"I have one day. Let's see how many worker ants you can produce," Shangguan Mo said, looking at the Blazing Ant Queen with its enormously swollen abdomen, eager to see how powerful the "touch of death" fire poison described by the system really was.
"Little Shell, Little Spike, Self-Destructing Flies, go find me something with high protein," he commanded.
"What's high protein?" the two summons and the buzzing flies were all confused. An idea was transmitted from the void into his mind. "Like the Self-Destructing Flies, creatures with high nutritional value! You can catch some small bugs or something, they're very nutritious!" he explained impatiently.
With the summons gone, the clearing in the forest became quiet. He looked at the motionless Blazing Ant Queen and began to think. "This is the first time I've synthesized a summon with only one passive skill but can infinitely produce minions. And these minions sound pretty powerful..."
He suddenly felt a little unsteady. Now that things had quieted down, he finally felt his own weakness. "The side effect of losing life points is here. It's really uncomfortable. I definitely can't show my face in this battle. I'll have to rely entirely on my minions... oh, summons, to fight!"
With a helpless sigh, he picked up the Blazing Ant Queen and went to find Li to eat some dry rations to fill his stomach. But a doubt lingered in his mind. "We've been making quite a bit of noise. Why haven't those Jashinists reacted at all?"
In an underground space.
In a huge pit, a hundred meters in diameter, was a pool of boiling, crimson blood. Dense blood bubbles rose to the surface, and hot steam constantly emanated from it. An overwhelmingly thick smell of blood filled the entire space. Five black-robed figures floated silently in the blood pool, the surrounding walls covered in strange symbols.
A ghostly voice suddenly echoed in the silent space. "A sacrifice to the great Lord Jashin!"
It was like a scene from hell.
The next day.
The battle began so suddenly that neither Shangguan Mo nor Watanabe Mousse had expected it. The moment the Yugakure leader arrived, he immediately gave the order to attack. From his urgent and serious expression, Shangguan Mo could vaguely feel the pressure a village leader had to bear.
BOOM!
Over two hundred Yugakure ninja gathered and charged towards the underground space in the city. Even though they intentionally slowed their pace, even from the sky, he could feel the ground trembling.
"Fighting underground is too dangerous for me in my weakened state. I'll have to rely on the Blazing Worker Ants to engage in combat first," he thought. He looked at an ant farm made from an iron basin on the Windhawk's back. Through the small holes, he could vaguely see red creatures crawling rapidly inside.
He ordered the Windhawk to land and began to give commands to the ants. "Let me see how powerful you are. Go and kill all those black-robed ninja!"
"Yes!" A thought seemed to echo in his mind.
At that moment, the battle in the underground space had fully erupted. Some of the low-ranking Jashinists didn't know what was happening. They only saw countless Yugakure ninja roaring and charging at them. But seeing that none of their leaders had appeared, they finally understood that they had been used as cannon fodder.
"It's the Yugakure ninja!"
"Fight them!"
"Everyone, run!"
"The leaders aren't here! We've been abandoned!"
"Why?"
No one knew why, and no one would answer their question. Their fate had been sealed the moment they had turned to Jashin.
The front of the underground space was now a chaotic mess. Countless ordinary Jashinist followers were either begging for mercy or fighting frantically, but as non-ninja, they were like chickens and ducks before the two hundred Yugakure ninja, with no resistance at all. In a matter of moments, the three hundred-plus followers had been sent to the underworld by the murderous Yugakure ninja.
The Yugakure ninja began to advance deeper underground. At the same time, a group of unprecedentedly strange creatures arrived at the entrance. In the darkness, a swarm of over a thousand red ants was advancing in an orderly fashion. Following the footsteps of the Yugakure ninja, they soon saw the black-robed figures Shangguan Mo had mentioned.
Their attack began! The Blazing Worker Ants began to accelerate, and the entire swarm broke apart and scattered. It looked chaotic, but their directions and targets were all clear, as if following a pattern. Ants had always been a terrifying, social species, not to mention the already aggressive fire ants that had been modified by him. They carried out his orders without question.
The Jashinist ninja were already engaged in a fierce battle with the Yugakure ninja. No one noticed the inconspicuous insects moving rapidly across the ground until they crawled onto their bodies. Just by crawling on their clothes, the Jashinists felt as if their bodies were on fire. Of course, this was just an illusion. But when the ants bit down, the entire battlefield was filled with blood-curdling screams.
"Ababababa!"
"What are you screaming about!"
"What the hell is this?"
"Aaaaaaaargh..."
The Jashinist ninja at the front only screamed for a few seconds before collapsing to the ground, their bodies charred black, as if they had been burned alive. The Jashinists at the back, seeing this, were terrified and turned to flee, completely ignoring the attacks from the Yugakure ninja. These normally cruel and inhuman cultists were now completely terrified by the unknown and mysterious cause of their comrades' horrific deaths.
In the sky above Freljord City, a cold arc formed on Shangguan Mo's lips. Through the shared vision of his Self-Destructing Flies, he saw everything that was happening in the underground space. If Li saw him now, she probably wouldn't recognize him. His still-youthful face was filled with a cruel and merciless expression, his dark pupils shining with an icy light.
"The fire poison in these Blazing Worker Ants is truly terrifying. It's not like fire, and it's not like poison. In just two or three seconds, the bitten Jashinist ninja is charred black. It looks like they were burned to death by an ultra-high temperature injected into their bodies!" he thought, shocked. "However, it's only effective on the first attack. Once they are on guard, the ants' lethality is not as exaggerated..."
Through the flies' vision, he quickly discovered this phenomenon. The remaining hundred or so Jashinist ninja, having discovered that the cause of the horrific deaths was these inconspicuous little ants, began to deal with them from a distance with ninjutsu. Under the attack of various elemental jutsu, the ants had no resistance.
But the summons under his command that liked to launch suicide attacks were not just the Blazing Worker Ants.
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