Anton opened his eyes as he saw a huge tree overshadowing him. Behind him was the beach where the sea is.
' Good, I am at the edge of the island ' Grinning Anton looked in front of him where an entire army of ants lies. Two queens, hundred of soldiers and hundred workers.
In total there was two hundred and three ants including himself.
Because he had chosen the humanoid ant his sight was hundred of times better than normal ants.
But even though he retained his intelligence doesn't mean his colony would also have the intelligence of a human being.
Thus he could only communicate with his antennae, but luckily he already knew how to do it otherwise it would be a pain in the ass.
He ordered them to create an underground base or a system, however you want to call it.
The system will consist of two queen rooms at the lowest level with breeding grounds, the floor above it will contain all the food while the floors above all of that will be rooms for rest or training grounds.
Of course if everything is done he will create battlegrounds if enemies invade his system. As for now he didn't have any ant that can spew acid only ants that would fight melee.
'Food is also a problem...' Ants eat literally everything as long it isn't poisonous.
Anton brought thirty ant soldiers with five workers with him to hunt. he ordered the workers to collect hard wood for him and craft it in shields, of course they were confused and only obeyed his orders.
Anton at first was surprised that the worker ants at the lowest level could craft such good wooden shields, but that moment was completely gone after a second when he recalled that ants were born workers and crafters like dwarves for their crafts and forging.
Then he ordered them to craft stone spears, even though the claws of the ants were sharper and more lethal than the spears, attacking at range is always good, especially if you have a shield.
With this he could also make formation like the phalanx.
He didn't really need it, as the emperor ant he has naturally stronger armor and strength. Of course he's bigger by a half than his soldiers while the queens are like minibus sized and only the queens aren't humanoids.
Outside was just a few dense bushes or high grass, the only trees were the enourmas ones.
' One day this island will be solely for him and his colony, this time he won't abandon them. Before he set out he almost forget to craft certain things.
He ordered the workers to craft baskets and a bow for him with arrows.
At first he was troubled because he didn't have any feathers to make the arrows more accurate but there was a certain plant that could be a substitute for it.
On their path he saw many fruits he recognises that are edible and many that were poisonous.
But as someone who graduated from an idiot he also took the poisonous ones that could make into a subtance for coating their weapons and arrows.
Four baskets were for edible fruits and the other one would be the poisonous fruits.
As time went by Anton felt uneasy. It was too silent. He was happy that he stuffed the baskets full of food for his colony, but the silence was killing him.
This island should be where the most dangers lies, yet he didn't come across any danger. He saw that many of his soldiers were excited because of the food, but he trusted his instincts.
On the way back surprisingly nothing happened and thus he dumped all of the food into the storage rooms that were already built and gave all of his workers and soldiers food. Luckily the ants's appetite wasn't big despite their size thus the gathered food was enough for an extra day or two.
' The fastest way to evolve.... ' According to his memories, the fantasy creatures would be arriving after some months while the zombies around the globe aren't really strong. The military will dominate the apocalypse for several months, but after guns will be useless the military quickly loses it power and rebellion started among the humans who were treated unfairly.
Yet, god stood at the military side as they discovered to surpass human limit, absorbtion.
Or widely known as; get a crap ton of crystals and eat them.
It isn't like the xianxia novels where you would mediatate for years to advance one level, no, in every living creature that is strong to a certain extend is a crystal that can be absorbed.
The energy within the crystals can increase the dormant virus in every creature, the virus will strengthnen the body and mind even going further than human limits, but that also counts for every creature.
But years later it was also made public that there are other ways to cultivate, mystical items.
Fruits, ancient elixers and many more.
Absorbtion was the best way to advance individuel, but if you kill any creature nearby, what is the best way to advance then? You will stagnate and it will take a long time unless you go to an adventure full of danger.
For an army to raise their strength can only be one way...
To make a farm!
' Time to find some spiritual fruits, there at least has to be some in this god damn island. ' Anton started to make more commands as the workers began to make big rooms where farms could be made.
Soldiers and workers also began to go outside to grab seawater for the farms.
' Luckily spiritual fruits only require 'water' and not any specific water such as sweet water or highly concentrated salt water otherwise that would be a big hit for me ' Anton looked at the colony in statisfaction. Deep down he knew it could be better, but he wasn't a great strategist or a genius.
Armor, weapons and food, it's slowly building up. ' Although armor isn't needed because the exoskeleton of the soldier ants are better than hardwood, heavy armored soldiers can also be used.
For him to advance into a rank 1 creature, he at least needed to kill several other creatures. Although there aren't crystals, every being at least has a substance that can be consumed to advance. After advancing himself to rank 1 he also needed to advance the queens for diversion of ants.
To have different types of ants he needed to advance in ranks.
Also known as, ranked.
The queens doesn't breed ranked ants, otherwise the ants in the apocalypse would already have taken over the world despite their intelligence.
The higher rank the queens are, the more variants of ants can be selected to be breed.
Armored ants (tank ants)
Demon ants (Basically bazookas, okay defense but very strong)
Windcutter ants (Ants with wings and certain abilities)
And many, many more.
The farms that will produce spiritual fruits will be consumed to advance, the fruits are basically a subtitute for the crystals.
Anton then prepared for the search of enemies and spiritual fruits.