61 Plunder (1/2)
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Soldier Ants are very easy to recognize, the simplest ways are either their sizes or colors. The Worker Ants are at the size of a normal horse carriage, while the Soldier Ants are at least twice if not bigger than them. Worker ants have a bright red shells covering their bodies, while the Soldier Ants have maroon colored shells.
Another visual cue is that Soldier Ants had a pair of wings. The wings starts from the upper body of the ant and reaches the end of their body. It is colored green and mostly transparent, one could also see vein-like patterns across the wings.
Raven activated his ocular technique to gauge just how strong this Soldier Ant. Once he made an accurate judgement, he relaxed since he knew that this one won't be able to see through his concealment. This was evident by the busy screeching of the Soldier Ant towards the Worker Ants, it was probably handing out orders and didn't even noticed him.
After some more screech from the Soldier Ant, Raven saw it left and the Worker Ants resume their movements. He breathed a sigh of relief and continued to move. He constantly reminded himself to be careful, specially he was in proximity of multiple ants. This was a very daring move but he had confidence in himself and knew that he can pull this off.
Raven tailed one of the worker ants closely and ended up arriving as what seems to the Nursery. He briefly surveyed the place and found nothing worth his interest so he left. Back on the previous section, he once again tailed another worker ant and arrived at another place.
This time it was a bit more special. While it might be strange for these ants, but they do have a tendency to hoard things, mostly shiny objects. And Raven arrived specifically where they keep most of that.
The ant he was following just rotated with the one present here, now only him and the ant he followed was left. He waited until the ant turned it's back against him and started patrolling the place, he used that opportunity to move and go closer to the hill of shiny objects.
His eyes glittered at the amount of treasure they managed to hoard. Gems, crystals, weapons, armors, clothes, he even saw some high grade spatial rings in here. Just how long have this ants been around to gather all of this!? Well, doesn't matter to him, since they were kind enough to leave it here then he had no qualms about taking everything that he could.
Raven moved slowly, making sure that the ant wasn't looking his way. He placed his hand on one of the spatial rings and stashed it away. Fortunately, placing things inside his ring doesn't make any sound, or else he would screwed by now.
Raven picked the items he absorbed carefully, he made sure that when he stashed something away, the thing on top of it won't fall.
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So far, he managed to get a handful of gems, a bunch of crystals, five spatial rings, 9 pieces of armor, and 5 kinds of weapons. As for those shiny clothing, he left them behind. Of course, Raven was far from stopping there. Each time that the ant wasn't looking, or was on patrol, he would seize the chance to stash away as many items as he could.
After 30 minutes of plundering, the size of hoard hill in front of him visibly shrank, but the ant remained ignorant about it. Thank god for it's low intelligence, the only thing in it's mind is probably it's duty and nothing else. This specifically made it so easier for Raven.
But now, Raven was in quite a pinch. His concealment would soon run out. The time he took from the camp all the way inside the colony took 15 minutes already, so in total he had 15 minutes left before it lose it's effectiveness.
Raven had to make a decision as early as now, should he continue with his plunder or get out if this place as soon as possible?
'Oh wait nevermind, I forgot I have three batches of Concealment Powders. Hehe, I'm an idiot.'
Raven slapped his face because of his stupidity, he can't believe that he forgot something so simple. He then decided to move out from the line of sight of the ant and re-apply the powder on his body. Once that was done, he now had nothing to worry about. He then went on and proceed with his grand plunder.