Rema also learned a new skill which she called Body Enhancement. This skill was not very useful since it can only increase her body's defense by 10%.
This skill also cost her 2 Spirit Energy per use, and the effect will last for an hour. Even though it was not very useful, she still trained the skill hoping that someday it will increase the duration or effectiveness.
Her increase in Spirit Power was slower compared to before since she was limiting the number of ant eggs she eats.
Rema currently has 20 clones researching and practicing skills while 10 clones helping her manage the ant nest. The remaining 9 clones are going out of the ant's nest, and looking at the surroundings with the help of the ant generals and ant fighters.
She has completely mapped out the tree and 2 meters around the tree. Rema found no ant colonies so far but the good news is, she found a spider, caterpillar, and bees.
Rema planned to first parasitize the caterpillar and then the spider. She plans to use the caterpillar when it matures into a butterfly. While she plans to use the Spider to make her ant's nest have a better defense by using it's webs.
Lastly would be the bees that she sees wandering around the flowers below the tree. She plans to parasitize the bees so she can find there nest.
She was observing this three creatures for days now, and was planning when to attack them. Now that her preparations are done which was to assemble a group of 50 ant fighters to attack. Rema ordered the ants to attack the caterpillar with 9 clones of hers joining the fight.
Her ants then swiftly went towards the caterpillar. The caterpillar was happily eating a leaf without caring for the ants that was coming towards it. The caterpillar was hundred times bigger than the ants.
When the ants are close to the caterpillar, Rema ordered them to surround it while also ordering her clones to prepare the Spirit Needles.
Rema then ordered to attack when she saw that the caterpillar was completely surrounded. Rema first attacked it with Spirit Needles making the caterpillar cry and angrily attack the ants as a sign of retaliation. The ant fighters then dodge the attack instead of confronting the attack.
Rema has already trained her ant fighters how to fight sly so instead of blindly charging to the caterpillar, they distracted the caterpillar while one of Rema's clone was climbing to the head of the caterpillar.
Once one of her clones was on top of the caterpillar's head, it immediately took a bite of the caterpillar and went inside the body.
Soon, the caterpillar stopped attacking while Rema ordered her ant fighters to stop there attacks. Rema was successful and managed to parasitize the caterpillar.
Rema then calculated the her losses in this fight, and she has loss 18 ant fighters.
She then controlled her caterpillar to eat the 18 ant fighters. Rema thought that the Spirit Power would be a waste. The other ant fighters was not bothered by this, and instead even served the dead ant fighters to the caterpillar.
After Rema was done eating the ant fighters, She ordered the ant fighters to go back to the ant's nest together with the caterpillar.
She didn't plan to attack the spider in the meantime since she wants to replenish the number of ant fighters she lost.
Once they were back, she ordered the ants to treat the caterpillar nicely and to create a room for it to rest on. She also ordered them to bring it some leafs for it to eat.
She then organized the memorise she got from the caterpillar. She learned that it has two more siblings, and they are spotted on the tree next to them. When Rema learned this, she was happy since she can create another breeding machine to supply her Spirit Power but this can only wait for when the caterpillar matures into a butterfly.
After she was done, she then planned her next step which was creating another ant queen.
She remembers that to create an ant queen she needs to breed a special female ant unlike the ant workers. She learned that all the ant workers are females but not nurtured and are unfertile. She can create a female ant and nurture it to become an ant princess.
And once the ant princess is mature enough it will take flight and mate with a male ant. After mating with the male ant she'll be able to lay eggs without the need of the male ant anymore.
She didn't need the ant princess to take flight since she can just parasitize it to create a colony close to her ant's nest.
Her other clones was doing this job. She also created fertile male ants since they are needed to mate with the ant princesses.
She created 5 ant princesses and 5 male ants. This 10 special ants are being taken care of by her other clones.
Her other clones also ordered the ant workers to create five giant rooms for the coming 5 ant queens.
Now, she only needed to wait until these five ant princesses matures. And while waiting, she plans to attack the spider in the next following days.
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5 days passed, and 8 of her clones are now going towards the spider's home. She didn't brought the caterpillar with her since it turned into a chrysalis. She'll only needs to wait for 7 days for it to turn into a butterfly. She also needed to find the other caterpillars or butterflies quickly since a butterfly can only live for about 2 weeks. If she can't find another butterfly then her plan of creating a butterfly breeding machine will fail for now.
Her 5 ant princesses are also matured enough and are now parasitize by 5 of her clones. They are now inside there own giant rooms with there own ant males inside. The next step will be mating with the male ant.
She has also ordered her other ant workers to create rooms to place the ant eggs in. Currently each ant queen's room has 3 small rooms.
While Rema was thinking of this, she arrived close to the spider's home.