Gold Eater is a very powerful talent, and it was specifically chosen by Su Bai for the Little Worker Ant.
Once past the initial growth period, this talent would enable the Little Worker Ant to grow rapidly in a short time. Among all talents, it ranked near the top, second only to Su Bai's own Devour Evolution.
As for the initial growth period…
Feeling a bit relieved, Su Bai opened his storage space.
A bowl-sized heart and two green arms, each over a meter long, dropped out of the storage space and fell to the ground.
They were the heart and arms of Goblin General Grog.
When Su Bai was devouring the bodies in Goblin City, he deliberately saved Grog's heart and two arms, wanting to see if feeding them to the Little Worker Ant could trigger its evolution.
For Su Bai, Grog's heart and arms were just a source of experience and Evolution Points.
But for the Tiny Level Little Worker Ant and Queen Ant, the heart and arms of a lord-level monster were like a once-in-a-millennium treasure, enough to help them pass through the crucial initial growth stage.
After becoming Su Bai's vassals, although the Little Worker Ant and Queen Ant could not communicate fluently, they already understood his intentions.
When the heart and arms fell to the ground, both ants crawled toward the bowl-sized heart simultaneously. Without any prompt from Su Bai, they instinctively sensed the immense essence contained within.
Compared to the Little Worker Ant and Queen Ant, Grog's heart was like a small mountain.
With each bite of flesh and blood, they gained massive amounts of experience.
In Su Bai's perception, within just a few minutes, the aura emitted by the Little Worker Ant and Queen Ant had grown noticeably stronger.
Even their body sizes began to slowly increase.
As for the other ants…
When Su Bai chose the ant species as his Subject Race and designated Queen Ant as one of his vassals, these other ants were destined to be abandoned.
Mature ants had little chance to evolve, and only the new eggs laid by the Queen Ant after its growth were recognized by Su Bai as the Subject Race!
Time passed bit by bit.
After a full hour, Grog's heart was completely consumed, and both the Little Worker Ant and Queen Ant had broken through the limits of the Tiny Level, officially advancing to creatures with levels.
Following Su Bai's command, the Little Worker Ant and Queen Ant took one arm each and continued feeding.
Several more hours passed. When the two arms had turned into bare bones, their growth was finally complete.
At this time, the Little Worker Ant and Queen Ant had reached level three.
Thanks to their warrior templates, even at just level three, the Little Worker Ant and Queen Ant had four core attributes comparable to advanced Goblins, and their Health Points far exceeded those.
At this stage, even if Su Bai let go and stopped managing them, the Little Worker Ant and Queen Ant had the basic strength to survive in Gloomy Jungle.
As long as they avoided lord-level and elite monsters, the ant race would soon take root, grow, and flourish in Gloomy Jungle, eventually replacing the Goblin race as rulers.
However…
An ant race comparable to the Goblin race was far from enough for Su Bai.
Having invested such huge costs, naturally he hoped for the ant race to grow ever stronger, until it was unrivaled!
Under Su Bai's orders, the Queen Ant returned to the deep, already excavated part of the ant nest to lay eggs.
With the abundant food supplied by Su Bai, the Queen Ant produced egg after egg, each as large as a pigeon's egg, densely occupying the nest's depths.
In just one day, hundreds of larvae hatched from the eggs.
Each larva was three centimeters long and emitted an aura reaching Tiny Level—the level previously only reached by the Queen Ant and Little Worker Ant!
Then, under Su Bai's command, these hundreds of newly mobile larvae swarmed out and swept the area within a 500-meter radius of the nest.
They hunted all creatures in their path—whether insects like spiders, grasshoppers, crickets, or small animals like frogs, toads, and mice.
Any creature that had not become a formal monster was their target.
Within half a day, the swarm killed hundreds of various creatures as food, but more than a third of the larvae also perished.
At this time, the Queen Ant, after consuming a large amount of food, laid a second batch of eggs.
When the second batch of larvae matured and joined the hunting, the swarm's patrol range expanded from 500 meters to 1,000 meters.
Then came the third batch, the fourth batch…
Finally, after five days, having consumed massive amounts of food, the Queen Ant broke through to level four.
Its four core attributes increased again, meaning its egg-laying capacity further improved.
Meanwhile, the colony saw its first ant break through its limits and grow into a level one monster!
Once there was one, there would be more.
Seven days later, the number of ants growing into level one monsters rose to four.
Nine days later, the number increased from four to seven.
Twelve days later, the number of level one monsters grew from seven to ten!
Then, Gloomy Jungle's level one and level two monsters also became targets of the ant colony's hunt.
By this time, the first batch of ants born had mostly perished.
Even those from the second and third batches surviving the twelve days of hunting were very few.
However, every surviving ant either broke its limits or successfully awakened a racial talent, becoming a standout among the ants.
Twelve days of hunting had cost thousands of ants their lives,
but the total size of the colony did not decrease; instead, it grew.
Countless corpses of creatures were brought back by the swarm as food, not only keeping the Little Worker Ant and Queen Ant in a constant state of growth but also gradually strengthening the colony's overall power.
With the Mutation Egg talent, each time the Queen Ant consumes a species' corpse, it fine-tunes the eggs, making the newborn ants slightly stronger.
Though each minor adjustment was nearly negligible, accumulated over time, the newborn ants grew stronger and the colony's overall strength increased.
Unnoticed by anyone, Su Bai began a frenzy of troop production at the edge of Gloomy Jungle.
Along with the Frenzied Berserker, the ant race's mad evolution had begun!
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