'You… want to rule an even bigger territory?' Theo asked with a flabbergasted expression in the real world.
But the others could only stare at him.
Through the hive link, the ant queen had something along the lines of that and that it needed strength to bring the colony to a level where it could expand beyond just a cramped patch of land.
Images of the Whispering Forest surfaced in Theo's mind, just like the ones he had seen when he first tamed the ant queen.
'So all this time, your goal wasn't just to live freely in the forest… but to rule the whole forest instead?' Theo asked.
The ant queen nodded.
Theo didn't know what to think at the moment; he had interpreted those earlier images of the forest very differently from what the ant queen had meant to convey.
If not for the hive link, Theo was sure it might have taken far longer for him to uncover this fact. Thanks to their connection through their minds, the exchange was carried out without much effort.
