Ants had poor eyesight but made up for it with their antenna that help them sense vibrations in the air, taste, smell, touch, and communicate with other ants.
There was no difference in day and night time for them, but it wasn't the same for the team. By the time they were done with the shelter, it was quite dark and since fighting then was disadvantageous, Blake decided it was best to do some scouting.
"I going to scout the routes for the ant. I will be back soon." Blake said to Beyoni and Ansgar who were the first set of night watchers, but that was when a hand touched him on his shoulder.
"It would be best if I come with you." Damon said to Blake.
"Alright." Without a thought, Blake agreed to the request because he knew how helpful his stealth skills were.
"Be careful out there and try not to lure anything to us." Beyoni said to both of them as he made a space in the water barrier for them to leave.
Ants of Infinite realm were sensitive to mana, that was why there were 2 people standing guard instead of using the mirror spells.
Once they were out, Damon cast Darkbringer on both of them before they began moving. The good thing was that ants never stopped working no matter the time.
Right from the entrance close to their shelter, under Blake's command, the system made a map as they followed one of many trails of ants that had branched out from the tunnel.
It turned out that the ant scouts were sent to the area to scavenge for food and other beasts were kill by a sklade, but one of them had managed to escape.
When the battalion of ants arrived at the scene, it was still munching on the dead bodies of the ants. Having their eyes on the target, the ants attacked the sklade. The elite sklade fought bravely killing 3 ants, but soon it began getting tired leading to deep injuries.
Seeing that there was no way for it to win the fight, it planned on fleeing but by then it was already too late.
The army of ants had surrounded the sklade and in a matter of minutes, its entire body was covered with ants.
"Lesson learned, never let an ant escape." Blake said in a hushed tone.
"And if one was to escape never remain in the same position." Damon said.
They watched as the ants tore the corpse into smaller chunks with their mandibles before carrying them back to the hive.
'I wonder what they do with the beast's core?' Blake thought.
[Every beast core gotten is sent to the queen to absorb.] The system said.
After they had followed back the ants to the hive, they went in search of all the entrances to the hive. In total, they found 5 entrances, and after making sure there was none they decided to follow another batch of ants, but it turned out they were on a scavenging mission.
By the time they had returned it was their time to stand guard while the others slept.
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The next day, after breakfast, the team was up and ready to start hunting, but first, he had to explain the plan he had come up with.
After seeing how the Sklade was killed the previous day, Blake had decided to divide the team into 3 groups.
His plan required them to follow a trail of ants then when they were quite a distance away from the hive they would block their path of retreat and kill them all.
The first group consisted of 3 and were to start the attack, while the second group which had 2 persons were in charge of setting a barricade and start killing from behind to prevent anyone from escaping or back up from joining up.
The last person was meant to be quite a distance away in case one managed to get past the barrier. His job was to kill any escapees and to also warn them if they had company.
The 1st and 2nd groups were where the main fun was. So to make it fair for everyone, Blake decided to evenly share any rewards they got and to also rotate those to take the position.
"If that is clear, then let's move out." When Blake was done with his explanation, Damon cast Darkbringer on all of them.
They waited directly above the entrance looking for an ant group that wasn't too large or too small. Finally, after 10 minutes, they found a group of 30 elite-rank ants.
The team quietly trailed the group of ants and once they were a safe distance away from the hive, Blake gave the sign to Ansgar and Kade.
Earth Eruption!
Immediately 2 layers of earth walls stretching over 20 meters erupted from behind the ants, Blake, Sach, and Damon started raining down spells on them as they jumped down.
Flame burst!
Lightning bolt!
Most of the ants were lucky to sense the incoming danger in time, but unluckily for some, the explosion from the flame bursts sent parts of their bodies flying.
For some of those that were able to dodge the flames, lightning bolts pierced through their hard exoskeleton and into their brains, killing them on the spot.
"We have to end this quickly." Ebony and Ivory appeared in both of his hands as he dashed into the midst of the ants.
At the back of the army of ants, seeing that their brothers were being attacked by humans and knowing they couldn't win. Their instincts kicked and some began running back to the hive to call for backup, but that was when Ansgar and Kade appeared in front of them.
With the wind and earth element, Kade used wind blades to easily cut off the thin joints that connected the head to the thorax, and for those that managed to dodge them, earth spikes erupted from below impaling them.