Lord of Hyranza

The cavalry behind hurriedly stabbed out the long sword in their hands, and the knight's long sword made of fine steel pierced the hard armor near the compound eyes of the ghost pattern red ant, making a piercing sound.

The halo under Suldak's feet lit up, and a faint magic circle flashed in his hand. The holy light torch hit the head of another ghost-striped red ant, and immediately smashed out the olive-shaped head of the ghost-striped soldier ant. Although a light brown liquid gushed out of the big hole, it caused the ghost-patterned soldier ants to bite Suldak's arm more ferociously.

At this time, a long spear stretched out from behind, pierced deeply along the damaged part of the Ghost-patterned Soldier Ant's head, and immediately pierced the Ghost-patterned Soldier Ant on the barrel of the gun.

Suldak nodded to Commander Intas, who was behind in time, and continued to explore.

Walking inside, only to find that the inside of the cave is a long, narrow and straight corridor with a very spacious space.

The dome of the corridor also has an arched structure, and there are masonry columns on both sides as load-bearing supports. There are secret rooms lined up on both sides of the corridor, but the ghost-patterned red ants are too large, and they have already closed the door of the secret room and many pillars. It was also broken, some masonry structures collapsed, and the earthwork on the dome dripped down, making it look dilapidated.

The cave floor is covered in a viscous dark brown liquid that looks like dried blood.

The red ants obviously still smelled in the stone room, but they didn't seem to dare to come out.

There were many skulls covered with blood and mucus in the corner of the cave, and the skulls were of different sizes. Only then did Suldak realize that the ghost-striped red ants had transported all the residents of the town and the garrison who died in battle here.

Suldak walked to the door of a stone room, held a shield in front of him, and poked the torch of holy light inside to watch, only to see that there were actually two worker ants of a different size lying in this stone room.

That's right, they have the upper body of ghost pattern worker ants, but their appearance has completely changed below the abdomen. The dark red abdomen, which was originally the size of a wax gourd, has swelled into a huge ball with a diameter of two meters. , becomes translucent.

Illuminated by the light of the holy light torch, the huge abdomen of the ghost pattern worker ants showed a light red frozen shape. The huge abdomen propped up their bodies, making their front half of their bodies completely suspended, and their bodies lay on a corpse. On the pile, sucking the sour rot on it with the hard tubular mouthparts, seeing that the stomach is about to explode, and still trying to suck it, like two starving ghosts.

Suldak resisted the discomfort in his stomach and withdrew.

Seeing the strange expression on Suldak's face, Commander Intas also went up to take a look. Suldak felt that when he turned his head back, his face was a little green, and he asked for it directly from a cavalry beside him. A fire scale bullet was thrown close to the stone room without even looking at it.

With an explosion, a lot of frozen reddish materials flew out of the stone room, standing sticky on the pillar at the door of the stone room.

After the strong explosion ended, Intas explained to Surdak:

"The honeypots of these red ants are also a way for them to store food. After they are completely full, these worker ants will adjust themselves to the top of the cave and die immediately. It will be used only when enough food is found, and it can be stored for a long time by hanging it in a cool hole in the ground..."

Seeing that everyone was looking at him, Intas forced the corner of his mouth to smile and asked everyone:

"Are you wondering how I know this?"

Without waiting for everyone to answer, he explained:

"I participated in the beast tide ten years ago. At that time, I was a captain of the 79 cavalry of the Bena Legion. At the beginning, these Constructed Swordsmen fought back and fought all the way to the edge of the Gloomy Forest. If it weren't for the inability to pass through the poisonous miasma around the Gloomy Forest, the Constructed Swordsman Group might have directly captured the Gloomy Worm Valley."

"So... didn't take it?" Commander Hampton asked.

Commander Intas nodded and said: "Of course, if it is really done, maybe the second city of Bailin Plane will be built."

Then he said in a self-deprecating manner: "Perhaps that battle was too easy. This time the Luthor Legion was stationed in the northern occupied area, but the provincial council actually transferred the main construction swordsman regiment of the Luthor Legion to Tara Pagan put down the rebellion..."

Everyone didn't say anything, and sent cavalry with repeater crossbows to clean up these worker ant honeypots along the way.

Suldak was always at the forefront.

