Hmmmhow should I say this, I think we got ourselves a slaveahem, what I an to say is that her position is basically that of a slaves.
Nola ended up tearing the golem apart as expected while we had a nice little talk with that queen ant. After ensuring that she wouldnt put up too much of a fight in the short term, we proceeded on with our journey. As for that so-called tributewell, its not like we had anything to do with it for now so we had the ants cart the poop back.
Co to think of it, exactly how much tribute has accumulated in the last 80 000 yearsI bet its enough to make a horde of pooplems. Hmmm, if I ever manage to find the thod of crafting golems, I should go back and harvest those poop rocks.
Because we now had a forced companion by our side in the form of that queen ant, our food problem was basically settled for now. Before leaving her hive, we had her bring along a portion of her hive who would then provide her with daily nourishnt while acting as walking rations. Mhmthey fed her and then fed themselves to us.
All the marching we had to do essentially ant that the queen ant had no spare ti to lay eggs. Thankfully, she was able to control her need to lay eggs else we would have to rub her outjust based on that alone, I could say that she was a pretty smart one. She knew that we would never let her off the hook for such a reason.
The whole idea of bringing this queen ant along was to prevent any attack by so random golems. Even though we had the powerhouse of a salamander, Nola, on our side, numbers was still an issue. She was perfectly fine taking on one golem but what if there were two? She would have no ans of protecting us all then. The fact that we discovered an additional use for the queen ant was crucial in preventing any further unplanned incidents.
Naturally, her job wasnt only to act as a golem ward. She was useful in finding other hives at which point we would attack them for food. After all, the agre amount of ants we took from her hive was definitely not going to be enough to feed us all.
Thus, the ants beca the tribute she offered up to us. Its not like she could find food for us, so feeding on her ant kin was fair and square. Right? If she dared to disagree, Nola was ready with a few choice words for her. I was, after all, a fair and reasonable person.
The thought of capturing more queen ants had occurred to before but in the end, I decided that one was enough. Besides, these queen ants werent as brainless as I had originally thought , neither were they the most docile of ants. The more we had, the harder they were to control. Whenever we attacked a new hive, we first had to wipe out a few waves of ants first, forcing the queen out of its hive and then making her offer up so ants.
Throughout all that, I could tell that the our captive wasnt exactly being very obedient. But before we reached our destination, I couldnt exactly kill her either. Thus, I had no choice but to have No.3, Big 4 and Sasani keep a 24 hour watch over her, lest she tried to dig a hole and escape again. Or rat us out to so golem.
As facts would soon prove, I was right to do so. After she confird that we were all asleep, the queen ant promptly started digging a hole to try and escape. However, she ended up being caught by the ever-vigilant Sasani and was apprehended right there and then.
In order to teach this rebellious dunce a lesson, I had No.3 tear off one of her limbs as punishnt.
Back when that punishnt had just been enacted, she spent the better half of the day rolling about in pain, her insect face contorted in all sorts of weird angles. Yet just two days later, I found that her limb had regenerated, albeit shorter and weaker than before. At least it grew back
And thats why I say that the ability to regenerate is just invincible. To fiendish creatures, even a torn off limb is nothing but a small matter. Hmmm, what if we were to turn her into a at farm then? Ahem, that was all Mo Nas idea.
With this ugly get-out-of-jail-free card leading the way, we smoothly passed through several defensive lines manned by golems and continued northward. All in all, we continued travelling smoothly for half a month before discovering a ruin.
Like a city that had undergone so massive earthquake, the buildings, all constructed of black igneous rocks, as was the style of Purgatory, had all crumbled. Of those which were still standing, they were all crooked and were basically half ruined. There wasnt a single complete building to be found anywhere.
Stepping into the ruin, we continued northward as before. Because Nolas body was massive, each step she took ended up crushing countless rubble along the way. So of the buildings which had the fortune of surviving till now were finally put to rest with Nolas passing, either because she knocked into them or because her thunderous footsteps ended destroying them. Thanks to that, we now had to guard against any potential buildings from collapsing on us. Thus, I decided to avoid any road with buildings nearby lest we ended up getting buried alive.
Also, I had Nola lead the way first, that way any building that could collapse, would collapse before we passed by. As for that queen ant captive of ours, she was restrained as before. Well, I really had no choice in this matter. Within the ruins, there was a noticeably higher concentration of golems. If I had to hazard a guess, this was probably the capital we had been searching for all this while. In other words, we finally made it
At tis, we would stumble upon a couple of patrolling golems. The mont they spotted us, I would have that queen ant step forward to try and explain our presence to the golems. Right behind her was Sasani who was ready to bite off her throat in a split second should she try anything funny.
Either way, all we needed her to do was show her face. Whether or not she spoke, honestly, made no difference. In fact, it would probably be better if she didnt speak at all.
By now, she had basically realized that escape was impossible so she beca a lot more docile and cooperative. After all, she wasnt exactly that indispensable either. We simply had to find a new queen ant after killing her; it was rely a matter of convenience.
Having journeyed through the ruined city for two days, we finally stumbled on a relatively pristine building. Relative was the keyword there. It was a half collapsed castle that was surrounded by a completely black wall stretching over 100 ters tall.
Really though, did they have to build a wall so d*mn high? I an, even back on Earth, the tallest ancient city walls that I knew of only was only 20 ters high. Ive never been to a big city in the Western Human Realms, but of the towns and cities Ive been to, their walls were rely 20 ters too, 30 tops. And yet standing right before now was a wall that was at least 100 ters tallisnt that just a little too much?
With that in mind, I turned to our tiny mountain of a companion, Nolait was then that I realized why. Given that Nolas race grew with their level, a Seven-stars must have been humongous. She was at least 10 ters long now, should she ever evolve, she would undoubtedly grow a lot bigger. When seen in that light, a 100 ter tall wall wasnt all that weird anymore.
After all, human walls were made to handle humans and devil wallswere obviously made to handle monsters
We found a collapsed section along the wall that so happened to be near the gates. Because of that, there were two golems stationed there permanently. Behind them was a mountain of crumbled rock wall that had basically beco a testant their lonely and lifeless vigil. Had they not turned around to face us right there and then, I would have honestly mistaken them for broken down golems.
Seeing the half-ruined castle, I suddenly felt a heat rise up within .
Weve finally made itour goalIn order to reach the Western Human Realms, I had to conquer all sorts of hostile terrain, endure all manners of hardships, survive betrayals, forge alliances, kill and so much moreall that within the re span of two years. I swear, it almost feels like I had lived an entire lifeti in those two years
Finally, its over. As long as I can find that Fallen Angel Statue in the garden, I canspeaking of which, that isian had better co through herethose kitties are all a bunch of kooks after all. If that little black kitty were to say to now: Nyahaha, oops, I gave you the wrong bit of information
I swear Ill kill that stupid kitty, Anmi! Definitely! As for why it was Anmiwell, that was just a matter of different treatnt.
Still, what am I so worried about exactly? At this point, isnt it a little too late to be wondering whether or not isian is even dependable? Bah, forget it, its not like I have any other choice except to trust her, right?
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