I ended up spending the whole morning talking to the queen, and all afternoon to gather this new troop, I choose to stay at the base today and go early in the morning when the sun comes up, this gives me the chance to count the total number of ants, in a general framework these would be all of us:

 

 

x 1 Little ant Pharaonis
x 1 Little ant Pogonomyrmex
x 1 Little ant Melanocephalum
x 2 Little ant Atta
x 1 Little ant Tronitrua
x 5 Ant Camponotus
x 81 Little ant Camponotus

 

 

Counting all of us together we are a total of ninety-two ants, a very reasonable number is more than I had imagined. When night falls I make them sleep very early so that when we wake up they are all in full energy.

 

 

When the first glare of the sunlight appears I feel it is time to work, although most of them are still asleep, nothing that my new friend and me, Mr. Bell, cannot solve, again I push him to play with his strong chimes that wake up all the ants, some of them look at me with a kind of irritated face, this is very normal in this branch of my profession I’ve even got used to it. Now I'm going to pass on the morning message.

 

 

"Good morning everyone, I hope you slept well because now the softness is over, we are walking, we have a lot of ground to walk".

 

 

They start to follow me in a single file out of the anthill, but although it is organized it takes a long time to change this situation, put them in five separate rows keeping a little space from each other, with that, we will get to the forest faster.

 

 

“From today, all of you, every morning, will move in this way until our journey, do not leave the formation and always keep following who is ahead, now march”.

 

 

I see that little by little a bunch of rioters are becoming more organized, I distance myself a little and I see them all walking in order like a real army, I take the lead as their leader and we march together into the forest.

 

 

Once here I am responsible for passing on the task that each one of them must perform and just as our supervisor had taught me, I teach them this, I approach a bush and with my fangs, I start to cut, so everyone starts this same process.

 

 

But I admit that I do not intend to be picking leaves and fruits through this forest, I want to observe and evaluate each of the ants here to know what are their strengths and weaknesses, if we are going to dominate this forest I need to know in which position I should place each one, so I watch them from afar.

 

 

Atta ants with their strength pull out and carry huge amounts of thickets and big branches I think they would even be able to carry more things they just can't handle everything at once, in that I see potential being wasted if there was something like a cart to take the carrying up to the anthill we would greatly increase the amount of food we carry each day.

 

 

Looking at other slightly less interesting soldiers I was surprised to see that we could get five Ants Camponotus for our army, they are the most common variation of Little ant Camponotus and by name, I thought they were the same as our late supervisor, only it seems his class was, even more, evolved, it is not surprising that he managed to cause so much damage to the bear.

 

 

As for the other ants, their legwork is practically the same as ours, both the poisonous ant, the intangible and the thunder ant work at a slightly faster rate than the other common ants, good for their class is more geared to fighting while it is nature of those with the name Camponotus to work on jobs like this.

 

 

My observation continues for approximately two hours and I see that the current system is very bad, it takes a long time for a single ant to cut, to move from going to the anthill and back here, I think I will start dividing the functions between them, it will be easier that way and...

 

 

Ah! What is it? My stomach started to hurt out of nowhere and the pain seems to be increasing, was it something I eat.

 

 

Objective: Kill two things today have not been accomplished.
Punishment in progress.

 

 

I had forgotten about Lucy's curse, I got so busy yesterday chasing the queen and gathering soldiers that I completely forgot, what I'm feeling is the punishment of the evil goddess. My belly hurts more and more I suffer to stand up and I end up falling to the ground, the other ants see my current situation and start to get worried around me. I begin to hear the voice of a certain evil goddess.

 

 

"I warned you that there would be consequences if I didn't do my job, for today I'll take it easy, but next time the punishments will be much worse", - says Lucy speaking directly to my mind.

 

 

(You have gained Pain Resistance Lvl 1)

 

 

The stomach pain starts to pass and I quickly return to normal to the ants around me are reassured when I get up and the ant poisonous comes up to me and asks.

 

 

“Commander, are you okay? We think he was attacked ”, - says the poisonous ant.

 

 

“Yes, I am, thanks for worrying, this was a test. I wanted to see what your reaction would be in the event of an attack, I see that you came to try to help me and looked around for any possible enemy, an excellent reaction, you certainly passed my test, now get back to work ”.

 

 

I invent this as an excuse for them not to find out about the curse, but from now on I have to be more aware of it, better check my status to know what are the new missions today.

 

 

 

 

Apparently, they have already appeared, Rafael's mission is quite simple, so I see that he is watching me because he has the commanding ability, and as for Lucy, she kept the same mission as yesterday, I think it's her way of saying it this time. do as I say.

 

 

Taking advantage that I'm checking the status, is there one last thing that I still don't know what these skill points would be? I was ignoring it at first because I had none after I defeated the bear I was twenty and when I evolved it was twenty-two to count, will they be of any use.

 

 

 

 

It's like a store where I can spend the points I earned buying new skills, but these values ​​are so expensive, it seems like I get two points every time I level up or evolve, for now, the cheapest skill is climbing and I still have three points to buy it, and not wanting to complain anymore, there could be more options to buy skills, if I could ask Rafael.

