Chapter 108: Illusion Butterfly and Wood Termite

"I can easily trapped them, but dealing with them is the problem," Alros mused, as he looked at the gathered Illusion Butterflies. Even when they did not create any illusion consciously, their gathering location already looked like it is warped, the side effect of a colony of Illusion Butterly making their nest in the area.

The good news is that the colony numbered around 200, maybe even more. He would only need to deal with one colony instead of two. The bad news is the numbers. The butterfly monsters seemed to have a synchronize effect. The more of them in an area, the stronger the effect of their illusions, making them harder to deal with.

His demonic aura, the one thing he hope to use at such moment, would barely work, as they seemed to be able to use the illusion to block his aura.

He did not know how that work but he put it with the bullshit that is magic.

"Well, the best way would be divide and conquer," a smile formed on his face as he began his plan.

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As he had said, the plan is to divide and conquer. While they might be sleeping in a large group, when feeding, they did not go in group, splitting up to avoid competition between themselves.

It is during their feeding time did Alros began his plan. With his Forest Wasp and Giant Dragonfly as the main force, they would strike and split the butterflies, herding them to the webs.

It is a simple plan, but it make it so effective, as it would be near impossible to screw up.

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"It is more effective than I thought," Alros mused, watching as the Illusion Butterfly scattered the moment they are attacked by the wasp and dragonflies.

With how much of a surprise their attacks are, the butterflies scattered, before finding themselves chased by the two bugs. Then, it would find itself trapped, a Mist Spider watched them and making sure they would not escape.

As the total number of Forest Wasps and Giant Dragonflies is around 300, the butterflies find themselves outnumbered, especially when the Black Steel Beetle joined the fight, on their back goblins and ants doing their best to scare the butterflies away.

Outside the nest, the hobgoblins slammed the large clubs in their position and began to club walls, breaking them slowly but surely. Any termite soldiers that come out of the holes find themselves captured and subdued, soon gathering in front one of the entrance.

Alros was there with the turned termites, ready to enter the mounds so he would be able to subdue the queen termite with ease. The plan is simple. The hobgoblins would cause a commotion, forcing the colony to send soldier termites to deal with the treat.

When that happened, the other group will captured them, before sending them to Alros to be subdued. When there is enough termites, the hobgoblins will stop their attack and make it seem like the attackers stopped.

When that happened, the soldier termites would returned, with Alros hiding himself between the termites as they would lead him to the queen termite. A simple but complicated plan to do.

As the termites lead him to the queen, Alros remained calm, making sure to have some of the termites carrying Illusion Butterfly, to give him an extra cover.

With the cover, it is easy for him to enter the mounds without being detected, making him sigh slightly at how easy it is to fool the termites.

Soon, they reach the queen's chamber, where the bloated queen laid eggs, increasing the numbers of termites of the colonies. Around her, there is no guards. Then again, the impregnatable defense might be the reason for it.

So, he quickly have the soldiers get closer, causing some form of unease to the worker termites. Before they could do anything, Alros leap towards the queen, subduing her with ease.

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"Termites should be the easiest colony to subdue," Alros remarked, seeing as how easy it is. The moment he subdued the queen, he ordered the queen to call out the others, where he began a subduing process, turning all of the termites and making them become a part of his force.

He also need to get 5 medium-sized lair, filling them with termites. It slightly troubled him with how much space the ants and termites at the large size colonies could take, but he decide to take it with stride, as their utilities would be better than having an empty space in both lairs and population.

He stretched his body, looking at the new lairs. The ants and termites from the same colony would have their lairs conjoined as the number of lairs would be greater than one.

Now that he think about it, he should check another one of his project. One designed to increase the number of his main monster.