In his words, his dwarven chain shield is a magical shield, with a 'holy shield'.

The basement in the temple really occupied the underground space of the entire backyard.

Each stone room contained one or two so-called honeypots for worker ants, and of course the room was also full of decayed corpses, making the basement of the entire temple look like a burial chamber.

Finally reached the end of the tunnel corridor, the dry black blood on the ground also stopped abruptly here, and a pile of abandoned and collapsed bricks and stones were piled up next to the wall, which looked like it was caused by a landslide.

But just when everyone thought they had reached the end, Suldak found that there was no blood on the bricks and stones scattered in the corner of the wall, which looked like a new landslide not long ago.

Under the illumination of the holy light torch, the bloodstains on the ground were like broken bricks.

Commander Intas was also worried that the stone room would collapse, and couldn't wait to get out of the smelly basement.

Seeing that Suldak stopped in front of the pile of broken bricks and rocks, turned around and returned, the cavalry who entered this basement were almost all the elite of the Seventh Cavalry Battalion, Intas waved his hand, and these cavalry immediately agreed Yes, everyone gathered together to clean up these broken bricks.

Gradually, as the collapsed masonry was cleared away by the cavalry, a larger hole appeared in the wall.

The inside of the cave entrance is even deeper. There is no light in the dark cave, but there are some hard armor leather friction sounds coming from inside.

The dried blood under the feet reached here, and it still extended into the cave, but it was relatively much less, and it did not condense into a thick layer.

A cavalryman, at the behest of Commander Intas, threw a torch wrapped in broken steps and turpentine into the cave.

The torch flew seven or eight meters away along the cave, hit the stone wall and bounced to the ground, the flame continued to weaken.

The light startled some ghost-striped red ants, and they scrambled out of the cave again, but just halfway through the climb, the ghost-striped soldier ants stopped, and then retreated cautiously along the cave, leaving only A dark and deep hole came out.

"The ant queen..."

Intas and Suldak said almost at the same time.

Suldak said without hesitation to the captain of the No. [-] Squadron, "Hurry up and get some more people. If there is nothing wrong with the city wall, call Andrew over."

After speaking, Suldak walked in holding the holy torch.

He found that this burrow should be newly dug by the ghost-striped red ants, and the excavation marks on the wall of the burrow are still brand new.

A group of ghost pattern soldier ant guards saw that Suldak was getting closer and closer. They crouched in the cave and continued to demonstrate to Suldak, but none of the soldier ants rushed up. Seeing Suldak As Dake and his group approached slowly, the ghost-patterned soldiers sprayed sour liquid towards Suldak.

The cavalry raised their crossbows one after another, and a row of crossbow arrows shot at them, immediately annoyed the ghost-patterned soldiers and ants.

The soldier ants rushed forward again, and Suldak stood shoulder to shoulder with the two cavalrymen. There was no way to dodge in the cave, and all collisions were head-to-head.

The holy light torch in Suldak's hand emerged three times in a row with holy thunder and magic patterns, and the lightning flowed out horizontally, illuminating the entire cave. , Solve the ghost pattern soldier ants in the cave one by one.

Stepping on the corpses of these ghost-striped soldier ants, I found that the cave dug by the red ants was actually connected to a natural cave.

And the sound of those hard armors rubbing against each other came from inside the cave. This time, a scroll of Gathering Fire was shot into the dark cave.The magic scroll unfolded against the wind, and a flame ignited from the magic scroll, which floated down in front of the cave.

Under the faint light of the fire, a group of ghost-striped male ants guarded a queen and slowly moved to the depths of the cave.

They moved very slowly, mainly because this queen ant was much bigger than what Suldak had seen before. Its body was extending several meters from the abdomen, and its overall size was actually larger than that of the ghost-striped male ant. A section grew out, with a diameter of two meters. It looked like a giant sausage, and magic lines kept lighting up in the lines on the side of the abdomen.

In the dark cave, those bright red eyes exuded a piercing light.

The dark red body is covered with dark red veins, and the three pairs of wings on the queen's back have completely fallen off. It is lying on a ghost-striped male ant, and it is moving to the depths of the cave surrounded by a large group of worker ants. Looked very weak.

There are also a large number of ghost pattern soldier ants in the cave, and they swarm towards Suldak.

