The Dominating Throne produces Ant Eggs, and the Worker Ants nurtured from them are smarter than those bred from the eggs of normal female Ant Kings. They possess some memory and learning ability, and are flexible and adaptable.
Over the years, the Worker Ants have dug out the Ant Nest, the Marsh Gas Pool, water pools, tunnels, and the North Mountain Reservoir. Through this, they have accumulated plentiful digging experience, each having become a skilled excavator.
Dragon Cypress also observed that when newly born rookie Worker Ants joined the digging team, they were at first a bit bewildered; soon, experienced Worker Ants would come over to teach them.
The new Worker Ants could quickly become proficient.
This is an ability that Worker Ants bred by female Ant Kings completely lack.
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Dig the steep slope on the north side of the valley floor first.
Dragon Cypress was still in charge of controlling the Dominating Throne's lifting and command of the ant colony.
