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.
