They couldn’t tell him not to try to help with completing their mission. So they could only watch him make him move.
Monarch Nether Flame and Ant Hill didn’t think that he could do much and weren’t concerned when he began summoning helpers. Their expectations for him were very low, so they only glanced briefly at him before looking away.
Loki chose to summon his ant drones. With a thought, a tunnel was opened in his Cave Heaven, and small drones came flying out of it.
He considered them to be small, but they were bigger than the undead that Nether Flame had summoned. So they were many times bigger than the ants that Ant Hill produced.
These small drones had undergone some changes since the first iteration that he designed. They can still fly like he initially made them, but they can also swim well now.
In order to make them capable of swimming, he constructed a barreled propeller through their body. There is an opening for the barreled propeller in their chest, where water would be pulled in, and another opening by their abdomen where water would be pushed out.
So the barreled propeller is actually a jet engine. It is a water jet engine, though.
The drones still possess the drill bits for mouths, the saws that were attached to their appendages, and the guns that were placed on their backs. The main changes in this regard were that all of these weapons had been modified to work under high-pressure conditions, and the gun had been turned into a laser gun.
The guns used are rail guns that shoot kinetic ammunition at targets. But he tried it and realized that physical ammunition was less effective underwater compared to lasers. So he replaced the rail guns with high-powered lasers.
He only released a hundred of these drones. Compared to the one million undead that Nether Flame produced and the hundred thousand ants that Ant Hill produced, his contributions seemed meagre.
But his contributions to the defense were nothing that could be underestimated because the ant drones were all rank 6 constructs that could use the power of Hammock’s Cave Heaven. So each one of them is as powerful as the void ship that brought them here.
When the three of them saw what he had summoned, they had to reassess what they thought of him. The first thing they thought was that he couldn’t be underestimated, even though he was weak and fresh.
The second thing that went through their minds was how the ant drones were creations of a forger. They didn’t think he made them, since he was clearly a money cultivator, not a forge cultivator.
So they believed that he borrowed the ant drones from someone. This made their evaluation of him who had just risen to fall again. After all, they too could borrow drones from others. The fact that Loki could only mean that he was connected to a forger.
When Money Body saw the ant drones, he thought to himself, saying, ’I’m guessing that the person who helped him to kill the old gold body is the forger who made these metal insects. Even if the forger didn’t participate directly in the killing of the old gold body, the forger must be related to whoever is supporting this new gold body.’
Meanwhile, Loki’s actions had spurred the others on. Because he had produced high-quality troops, the amount of contribution they can earn has been reduced. In order to secure a higher contribution, they decided to up the ante.
Ant Hill immediately produced more rank 6 ants. These were special ants that were made from eggs that she laid herself and nurtured with divine materials and world essence, just so that they could use the power of her Cave Heaven.
In a batch of ten eggs that she laid, hatched, and nurtured, only 3 reach adulthood and achieve rank 6. And it usually takes 200 years of time or 500 years of world essence for each one to reach rank 6. So the loss of a single rank 6 ant is a big loss to her.
But now, she took out 15 of them. She had summoned 5 rank 6 ants earlier, so there were now 20 of them ready to fight.
When she saw that this amount still wasn’t enough to compete with Loki’s ant drones, she gritted her teeth and took out ten more rank 6 ants. This made a total of 30 rank 6 ants.
100 rank 6 giant ant drones are far greater in quantity and quality of power compared to 30 rank 6 ants. This was clear to Loki and Ant Hill. In fact, everyone knew it.
So Ant Hill knew that what she had produced was not good enough. But even though she knew this, there was nothing more that she could do to narrow the gap between them.
She had reached her limit and could go no further. At this point, she could only rely on the army of a hundred thousand ants to help her narrow the gap.
On the other side, Nether Flame also summoned more powerful undead to do his bidding. This time, he summoned some rank 6 undead.
These rank 6 undead can’t use the power of his Cave Heaven since he didn’t make them. They can only borrow the power of the Cave Heaven of the divine being who made them and sold them to him.
Since he bought them, these special rank 6 undead were more expensive to acquire than the rank 6 ants that Ant Hill produced. After all, she has the Divine Metac to make ants, while he doesn’t have any Divine Metac for making undead.
Making undead isn’t his specialty at all. So he could only produce ten rank 6 undead at great cost.
Loki saw all of these and began to wonder to himself if Hammock had an advantage in making rank 6 creatures or if these two divine beings were just lazy.
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