87 Episode 87: Armor Ant's Nest

New year has come in March.

Cecil has been around for about six months now and has been much better. She is also Mihai, and she works harder than ever before.

"Allen, take me to the hunt too."

I was told this. Apparently Cecil wants to be strong. This is not allowed by the baron, so he declines to do so.

It's only six months and 12 years old. Three and a half years have passed since I came to the museum, and I feel the speed of time.

It's not clear even half a year now what kind of work the Grandvelle family has resulted in the death of Mihai. Earlier I heard Rickel that the kingdom was not at war with any country. I asked Rickel again due to Mihai's case, but the answer was the same.

Above this kingdom is a huge empire that is dozens of times larger than the kingdom. Decades ago we were at war, but now we have a peace agreement and no war. Rickel reminded me of that story.

Regarding hunting, at the end of February I destroyed all the Orc villages. It took much longer than Goblin Village, but partly because of it, Oak Village disappeared from the foot of the White Dragon Mountains. But the village of Oak isn't just at the foot of the White Dragon Mountains on the side of Baron Granvert. I think someday, the orcs will come from somewhere, and the village will begin to form, but at this point it has completely disappeared.

Thanks to this, as of April next month, we have been able to secure enough people to work in the mining area for mining Mithril as scheduled. Since goblins and orcs are gone, there are quite a few people who change jobs from adventurers. When I hear this, I am sorry that I destroyed Goblin Village and Orc Village and lost my job, but looking at the bodies of the people who actually died, I think that it was still the correct answer.

The village, where the blast furnace for converting mythril ore into mythril, will begin preparations in spring. It was also said that the mining site would start mining after summer. In the first few years, I don't think it's possible to produce so much, but I think it's important to start.

One worry is Viscount Carnel. Two years ago, the movement of the White Dragon was reported in March. It has been two full years, but I haven't contacted the Baron at all. There is no sound even though the White Dragon has moved and can no longer collect Mithril. I don't think I can run the territory without mythril, but I don't mean to cry. This silence feels eerie. The baron also seems to care, often confirming the butler.

Allen is still in the White Dragon Mountains, having wiped out Goblin and Oak villages. Not at the foot of the White Dragon Mountains.

I'm in a desolate place where the forest has started to run low through the forest. After passing through the forest, the whole view of the White Dragon Mountains became visible. The mountains are long and extensive. What you are looking at is part of that slope. However, it is different from seeing from the sky with the summoned beast and looking directly at the mountain skin.

(Now, that ’s the armor ant ’s nest.)

There is a large pillow-shaped bulge formed on the slope. Armor ants about 3 meters in length and width enter and leave this bulge.

(Well, the burrows are pretty small. Are the armor ants big?)

The size of the burrow is only large enough to enter and leave one armor ant. It looks large enough for people to enter and exit, but seems small for armor ants. A burrow that is almost the same size as the armor ants.

(Isn't this the armor ants getting in the way?)

We heard from Raven how to defeat armor ants. Raven seemed to have heard from someone and did not answer as clearly as usual. In the story of Raven, there is a B rank monster called Queen Armor Ali in the nest, and you have to defeat that monster. Otherwise, the Queen Armor Ant will continue to lay armor ants.

A large amount of armor ants are coming in and out of the armor ant nest. You can easily imagine that even if you try to invade, the path of the burrow will be blocked by armor ants.

(It's like a one-way tunnel. Isn't the hole small and inconvenient like an ant? This isn't all, but can you invade a considerable number of armor ants to get out and fall down? ?)

There are more than 1000 armor ants in this nest. The armor ants were originally intended to be destroyed, but in order to defeat the queen armor ants, it is necessary to first bring out the ants in the nest and defeat them.

Allen summons four Summons of Beast D, one Summon of Insect D, and one Summon of Fish D, and sends them to the armored ant's nest in a shared state.

(Everything is a challenge)

You have to try any hypotheses to understand. There is no strategy book here. It is determined to what extent this six-body configuration can cope. Allen attacks a little further away from his remorse at Oak Village.

Six summons head to a bleak place with lots of exposed rocks and stones. Beast D's summoned beast is large enough to be noticed immediately. I will go forward anyway.

"Geeky! 』

"" ! 』』 』

As the summons approached further, an armor ant rang his jaw and made a sound like a warning sound. As if responding, the armor ants that had already gone outside reacted and began to ring their jaws and beeping alarms.

The armor ants come out of the nest as if they were called by the great chorus of armor ants. Dozens of armor ants surround the nest.

(Oh! I like it, it's going to spring more and more. It will spring infinitely. This isn't enough for 6 summons.

Summon another 20 Beast D summons. The already enhanced Summon of Beast D goes to the armored ant's nest under the direction of Allen.

The area around the armor ant's nest becomes a battlefield.

Since the armor of the ant is hard, he tells the beast D's summon to crush his head. The exoskeleton protecting the head is somewhat softer than the armor. He usually instructs him when hunting with the Summons and Beasts.

So it seems that you know you can aim and crush your head without any further instructions. He attacks his head from the head.

The most important thing in hunting is how to hunt monsters in a short time. Hunting efficiency is proportional to the number of demons.

(Well, the movement is still bad)

Allen is watching the battle with the hawk eyes of the bird E summoner, more than 50 meters from the armored ant nest.

The corpses of armor ants have been increased by the attack of Summon Beast Beast D, but this is not without problems. The weakness of the summon beast of Beast D can also be seen while defeating this amount of armor ants.

The exoskeleton of the armor ants is very hard. For this reason, in one shot of the summon beast of the beast D, the head of the armor ant covered with the exoskeleton cannot be broken down.

Cooperation is needed to defeat more efficiently. It would be better if everyone attacked one armor ant and surely defeated one by one, but the coordination would not work.

Allen has given various instructions to prioritize the monsters attacked by the summons of other beasts D. However, in a long-term battle where the situation changes rapidly, waste increases. This armor ant makes mistakes, such as attacking another armor ant even if it can be defeated in one shot, and being attacked by the armor ant that it missed.

When viewed from a distance, waste is scattered.

(If your intelligence exceeds 100, there are many mistakes in your own judgment and you must be able to communicate with other summons.)

Is it designed to make erroneous decisions with a certain probability, or mistakes are prominent in long-term battles? I've seen this in the long run to see if I can improve if I train, but it seems to me that intelligence is involved.

Regarding intelligence dependence, birds D and fish D, whose intelligence reaches 400 due to reinforcement, can communicate with each other.

The summons of bird D can only be called "Ho", and the summons of fish D cannot speak. However, they can still communicate.

(I guess it looks like this. It's a temporary verification result because there aren't 300 intelligence summons.)

The summons of various intellects increase, and as a result of verification, you can only hear that you can use special abilities less than 100 intellect.・ 100 or more intellectual skills 指示 Can understand instructions other than special skills. There is a misjudgment. Cannot communicate with other Summons. -200 or more intellectual judgment errors are reduced.・ Because there is no summon of 300 or more intellect, it cannot be verified.・ 400 or more Summons can communicate with each other. By sharing, you can communicate with Allen and give instructions.

(If you have 400 intelligence, you can give instructions through the shared summons)

As a result of this verification, if the shared bird D with the intelligence of 400 is instructed as the leader of the summoning squad, it is possible to instruct the summoning beast of the non-shared beast D. However, the summons of the bird D, which have been instructed by sharing, instruct the summons of the beast D as in a message game. Often, simple instructions will not work.

While watching the battle of the armored ant's nest, he watched the movement of the summon beast D and explored new possibilities.