From Ant to Abyssal Demon

Chapter 30: Rapid Expansion! Rapid Expansion! Rapid Expansion!

Metal Eater was a very powerful talent, which Su Bai specifically chose for the worker ant.

Once it passed the initial growth phase, this talent could significantly strengthen the worker ant in a short time, making it top-tier among all talents, second only to Su Bai’s devouring evolution.

As for the initial growth phase…

Feeling a bit relieved, Su Bai opened his storage space.

A heart the size of a bowl and two green arms over a meter long fell out from the storage space, landing on the ground.

This was the heart and arms of Goblin General Gorg.

When devouring corpses in Goblin City, Su Bai intentionally saved Gorg’s heart and arms to see if consuming them could help the worker ant evolve.

To Su Bai, Gorg’s heart and arms were just a source of experience and evolution points.

But for the tiny-level worker ant and queen ant, the heart and arms of a lord-level monster were akin to rare treasures, enough to help them get through the initial growth phase.

After becoming Su Bai’s subordinates, the worker ant and queen ant couldn’t communicate fluently yet but could understand his intentions.

As the heart and arms landed, the two ants simultaneously crawled toward the bowl-sized heart. Without needing Su Bai’s prompting, they instinctively knew how much essence was contained in this heart.

Compared to the worker ant and queen ant, Gorg’s heart was like a small mountain.

With each bite of flesh, they gained significant experience. In Su Bai’s perception, within just a few minutes, the aura of both the worker ant and queen ant had grown noticeably stronger.

Their bodies even started to slowly grow.

As for the other ants…

When Su Bai chose the ant species as his kin and made the queen ant one of his subordinates, the other ants were destined to be abandoned.

Mature ants had little chance of evolving, and Su Bai considered only the new eggs laid by the queen ant after she grew as his kin!

Time passed bit by bit.

After a full hour, Gorg’s heart was completely devoured, and both the worker ant and queen ant broke through the tiny-level limit, officially advancing to monsters with levels!

Then, under Su Bai’s instruction, the worker ant and queen ant each took one of the arms and continued eating.

After a few more hours, when the two arms were reduced to bare bones, the growth of the worker ant and queen ant finally ended.

By this time, their levels had reached three.

Thanks to their warrior templates, even at level three, the worker ant and queen ant had attributes comparable to advanced goblins, with much higher health points.

At this point, even if Su Bai left them alone, the worker ant and queen ant had the strength to survive in the Gloomy Forest.

As long as they didn’t encounter lord-level or elite-level monsters, the ant species would soon take root, grow, and eventually replace the goblins as the rulers of the Gloomy Forest.

However…

An ant species merely comparable to goblins was far from satisfying Su Bai.

He invested so much effort, naturally hoping for the ant species to become as powerful as possible, to the point of being invincible!

Following Su Bai’s command, the queen ant returned to the depths of the already dug ant nest to start laying eggs. Supported by the large amount of food Su Bai provided, egg after egg, each the size of a pigeon egg, were produced, densely occupying the nest’s depths.

After just one day, hundreds of young ants hatched from the eggs.

Each young ant was about three centimeters long, emitting an aura that reached the tiny level — the same level once reached only by the queen ant and worker ant!

Subsequently, under Su Bai’s orders, the hundreds of newly mobile young ants swarmed out, sweeping all creatures within a 500-meter radius of the nest.

Spiders, grasshoppers, crickets, frogs, toads, mice — no creature was spared unless it was a formal monster.

Within half a day, hundreds of various creatures were hunted by the ant swarm, brought back as food to the nest, with over a third of the young ants lost in the process.

Meanwhile, after consuming a large amount of food, the queen ant laid a second batch of eggs.

When this second batch of young ants grew and joined the hunt, the ant swarm’s range expanded from 500 meters to 1,000 meters.

Then came the third batch, and the fourth batch.

Finally.

On the fifth day, after consuming a vast amount of food, the queen ant broke through to level four.

Her attributes grew again, enhancing her egg-laying ability further.

Within the ant swarm, the first ant to break through its limit and become a level-one monster appeared!

Where there was a first, there would be a second.

After seven days, the number of ants breaking through their limits to become level-one monsters reached four.

After nine days, it reached seven.

On the twelfth day, the number of level-one monster ants increased from seven to ten! Then, level-one and level-two monsters in the Gloomy Forest also became targets for the ant swarm’s hunts.

By this time, all the first batch of ants had died.

Even among the second and third batches, very few survived the twelve days of hunting.

But every surviving ant either broke through its limits or successfully awakened a racial talent, becoming the elite among the ants.

During these twelve days of hunting, thousands of ants died.

Yet the ant swarm’s total number did not decrease but instead increased.

The countless corpses of various creatures brought back by the ants became food for the worker ant and queen ant, keeping them in a constant state of upgrading and gradually strengthening the ant swarm.

With the 【Mutated Eggs】 talent, each time the queen ant consumed a creature’s corpse, she made a slight adjustment to her eggs, making the hatched ants a bit stronger.

Though a single adjustment was negligible, over time, the cumulative effect made the newly hatched ants stronger and stronger, enhancing the overall strength of the ant swarm.

Unnoticed by anyone, Su Bai began a frenzied expansion on the edge of the Gloomy Forest.

This frantic expansion brought with it the crazy evolution of the ant species!