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Looking at her mistress, who was staring at her with a smile on her face, Antonia, who usually retained her calm, couldn't help but become slightly giddy.

"Mistress, do you really approve of the expansion plan?" asked Antonia as she looked at Beatrice, causing the latter to nod.

Upon learning of the fact that Beatrice had trimmed the mage population of Golwall Island, Antonia, who desperately desired more land for the colony to develop, once again asked Beatrice for her permission.

Previous, as Beatrice was somewhat worried about her activities being discovered to other mages, she refused Antonia's plan, which involved both increasing the land that the colony could expand in, and also the creation of several sub-colonies, like the one that Canty had created.

"You can consider your request preliminarily accepted, I'll draft up a more concrete plan for the expansion of the colony after doing some investigation," said Beatrice with a smile on her face.

Now that she had finally cleaned up Golwall Island, although the island was still not yet her territory, Beatrice was much less worried than before, and decided to accept Antonia's request.

Upon hearing the words of her mistress, Antonia couldn't help but want to jump into the air, but even so, the Ant did her best to restrain herself in front of her mistress.

...

As she stared at the map of Golwall Kingdom in front of her, which had several ants drawn on it, Beatrice couldn't help but fall into thought.

Although her control of the Island would massively increase in the following months, the arrival of outside people or mages was not something that Beatrice could control, at least not yet, as such the new ant colonies had to be placed nearby the original colony, so that Beatrice would have enough time to respond to any threats.

After some thought, Beatrice had managed to pick out the locations of all but one of the new sub-colonies she wanted to create.

Sadly though, that final colony was a bit trickier than the others.

As the other colonies had occupied all the good spots, which held a lot of natural resources, there wasn't actually much left unclaimed around Beatrice's home.

As such, Beatrice currently had four options.

First, she could place the could place the colony somewhere a bit more barren, which would restrict its development.

Second, she could place it a bit further away from the other colonies, making it harder to defend and placing it in some danger.

Three, she could abandon it, and chose to create on less colony.

Lastly, in fact, there was a place that was quite suited for placing a colony, sadly though, Laslus City, a city with a population of around 23 thousand people was currently occupying it.

"Laslus city is far away from the other population centers of the Kingdom of Lyon, only having a few villages nearby, there's a chance this could work out if I take action personally, while also using the pawns that Scythia has created within the Kingdom," thought Beatrice as she fell into thought.

Although Laslus City was not too close to her home, it was by far it's closest large population center, meaning that as long as it disappeared, Beatrice's home would become much harder to find, just in case someone wanted to investigate...

The more Beatrice thought about it, the more it made sense.

"With how disconnected cities within the Lyon Kingdom are with each other, and as long as I alter the memories of some people..."

...

Several days later,

Looking at the city below her, which was not that prosperous in the slightest, Beatrice faintly smiled.

Although Beatrice could take action personally, and destroy the city herself, the powerful spells that Beatrice would have had to cast to destroy the city could possibly alert some powerful mage.

As such, Beatrice decided to leave the destruction of this city to her competent subordinates.

A moment later, Beatrice suddenly snapped her fingers, causing a loud sound, which spread downwards to the city below her, causing some residents to raise their heads to stare at the sky, only to see nothing.

Although the residents of the city themselves were unaware of it just yet, for the past few days, Laslus City's situation was becoming more and more precarious, as the city itself became more and more like a house of cards, just waiting to collapse.

At that very moment, the act of Beatrice's snapping her fingers was the final trigger that the city needed, causing it, alongside a circle around it, to suddenly fall over 40 meters into the ground, which had been hollowed out by over 1.3 million Earth Ants working day and night.

After the city fell into the ground, and a large part of its population became dead or wounded, these same ants, which had been digging underneath the city up until now, got to work.

In just under 2 minutes, the entire surviving population of the city, which was around 3000, was slaughtered by the rampaging ants, who then began working, bringing back the stone and dirt that they had taken from underneath the city, and began filling the giant hole they had just created.

Seeing this, Beatrice suddenly snapped her fingers once again, and sent out dozens of Dark Bolts to kill any remaining stragglers outside of the city, allowing the ants to completely focus on their work.

In the end, even both Beatrice ad Antonia actually underestimated just how terrifyingly fast the Earth Ants could work if they cooperated together in large numbers.

In just under 2 days, under Beatrice's thoughtful eyes from above, the entire humongous hole that the ants had created was filled up.

The Earth Ants had even gone as far as to bring patches of grass, as well as whole trees to this new barren area, making it not totally lifeless.

Seeing this, Beatrice, who had already arranged for no investigations to be made, faintly smiled before flying away, having other, equally important things to do.