Lord Highlander

In the dark night, the succubus Aphrodite and Suldak walked out of the small building one after the other.

The cavalry patrolled back and forth along the outskirts of the barracks. Since a ghost-striped male ant was tied up on the side of the small building, the guards here were even stricter, and the captain of the guard had to take a saber every once in a while to cut off the new growth of the ghost-striped male ant. outriggers.

The team leader who was on duty at night saw Surdak leading a lady out of the small building, and hurriedly saluted with the five cavalrymen of the team.

Aphrodite looked around with some novelty, even though it was night, it seemed that the night could not block her sight.

Suldak waved at them, and said, "I'm going to look for the weak point on this big guy later, it might irritate it, in order to prevent it from going mad and hurting others, you guys remember to stay away later."

The captain of the cavalry battalion hastily saluted Surdak again.

The cavalry of these cavalry battalions obediently ran to the torches and stood in a row, holding spears in their hands, swords around their waists, and shields behind their backs, looking at Surdak curiously.

Aphrodite stood beside Suldak quietly, her body became a little blurred in the darkness.

Although the succubus' wings were chopped off by her companions, causing her to lose most of her magic power, Aphrodite was still an excellent black magician. She took advantage of the night to slowly walk to the ghost-striped male ant.

The body of the ghost-striped male ant trembled instinctively. Its eyes grew on both sides of its head, so its field of vision was very wide. Except for the blind spot directly behind its body, it could not be seen even if it stood behind the side of the ghost-striped male ant. out of sight of it.

It’s just that this ghost-striped drone seems to have become much duller. In Suldak’s eyes, this ghost-striped drone is about the size of a six-meter box truck. Maybe it’s because of exhaustion. He didn't even bother to turn his head.

The cavalry of that team stood beside the ghost-striped male. No one dared to stand in front of the ghost-striped male. It always wanted to spit acid. Once it was sprayed with acid, even if it was washed immediately, the body would inevitably It will be burned into a large area of ​​redness. Once it is not cleaned for a long time, the situation will become very serious, and the skin will rot quickly.

Aphrodite walked over, looked up at the huge body of the ghost-striped male ant, and showed a confident expression to Suldak.

In the shocked eyes of the cavalrymen nearby, Aphrodite stepped up to the head of the ghost-striped male ant. The tip of the nearly one-meter-long giant pincers was just under Aphrodite's feet. She was standing in the mud with long leather boots. In the sour liquid, there is no fear of ghost pattern male ants.

At this time, the ghost-striped male ant finally had some reactions. It wanted to open its giant pincers towards Aphrodite. Those dark red compound eyes were full of Aphrodite's reflection, and its body finally began to twist slowly. move, trying to attack Aphrodite with the giant pincers.

The cavalry nearby took out their shields one after another, as if they planned to rush forward to rescue the woman once Aphrodite was bitten by the ghost-striped male ants.

These cavalrymen naturally admired Aphrodite's courage.

These cavalry followed Suldak out of the barren land, and many people knew that there was such a mysterious magician beside Suldak.

Aphrodite stretched out a slightly gray arm, and just before the ghost-striped male ant raised its head to attack her, a kind of endless darkness suddenly appeared in her pupils, and a shadow slowly appeared under her feet. A huge dark red magic pattern circle emerged from the ground, like a huge spider web, containing countless mysterious runes.

The ghost-striped male ant let out a rapid hissing sound, and it swung its huge head, as if it wanted to retreat.

Several chains are tied to the body, firmly nailing it in place.

The countless dark elements seemed to be condensed above Aphrodite's head, and then a huge black sphere emerged.

As Aphrodite chanted the mantra, the sphere became clearer in everyone's field of vision, and gradually the sphere took on the shape of an eyeball, and the membrane in front actually had a layer of eyelids, surrounded by countless blood vessels and nerves. The outer entanglement of the eyeball is intertwined.

The sound of the incantation ended, and the dark red magic pattern circle under Aphrodite's feet burst into a foot-high red light.

Moments later, the magic circle suddenly disappeared.

Aphrodite opened her hands slightly, and the one-meter-diameter eyeball on her head slowly opened her eyes.

As if there was some kind of mysterious power in that eyeball, the ghost-striped male ant was instantly attracted by the eyeball, and its head slowly straightened along with the eyeball.

A beam of gray light was emitted from the eyeballs, and the ghost-striped male ant fell into a deep sleep with almost no ability to struggle.

"It's asleep, even if you split its head with an axe, you won't wake it up." Aphrodite took a few steps forward and stood at the oval compound eyes that were bigger than the dinner plate. After careful observation, he said to Suldak.

Hearing what Aphrodite said, Suldak couldn't wait to ask the cavalry to move the ladder over, put it on the side of the ghost-striped drone, climbed up the ladder to the back of the ghost-striped drone, and stepped on the hard rock on the back. Carapace, looking for its Achilles' heel near the head of the ghost-striped drone.