It was obviously unwise for the cavalry to fight the ghost-striped soldier ants in the open area of ​​the underground cave, and Suldak didn't venture in to chase down the evacuated queen ant.

Ghost-pattern soldier ants rushed up continuously, and the two commanders, Intas and Hampton, took turns rushing forward to share the impact of ghost-pattern soldier ants with Suldak.

It wasn't until Andrew, who exuded a strong fighting spirit, rushed to the cave, that the situation was opened.

As a newly promoted second-rank warrior, Andrew's aura steadily suppressed the ghost-striped soldier ants, and with a butcher's ax to cut a bloody path, he rushed into the cave in the mountainside again.

In the center of the cave is an ant nest with countless human bones piled up, and the ghost pattern worker ants have not had time to remove all the eggs in the nest.

In addition, there are four ghost pattern male ants that have been sucked into empty shells in the ant nest, and their huge bodies are like statues guarding the nest.

These white fraternal eggs have light green circular markings on the surface, and each one looks very narrow and long.

Andrew rushed into the ant colony to kill randomly, broke through the formation of ghost-striped soldier ants, and forced the soldier ants to keep retreating to protect the huge ant nest.

The cavalry that kept rushing in not only surrounded the ghost-striped soldier ants, but also surrounded the ghost-striped worker ants who were busy transferring their eggs. Under the volley of crossbow shooters, the ant nest in the cave was completely overturned.

The karst caves on the mountainside extend in all directions. Even if the ghost-striped red ants left some traces of evacuation along the way, Suldak saw that there were no survivors here. After cleaning up the battlefield and taking away all the spoils, he led a group of knights to retreat to Prentus On the ground of the town, people were sent to block the excavated cave and the basement of the temple with masonry mud.

Chapter 808 Return to Dodan Town

The three commanders, Suldak, Intas, and Hampton, sent troops to garrison the city wall at the pass of Prantos Town to defend against the ghost-striped red ants pouring out from the mountain pass in the north.

It was the afternoon of the second day after the town of Plantos was captured.

The heavy armored infantry regiment and the baggage regiment that were subsequently reinforced by the Luthor Legion rushed to the town of Plantos one after another, accompanied by the armed guards of the local lords of Wilkes City.

When these large groups of people arrived, Suldak was cooperating with Chester Great Swordsman to wipe out the last ant colony.

At that time, three thousand cavalry surrounded the group of red ants, and two thunder rhinos carried four bed crossbows on the periphery of the ant colony.

Samira stood on the platform, and manipulated the bed crossbow to aim at the ghost ant queen surrounded by male ants in the center of the ant colony.

This battle has already been won, and the only thing worth looking forward to is when it will end.

The Great Swordsman Chester had really seen the power of the two thunder rhinos of Suldak. Under the four bed crossbows firing furiously in turn, the group of red ants could only choose to break through at the last moment.

Cavalry on the vast grassland, of course, not afraid of the ants dispersing.

After the cavalry team dispersed the soldier ants, they began the final work of collecting the nets. Almost all the ghost-pattern soldier ants were hunted down, and the queen ant did not escape the fate of being pierced by a giant crossbow bolt in the end.

According to Commander Intas, the queen's ability is to control the mind and illusion, and to control the ant colony.Once you get too close to the queen ant, it is easy to be pulled into the illusion by it.

Even a strong man like the great swordsman Chester couldn't crack the illusion created by the queen ant.

At this time, the power of the bed crossbow at the outermost edge of the battlefield was highlighted.

Under Samira's control, he quickly shot and killed the queen ant.

At this moment, the town of Prentos has long been turned into a dead town. The only good news is that the entrance of the ant swarm to the south has been blocked.

In addition to the follow-up garrison of Prantos Town, what worries Suldak the most is the underground cave in the town. The queen ant that has completed mating hid in the depths of the cave. It is difficult to say when it will lead the ant colony. Comeback.

After the follow-up troops arrived one after another, the Great Swordsmen of Chester needed to stay in Prantos Town to garrison, while the rest of the cavalry battalions rushed back to their respective garrisons.

Suldak led [-] cavalry, loaded with spoils, and returned to Dodan with two Thunder Rhinos.

