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- It was taking too long. The sun was already high up in the sky, and my ants had barely gotten started on the back room. At this rate, night would fall before the first pitfall was done. I had 5 mana to use to speed things up, but if I did I wouldn’t be able to move my core; I might as well not have any left. It was frustrating, but there was nothing I could do.
- It was irritating how much time my ants were wasting, though. They chewed their way through a certain area of dirt, then had to walk all the way back to the entrance to dump it. I had 3 ants to use, but the hallway was too long, and they were taking forever just walking instead of digging.
- I took over, assuming control of all 3 ants at the same time. There was no sense of disorientation at all, even though my point of view became anything but human in triplicate; just another symptom of the fact that I apparently wasn’t human anymore.
- As a test, I made one of the ants, one that had carried a blob of dirt on its way to the surface, drop the dirt on the ground. It remained there, ready for pickup. I made that ant pick its dirt back up, then when one of the ants finished digging, I made it give that dirt blob to the other ant, who carried it through the hallway. That first ant dropped the dirt outside and came back, walking just enough to meet the third ant mid-way down the corridor to pick up its load of dirt. The third ant returned to the new room and helped the digging ant, then carried the dirt back to the hallway for the first ant to pick up and throw outside. I did this twice more, before I felt a sense of understanding wonder from my minions.
- As a test, I released control. To my surprise, they continued doing exactly what I’d shown them.
- They had the ability to learn.
- Interesting, I thought with a grin.
- Or… well, a dungeon equivalent of a grin.
- Thanks to this method, they started digging much faster, and by the time the sky started to turn paler, the room was finally finished.
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