The back of the ghost-striped drone is covered with all kinds of sharp thorns. When Suldak stepped on it, he needed to be very careful to avoid those sharp thorns.

Suldak discovered that the hard carapace on the head of the ghost-striped male ant is extremely hard, even if the blood red crescent is injected with a little power of holy light, it cannot cut through the hard skull.

Although this was expected, Suldak still took a deep breath when he saw that the sharp blood-red crescent could hardly scratch any marks on the hard armor.

He looked for weak points in the joints of the skull and chest of the ghost-striped male ant, but unfortunately the locations he found were almost all hidden deep in the gaps in the exoskeleton.

Aphrodite walked along the giant tongs of the ghost-striped male to the skull, squatted down next to a huge armor piece on the back of the ghost-striped male's head, and stretched out her hand to lift off this somewhat thin armor. "This is the male ant's greatest weakness," said Erdak.

After speaking, she took out a dark dagger.

The edge of the armor plate looks the same as the surrounding, but the dagger can cut along the edge of the armor plate without hindrance,

She lifted the armor sheet and asked Surdak to look inside.

Suldak took out the holy light torch from his magic pocket, the flame core of the holy light torch emitted a blazing white light, and the situation inside the armor piece was also clearly visible. A light gray brain-like substance was clearly seen.

"This is the central brain of the ghost pattern soldier ant." Aphrodite introduced to Suldak.

"Even if you don't kill it now, it may not live for long. Losing the control of the queen ant is like tearing up the contract unilaterally. Its brain is already necrotic. This is the curse of the God of Magic. "

Aphrodite pulled out Suldak's saber, stabbed it in and stirred it casually.

The body of the ghost-striped male trembled convulsively, and it didn't take long for it to completely paralyze in the field. The vitality of the ghost-striped male's body weakened little by little, and the thick layer of armor covering its body, as the breath of life weakened, unexpectedly also disappeared. fall off.

Aphrodite took out a handkerchief, wiped off the sticky matter on the Blood Red Crescent blade, and then inserted it back into the scabbard at Suldak's waist.

Then he wiped his hands in disgust, and stood on the hard head of the ghost pattern male ant.

"Although this thing can be regarded as a monster in the hell world at the peak of the second level, but because it is extremely bulky and has no destructive means of attack, it is easy to deal with it alone. Just be careful not to let them slip into the ground. It's easy to deal with." Aphrodite said as she bent down and supported the ladder while walking down.

"These ghost-striped male ants are always mixed in the ant colony, and they rarely move alone. They often gather around the queen and are the closest guards around the ghost-striped queen." Aphrodite continued: "Usually only the generals Ants and worker ants must be disposed of before they have a chance to be hunted."

Suldak followed behind Aphrodite, listening quietly.

Aphrodite shook her dark purple hair when the night wind blew, walked back to the small building, and sat down on the sofa in the dark living room.

Suldak conveniently lit the candles on the table next to him.

Aphrodite said: "In the realm of hell, the crypt demons like to eat this kind of ghost-striped red ants the most, just like the people here raise cattle and sheep. They often raise ghost-striped red ants in enclosures. Demon hunting ghost-patterned red ants is to hunt and kill those soldier ants that are worthless in the ant colony. Worker ants are the builders of the red ant empire, and soldier ants are the guardians of the red ant empire. The biggest mission of the ghost-patterned male ants It is to mate with the queen ant, and after mating, the queen ant will also absorb the body essence of the male ant, so that more high-quality fraternal eggs can be born."

"Once the ghost-striped male ant grows up, it will basically follow the queen for the rest of its life."

"They usually hide in the deepest part of the ant nest, and you can see ghost-striped males and queens outside the ant nest, which means that this ant nest has reached a cycle node that can be expanded outwards. There are a huge number of ghost-striped reds in the ant nest. Ants are born, because the resources around the ant nest cannot satisfy these ghostly red ants, they need to expand outward quickly and establish a new red ant empire, so that such an ant swarm can be formed."

"This situation is very common in the hell world..."

Suldak asked earnestly, "How did you defeat this beast horde?"

Aphrodite thought for a while before saying: "The easiest way is to kill the queen ant. Once the queen ant dies, they will become a mess of loose sand. Before there is no new queen ant to take over, they have no clear purpose and will only rely on Instinct to survive."

Surdak said in surprise: "Kill the queens? They are under the protection of the ghost-striped drones all day long, how can we kill them!"

Aphrodite frowned and thought for a moment, then narrowed her eyes and said:

"The new queens are born with wings, but these wings fall off when the queen mates and lays eggs."

"Before the establishment of a new red ant empire, queen ants will never easily mate with male ants to lay eggs in order to maintain the ability to fly."

