The cold and violent aura of destruction was completely quiet, and the ghost-patterned ant queen who was lying on the ground was also completely lying on the blood-stained grass, only the sides of her ribs rose and fell slightly, as if she was breathing slowly.

A vine hung down from the top of Surdak's head, and there was actually a tattered bark rolled, this broken bark did not have any words on it, only a faint breath of life, and at a casual glance, you could feel how extraordinary this bark was, and the whole bark was full of magic.

The bark scroll fell into Surdak's hands.

Surdak reopened the bark scroll and looked at it, revealing that there was no form of writing in it, only simple patterns like ancient frescoes, which depicted the story of a stick figure ant kneeling in front of a tree and a human, with what appeared to be a dragon in the background......

The ghost-patterned red ants on the surrounding battlefield had completely stopped, and the red dragon Isser, who probably had no appetite for those ghost-patterned male ants, returned a little unwillingly, and set off a violent wind when he landed beside Surdak.

Surdak then introduced the soul contract to Isser, and in the end, the ghost-patterned queen almost pressed her forehead against the scroll, leaving behind a bright red blood contract.

The ghostly queen was lying flat on her back, in front of the World Tree and Isser, posing as if she was to be slaughtered.

"So, my dinner is gone?" The red dragon Isserr looked at Surdak with a smoky expression, and two flames erupted from his nostrils from time to time.

Its belly was swollen with a large bulge, and it looked like it had eaten a lot.

Surdak walked up, right beside Isser, reached out and gently touched the scales of the lower part of its neck closest to the ground, and then bowed his head to Isser, and said:

"Obviously...... It's even more useful to keep it! ”

"But I also know that you have put a lot of effort into catching it, Issel, and I will make it up to you." Surdak stood beside the red dragon Iser and shouted at it.

The red dragon looked at his constantly lightening body, and those dragon scales began to appear blurred, so he didn't say anything more to complain, and directly said to Surdak in dragon language:

"It's good that you know, I don't have much time to stay here, and the next time there is this kind of high-level prey, remember to call me in time...... And next time I won't be as good at talking as this time, and I won't hesitate to swallow them when the time comes. ”

As he spoke, Isser once again opened her huge mouth at the ghostly queen's dying body.

"I know, I'll go to see you in the secret room in a few days, and I promise to prepare a big meal for you!" Surdak comforted Isser.

After Surdak had promised to bring it some delicious food, Isser flapped his wings twice with some pleasure and flew back into the door of light, disappearing along with it.

The red dragon Iser left the White Forest Plane, and the huge burden in Surdak's spiritual consciousness sea was slightly relieved.

However, when he felt some slimy liquid coming out of his mouth and nose, he reached out and wiped it only to find that a large amount of blood was gushing out of his mouth and nose, and it was accompanied by this intense dizziness......

……

The Queen Ant has made a soul pact with the World Tree.

According to the World Tree, the Queen Ant signed this contract scroll to represent that the entire Ant Clan would be slaves of the World Tree and Surdak forever, and a stick figure leaf mark appeared on the Ghost Queen's forehead.

It's just that it was lying in a pool of blood on the grass, looking like it might die at any moment, and I don't know if it was deliberately pretending to be weak to show him, or if it was really injured like that, no matter what, it was a tragic posture of a loser.

Even the ghostly red ants stopped completely, waiting for Surdak and the World Tree's verdict.

Surdak found that the number of red ants in the entire ant clan is still very large, and nearly sixty percent of the entire red ant empire are ghost pattern worker ants, and now the army of the red ant empire is still appearing on the ground, and most of the ghost pattern worker ants are still hidden in the depths of the anthill.

The total number of all the ghost-striped red ants is still a million.

Next, Surdak ordered Samira to inform the lord army on the other side of the cave to suspend the pursuit of the ant clan, and now these red ants are more like a herd of cattle and sheep he raised in the worm valley to Surdak, even if they are slaughtered, there is no need to rush for a while......

Followed by Karrie. Decker and Gullitham brought back Andrew and Wolf Knight Tiger from the battlefield, and their almost shattered bodies.

