Nowadays, there are no red ant colonies everywhere in the hills and mountains.

However, occasionally some red ants will emerge from inexplicable places, causing a lot of trouble to people in the hills and mountains.

And these small groups of ghost pattern red ants lurking in the hills and mountains happen to be the hunting target of many mercenary groups and adventure groups, they often only have a few soldier ants in their team, and their combat effectiveness is not so strong, as long as they cooperate closely during the battle, it is not difficult to kill these ghost pattern soldier ants.

At least half of Wilkes' adventuring parties now hunt in the hills and mountains north of the Thorn Mountains.

With five hundred cavalry and eighteen thunder rhinos, Surdak stormed into the Invercargill Monster Forest, which was full of ghostly red ants, but they were unable to form an offensive beast tide.

Perhaps because there is no unified command of the ghost pattern ant queen, the ghost pattern red ants in the Warcraft Forest are more like a plate of loose sand.

Although there are many ghost-patterned red ants in the forest, there are often ghost-patterned red ants that are not fatal to rush up, and they are either hacked to death by the cavalry with swords, or they are shot by the bows on both sides of the thunder rhinoceros.

The army approached the Warcraft Forest all the way, and they were cleaning up these scattered ghost-patterned red ants.

The speed of travel becomes very slow......

This forest was tragically ransacked by the ghost-striped red ants, and almost all the green leaves of the trees were eaten by the ghost-striped red ants.

From a distance, the entire woodland was bare.

The scenery in the mountains and forests...... It's like entering a snowless winter.

The White Forest Plane is like spring all year round, and the calendar here is also calculated according to the time of the Green Empire on the Roland Continent, it is now June of the Green Empire, and the withered yellow trees all over the mountains make people feel that this place is very depressed.

Although many trees have sprouted tender green shoots, some have died completely.

The entire Invercargill Monster Forest is waiting for the red ants to completely retreat, and then the Monster Forest will slowly recover, the grass and trees here will grow again, and some of the fleeing beasts will return here.

There is almost nothing left in Invercargill Forest, and the environment is very harsh.

Some of the high-level demonic beasts that survived the beast tide were hiding in hidden corners of the forest, and their ability to survive the impact of the ant colony was enough to show that they had extraordinary strength.

These high-level demonic beasts used to be the overlords of this forest, and they had a strong sense of territory......

They have a strong sense of attack on trespassers, only this time they will face the cavalry battalion and archer battalion of Surdak.

Surdak took the map given to him by the Marquis of Luthor, carefully scanned the references around him, and chose the direction to go.

The cavalry battalion easily crossed an empty valley, and then over a bare hill where he found a distant vein of copper ore that was unobstructed by vegetation and could see the bruises on the ridge......

Unexpectedly, Surdak was so excited to find the location of the first vein, and the wealth buried here would belong to him in the future.

Before that, though, Surdak needed to carve out the mountains here, at least into the land map of the White Forest Plane.

"That's it......"

Surdak sat on horseback, pulling the reins with one hand and looking at the mountains in the distance.

Andrew squinted his eyes and followed Surdak's gaze and asked him:

"Boss, are we going to completely incorporate this mountain into the territory of the Grimm Empire now?"

Surdak nodded and said, "That's it, we must occupy this place, now the entire Invercargill Warcraft Forest is empty, it is the best time for us to expand our territory, and I will ...... the entire vein in the forest."

"Let's go, let's see how long this vein is......"

After saying that, Surdak led the cavalry to the foot of the vein mountain in one go.

At a glance on the mountains, it is good that it is not too far away.

But when I really walked over, I realized that this distance was not ordinarily far.

It was a long time to go, and seeing that the sky had already darkened, the cavalry battalion finally arrived at the southernmost point of this vein.

At this time, Andrew was a little completely dumbfounded, just looking at the part of the vein on the ground, it stretched a few kilometers to the northwest, and then like a giant beast dormant in the forest, he plunged his head into the mountain forest.

"Head, are we going to dig up the whole mountain here?" Andrew asked, following Surdak's side.

He didn't know much about ore mining.

Surdak shook his head, took out a cloth bag, and then jumped off his horse, found two random stones on the hillside, and put them in.

"I also have to bring back some ore to refine, and look at the fineness of the ore in this vein, many ores with low ore content may not be of much use." Surdak replied.

The cavalry battalion stopped in the open field at the northern end of the vein, and Surdak had seen a lot of patina gravel along the way, and it was clear that there was indeed a large amount of copper-bearing ore here, and many of them were exposed just outside the surface.

When the cavalry arrived at their destination, they did not sit idle, and they began to cut wood on the slopes of the hills, preparing to set up camp with some huts near the veins here.

Surdak rode around the neighborhood on horseback and found that it was the only place in the neighborhood that was suitable for building wooden houses.

The Invercargill Monster Forest is rich in timber, and the wooden houses are built very quickly......

Samira led the Thunder Rhino to move forward, she was in charge of the surrounding security guards, in order to avoid high-level magical beasts lurking in the surrounding mountains, she personally led the archers to check around the camp to see if there was any situation.

The bed crossbow on top of the Thunder Rhino has a good suppressive power against the monsters in Invercargill's forest.

Now there are not a few demonic beasts in this Warcraft Forest, Surdak wants to develop here, of course, there is no problem, it is not troublesome to open up the territory in advance, and he is worried about how to maintain the territorial boundary after the subsequent Warcraft returns.

You know, this is the hinterland of the Warcraft Forest.

A ghost-patterned soldier ant suddenly sprang out of the weeds and bit directly into the leg of Surdak's warhorse.

The soldier standing on the side reacted quickly, grabbed the spear in his hand, and blocked the ghost-patterned soldier ant, and Andrew rushed forward with an arrow step, cutting off the head of the ghost-patterned soldier ant.

Andrew looked at the mountain at his feet and asked Surdak, "Head, if copper ore is really dug up from here in the future, how are we going to transport these ores out?" ”

"For the time being, these Thunder Rhinos will be used, and there should be no problem transporting ore from such big guys...... Surdak said to Andrew.

"If you can, maybe a gold smelting workshop will be built here in the future, and the copper ore dug from here will be directly smelted into copper ingots and transported to Dodan Town." Surdak said, standing beside Andrew.