"The worker ants and soldier ants in the ant colony are born for the red ant empire. They usually obey the queen's instructions unconditionally, but they cannot tolerate the long-term non-reproduction of the queen."

"Since opening up a new red ant empire, since they choose to go south through this canyon, once they can't attack the Dodan Canyon for a long time, the queen ants are destined to put all their eggs in one basket to suppress the army of ant colonies, and when their rear is empty, it will be our sneak attack Best time."

Suldak wanted to take a closer look to see if those ant queens were really what Aphrodite said.

A series of explosions sounded from the north city wall. It was a catapult throwing gunpowder outside the city.

Since Andrew, Samira, and Gulitum were all guarding the city wall, Suldak was not in a hurry to inspect the city wall at night. He now needed to peel off the life magic pattern on the ghost-striped male ant.

The ghost pattern drone is too big, and the hard armor is difficult to handle, and it will take a lot of time.

At night, several corpses of giant ghost-striped soldier ants were sent to the barracks one after another. The soldiers responsible for transporting the giant ghost-striped soldier ants reported to Suldak: the current battle situation on the city wall is still stable.

Suldak didn't rush to the city wall to check the results of the battle.

Aphrodite waited until the last moment before stepping through the void gate and returning to Pustule Mountain.

It was also very troublesome to deal with this ghost-striped male ant. Suldak didn't completely peel off the life magic pattern until dawn.

This life magic pattern is very large, and the cut leather is as big as a double bed on the floor. Even if the leather with life magic pattern is refined, it is not suitable for magic pattern breeding clothing.

...

When it was almost dawn, a group of wounded soldiers were withdrawn from the city wall.

Suldak had just finished dealing with the life magic pattern on the ghost-striped drone, and was squatting on the ghost-striped drone's back, cleaning off the fallen armor, when he heard two veterans rushing into the camp carrying a stretcher.

A veteran was lying on a stretcher covered in blood. His left leg was cut off half a foot above his knee. Although the wound on the broken leg was tied up with a rope, the blood kept gushing out. The veteran howled in pain.

The broken leg was held under the arm of the veteran carrying the stretcher.

Suldak hurriedly jumped off the back of the ghost pattern drone, pointed to the door of the small building, and motioned for the veterans carrying the stretcher to carry the wounded into the small building's consultation room.

Blood flowed all the way, and Surdak followed behind.

The pain distorted the veteran's face, but Suldak still recognized him.

He is a veteran in the cavalry battalion. He was promoted to a first-rank soldier a few days ago and became the captain of the first squadron of the third squadron of the cavalry battalion.

Walking into the treatment room transformed from the guest room, Surdak lit the holy torch and placed it beside the bed.

A cloud of holy light condensed in the palm of his hand landed on the wound of the veteran's broken leg. The wound was stained with some sour liquid. Judging from the broken stubble of the wound, it was obviously cut by the red ants' giant pincers.

Suldak ordered two other stretcher-carrying veterans to tie him to the bed, and then let the two veterans leave.

Opened the sacrificial altar, and then sacrificed the head of a moonblade fire wolf, so that the veteran would first have the blessing of God with the "Divine Blessed Body", and then held the pale broken leg in his hand, bowed his head and meditated for a while , Think about how to connect this broken leg.

The cross-section of the wound on the broken leg was a bit large. Even if the broken leg was re-sewed to the left leg, it would probably be difficult to heal.

Suldak patted the veteran's cheek hard, and asked the veteran, "Do you want to keep your leg?"

Enduring the severe pain, the veteran nodded vigorously.

Suldak directly pulled out a magic sealing box from his magic pocket, threw it on the floor with a bang, took out a power-type life magic pattern from it, shook it in front of the veteran, and said to him: "Then we will Take a bet, you will owe me a lot of money if you succeed or not, and you may have to repay it for a long time..."

This time it was a bold attempt by Suldak...

Because he knew that even with the blessing effect of the 'Divine Blessed Body', it would be difficult for the veteran's broken leg to be reattached.

He thought of the ritual of implanting the magic-weave implant. Although the ritual is to perfectly integrate the implant with the body of the caster, it can also be regarded as another form of treatment, and this life magic-weave needs to be used as a Bridges, linking broken legs together.

The ceremony lasted for nearly an hour. The veteran was tied up on the hospital bed, woke up in pain and then passed out. This was repeated several times until someone lifted him out of the hospital bed.

The veteran's injured leg was bandaged by Nika who rushed to the small building in the morning. Suldak didn't have time to deal with such trivial matters, and there were many wounded soldiers waiting for his treatment outside.

Before the veteran was carried out of the ward, Suldak asked him: "Whether you can succeed or not depends on how well you recover and integrate in the past three days...By the way, what's your name?"

"...My name is Hudson, Commander!" the veteran said weakly.

gone tonight