In the darkness of the night, the succubus Aphrodite and Surdak walked out of the small building one after the other.

The cavalry patrolled back and forth along the perimeter of the barracks, and because there was a ghost pattern male ant tied to this side of the small building, the guards here were even more tightly guarded, and the captain of the guard had to take a saber every once in a while to cut off the newly grown legs of the ghost pattern male ant.

The squad leader on duty at night saw Surdak walking out of the small building with a lady, and hurriedly saluted with the five cavalrymen of the squad.

Aphrodite looked around with some novelty, even though it was night, as if the night could not stop her view.

Surdak waved his hand at them and said, "Wait a minute, I'm going to look for a weak spot in this big guy, it may irritate it, in order to prevent it from going crazy and hurting people, you guys wait and remember to stay away." ”

The captain of the cavalry battalion hurriedly saluted Surdak again.

The cavalrymen of these cavalry battalions obediently ran to the torches and stood in a row, with spears in their hands, swords at their waists, and shields behind their backs, and looked at Surdak with curiosity.

Aphrodi stood quietly beside Surdak, her body blurring in the dark.

Although the succubus's wings were severed by her companions, causing her to lose most of her magic, Aphrodite was still an excellent dark mage, and she took advantage of the darkness to slowly walk to the side of the ghostly male.

The body of the ghost male ant instinctively shuddered, and its eyes grew on both sides of the skull, so the field of vision was very wide, except for the blind spot directly behind the body, even if it stood behind the side of the ghost male ant, it could not escape its sight.

It's just that I feel that this ghost pattern male ant seems to have become much sluggish, in Surdak's eyes, this ghost pattern male ant is almost the size of a six-meter box truck, maybe it is due to physical exhaustion, and now I don't even bother to twist my head.

The cavalry of that squad stood on the side of the ghost pattern male ant, no one dared to be in front of the ghost pattern male ant, it always wanted to spit acid liquid, once it was sprayed by acid decay liquid, even if it was cleaned immediately, the body would inevitably be burned into a large red patch, once it was not cleaned for a long time, the situation would become very serious, and the skin would soon erode.

Aphrodi walked over and looked up at the huge body of the ghost-patterned male, giving Surdak a confident expression.

Just under the shocked eyes of the cavalry next to her, Aphrodite stepped in front of the head of the ghost-patterned male, the tip of the nearly one-meter-long giant pincer was at Aphrodite's feet, and she stood in the muddy acid liquid in her long leather boots, unafraid of the ghost-patterned male.

The ghost-patterned male ant finally had some reaction at this time, and it wanted to open its giant pincers to Aphrodite, and its dark red compound eyes were full of Aphrodite's reflection, and its body finally began to writhe slowly, trying to attack Aphrodite with its giant pincers.

The cavalrymen next to him took out their shields one after another, as if they planned to wait for Aphrodite to rush forward to rescue the woman once she was bitten by the ghostly male.

For Aphrodite's courage, these cavalrymen were naturally extremely admired.

These cavalrymen all followed Surdak out of the barren lands, and many people knew that Surdak had such a mysterious mage by his side.

Aphrodite stretched out her slightly gray arm, and just before the ghostly male ant raised his head to attack her, an endless darkness suddenly appeared in her pupils, and a large dark red slowly appeared under her feet. The magic pattern circle, this magic circle appeared on the ground, like a huge spider web, and countless mysterious runes contained in it.

The ghost-striped male hissed rapidly as it swung its massive head as if to step back.

Several chains were tied to the body, and it was firmly pinned in place.

Above Aphrodi's head, it seemed that these countless dark elements had been condensed, and then a large black sphere appeared.

As Aphrodite chanted the incantation, the sphere became clearer and clearer in everyone's field of vision, and slowly the earth took on the appearance of an eyeball, and the membrane in front of it actually had a layer of eyelids, and countless blood vessels and nerves were entangled around the outside of the eyeball.

The spell ended, and the dark red circle of demonic patterns beneath Aphrodite's feet erupted into a foot-tall red glow.

After an instant, the circle suddenly disappeared.

Aphrodite's hands opened slightly, and the one-meter-diameter eyeball on her head slowly opened.

It was as if there was some kind of mysterious power on that eyeball, and the ghost-patterned male ant was instantly attracted by the eyeball, and his head slowly straightened with the eyeball.

A dim light emanated from the eyeballs, and the ghost-patterned male ant barely had the ability to struggle and fell into a deep sleep.

"I'm asleep, and now even if you split its head with an axe, you won't wake it up." Aphrodite took a few steps further, stood beside the oval compound eye, which was larger than the plate, and took a closer look before speaking to Surdak.

Hearing what Aphrodite said, Surdak couldn't wait for the cavalry to move the ladder over, set it up on the side of the ghost-patterned male, climb along the ladder to the ghost-patterned male's back, step on the hard carapace on his back, and look for its Achilles' heel near the ghost-patterned male's head.

