THE STORY OF HEROES AND DEMONS
The black ant queen

At the foot of the Ribbon hill there is a camp or where the miners live while being guarded by the soldiers of the Zorgan Union.

About 150 men aged 30-50 years, they are employed by the Union because the mineral mines in Ribbon hill are included in the assets of the Union, the, so that mining outside the place will be considered illegal and violate the law.

Moving further away from where the miners live, there is a cave that became the location of the search for calivira flowers.

Zen momentarily felt a terrifying Aura sensation coming out from Goa's mouth, most likely coming from the life energy of the colonies of black Ants demonic beasts nesting within.

But then they would step in, a loud rumbling, coming from Zen's own stomach.

"Now that we rest first, it will be difficult if we fight with an empty stomach." Zen smiled with embarrassment.

Hiyo did not reply, only a slight nod of her head as she agreed.

Zen took out the Stone Deer Meat which he had cut neatly before. Just need to create pans and other cooking tools to start making something for them to eat.

Thinking of making a stew of venison, though not with vegetables, but with all the seasonings Zen has certainly had a better taste than just being grilled.

Zen began cutting the meat of small stone Deer in the form of dice, heating the pot and began to put oil to saute the meat and plants named Orarin which resembles an onion.

'As long as it tastes similar and is non-toxic then that's fine.'

After all the browning, then Zen sprinkled salt, a little sugar, pepper, vinegar, soy sauce, broth water, a bottle of preserved wine and sago flour. Waiting for a moment until the broth water a little corner and turned thick, then Zen opened the lid of the pot and put it on the plate.

Hiyo's eyes glittered at the stony venison stewed with brownish broth.

Once again Hiyo shed tears as she began to enjoy the venison stew that Zen had just made.

"It's too much, if you cry for the food." Said Zen who laughed looking at Hiyo's facial expression.

"No, it's not that."

"Oh, does that mean my cooking is bad." Zen teased.

Hiyo was confused because she didn't know what to say...."You're wrong, it's delicious, it's just, I can't explain why I cried."

"Enjoy, if less, there is still much." Zen was quite happy because Hiyo was no longer moody.

After all the meat was gone by the two of them, Zen was now preparing himself with the sword blade in hand.

"Let's go in."

"I'm sorry, but I'm not." Hiyo refuses.

"Why ?."

"I don't like dark, cramped places and crawling animals." Shaking Hiyo's body when imagining.

Zen did not force it either..."Hmmm all right, so you just wait outside."

Hiyo looked around, in this place still had dense trees and was also silent, she immediately pulled on Zen's clothes quickly before entering Goa.

"What's up ?."

"Don't leave me alone."

"Then come with me in ?." Answer Zen.

Hiyo hesitated again..."But..."

Knowing that Hiyo was hesitating, Zen forcibly pulled his hand and brought it inside the cave. All seemed dark, only the points of light emanating from the crystal stone became the lights of the path.

Zen and Hiyo continued to walk down the aisle to reach the moist and watery hull of Goa, where it became a growing habitat for calivira flowers.

Following the direction of the passageway that brought them down, felt that it was deep enough but not yet visible at the end. Until there were many footsteps walking like the sound of the tip of the sword being scratched into the rocks.

"It looks like we almost got into their lair." Zen whisper so as not to make a loud noise.

"We shouldn't go back." Said Hiyo curled up in the back.

"It's close, we can't just go back."

"Isn't that enough with the Rios, with that you can get 15 gold coins."

"Don't worry, I'll make sure everything's okay." Zen convinces Hiyo that is too much.

Seeing Hiyo now, just like her who always looks for an excuse when invited to hunt by Sena. At that time, Zen still had a life with both parents and was hiding behind his true identity as a demon race.

He just needs to think about not doing something dangerous and prefer to live a safe life at risk. But everything has changed, he has no other choice and must try to find a way to earn money.

Right at the end of the hallway, Zen was brought into the main Goa room with dozens of Ants wandering around as a large colony, they were crawling on the wall, they were, eating food from the demon beasts they caught and also digging a lot of holes.

But there was one oddity, it was a round object that gave off a reddish glow on top of a pile of carpenters and mixed with hundreds of soul stones.

"It's like an egg, but it's too big." Zen Gumam.

[Evolutionary process - Black soil ants become perfect.]

'Who is talking.' Zen was puzzled because suddenly there was an unknown voice heard in his mind.

There is no other answer. But hearing about evolution is the starting point of new life of a being. Like a lizard that has dragon blood. They could not be said to be a dragon for now.

Yet in the thousands or even tens of thousands of years after absorbing the energy essence from their prey, it would manifest itself as half a dragon.

So also for this land Ant, he is doing an evolutionary process in order to get a new form that is stronger.

Zen's presence is now at an inopportune time, where a crack appears at the top of the egg, a hand appearing to destroy the shell from the inside.

His figure walked on two legs, but on his back there were about four hands, as well as the mouth had two sharp fangs that advanced forward.

Looking at the form of ant evolution, Zen really remembered how the predators in the movie 'predator Vs alien' is very similar.

[New awakening, Black Ant Queen]

The energy aura was extremely powerful, it was on the same level as the SS category demon beasts.

"I-iiiiini, it is impossible for us to fight it." Hiyo could not help herself anymore to be calm.

The frightened Hiyo, now tried to run away. However the sound of shouting caught the attention of the black Ant Queen and jumped up at high speed.

Zen could see his movements, he had just passed by and opened a sharp claw that was ready to plunge towards Hiyo. Just before the attack of the Red Ant Queen came, three huge swords were created and became shields.

"You can't hurt the girl, I'm responsible for bringing her home safely." Zen.

The Ant Queen now turned towards Zen who was ready to fight back.

"Humans.... No, you are a demon, in front of this Queen, you must kneel."

After evolving, this demonic beast had already cultivated spiritual intelligence, he could understand human words and begin to communicate. His ability to think that was what made the Black Ant Queen a difficult opponent for Zen right now.