Looking at Ramtas' actions, Paul hesitated for a moment. He was obviously worried about his metal puppet, but Sheyan only said two words.
"A long night may bring trouble." “
Paul immediately realised that it would not be a good thing if the battle dragged on for too long. Once Hedi Curry and the others, who appeared to be in harmony but were actually at odds with each other, they would really go crazy.
So, he gritted his teeth and sent the metal war puppet whose core was damaged to the point that it stood in front of Aldaris as the second line of defence. The ant queen, who was roaring in pain, noticed Aldaris, who was standing motionless in the distance, and immediately charged towards him. The ant queen's attack lacked speed, but when it charged, it had the momentum of a train that had gone out of control!
However, the attack of the Archon illusion behind it was even fiercer than before. Almost every blow would cause a large amount of flesh and blood to splatter everywhere. Terrifying white electric snakes surged in the air, and there was even a smell of burnt meat in the air.
Ramtas waved its staff and blocked the ant queen's forelimbs, but its disadvantage in strength was immediately apparent. It was forced to stagger back a step, but right after that, Ramtas waved its staff again. The heavy metal head smashed into the ant queen's head.
This blow was very insidious and vicious, because the spot Ramtas chose to attack was exactly the same spot that the metal war puppet, Hercules, had attacked earlier! The old wound was hit hard again. Its carapace instantly shattered, and a large amount of milky white liquid that looked similar to brain matter spurted out from the wound!
The ant queen screamed miserably. Under the torment of pain, its tiny universe erupted. Its two forelimbs stabbed out strangely and pierced through Ramtas' chest. It was about to tear Ramtas apart, but the 'Nature's Grasp' seed hovering around Ramtas had already taken effect. It exploded with a bang, and a large number of roots grew out of the ground to bind the ant queen!
Although the ant queen broke free from the effect of the 'Nature's Grasp' in an instant, Ramtas endured the intense pain and took a few steps back to get out of the ant queen's attack range.
The ant queen, who had just recovered, was about to charge forward again when it saw the metal war puppet in front of it. The puppet mercilessly raised its heavy battering ram. The unforgettable memory of pain immediately made it hesitate.
So, when the ant queen knocked Hercules away again, Aldaris had gained enough time to spit out the last merciless syllable from his lips! Then, he put his hands on his chest, his feet left the ground and floated up. He bowed deeply.
The next second, the illusion of the Archon on the ant queen's back retracted into the slender rapier like a whale sucking in water, and exploded!
White electric currents splashed in all directions, and the residual power of the explosion could reach as far as five or six meters away. A huge pit of flesh and blood two meters in diameter and one meter deep was blasted out of the ant queen's back. Probably because several of the ant queen's main blood vessels had ruptured in an instant, a large amount of body fluid filled the pit almost instantly. This was definitely a fatal attack.
Paul also made his move at this moment. He raised his hands high in the air. This action looked very strange, as if he was surrendering. Coupled with Paul's thin body, it even looked a little ridiculous.
However, his ten fingers suddenly shone with a yellow and sharp light. Metal began to gather at the tips of his ten fingers from all directions. Then, they formed ten small balls that slowly rotated!
Then, Paul aimed his ten fingers at the ant queen in the distance. The ten small metal balls in front of his fingertips shot out at high speed like bullets, accurately piercing into the ant queen's wound. Then, the power bound to the metal balls suddenly exploded! Tens of thousands of tiny pieces of metal exploded inside the ant queen's body. One could easily imagine the terrifying damage it caused.
The ant queen, who had suffered heavy injuries in succession, finally became weak. It began to fall into a futile and blind rage, but power without reason and wisdom was ultimately futile, especially when the ant queen no longer had the explosive power provided by its wings.
Although the trio were anxious during the fight, they still had enough patience to slowly chip away at the tenacious life force of the ant queen. Even so, it took them nearly half an hour before the ant queen finally collapsed unwillingly with a wail and a large amount of green liquid spurting out of its mouth!
It was only now that Party Ace had a very intuitive evaluation of the creatures in this world. That is, they indeed needed the strength of a collective to survive safely.
Take the ant queen of the One-Horned Flying Ant they killed as an example. There were actually quite a lot of accidental factors that contributed to its death.