The back of the ghostly male ant is covered with various sharp spikes, on which Surdak stepped on, and he needed to be especially careful to avoid those sharp hard thorns.

Surdak found that the head of the ghost-patterned male ant was so hard that even if he injected a blood-red crescent moon with a trace of holy light, he could not cut through the hard skull.

Although this had been expected, Surdak still took a breath when he saw that the sharp blood-red crescent moon barely scratched any marks on the hard armor skin.

He looked for weaknesses in the joints of the skull and chest cavity of the ghost-patterned male ant, but unfortunately almost all of the locations he found were hidden deep in the cracks of the exoskeleton.

Aphrodi walked along the giant pincers of the ghost-patterned male to the skull, squatted down next to a large armor piece on the back of the ghost-patterned male's head, reached out and lifted the somewhat thin armor piece, and said to Surdak, "This male's biggest weakness is here"

With that, she pulled out a dark dagger.

The edge of the armor piece looks the same as the surrounding one, but the dagger can cut down the edge of the armor piece without hindrance.

She lifted the armor piece and asked Surdak to look inside.

Surdak took out the torch of holy light from his magic belt bag, the core of the torch of holy light emitted a blazing white light, and the situation inside the armor piece was also clearly visible, and there was a large hole inside, from which a pale gray brain could be clearly seen.

"This is the central brain of the Ghost Pattern Soldier Ant." Aphrodite told Surdak.

"Even if you don't kill it now, it may not live long, losing the control of the queen ant is like unilaterally tearing up the contract, its brain is already constantly necrotic, this is the cursed power of the god of magic."

Aphrodite pulled out Surdak's saber and stabbed it and stirred it casually.

The body of the ghost pattern male ant appeared spasmodic and trembled, and it didn't take long for him to completely collapse in the field, and the vitality on the ghost pattern male ant's body weakened little by little, and the thick layer of armor covering the body also fell off as the breath of life weakened.

Aphrodite took out a handkerchief and wiped the gooey from the blade of the blood-red crescent before inserting it back into the scabbard around Surdak's waist.

Then he wiped his hands in disgust and stood on the hard head of the ghost-patterned male.

"Although this thing is a second-level peak Hell Realm Demonic Beast, but because it is extremely bulky and has no destructive attack methods, it is easy to deal with when encountering alone, as long as you are vigilant and don't let them slip into the ground, the body is easy to deal with." Aphrodite bent down to climb the ladder and said as she walked down.

"These ghost-patterned males are always mixed in the colony and rarely move alone, they often gather around the queen, and they are the closest guards around the queen." Aphrodite continued: "In normal times, only by disposing of soldier ants and worker ants can you have a chance to hunt them. ”

Surdak followed behind Aphrodite, listening quietly.

Aphrodite shook her dark purple hair as the night breeze blew, walked back to the building, and sat down on the couch in the dark living room.

Surdak lit the candle on the table next to him.

Aphrodite introduced: "In the hell world, the Crypt Demons like to eat this kind of Ghost Striped Red Ant the most, just like the people here raise cattle and sheep, they often keep the Ghost Pattern Red Ant in captivity, and every time the Crypt Demon hunts the Ghost Pattern Red Ant, they hunt those soldier ants that are of little value in the ant colony as much as possible. Worker ants are the builders of the Red Ant Empire, soldier ants are the guardians of the Red Ant Empire, and the biggest mission of the ghost male ant is to mate with the queen, and after the mating is completed, the queen will also absorb the essence of the male ant's body, so as to give birth to more high-quality eggs. ”

"Once the ghost pattern male ant grows up, he will basically follow the queen for the rest of his life."

"They usually hide in the deepest part of the anthill, and they can see the ghost male ants and queens outside the anthill, indicating that this anthill has reached a periodic node that can be opened outward, and a huge number of ghost red ants are born in the ant nest, because the resources around the ant nest cannot meet these ghost red ants, they need to expand rapidly outward and establish a new red ant empire to form such an ant tide."

"This is a common occurrence in the hell realm......"

Surdak earnestly asked, "How did you defeat this beast tide over there?" ”

Aphrodite thought for a moment before saying, "The easiest way is to kill the queen." Once the queen dies, they become a mess, and they have no clear purpose until there is a new queen to take over, and will only rely on instinct to survive. ”

Surdak was surprised and said, "Kill the queen ant? They are protected by ghost-striped males around the clock, how can we possibly kill them! ”

Aphrodite frowned and thought for a moment, squinted her eyes and said:

"The new queen is born with wings, but these wings fall off on their own when the queen mates and lays eggs."

"Before the establishment of the new Red Ant Empire, in order to maintain the ability to fly, the queen ant would never easily mate with the male ant to lay eggs."

