NOVEL NEXT Chapter 31
Chapter 31: Ant Colony Evolution, Devouring Ants!
Another half month passed.
The worker ant’s level increased to level 5, while the queen ant’s level rose to level 6.
The strength of the ant colony multiplied many times over.
In half a month, the ant colony accumulated over one hundred level 1 ants, reaching the peak of the tiny level, with hundreds more ants just one step away from breaking through.
However, this was the limit of the ant colony’s development.
It’s not that the ant colony’s potential ended here, but on the edge of the Gloomy Forest, there weren’t enough resources for the colony to continue expanding and evolving.
During this period, all creatures within a ten-kilometer radius were swept clean by the ant colony, becoming food for the entire group’s evolution.
To continue developing, they had to relocate.
The Gloomy Forest was vast.
At Su Bai’s current speed, it would take two days to reach the center from the forest’s edge.
Such a large forest had plenty of space for the ant species, whose numbers were still under ten thousand.
Su Bai needed to decide on a location where the ant species could survive and maximize their advantages, resuming their near-unlimited expansion and evolution.
“If it were in Goblin City…”
After some thought, Su Bai chose Goblin City.
As the former royal city of the goblins, Goblin City was located in the center of the Gloomy Forest.
After Su Bai killed Gorg, the goblins gathered in Goblin City fled, dispersing throughout the central area of the Gloomy Forest. The monsters active in that area were generally between levels 7 and 10.
With the current strength of the ant species, it would be difficult to establish themselves in this area.
But with Su Bai, it would be different.
Under Su Bai’s protection, the ant species could easily pass through the initial stages. When a new round of expansion began and more powerful ants appeared, they could firmly establish themselves in the center of the Gloomy Forest.
Just like at the beginning, the arrival of the ant species in the center would come with significant losses.
However, after passing the initial stage, the benefits would be equally substantial.
More and higher-level monsters would not only provide richer food and experience for the ant species but also, by devouring these monster corpses and adjusting the ant eggs again, result in stronger newly born ants!
Once they established themselves in the center of the Gloomy Forest, the ant species would have the capital to overpower the goblins!
“However… migrating so many ants is a big project…”
Glancing at the seemingly endless ant colony, Su Bai prepared to abandon part of the ants. The level 1 ants and those that had awakened racial talents would definitely be taken along.
As for the rest…
As before, Su Bai abandoned them.
In Su Bai’s kin, the queen ant was the absolute center. As long as the queen ant survived, she could lay eggs and create a new ant army in just a few days, even if the entire colony was wiped out.
If breaking through racial limits and awakening talents were not so difficult, Su Bai would have considered taking only the worker ant and the queen ant.
As for the abandoned ants…
Without the queen ant, they would continue hunting and living as before. Once this batch of ants died in battle or of old age, the remaining ant colony would be extinct.
Survival was not easy.
Living in a game world where the strong prey on the weak was even harder.
If the pace of evolution couldn’t keep up with the group’s overall improvement, they would ultimately be abandoned or become experience and food for stronger beings.
Not just for the ant colony but for Su Bai as well.
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After more than ten days, Su Bai finally arrived at Goblin City with the worker ant, queen ant, and several hundred ants.
He did not enter the ruined city.
Su Bai chose a small mountain near Goblin City as the new ant nest, starting a new round of expansion and evolution.
On the first day, the queen ant laid over a thousand eggs, while the several hundred ants began tentative hunting. Dozens of ants were lost, bringing back a few goblin and other monster corpses.
On the second day, over a thousand eggs hatched, and the new ants immediately joined the hunt.
More ants died in hunting, resulting in a severalfold increase in monster corpses.
From the third day, the ant colony entered a virtuous cycle of development.
Every day, hundreds of ants died in hunting, and every day, new ants broke through racial limits or awakened talents.
As the number of level 1 ants increased, hunting became easier.
Five days later, the number of level 1 ants exceeded one hundred and fifty.
Ten days later, the number of level 1 ants exceeded two hundred.
Half a month later, after devouring countless monster corpses and undergoing countless adjustments, the eggs laid by the queen ant hatched at the peak of the tiny level.
Subsequently, the number of level 1 ants experienced explosive growth!
Twenty-five days: three hundred ants!
One month: five hundred ants!
Thirty-five days: eight hundred ants!
With the emergence of more and more level 1 and higher-level ants, the strength of the ant colony grew. The scattered monsters in the Gloomy Forest’s center were no match for the ant army.
Centered around the ant nest, more and more monsters were cleared out, turning into food and experience for the ant colony, making them stronger.
A new round of expansion began!
Until…
Two months later.
[Ding! Your kin, the queen ant, has reached level 10.]
[The ant species under the queen ant has more than 50% of its members breaking through to level 1, qualifying the species to evolve from the tiny level to a formal monster species. You can choose to rename the species or keep the original name.]
Ant colony evolution!
As if expecting this result, Su Bai smiled slightly when the system prompt sounded and silently said, “Rename the ant colony.”
“The new name of the ant colony will be… Devouring Ants!”