First of all, the ant queen's most powerful ability was not fighting, but reproducing. In fact, the most powerful combat force of the entire One-Horned Flying Ant colony was when there were more than ten combat males. The terrifying venom they sprayed out could instantly reduce the enemy's defence to negative numbers, making the enemy as vulnerable as a newborn baby. The actual damage caused by each attack of the combat males on the target would even exceed the damage caused by the previous critical hit!!!
Secondly, hunger had already eroded most of the ant queen's physical strength before the battle started.
The ant queen had even bitten off a part of its body to separate itself from the cumbersome egg sac, but it had paid a huge price.
Finally, the ant queen still had to fight against Party Ace outside the nest!!
With these four factors added together, objectively speaking, the ant queen's combat strength was only 60% of its peak, and it was not a creature that specialized in combat. Even so, it still managed to force Party Ace into a corner.
Then, one could imagine how ferocious those creatures who occupied a certain territory on this planet with their own strength would be.
Party Ace could not help but think of the mysterious creature that tore the wolverine apart with its bare hands, the creature that even Ramtas instinctively feared!!
After killing the ant queen, they went to search the ant nest again. They finally found that the battle was not in vain. Apart from obtaining a few unknown mysterious items that could be exchanged for at least 30 achievement points in total, their biggest gain was a total of eight pieces of high-purity Pi ores. The eight pieces of high-purity Pi ores were probably discovered by the worker ants when they were digging underground, and the powerful stones were stored away by the worker ants.
Of course, the ant queen's corpse was also a precious treasure. Party Ace left behind some cyborgs who were proficient in this field to take care of it.
But after Party Ace conducted a thorough search of the ant nest, an embarrassing incident occurred. Ramtas, who had been seriously injured in the battle, unleashed the gluttonous nature of a wild boar and crazily attacked the ant queen's corpse. No, to be precise, it ate it.
Obviously, the cyborgs could not stop it with their abilities, or rather, they had no intention of doing so. Sheyan was very apologetic about this matter. He checked the offline database of the cyborgs, then marked the price of several precious organs of the ant queen on the Universe Treasure Net. He then announced that he would give up all rights to the unknown mysterious items and Pi ores that he had discovered.
Aldaris and Sheyan were on the same side, so they naturally would not haggle over these things. Paul, on the other hand, looked at the data listed by Sheyan. After making some calculations in his mind, he immediately found that such a distribution plan was actually more beneficial to him, so he immediately agreed after a few polite words.
Meanwhile, Sheyan was staring at his crushing extractor with rapt attention, trying to see how much high-purity Pi element he could obtain. To put it simply, in the Empire, Pi element was 100% hard currency, just like gold was the most reliable form of wealth during the chaos of war on Old Earth.
Sheyan naturally took over the corpse of the half-eaten ant queen. Admittedly, in terms of surface value, it was a loss for him to give up the right to distribute the rest of the loot in exchange for this corpse that would not drop a key. He would have lost at least 10,000 utility points, but for Sheyan, in a sense, he had made a huge profit.
Because when Sheyan approached the ant queen, the liquid metal life-form started to react, as if there was something it longed for in the ant queen. In particular, when Sheyan stabbed the saber into the ant queen's body, the throbbing of the liquid metal life-form rose to its peak.
Sheyan could also feel that Ramtas was also very eager for the ant queen's genes, so he would rather lose a little more to obtain the ant queen's corpse. He was not worried that Ramtas' Gluttony would "accidentally hurt" what the liquid metal life-form wanted, because there was no doubt that most of the things that the liquid metal life-form was interested in were metallic substances.
After rummaging around for a while, Sheyan finally got what he wanted. It was a light green stone growing in the ant queen's brain. The metal content in the stone was quite high. It felt quite heavy in Sheyan's hand. The liquid metal life-form had quietly dissolved into a pool of liquid silvery-white "lotus leaf", which then wrapped around the light green stone.
A crackling sound came from inside, as if something was being fried in a pan of oil. A large amount of slag was squeezed out. Sheyan then received a notification from the nightmare imprint:
[Silver Mission Series Hidden Branch, Chapter 2: Injection. Obtained an important mission item, the ant queen's pineal gland.]
[Mission Description: The liquid metal life-form has absorbed a strange metal composition. It feels that the composition will be of great help to its growth.]
[Hint: Your liquid metal life-form has grown. Mission completion rate increased by 33%. Please continue to look for Lacrimal Stones or similar items to increase the completion rate. The better the completion rate, the better the reward you will receive.] If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for it at qidian.com. Your support is my greatest motivation.]
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