivation: to show off.

Show off yourself in front of the female to get a chance to mate!

In fact, it is not only the large males that are favored, but also the combative and brave males who are likely to stand out. In the first round, it is possible to get a chance to mate.

Even if it is temporarily ignored, in the process of offering the magic liquid in the second round, you can still get the bonus of impression points. As long as the amount of potion is not much different, the female insect is more willing to accept the stronger male. This is quite similar to that of most intelligent beings.

Because of this selection tendency of the females, the males of the ground helmets naturally also develop corresponding show-off behaviors. The first battle for place in the mating ceremony is their chance to show themselves.

When this mutation occurred, they were in the second stage. The hormone secretion in the body has reached the top, and the motivation for this behavior has been greatly deepened.

Many males now flaunt their impulses, even outriding the first motive, which is to avoid danger.

Animals can only have a single behavior at a time, but they can have multiple motivations at the same time. If these motives conflict with each other, compromise often occurs.

At this moment, the male helmets gathered around the female, under the conflict between the two motives of avoiding danger and showing off their strength, adopted a compromise behavior, which is their arcane at the moment, the Ice Spike.

These unusually sharp edges of crushed ice erupted from their mouths and shot straight into the burning trees around them. The farthest range of the attack was around forty or fifty meters, just the distance they were from these large trees.

This is naturally also in Livy's calculations.

Through experiments, Levi discovered the curve of their compromise behavior when they were surrounded by a ring of fire.

The Ice Crushing Jet is the only long-range attack arcane for the Earth Helm Worm.

When an enemy they fear is outside of their range, they will wait for the enemy to cross that distance.

And when the enemy gets too close to them, their motivation to avoid danger will gradually overpower the other motives, causing them to retreat and dodge - at this time, they will try to burrow into the snow.

Only when the distance is not too small and there is just so much that they will use this arcane in large quantities. Especially in the presence of females, they often can't control themselves out of the urge to show off. There is a considerable possibility that this action is taken all the time, that is, constantly attacking the enemy with the Ice Spike. Because at this time, they will have a large number of competitors of the same kind, which will make them compare.

The pine trees were deliberately smeared with asphalt and several oil drums were buried around them to prevent them from destroying the ring of fire. Asphalt, a heavy oil substance, is not so easy to extinguish once it catches fire.

When a minute or two has passed, the male has not stopped attacking,

But if Levi had been around them, he would have been pleasantly surprised to find that the ice helmets wrapped around the bodies of these males were thinning at a rate visible to the naked eye.

As their most important defensive arcane, this change shows that they are one step away from mana exhaustion. For Arcanmon, mana exhaustion is more than just the inability to use arcane!

The steel barrier of the Earth Helmet Worm is being dismantled by themselves.