Eye System

Chapter 170: War Against the Giant Ant Beast Tribe

Everything had worked out how Lex had planned, but Lex had underestimated the decisiveness and intelligence of the giant ant queen, who as soon as she gauged the strength of Lex and his fox beast army, ordered all her troops to return.

With that, the final battle had begun, and the only way to be able to get beast meat and beast cores was through a direct confrontation with the giant ant beasts, that had all gathered together around the giant ant queen in the centre of their territory.

There were still tens of thousands of giant ant beasts left and it would be very difficult to deal with them all at once, giving the giant ant beasts the advantage in terms of numbers.

While Lex had also gathered that the giant ant queen would stay in one place and was constricted if she wished to continue to produce eggs which was where the giant ant beasts were born from. Which he gathered by sending clones to investigate underground using the Land Elemental Energy Transformation.

They would be initially born as larva from the eggs, and after feeding from the giant ant queen, which had to feed many beasts energy all at once, they would grow to become giant ant beasts that would be either soldiers or workers.

The rate at which the giant ant queen could produce giant ant beasts and nurture them was frightening and it also gave her complete authority over all giant ant beasts, that were completely obedient to their mother and ruler.

Despite how incredible it was, it also weakened her massively and while she was providing energy to larvae or forming more beast eggs, her movement was constricted while her energy was massively drained.

However, the sheer number of giant ant beasts that were under her and their varying strength made up for that weakness, as she was always surrounded by dozens of powerful giant ant beasts that were protecting her.

Lex didn't attack straight away after the giant ant beasts had formed their stronghold in the centre of their territory, and had already planned for the current outcome.

Self-Cloning Eye

While Lex activated the Self-Cloning Eye and formed clones, the fox beasts protected him from any scouts that the giant ant queen sent out.

He formed three clones, not wanting to weaken or strain himself too much and was planning to use the Destructive Clone Skill through them and weaken the giant ant beast troops.

He planned to repeatedly do so until the giant ant queen finally decided to act, and when she did so, he could once again pick off her troops with his fox beasts tribe.

He was hoping for it to become an endless cycle where he always came out on top, while the giant ant beast tribe continued to be weakened, until they had been weakened enough for Lex and his fox beasts to initiate a direct attack.

It was the safest and most effective plan that he could come up with in his current circumstances, but he knew that it would strain him quite heavily and he wouldn't be able to repeat the process many times.

Each time he formed a clone there would be more stress on his mind and Self-Cloning Eye and then to cut off the clone and allow it to self destruct, would cause Lex to suffer slight backlash.

Although the backlash was much lower than when a clone of his was killed, the backlash would pile up and become a massive burden on Lex, who couldn't afford to be weakened in the middle of a battle against the giant ant beast tribe.

Ordering his clones to get as far into the giant ant beast fort, that the giant ant beasts formed around the giant ant queen, then to self destruct, Lex and his fox beasts observed from a distance.

Where they settled their troops was a few miles away from where they could see that the giant ant beasts had formed their fortress.

It gave them enough distance to retreat if they needed to, while also allowed them to observe their enemy, while keeping tabs on their actions.

Within a few minutes there were three chain explosions as body parts of giant ant beasts flew all over the area and three large craters were formed, where the clones exploded.

The explosion shocked Lex as it shook the ground, and he had massively underestimated how powerful and dense his energy had become and how powerful the explosion would be.

The three explosions were devastating to the giant ant beast troops, as the giant ant queen had no way to defend against or expect such a powerful and unusual method of attacking.

Lex had a satisfied smile as the fox beasts were in awe of the effects of the attack.

However, he knew it wasn't over yet, and began recovering his energy and relaxing his mind, that had been massively drained and strained by that single attack.

After recovering his energy, Lex repeated the attack with 3 more clones, despite the strain he was feeling on his eyes, that suffered from fatigue after using Eye Powers for long periods of time or too heavily.

However, despite the strain, the effects were incredible and had managed to ruin the formation of the giant ant beasts, while disrupting their communication and killing thousands of them.

After repeating the attack a second time, the giant ant beasts had suffered irreversible losses and the giant ant queen had no other choice but to wage an all-out battle between her troops and Lex and his fox beasts, where both sides staked everything they had.

It was a risky decision, but she still believed she had the upper hand in terms of numbers, and with her leadership and the strength and numbers of the giant ant beast troops, she was still confident she would be able to defeat the enemy.

However, she knew that was inevitable for there to be large amounts of casualties, which was why she didn't want to have to resort to doing so.