This battle in Plantos Town lasted for a week. After the cavalry team came back, when they passed through the block of Dodan Town, the residents of the town lined up on both sides of the road to welcome them. Suldak seemed to see Nika in the crowd. figure.

When I returned to the town, I found that the expansion of the military camp had been completed, and the wooden houses in the military camp had also been built. Currently, the craftsmen are leveling the yard, and the military camp will have an independent shooting range.

Adams was still stationed on the north city wall, and he couldn't escape right now.

The two-headed ogre Gullitum was fast asleep in the camp's awning. If he hadn't heard the heavy footsteps like thunder and rhino drums, he probably wouldn't have woken up.

When he found out that it was Suldak's cavalry battalion returning to the camp, Gulitum ran out of the barracks barefoot, and Suldak heard him shouting loudly from a distance: "Suldak, come back!" La……"

"I said you should put on your shoes, and it's still too late to run here. You should also pay attention to your words and deeds. In the future, we will return to the tribe to find a wife!" Another head on the shoulder chattered to Gulitum along the way. nagging.

Gulitum smiled foolishly, he didn't care about his good brother preaching beside him, ran up to Suldak, stretched out his hands and pressed Suldak's shoulders.

On the contrary, his good brother Naohuaer stared at Andrew with a pair of icy eyes and a strange expression on his face.

Then he whispered in Gulitum's ear: "That person seems to have been promoted to the second rank. Hey, do you feel it? Such a strong breath..."

Gullitum looked back at Andrew. Andrew jumped off his horse and strode up to the ogre. Andrew said: "You really have become stronger!"

"It's really good luck this time!" Andrew laughed loudly.

……

Suldak returned to the military camp in Dodan Town, and the first thing he did when he returned to the small building was to count the spoils.

This trip to Prentos Town, generally speaking, it has won several consecutive victories, but the spoils brought back are not many, only a few bags of magic cores, and seventeen pieces from the legs of the giant ghost pattern soldier ant life magic pattern.

Since there was no pit for acid rot, the soldier ant leather could not be brought back.

And the heads of those ghost pattern soldier ants were almost used up on the spot, so there was almost nothing left.

On the contrary, more than 1000 two hundred magic cores have been collected, and at least six hundred magic crystals can be opened.

There are also a large number of magic spar fragments, but that thing is not very valuable.

The life magic patterns of the [-] giant ghost pattern soldier ants are also a lot of income. It is estimated that Suldak also earned some military merits from Chester Great Swordsman.

Many magic cores were still stained with dirty blood, and all the pockets had a faint smell, which made Suldak lose interest in counting the numbers.

Suldak was about to climb up the north city wall to inspect around, when he heard the guards at the gate running in to report: "Commander, Malakom, the owner of the Thunder Rhino Merchant Group, begs to see you!"

"Ask him to come in!" Suldak said immediately.

After finishing speaking, he went to the kitchen to boil water, and he couldn't even have a glass of water when guests came.

……

The Malakom merchant was brought to the front of the small building of the garrison camp by the guards at the gate. The guards opened the door and invited Malakom to enter, and then returned to the gate of the barracks to continue to stand guard.

When the businessman walked into the living room of the small building, he saw a few smelly linen bags piled up on the coffee table, and one of them untied the pockets to reveal a few walnut-sized magic cores. The color of the skin was Malacomb's. Knowing that these magic cores should be taken from the ghost-striped soldier ants, they still have the unique sour smell of ghost-striped red ants, and the color is not bad.

He stood in the living room and waited for a while before he saw Surdak come out of the kitchen with a tea tray.

"Baron Suldak, good afternoon!" Malakom greeted.

Suldak waved his hand and asked the owner of the Thunder Rhino Merchant Group to sit down before asking him: "Malakom merchant, you came back from Wilkes so soon, those magic weapons and one-piece magic pattern constructions are all ready. Yet?"

"Yes, when I made the list, they were basically selected from various trading houses. So many types of magic weapons and single-piece magic pattern constructions are not all items in my warehouse." Ma Lacombe sat down and said with a smile. "I heard that your trip to Plantos Town went well this time?"

"For the town of Prentos, it may be considered a moderate disaster, but fortunately, the pass has been recaptured by us!"

Suldak said while pouring tea for Malakom.

Then he asked the Malakom merchant again: "Is it convenient for me to see the goods you brought?"