The Martial Unity

"Ants?" Kane raised an eyebrow. "Like, normal small ants? The type that are pretty easy to kill hopefully?"

"I'm afraid to disappoint you, but… these seem pretty non-standard," Rui murmured. "Come on, I found a pathway to it. We don't need to break through a bunch of tunnels this time."

The two of them quickly moved and followed a particular tunnel path that Rui guided him through before they eventually ran into an open wide space, yet it wasn't entirely unoccupied.

"Woah," Kane did a double take. "Is that… an anthill?!"

Even he could perceive the gigantic structure.

"It's an ant mountain, actually," Rui murmured as he sized up the gigantic structure. "It wouldn't be the first time a floor has contained a mountain-sized structure."

He recalled the sixteenth floor with the tree.

"So how many ants are there in the colony?" Kane gulped.

"Tens of thousands," Rui murmured. "On the low side as far as ant colonies go."

Rui could feel the various ants trickling in and out of the holes in the ant mountain, he could roughly gauge their number as he swept through them counting them in groups.

we have to deal with tens of thousands of Squire-level monsters?" Kane raised an eyebrow. "We're not Martial Seniors, just in case

doomed since monsters outnumber Martial Artists immensely.

results. This was why even as a Martial Apprentice whose

these ants possess the equivalent of a grade-five body, they're basically as strong as a grade-two Martial Squire," Rui explained. "On top of that, they're usually stupid as hell, and so when you include our strategic and tactical prowess,

that's not always necessarily true, look at the Shionel taipans, a single bite from them is

"It is a nuanced matter, still, I'm pointing out

evaluated to be on par with grade-ten Martial Squires due to its vastly greater physique. That was

numbers, he didn't feel

it also has to do

and courses of action were so rigid, that he didn't

building predictive models, he was more interested in understanding how the

Rui murmured. "I wonder if that's true for them even

science lessons," Kane scoffed. "Where

but I am curious as to what's going on here. They don't ever leave the dungeon considering we haven't run into one

what the ants

good portion of the ants was on the ant mountain, working on the walls, seemingly gathering dirt from the floor while piling it on the walls with some adhesive-like substance from their

was gathering esoteric ore deposits from the

be the most interesting. The ants were able to detect and mineral and

complex array