"boom!"
A fireball exploded, scorching a large area of ants, but immediately after, the ant corpse was trampled under the feet of other ants, and new ants rushed in one after another.
"brush!"
A wind blade flew out, crushing a line of ants, but within a few seconds the ants on both sides closed together in the middle and returned to normal.
"Boohoo!"
"Boom boom boom!"
Richard condensed a dozen blood spears and shot them at the center of the ant colony. They exploded quickly and attached a large amount of corrosive energy to the ants, taking away their lives. However, it did not disrupt the ant formation, and with just a few breaths, the gaps were filled.
After Li Cha looked at it, he couldn't help but frown. He noticed that the number of ants was indeed huge, so huge that he could use the ant sea tactic to fight them regardless of death. And the other party is not blindly consuming, but is using these dead lives extremely efficiently.
For example, in the face of spell attacks from people like them, many ants will jump up and trigger the spell in advance before the spell hits the surface of the ant colony. In this way, although the leaping ant will die, it will reduce the damage to its companions.
This is simply biological grid armor.
As a result, although the power of the spell cannot be completely eliminated, it is greatly reduced. If it falls on the other ants, it was originally expected to cause ten damage, but now it will cause at most five, or even three damage. What's even more shocking is that ants that have been injured and disabled will take the initiative to face the next spell and die. If you die once, you will not succeed twice. If you fail twice, you will not succeed three times. You will not rest until you die and maximize your own value.
For example, during a battle, there is no big difference between a soldier being stabbed once and being stabbed twice. Both will lose their combat effectiveness. But now the ant colony is choosing to let every ant stab itself with countless knives before dying.
Each individual ant is no longer a simple life, but a tool, a tool that pursues the highest utilization rate.
Richard somewhat understood what Jasmine said before, what it felt like to fight an army. This was simply the most terrifying army.
"Boom!"
With a wave of his hand, Richard blasted out dozens of blood spears with all his strength, clearing away a large swarm of ants that came forward, causing the offensive to stagnate slightly.
But it was only a lag. The subsequent ants did not panic, reorganized their attack, and consciously relaxed, so that the attack effect of the blood spear was weakened.
On the other side, Jasmine and her group also fired spells, causing a large number of casualties to the ant colony. However, they continued to retreat under the attacks of subsequent attacking ants.
"Damn ants!"
Sorcerer Su got angry, jumped up suddenly, recited a spell in mid-air, and prepared a large-scale spell.
As soon as she left the ground, the noticed ants gathered fire, and thousands of acid balls flew towards her. The acid blob looked small in size, but it was extremely corrosive. The protective energy film on the surface of Su's body could not completely defend it, and it fluctuated constantly, looking like it would burst at any time.
Before he finished reciting a spell, Su fell to the ground in a panic, feeling a little resentful and unwilling. However, under the crazy offensive of the ants, he and the others had to retreat back again.
At this time, the group of people had retreated to the edge of the gray highland. If they retreated further, they would leave the highland.
Jasmine obviously didn't want to repeat the last experience. While ordering her men to hold on, she looked at Richard and shouted, "Do you have any solution?"
After hearing this, Richard pondered, squinting at the ants coming in like a tide and lost in thought.
What Jasmine said before was correct. A single ant is not difficult to deal with, and the same goes for hundreds or thousands of ants. One or several spells can always clean it out, but things like this are terrifying.
Simply because the quantity is large, it is still acceptable. After all, no matter how many there are without coordination, they are just a piece of loose sand that can be worn down by a few opportunistic ways.
For example, use earth magic to build several narrow passages under the high ground to lure ant colonies in. In this way, on the one hand, it can disperse the opponent's strength, and on the other hand, it can lengthen the opponent's front line, preventing the opponent from exerting its full combat power. It can attack at the end of the channel with greatly reduced pressure, and slowly reduce the opponent's number.
But according to the decisive reaction of the opponent when the sorcerer Su just left the ground, the opponent immediately focused his fire, I am afraid that the opponent will not cooperate at all. If a narrow channel is really established, it will not be entered, but will be bulldozed directly.
This is an army, a real army with brains. He will not attack randomly and stupidly, but will use various rational responses according to the situation, and always maintain combat effectiveness.
From this perspective, what is really scary about the other party is their brains and their wisdom.
Only by destroying this wisdom can the other party be eliminated.
What is the source of wisdom
The opponent's body is indeed much larger than that of ordinary ants, but the brain capacity does not guarantee that each individual has human-like intelligence.
No matter how smart someone is, they can't cooperate in such a tacit understanding.
According to logical speculation, the other party should have a control hub, maybe more than one. After all, the number of ant colonies is too huge.
It is very likely that the opponent has a top-down, multi-layered control system, so that they can adjust, change, coordinate and launch attacks so flexibly.
So…
Richard's eyes flashed with a faint blue light, he turned on the perspective function of the Gazing Eye, and suddenly stared at a position below the thick ant colony.
"Swish, swish, swish!"
Golden light flashed three times on the surface of Richard's skin, and a large amount of energy enveloped his body, activating the "Third Armor" state.
"Snapped!"
With a step of his foot, Richard jumped up and crashed into the ant colony. He punched hard, and the golden light exploded from the fist, shattering the bodies of many ants.
A fist-sized purple ant was exposed among the ant corpses. The opponent has a very weird appearance, with a huge head that takes up half of the body, but its six legs are extremely weak and cannot move on its own. It must be carried by a group of other ants.
After being exposed, the purple ant became slightly panicked and its tentacles swayed continuously. The ant under it seemed to have received a signal and quickly hid behind it while holding it.
Naturally, Richard would not let the opponent succeed. He blasted out a fourth-level magic-level blood spear, directly blowing the opponent to pieces and also destroying the ants within several meters of him.
At the moment of elimination, the ants more than ten meters away all stagnated, as if they were frozen. Soon the ants returned to normal. Richard noticed this and smiled.
Sure enough... There is a control hub within the ant colony that is responsible for command and dispatch... Once the control hub is destroyed, it will directly affect the action of the ant colony... Of course, there is not just one hub. If one is destroyed, it will be quickly taken over and replaced by the other hubs. It's harmless... but destroying several, or even nearly destroying them all, should be irreparable.
Richard's eyes narrowed, and he suddenly turned his head to look at a position in the ant colony twenty meters away.
"Swipe!"
On the surface of the skin, golden light flashed twice, and new energy covered the body to supplement the damage caused by the ant acid. Then Richard flew over, landed suddenly, and cast a spell to blast away the protecting ants, revealing another large purple-headed ant, which he killed mercilessly with a blood spear.
"Boom boom boom!"
Next, Richard's eyes flashed with blue light, and he kept scanning the surroundings, naming the control hubs that eliminated the ant colony.
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