Countless parasitic war beasts were flying, jumping, and roaring outside the protective net, while densely packed parasitic ants were passing through the protective net one after another and going up along the city wall. Even if the corpses fell to the ground and piled up into a small mound, they refused to take a step back.
Blood all over the place poured down the carbonized bark of the rotten trees and flowed into the swamp waters. The entire sky was filled with blood and corpse gas.
This is a swamp, the fourth fortress built by the Angel King's Legion, and here, the Angel King's Legion encountered an unprecedented fierce attack.
——I am the dividing line——
After stabilizing the defense lines of [Swamp City] and [Bridgehead], the Angel King Legion built the [Stump City] fortress, and implemented step-by-step and steady offensive tactics to advance into the swamp area.
This swamp is mainly composed of a large area of water. The only land consists of two parts. One part is a small piece of land connected vertically and horizontally in the water, and the other part is a number of scattered islands and reefs.
Parasitic ants and parasitic war beasts generally live mainly on connected land, and there are basically no traces of them on islands. After all, ants and many insects cannot fly or swim across water.
The advance of the Divine Envoy King's legions also followed the direction of the connected land, all the way along the land bridge.
These days, there are fighting almost every day. During the day, the Angel King's legion relied on the fortress to resist the siege of the parasitic army, killing a large number of enemies. At night, the Angel King's legion, which takes turns during the day, will use tactics such as night attacks and smoke attacks to clear out the nests of parasitic ants within their operating range.
After the parasitic forces around [Tree Stump City] were completely eliminated, the Divine Envoy King's Legion quickly selected the next city building location.
It is a highland about half a day away from [Tree Stump City]. It is a rare hill in the swamp area. This hill is the commanding height of the nearby area. It has an unusually regular circular shape and covers an area of about a few meters. One hundred square meters, except for a land bridge that connects to other land, other parts are adjacent to water.
What is surprising is that there are no trees or shrubs on this hill, only large areas of wild grass that are extremely prosperous. I don’t know if it is because of the shallow soil layer. This kind of scene is common in mountainous areas, but rare in swamps.
What really attracted the Angel King's Legion was that the flying knights, who took advantage of the enemy's air force at dawn and dusk when they were not dispatched, discovered that there were a large number of parasitic ants gathering here.
Every day, the parasitic ants will set out from here to attack the Angel King's army, and will return here in the evening.
Just judging from the number and size of the parasitic ants, the protagonist suspects that if the parasitic ants also have a main nest, then this must be it.
When clearing out scattered parasitic ant nests before, the number of ants in each nest was not large. Generally, there were dozens of parasitic hunter ants in one nest. There were more parasitic corn sweaters, pavement ants, etc., and there were only a few in one nest. Thousands.
The flying knights estimated that there were at least tens of thousands of parasitic ants in this nest.
Although there are many enemies, the protagonist, who is already eager to deal with the threats in the swamp area and rush back before winter, can no longer take care of them.
In addition, with the assistance of protective nets and ballistae during this period, the defensive battles went very smoothly, which also gave the protagonist confidence.
Moreover, parasitic ants and parasitic war beasts only form a coalition during the day. At night, after the parasitic ants return to their nests, the parasitic war beasts will not enter the ant nest, but will find their own places to rest like ordinary insects.
In this way, the protagonist does not have to worry about encountering too strong resistance when attacking this huge ant nest.
Under the personal leadership of the protagonist, the two legions of the Angel King warriors carried a large amount of supplies and set out from [Stump City] at dusk, arriving not far from the enemy's nest and starting to build the city.
The ants are already very experienced in building this type of small fortress, and can usually complete the fortifications in a few hours. Then they will not be stationed on the same day, but will have to wait until the ant concrete is basically dry the next day before coming to station with a large amount of supplies.
Anyway, the parasitic ants have limited IQ. Even if a fortress pops up right under their noses, as long as there are no Divine Envoy King warriors inside and there is no strong aura left by them, they will not care about it and will not report it to the pale golden worker ants.
Among the parasitic ants, only these pale-gold worker ants had an online IQ, but they lived in seclusion on weekdays and had no timely reports from other parasitic ants. By the time they discovered that the fortress of the Divine Envoy King's legion was close at hand, it was already too late.
But tonight, in front of a hill that was as round as a round loaf of bread, the ants couldn't find a suitable place to build a city for a while.
This is something the protagonist did not expect. No matter where you are, there are always tree stumps, rocks, hills and other suitable terrain for building a city.
But in this round-shaped hill, except for the perfectly curved mound that does not look like a natural product, and the lush weeds on it, there is not a single tree, not a stone, not a piece of dead wood.
The bun hill is surrounded by water on three sides, and there are no reeds, calamus or other plants growing on the waterside. There is only a short land bridge connecting the direction from which the God's Envoy King's army came.
The protagonist is also a little dumbfounded now. This huge dome in front of him can be seen to the top at a glance, and he really can't find a suitable place to build a city.
In fact, if you just want to build an ordinary nest, you can just find a place on the bun hill where the terrain is higher than the water and make a hole.
But building a fortress is different. Especially when dealing with parasitic ants, the Angel King's Legion mainly relies on killing enemies on open-air facilities. Generally, they need to occupy a high place to gain a height advantage, and it is also convenient to set up protective nets and ballistae.
But now there is no such spot on Bunk Hill.
In the end, the protagonist resorted to the next best thing and built a fortress on the land bridge connecting the bun hills, a little further away, using a section of rotten wood that floated in the water and ran aground and was half buried deep in the soil.
Because half the night was wasted looking for a suitable place to build the city, the new fortress [Bread City] was not completed that night and was not completed until the second night.
After the completion of the Bread City, the interior is a crisscross of passages and nests dug out of the dead wood. On the outside, only a few entrances and exits on the top of the dead wood remain. Around the entrances and exits, two rings of walls were built using stones, ant concrete and captured insect carapace. .
The entrance and the city wall are surrounded by a broken branch of a rotten tree that tilts upward. The protective net is also hung on the branch, and then opened and fixed on the bark of the rotten tree, covering the entire [Bread City] like a small tent.
Compared with other fortresses in swamp areas, [Bread City] is at a lower altitude and is slightly farther from the target enemy nest, about an hour away.
But this is already a well-equipped fortress, and the protagonist even moved two of the three ballistae here to strengthen its defense.
