Chapter 58 Trouble bug
The place where Arthur and the others fell happened to be an ant mountain.
Joan was so scared that she directly activated the flying ring to escape from a distance. Shino grabbed Arthur and Alia with one hand and flew up. When Spence left, she brought the elf Oli with her.
It was only after a few people left that they could see clearly that the insects called tooth-eating ants by the elves were as big as kittens raised by human race, gray-brown, with a hard shell and giant jaw, and were covered with sharp tooth-eating sucking ants.
Countless brown tooth-eating ants stacked together to form an ant mountain. The ant mountain rose little by little at a speed visible to the naked eye and gradually reached the height of the floating roots.
The ants of the tooth-eating ants climbed onto the roots of the Elf Mother Tree in this way. The thick roots were quickly crawled over by the tooth-eating ants, and then they began to bite the roots desperately. The light green protective magic was useless to these tooth-eating ants.
The elves tree, which is regarded as mother and god by the elves, cannot withstand the constant biting of these small insects. The energy-filled roots are bitten open and chopped by sharp teeth. Moreover, the tooth-eating ants will not swallow the root fragments that are bitten by them on the spot, but let them fall down.
So a burst of green snowflakes fell in the air.
The toothed ants on the ground held up and landed fragments and dragged them back to the underground ant nest. With strict division of labor and cooperation, the toothed ants maintained almost the same organizational structure as the ordinary ant colony on the ground.
If the tooth-eating ants are allowed to swallow continuously, in just one day, this ant mountain can completely swallow the part of the huge root exposed to the soil of the Elf Mother Tree.
Of course, as long as a period of time is spent, the eaten root of the Elf Mother Tree will grow again.
While raising elves, the Elf Mother Tree also feeds these insects, all for the purpose of competing for the resources to survive. There is no question of who is right or wrong?
Arthur and the others were completely stunned by the scene in front of them!
"Is this what you elves say is numerous?" Arthur, who was carried by Sino, asked Oli loudly.
“Aren’t they many?”
Arthur was so angry that he wanted to curse people. This was definitely a verbal communication problem. The Ant Mountain in front of him could no longer be described as a large number, but a huge number!
What's more, not only the ant mountain in front of Arthur and his friends, but there are two ant mountain in the same size as the one in front of them.
"How did you do it before?"
Ollie replied in its original form: "We will send soldiers to clean up these insects every once in a while. As long as they are limited to their number and do not overflow, they will not pose a serious threat to their mothers. These damn guys cannot be killed at all. No matter how much we spend, they will reappear and form scale again after a while, which is nothing more than extending and delaying the time of forming scale."
Arthur asked, "Our mission this time is to clean up these insects for your elves again?"
Ollie nodded and said yes.
"Then let me try how powerful these little things are, right?" Qiong took the lead and threw out two bursting fireballs from afar.
The explosion fireball exploded on the Ant Mountain, and more than a dozen tooth-eating ants on the outermost side were killed and fell from the Ant Mountain. But these tooth-eating ants were just a drop in the ant mountain, and the elves' mission was never that simple.
The explosion of the fireball was not good, so Qiong began to quickly build a magic circle. As the fire magic quickly condensed and waved forward, a large fire cloud covered the Ant Mountain.
The level 6 "Fire Cloud Technique" is the strongest fire magic that Qiong has used with his own abilities.
The fire clouds rolled, and the ants mountain crackled constantly, and a bad smell of burnt came out.
The fire clouds burned out, the Ant Mountain was charred, and half of the mountain was burned flat.
But before Qiong could be happy, the entire ant mountain began to wriggle and was burned to death. The burnt toothed ants fell from the ant mountain. The toothed ants on the ground quickly replenished the ant mountain and soon returned to their previous state.
If you continue to fight according to this method, even if Qiong consumes his magic power, he will not be able to burn the ant mountain. The destructive power of the level 6 fire magician is obviously far from enough to fight these insects.
"You two stay away, I'll do it."
Shino put Arthur and Alia back on the ground and flew over the Ant Mountain again, and prepared a sword to slash out. A thick and condensed sword energy that was more than 30 meters long slashed towards the Ant Mountain.
Wherever the sword energy passed, all the tooth-eating ants were crushed into meat mud, and the entire ant mountain was split open by a sword and collapsed.
Although Shino destroyed the Ant Mountain with one sword, they actually stabbed the ant nest. After the Ant Mountain collapsed, it turned into a dense sea of ants. They quickly found the target of the attacker and rushed towards Shino and Qiong. Many of them even found Arthur standing further away.
These toothed ants raised their heads one by one and began to spray a light green liquid towards the Shino and the others in the air. Although each toothed ants sprayed very little liquid, thousands of toothed ants sprayed at the same time and turned into water arrows shot all over the sky.
Although Xino and the others didn't know what the tooth-eating ant was spraying, they did not dare to let a drop splash on them. While quickly raising the height, they released the body-protecting fighting spirit to resist, and Qiong next to them released a spinning fire shield.
The light green water arrow shot on Shino's fighting spirit and kept squeaking, quickly consuming Shino's fighting spirit and emitting a strong and pungent acidic smell. Qiong's fire shield was almost destroyed by the water arrow as soon as it was used.
Arthur was frightened by these corrosive water arrows, picked up Alia and ran away, and Shino and others had to fly high again.
When Shino and the others started to rise, the toothed ants began to stack again. However, this time it was not a huge ant mountain, but dozens of small but towering ant hills were piled up. This increased the height of the jet water arrows, and it was no longer a water arrow. The dense attacks in a small range made the water arrows more condensed, and it might be more appropriate to say that they were water cannons.
Shino and his friends almost flew to the top before they completely avoided the attack range of these water cannons.
Now even the warrior, Shino, began to have a headache in front of these little insects. It was almost impossible to eliminate them easily without paying a price!
Shino and the others could at least hide in the air. Arthur, who was running with Alia, had almost nowhere to run. The IQs of these tooth-eating ants almost caught up with the monsters, and they actually chased Arthur from several directions at the same time. The nearest one soon chased Arthur behind.
In desperation, Arthur waved a second-level "firewall technique" with one hand to block the pursuit of the tooth-eating ants, but these tooth-eating ants directly penetrated through the firewall with their hard shell.
Arthur was ruthless and set up a second and third firewall technique behind him. The tooth-eating ant still chose to penetrate it, but when he passed through the second one, there was a burnt smell coming from his body, and he finally fell into the third firewall.
The tooth-eating ant that rushed up from behind was still stubbornly choosing to penetrate the firewall.
Arthur suddenly had an idea and took out two barrels of strong wine from his bracelet and smashed it into the fire wall. The flames of the fire wall suddenly rose, and the flames spread out as the alcohol flowed. The toothed ants crawling into the flames could not crawl out again!
Arthur smiled. It seems that he has to rely on fire to deal with these little bugs!
Chapter completed!