Several days later, inside the Kingdom of Nawen.
As she stared at the Royal Palace in front of her, which was a bit smaller than the Royal Palace of the Kingdom of Lyon, which she had visited a while ago, Scythia couldn't help but faintly smile.
After staying completely still for a few minutes, and hiding in darkness to examine the current defenses of the Palace, Scythia finally took action.
In just a few moments, Scythia passed by the outside guards without any difficulty before entering the Palace, after which she immediately made her way to her destination, as she had done some research before sneaking into this place.
Without making any single sound, and without being seen in the slightest, Scythia made her way to the bedroom of the king.
But just as she was about to open the door to the bedroom, Scythia suddenly froze the moment her had touched the handle.
As she listened to the soft moans that were coming from inside the bedroom, a faint frown appeared on Scythia's face.
The moans themselves were not an issue, instead, what worried Scythia was the fact that she could hear three, completely distinct people breathing inside the room.
After thinking for a few moments, Scythia remembered the schematics of the Palace and decided to retreat for now, and gain a better angle of attack.
...
As she stared at the King, who was sitting on the side of the bed, slightly shaking, as well as at the man who was currently having some fun with the queen, Scythia couldn't help but frown, causing a Dark Bolt to suddenly appear in her palm.
'A mage apprentice, but he doesn't seem to have mastered any sort of Barrier spell...' thought Scythia as she stood on the branch of a tree, staring at the king's bedroom through a window.
'Most likely a mage from Golwall Island, there's a good chance he's from the Kingdom of Aepheovia,' thought Scythia as she stared at the scene in front of her.
A moment later, the Dark Bolt disappeared from Scythia's hand, dissipating into the air.
Her teacher's orders had been to take control of influential and powerful people without revealing herself.
Even if she did manage to kill the mage in front of her, if the latter was indeed sent here by the Kingdom of Aepheovia, killing him would reveal her existence to the kingdom.
'I guess It's time to make my way to the next kingdom...' thought Scythia with a faint frown on her face.
A few moments later, Scythia imprinted the appearance of the mage into her mind before silently dropping down from the tree, leaving the three people to finish their business undisturbed.
...
Unaware of the troubles of her apprentice, who she had sent out on a mission a while ago, Beatrice was now sitting cross-legged, staring at the little ant in front of her.
"So what is it, what do you want from me little Canty?" asked Beatrice as she stretched out her finger and touched the head of the ant, who was about as large as a small dog.
Hearing the words of the mistress, Canty couldn't help but curb her emotions and finally speak her mind.
A few years ago, after some arguing with Antonia, Canty finally took her life into her own hands and became a new ant queen, creating her own colony.
This meant that Canty no longer had to obey Antonia's orders, of course, the orders of the Mistress herself still applied.
"Mistress, I need permission to destroy a small human village," said Antonia as she slightly lowered her head, causing Beatrice to fall into a bit of thought.
"I thought I was very clear when I told you to not involve yourself with humans, wasn't I?" asked Beatrice as she continued moving her finger on the head of the ant, causing her to quickly nod.
"You were very clear mistress, back when I had first created the new colony, I had purposely chosen a spot with no human settlements nearby, but around half a month ago a group of human settlers actually arrived not very far away from the location of the colony, meaning that we had to begin hiding ourselves underground once again, this is really destroying the efficiency of the colony mistress," said Canty, causing Beatrice's to touch her chin.
"I see... that's not your fault, how many settlers are there?"
"I don't know the exact number, but they should be roughly 500 of them from what the recon ants had seen," said Canty, causing Beatrice to faintly smile.
...
As she looked at the newly formed village below her, a faint smile appeared on the face of Beatrice, who was currently floating in the sky, completely invisible.
In an instant, Beatrice's eyes suddenly moved throughout both the village itself, and its surroundings, finding every single human present.
Canty turned out to be right, as the number of people in the village was currently 523, while 15 hunters were currently out hunting food, and were a few kilometers away.
Although Beatrice could destroy the village in an instant if she ever wished to do so, the Official Mage merely snapped her fingers, causing the 15 hunters to suddenly fall to the ground, dead.
At the same time, the snapping of Beatrice's fingers also served as a signal to Canty, who suddenly took action.
Even though the sire of Canty's colony couldn't compare to that of Antonia's, the little ant still had over 50 thousand daughters at the moment, 30 thousand of which now took action.
At this very moment, in the middle of the night, the 30 thousand ants silently rose from the ground.
Although the number of ants was not very exaggerated, being only around 60 ants per every human in the village, not only were Earth Ants not normal ants, but they also had a huge surprise advantage, as most of the village was asleep, allowing the ants to launch a surprise attack.
The eyes, years, genitals, the Earth Ants were completely merciless, causing horrifying screams to emerge from the village below, which Beatrice silenced with some magic.
With the help of Canty, who could kill a normal human on her own without even needing to use magic, the ants were able to annihilate every life form inside the village with minimal casualties.
In the end, all 500 humans were killed, while just under 700 of Canty's daughter's perished in the process.
