Ants are neat

As Selena walked through the halls of her underground abode, she suddenly turned to look in a particular direction, as she suddenly sensed some vibration.

"She punched a wall?" mumbled Selena as she began walking to her disciple's little laboratory with an interested look on her face.

For some time, Selena had been busy, and as such, could not pay much attention to what her disciple was doing.

A few moments later, Selena opened a certain door, revealing Beatrice who at the moment was sitting on a chair, staring at a small piece of metal.

Surrounding Beatrice was ninety-six different small and enclosures, with over seventy of them having ants inside of them.

Seeing this, Selena took a glance at a nearby wall, which had a fist mark imprinted into it, and walked next to her disciple.

At this moment, Beatrice was staring at a clearly dead ant queen lying on a metal plate, her eyes completely bloodshot as she stared at the tiny bug.

As Selena looked at the small ant queen lying dead on the piece of metal, a small amount of surprise appeared on her face, causing her to take a closer look at it.

"That's an ant of the Burvopus Ant species, right? It looks like too many fluctuations in temperature caused it's death," said Selena as she searched through her memory.

Although Selena did not do much research on ants, her memory could not be compared to a normal human, as such, she eventually remembered a certain book about ants that she had read.

"Even though this ant species likes the cold, this one looks like it froze to death, but sadly, this is not very rare, this species is extremely fragile in regards to temperature, requiring it to stay at around - to -8 degrees, otherwise it will not survive for long," said Selena as she turned her attention to the number of ant colonies scattered across the lab.

Right now, Selena was somewhat curious as to how her disciple had obtained some of the ant species present, but compared to that curiosity, Selena was still very much focused on her work.

"Since you are so curious about ants, you can go to the library and check out books 34 to 41 on the 7th row of the library, make sure to not damage those books, they are very expensive," said Selena before disappearing, leaving no time for Beatrice to say anything.

At the same time, a small key suddenly appeared in Beatrice's hand.

...

A few minutes later,

Staring at the door in front of her, Beatrice took out a small key from the insides of her robe, before inserting it into the magically modified look.

The moment the key entered the lock, the door, which was formerly closed shut opened, revealing a large room filled with books.

Staring at the eleven large rows of bookshelves, Beatrice's eyes couldn't help but slightly light up, as she quickly walked into the room after taking the key out of the lock.

The moment Beatrice entered the room, she walked up to the first row of bookshelves she could see, one with the number [1] written on its sides.

But the moment Beatrice stretched out her fingers to touch the bookshelf, she then retracted them.

The moment her finger grazed the first bookshelf, Beatrice's dark barrier suddenly began melting at an extremely exaggerated speed, unlike anything she had seen before.

"As expected, she wouldn't let me walk through here all alone without leaving anything to restrain me," mumbled Beatrice as a slight chill appeared in her heart.

In the one moment that Beatrice touched the bookshelf, her dark barrier had melted halfway through.

After this small scene, Beatrice no longer dared to loiter around the library and quickly walked to the seventh row of bookshelves.

Only a moment of searching later, although Beatrice was not sure how her teacher counted the books, she was pretty sure she had found what she had needed.

"Hopefully things go fine," mumbled Beatrice as she stretched out her finger towards the book titled 'Ants Volume 1'.

Thankfully, as Beatrice expected, nothing had happened after she touched the book about ants, allowing her to pick it up and take it away.

In only a few moments, Beatrice had taken the other six books with similar titles and fled the library, no longer daring to stay in this place.

...

Later that day, staring at the tiny Burvopus ant egg which was sitting in a large container, Beatrice took in a deep breath before beginning to focus her mana.

A moment later, the egg, which still had at least one or two weeks until it would hatch suddenly began changing at a rapid speed.

After only a few moments, a small crack appeared in the egg, and then a small ant crawled outside.

"I wonder how this actually works," mumbled Beatrice as she looked at the spell circle that was visible in the 'Ants, Volume 1'.

Contrary to her expectations, this book not only contained a lot of information about ants but also contained two whole spells.

The Ant Growth and Ant control spells more specifically.

But after thinking about that for a few moments, Beatrice couldn't help but turn her attention back to the little ant which was sitting in a specially chilled container.

Unlike her previous Burvopus ant, which quickly became sick and died after being born, this little ant was extremely energetic.

"If I use the Ant Growth Spell every day, it will only take around a week for her to fully grow up," mumbled Beatrice as she turned her attention to the little ant pyramid she had built.

When the Burvopus Ant grew up, Beatrice would have to breed it with the Docepinae Ant Queen so as to hopefully give birth to some Wrozevian Ants..

Only after doing that twice more, so as to obtain the Onone and Nunnileon ant species would Beatrice finally be close to reaching her actual goal.

Obtaining a long-gone Supernatural Ant Species, the Earth Ants.