Another half month passed.
The Little Worker Ant's level rose to 5, while the Queen Ant's level increased to 6.
The strength of the ant colony had grown countless times over.
In half a month, the colony had accumulated over a hundred level-1 ants, reaching the peak of Tiny Level. The number of ants just one step away from breaking through had reached several hundred.
However, this was already the limit of the colony's development.
It wasn't that the colony's potential stopped here, but that at the edge of Gloomy Jungle, there were no longer enough resources to support the ants in continuing their rapid expansion and evolution.
During this time, all living creatures within a ten-kilometer radius had been wiped out by the ants and became food for the entire colony's evolution.
To continue growing, they had to relocate.
Gloomy Jungle was vast.
At Su Bai's current speed, it would take two full days just to travel from the forest's edge to its center.
Such a massive forest had enough space to accommodate tens of thousands of ants.
What Su Bai needed to consider was where to settle the ants so they could survive while maximizing their advantages, allowing them to once again begin near-unlimited population expansion and evolution.
"If it were Goblin City…"
After some thought, Su Bai chose Goblin City.
As the former royal city of the Goblins, Goblin City was located at the center of Gloomy Jungle.
After Su Bai killed Grog, the Goblins gathered there had all fled and scattered around the central area of Gloomy Jungle. The monsters active there were mostly between level 7 and 10.
If it were just the current ants, they would naturally struggle to survive in this area.
But with Su Bai's oversight, the ants could easily get through the initial phase. Once the new wave of expansion began and more powerful ants appeared, they could firmly establish themselves in the heart of Gloomy Jungle.
Just like when the ants first arrived at the center of Gloomy Jungle, their losses would be painfully high.
But surviving the initial stage would bring huge benefits.
More and higher-level monsters not only provided richer food and experience for the ants, but after devouring these monsters and fine-tuning the eggs again, newly hatched ants would be even stronger!
Once the ants secured their foothold in the center of Gloomy Jungle, they would have the capital to crush the Goblin race!
"However… moving so many ants is a huge project…"
Glancing over the vast ant swarm, Su Bai prepared to abandon some ants.
The level-1 ants and those who had awakened racial talents would definitely be taken.
As for the rest…
They would be discarded just as before.
Within Su Bai's Subject Race, the Queen Ant was absolutely central. As long as the Queen Ant survived, even if the entire ant colony was wiped out, she could lay eggs again and quickly raise a new ant army in just a few days.
If breaking racial limits and awakening talents weren't so difficult, Su Bai would even consider taking only the Little Worker Ant and Queen Ant with him.
As for the discarded ants…
Without the Queen Ant, they would continue to hunt and live their previous lives. Once this batch died or aged out, the local ant colony would be extinct.
Survival was hard.
Living in such a survival-of-the-fittest game world was even harder.
If the pace of evolution couldn't keep up with the overall growth of the colony, they would ultimately be abandoned or become experience and food for stronger beings.
Not only for the ant colony but for Su Bai himself.
...
After more than ten days, Su Bai finally arrived at the edge of Goblin City with the Little Worker Ant, Queen Ant, and several hundred ants.
They did not enter the ruined city.
Instead, Su Bai chose a small hill near Goblin City as the new ant nest, starting a new wave of population expansion and evolution.
On the first day, the Queen Ant laid over a thousand eggs, and the several hundred ants that followed began tentative hunts.
Hundreds of ants lost dozens of members but returned with over a dozen Goblin and other monster corpses.
On the second day, thousands of eggs hatched, and the newborn ants immediately joined the hunt.
More ants died in hunting, but brought back several times more monster corpses than before.
From the third day onward, the colony's development entered a positive cycle.
Each day, hundreds of ants died in hunts, and new ants either broke racial limits or awakened talents.
As the number of level-1 ants increased, hunting became easier.
Five days later, the number of level-1 ants exceeded 150.
Ten days later, it exceeded 200.
Half a month later, after devouring countless monster corpses and undergoing countless fine tunings, the eggs laid by the Queen Ant hatched into ants that immediately reached the peak of Tiny Level.
Then, the number of level-1 ants experienced an explosive growth!
Twenty-five days: 300 ants!
One month: 500 ants!
Thirty-five days: 800 ants!
The growing number of level-1 ants and the appearance of higher-level ants made the colony increasingly powerful.
The scattered monsters in the center of Gloomy Jungle were no match for the massive ant army moving as one.
Centered on the nest, more and more monsters were cleared out, becoming experience and food for the ants' evolution, making the colony even stronger.
A new wave of population expansion had begun!
Until…
Two months later.
"Ding! Your Vassal Queen Ant has reached level 10."
"Under the command of Queen Ant, the ant colony's number of ants breaking level 1 exceeds 50% of the total colony. The colony is judged to have broken racial limits and evolved from Tiny Level to a formal monster race. You may rename this colony or keep the previous race name."
The colony evolved!
As if expecting this result, when the system notification sounded, Su Bai smiled faintly and silently said, "Rename the colony."
"The new colony name will be… Gold-devouring Ant!"
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