Ant Lord in the Star Realm-Chapter 718 - 595: Seeing Flash Butterfly Zi Again_3

Purple: "Likewise, accompanying the 3021st Army in action, there's also a Jade Dragonfly Warrior from Mighty Spirit Mountain named 'Green Heart'—the Green Heart Dragonfly King. Thanks to its racial talent, its vision is sharp and its flying speed is fast. If anything happens at the front-line outposts, it rushes back to the central command palace right away to report to the Three Fruit Bee Queen."

"Green Heart? Jade Dragonfly Warrior?"

Ink Orchid couldn't help exclaiming joyfully: "Green Heart has become an Insect King too! It joined the battle as well!"

Purple: "???"

Purple: "You two know Green Heart?"

Ink Orchid: "I know it a bit, but not well..."

Dragon Cypress: "Met once. Honest and steady, more straightforward than Butterfly."

Purple: "..."

Purple: "Yellow Stem Ant King, Bayonet Mantis, are you two really planning to go to Wave Tree Bay to fight?"

Dragon Cypress confirmed: "Definitely going to fight, just a matter of time."

Purple: "It's obvious you two are very strong, way stronger than ordinary Insect Clan Warriors."

Purple: "But it's useless. On a battlefield with tens of millions, no matter how strong you are individually, you'll still get swamped by a tide of insects in an instant. This untrustworthy Butterfly kindly reminds you: stay sneaky, don't play the hero."

Dragon Cypress: "Of course! I get it."

Ink Orchid asked: "Purple, the One Fruit, Two Fruit, and Three Fruit Bee Queens have all left?"

Purple: "Yep, they left the Origin Force Star Realm three years ago. The One Fruit Bee Queen's leader seat was taken by the Bloodvine Bee King; the Two Fruit Bee Queen's spot was taken by the Bee King Sedge; as for the Three Fruit Bee Queen's position, after several rounds of competition, it ultimately landed with the Ant Clan—the Azure Mica Ant King from the Cunning Whisker Ants took over."

Purple: "The landscape of the Wave Tree Bay United Kingdom has subtly shifted: the five top leader positions are now held by two Bee Kings, two Ant Kings, and one Dragonfly King. The era of Bee Kings dominating is over; now it's a balanced co-rule between the Bee and Ant Clans."

Purple: "Mighty Spirit Mountain maintains good relations with the Azure Mica Ant King of the Cunning Whisker Ants, always supporting its rise to leadership. Our Fire Wheel Island has close ties with Mighty Spirit Mountain too, so we only agreed to send troops after seeing the Azure Mica Ant King successfully take the leader position."

Dragon Cypress: "Are there any perks? What perks, specifically?"

Purple: "No big perks. But at least you won't get casually tossed into dangerous assignments and die for nothing."

Purple: "There's some minor benefits. During the ceasefire between Wave Tree Bay and Blue Island, the five top leaders plus the thirteen deputy leaders have a very important job: traveling around Bayonet and the Zhibai Continent, lobbying various kingdoms and tribes, fundraising for military supplies."

Purple: "Everyone knows how fierce the Stone Hunt Blue Ants are, and that if Wave Tree Bay falls, the consequences will be dire. So, many wealthy kingdoms and tribes will more or less donate some—tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, even over a million. This kind of major war only happens once every thirty years, so they only raise funds once every thirty years, and there are a lot of contributors. It all adds up to a pretty huge sum every time—supposedly it can reach into the billions, and in good years, even two billion."

Purple: "At the end of each round of war, the five top leaders take charge, together with the thirteen deputy leaders, to discuss and hand out rewards based on merit. Of course, how much reward you get is flexible—if you have a good relationship with certain leaders and support them strongly, your share will definitely be bigger."

Purple: "For example, me—first time I joined the battle, I ran six missions, delivered six combat orders, didn't do anything else, and in the end, my reward was 300,000 Source Stones. Also, the Spider King Scrolls distributed by the Wave Tree Bay United Kingdom have a special mark, so you can go to any Spider King Caravan and outright buy whatever Divine-Given Origin Force Food you need, no questions asked."

Purple: "Of course, I am at least an Insect King, so that reward really isn't much for my level."

Ink Orchid asked: "What if you make a real contribution? Like killing one of Blue Island's Assistant Kings."

Purple: "Then the reward's big. The details depend on the Assistant King's strength, from 1 million up to 50 million. Killing a Mountain Lord Level Little Assistant King only gets you a million. But if you take down one of those Assistant Kings who've mastered 'Sea Beast Devouring,' the reward goes up to 50 million."

Purple: "Killing the Blue Island Ant King can earn you up to 100 million Source Stones. The rewards are split into three tiers: the lowest is an Ant King with no awakened Wind System Talent and no Sea Beast Devouring Ability—reward is just 30 million; a level higher is an Ant King who's awakened the Wind System Talent but hasn't mastered Sea Beast Devouring Ability—killing that one gets you 50 million; the top tier is Ant Kings who HAVE mastered Sea Beast Devouring Ability—reward is 100 million Source Stones."

Purple: "Take out the Blue Island Ant King, Assistant King, or a Sea God Horn Beetle Warrior, and you get extra rewards—a certain quota allowing you to use Source Stones to buy Divine-Grade Fruit."

Ink Orchid was getting tempted, and said excitedly: "That's a fortune in rewards!"

Purple: "That's why every battle, there are always bugs who throw their lives away chasing the riches."

Dragon Cypress knocked Ink Orchid with his antennae to snap the eager bug out of it, not wanting to say any more.

Purple stayed in high spirits and kept going: "Of course, some bugs DO pull it off; there are success stories—at least I've heard of them..."

...

Snow Velvet Spider King stands at the very top of the continent's spider hierarchy; it deals only with the high command—leaders and deputy leaders of the Wave Tree Bay United Kingdom.

Purple is a bug thoroughly at the bottom of the continent's food chain, only ever interacting with Wave Tree Bay's grunts at the bottom. The Wave Tree Bay it knows is the real Wave Tree Bay.

Dragon Cypress and Ink Orchid dug deep for information.

Not that they needed to ask much—Purple's just that talkative, and said it all unprompted, going on and on.