"The worker ants and soldier ants in the colony are born for the Red Ant Empire, and they usually obey the queen's orders unconditionally, but they can't tolerate the queen's long-term non-reproduction."

"Since they have opened up a new Red Ant Empire, since they have chosen to go south through this canyon, once they can't attack the Dodan Canyon for a long time, the queen ant is destined to desperately press the ant colony army up, and when their rear is empty, it is the best time for us to sneak attack."

Surdak wanted to take a closer look to see if the queens were really what Aphrodite said.

A series of explosions rang out from the north wall, which were catapults throwing gunpowder outside the city.

Since Andrew, Samira, and Gulit were all guarding the walls, Surdak was not in a hurry to inspect the walls at night, and he needed to peel off the life patterns from the ghost-patterned male ant.

The size of the male ant is too large, and the hard carapace is difficult to handle, so it takes a lot of time.

At night, several giant ghost-patterned soldier ant carcasses were sent to the side of the military camp one after another, and the soldiers responsible for transporting the giant ghost-patterned soldier ants reported to Surdak: The current battle situation on the city wall is quite stable.

Surdak did not rush to the city wall to check the results.

Aphrodite waited until the last minute to step through the Void Gate and return to Puss Mountain.

This ghost pattern male ant is also very troublesome to deal with, and Surdak has been dealing with it until dawn, and then he has completely peeled off this life pattern pattern.

This Life Pattern is very large, and the cut leather is the size of a double bed on the ground, even if you refine this leather with Life Pattern, it is not suitable for making a Demon Pattern Cultivation Outfit.

……

Towards dawn, a group of wounded warriors was removed from the city walls.

As soon as Surdak had finished disposing of the life pattern on the ghost-patterned male's body, and was crouching on the ghost-patterned male's back, removing the armor pieces that had fallen off it, he heard two veterans rushing into the camp carrying stretchers.

A veteran was lying on a stretcher covered in blood, his left leg was cut off half a foot above his knee, and although the wound on the broken leg was strangled by a rope, the blood continued to gush outward, and the veteran howled heart-rending under the severe pain.

The broken leg was caught under the armpit by the veteran carrying the stretcher.

Surdak hurriedly jumped off the back of the ghost-patterned male ant, pointed to the door of the small building, and motioned for the stretcher-carrying veteran to carry the injured into the small building's treatment room.

Blood flowed all the way, and Surdak followed.

The pain distorted the veteran's face, but Surdak recognized him.

He is a veteran of the cavalry battalion, and just a few days ago he was promoted to a first-turn soldier and became the captain of the first squad of the third squadron of the cavalry battalion.

Walking into the room, which had been converted into a treatment room, Surdak lit the torch of light and placed it at the head of the bed.

A cloud of holy light condensed from the palm of his hand fell on the wound of the veteran's broken leg, and the wound was stained with some acid and putrid liquid, and from the stubble of the wound, it was obviously cut by the giant pincers of red ants.

Surdak instructed two other stretcher-carrying veterans to tie him to his bed, and then let the two veterans leave.

The altar of sacrifice was opened, and then the head of a moonblade fire wolf was sacrificed, so that the veteran first had the blessing of the god of the 'blessed body', and then held the broken leg of the pale color in his hand, and bowed his head and pondered for a while, considering how to connect the broken leg.

The cross-section of the broken leg wound is somewhat large, and it is estimated that it will be difficult to heal even if the broken leg is re-sutured to the left leg.

Surdak patted the veteran on the cheek vigorously and asked the veteran, "Do you want to keep your leg?" ”

The veteran endured the excruciating pain and nodded desperately.

Surdak directly pulled out a magic sealing box from his magic waist bag, threw it on the floor with a 'bang', took out a power-type life magic pattern from it and shook it in front of the veteran, and said to him: "Then let's gamble, you will owe me a lot ......of money if you succeed or not, and it is estimated that you may have to repay it for a long time in the future."

This was a bold attempt by Surdak......

Because he knew that even if the blessing effect of the 'Divine Blessed Body' was blessed, the veteran's broken leg would be difficult to connect.

He thought of the ritual of implanting the Demonic Pattern, which could be seen as another form of healing, even though it was a perfect fusion of the Colony Suit with the body of the person being cast, and that it would also require the use of the Life Pattern as a bridge to connect the broken legs.

The ceremony lasted for nearly an hour, and the veteran woke up and passed out in pain tied to the hospital bed, repeating it several times until someone carried him out of the bed.

The veteran's injured leg was bandaged by Nika, who rushed to the side of the small building in the morning, Surdak didn't have time to deal with such a trivial matter, and there were many wounded soldiers waiting for him to treat outside.

Before the veteran was carried out of the ward, Surdak asked him, "Whether it will succeed or not depends on how well it has recovered and merged in the past three days...... By the way, what's your name? ”

“…… My name is Hudson, Lord Commander! The veteran said weakly.