In Surdak's opinion, the bodies of both of them were almost cold, but the blood in their bodies had not completely coagulated, there was no breathing and heartbeat, and even Tygo's entire body was pulled out of a huge blood hole by the claws of the ghost queen, and the broken vertebrae made his body look extremely broken.

Surdak's Holy Light Technique could not save them, and thinking that Andrew had been following him with all his heart and soul for the past few years, Surdak saw him lying on the grass with blood on his face, and he farted. Sitting next to Andrew, he took out a white silk handkerchief and wiped his bloodstained face.

Bernita, the frost wolf, was also prostrate beside the wolf knight Tiger, constantly licking Tiger's cheek with its long tongue, and let out a low whimper from his mouth.

Surdak thought of the price he would pay for killing the ghost-patterned ants, but these costs were a little unacceptable to him.

At this time, he suddenly wanted to rush over, slashed the ghost pattern ant queen lying in a pool of blood with a sword, and then completely peeled off its dark golden demon skin, and the complete life demon patterns on its body made Surdak drool.

Just when Surdak regretted that he couldn't personally stab the enemy for Andrew and Tygo, a tree vine hung down in front of Surdak again, and the vine exuded a strong vitality, and at the same time, a spiritual power was transmitted into Surdak's spiritual consciousness sea, which was also the only means of contact between the World Tree and Surdak.

"Don't be upset, my friend, I have a way to help your two companions recover, but before I can do so, would you be willing to use such a precious opportunity for your two companions?" The World Tree asked Surdak in the sea of spiritual consciousness.

"Of course I'd like to ......," Surdak replied without thinking.

"Well, Lord Surdak, you must remember that with this kind of treatment, with my current ability, I can only help you once a year, and these two times are because I promised you some compensation before." The World Tree chattered and poured some thoughts into Surdak's mind as it condensed a drop of life at the end of the vine.

One of them landed on Andrew's face, and the other on the empty chest of Wolf Knight Tiger Go.

……

It was only after the introduction of the World Tree that Surdak figured it out......

The reason why the World Tree signed a slave contract with the Ghost Striped Ant Queen was entirely because the Ghost Striped Red Ant was the main force to clean up the giant mushrooms in the Dark Worm Valley, so the World Tree could not completely wipe out the ant clan in the Dark Worm Valley.

Giant mushrooms cling to the World Tree, and the spores are everywhere in the decaying trees, which can never be cleaned up.

As long as there is rotting wood, there are spore mushrooms, because the mushrooms that grew on the old generation of world trees were rich in nutrients, they naturally formed giant mushrooms, and these giant mushrooms can also be regarded as one of the biological chains that decompose saprophyllum

Too many spores and giant mushrooms will accelerate the decay of the tree.

Back then, the Ghost Red Ant Clan was also the guardian beast of the older generation of World Trees.

Unfortunately, after the Queen of the Ghost Stripes Ant acquired rudimentary wisdom and selfish thoughts, the old World Tree was bitten through and corrupted by the Ghost Striped Red Ants and the Giant Mushroom, and eventually collapsed......

After obtaining the life essence of the World Tree, the Ghost Pattern Ant Clan turned their backs on the World Tree, and instead of giving the World Tree seedlings the most precious source of life, they sealed it in the stomach pouch of the Ghost Pattern Ant Queen, ready to digest it alone.

It's a pity that for thousands of years, the ghost pattern ant queen has not been able to digest this source of life......

On the contrary, in the past few thousand years, the entire ant tribe has been slowly degrading.

And in the nearly 1,000 years since the giant mushroom spores fell down on the World Tree, the mushroom spores have flourished.

But when the nutrients in the roots of the World Tree are absorbed, the huge roots turn into rocky valleys, and the giant mushroom spores in the valley absorb enough nutrients and slowly shrink.

In the end, the giant mushroom forests could only be used throughout the valley, and even so, the mushroom forests have begun to become more petrified in recent years, and there are fewer and fewer new mushrooms.

Today's giant mushrooms are no longer able to provide enough food for the ants, so they try to hunt outside the valley......

This food chain slowly shrunk to become what it is today.