 

 

"I am right here and I am aware of your problem, I would have no problem adding new purchase options, but for Lucy yes, we ended up deciding that every time you buy a skill we will update your options and add some new ones", - says Rafael directly in my head.

 

 

"Rafael, if you are listening to me, I would also like to know if you can find an easier way for me to earn skill points".

 

 

"I'll see what I can do", - warns Rafael.

 

 

More problems arise all the time, there are so many things to think about, but for now, my goal is to try not to be punished again for this curse, so I go hunting, but first I better organize this operation in the forest, I climb on top of a rock and I call the attention of the other ants.

 

 

“Pay attention, from now on, instead of each one of you doing the whole process of cutting, harvesting and transporting I will divide the tasks, I want you five Ant Camponotus to cut and store everything in a pile with half of you Little ant Camponotus and you two Atta ants too, while the rest will just transport and return. ”

 

Objective: From order to an ant was accomplished.
Reward: + 3 INT, +3 DEX, +3 LCK.

 

They seem a little confused by my orders, but they start to obey me, while one group cuts and stacks everything another tries to load as much as he can back and forth in the anthill. Now I can go straight to my goal, although the last time I went into the forest a bear ended up chasing me it is better not to go alone.

 

 

"Hey, you two poison ant and transparent ant, the two of you will accompany me on a reconnaissance walk through the forest".

 

 

"If that's what you want, commander", - answer the transparent ant.

 

 

"Yes, sir," replies the poisonous ant.

 

 

While the two follow me I am surprised by a third member, it’s the ant electric I think she wants to go with, but to be honest she doesn’t seem like the type of guy I would take to a fight.

 

 

"You are still too inexperienced to go with us, for now just help others to carry food to the base, don't worry one day your turn will come", I tell him.

 

 

He seems to have been a little discouraged, but obey my orders if I took him along I would be risking his life and ours, I want him to stay here with the others for the time being where he is safe. We started going deeper into the forest, I've been here before, it's close to where I met the squirrel last time, the trees in this part of the forest are huge with their big branches they barely let the sunlight through.

 

 

Soon we started to hear some noises, we slowed down and approached in silence, when I see more of those horned squirrels, the number of them in this area seems to have increased now that the former owner of this territory is dead. I don't want to get in trouble just that I have to kill two of them so I can't take more punishments from Lucy, and she even said that they would be worse I don't even want to think about what might happen to me.

 

 

There are eight squirrels in total and they seem to be catching acorns that have fallen from the tree, it is some kind of fruit or seed similar to us we think.

 

 

“Okay, let's go to the plan, I want you to have a transparent ant circulate around the trees and on the other side try to get their attention, once they see you, they will probably come towards you, when that happens use your camouflage skills to hide while you and the poison ant attack us in the back, they won't even know what hit them ”.

 

 

"Understood", - both answer.

 

 

The transparent ant slowly goes around the trees and does what I told her to do, when the squirrels look at them they get a little scared and start pointing their horns towards him, me and the poison ant then we approach and bite two of them behind their backs, they are not very strong and now that we have evolved their disadvantage increases, the poisonous ant kills the squirrel that had bitten very quickly and then bites another while I am still trying to finish my first one, as it is a species poisonous must have something like a poisonous bite to help kill faster.

 

 

To advance the murder of my first active squirrel the golden luster and turns my right front paw into something similar to a small spear and I use it to pierce the stomach of the squirrel that dies on the spot, in the meantime the poisonous ant killed another left over five squirrels. Only the other five realize that we are attacking them from behind and change the target of the transparent ant for us, two squirrels go on the poison ant and the other three come on me, we both run to try to keep our distance, but the squirrels are fast one of them jumps pointing its horn towards me and I fight back with my arm turned into a spear.

 

 

Because my spear is stronger I end up breaking his horn and with my other hand I push him away, the other two try to come at the same time jumping in my direction, only with a quick movement I cut the throat of one of them and arriving at the last moment before the other squirrel hits me, it arrives at the transparent ant biting that squirrel in the back, killing it.

 

 

You really are silent I barely saw you get close to me, I am worried about the poison ant, but soon I see you without a scratch and with the two squirrels that were chasing you dead on the ground, with that there were seven, the poison ant is running in the my direction I get scared, so she spits something out of her mouth that passes by my side and hits the squirrel's back that I had broken the horn, the squirrel starts screaming I think he threw some kind of poison, seeing that he couldn't defeating us the squirrel with the broken horn climbs a tree and starts to run away, I choose not to go after him after all I already got what I wanted.

 

Objective: Kill two things today has been accomplished.
Reward: + 1 INT.

 

Just that, you forced me to do your stupid task to give me as a reward only a single point of intelligence, that irritation, but I better not even complain since this time she at least gave me something, after that we went back to see how the operations were going, and as I already suspected they were great, since the bigger ants don't have to worry about taking everything that they cut to the base, it speeds up the job a lot, and as the small ones only have the function of carrying, they don't lose cutting time.

 

 

With that, I made the production of food a lot faster, which gives me more free time to plan what my next step will be.