Insect Tamer's Ascension Chapter 537. Forming the underground insect empire?

"It will start moving toward the capital," Theo spoke, making Elias and Clara go into thought. They didn’t seem that flabbergasted by the idea.

"Isn’t the distance too long, young master?" Clara asked. "If a carriage that sometimes moves at a really high speed when the stone roads start takes a whole full day to get to the capital, how will the ants make their way here?" she continued.

Theo smiled and looked at Elias as if wanting him to be done with his question too, but it seemed like Clara had already said everything.

"We will do it artificially, with our intervention," Theo spoke with one finger out as if counting. "I will tell the ant queen to send out groups of 50 ants with me that I will put down every few meters. We will use the hardworking workforce of the ants efficiently," he explained.

Elias started writing things down while Clara listened intently.

"If I took an ant with me to the academy, the connection would have snapped after maybe 30 km from the castle," Theo said. "But if I keep a connection connected for a prolonged distance where the ant queen has something to anchor at and get to me in the hive link, maybe I can have constant contact with it. I will try to do that."

"I understand now, it sounds good but if we don’t try it, we won’t know if it will actually work," Elias spoke while looking at his notes.

"Yes, for us to start, I will need to go to the ant queen myself and tell it about this plan," Theo spoke with a distant look.

"But you have Kingdom Games training and also classes that you have to take for a few days," Clara spoke as if she was the one making his schedule.

Theo looked at her in thought. "The trip will be 2 days only, I only have to be in the connection and then move back to the academy."

"You won’t visit the county?" Elias was surprised, to which Theo shook his head.

"There is no need to do that, I am sure most of them will not even be there at the moment. It’s the peak of summer where the real hunting starts."

Elias only nodded to that and Theo dropped the topic. He could not make it a formality every time to go meet his family, not when he had work to do.

"I have the training for the whole day tomorrow, but no classes."

Theo thought about it for a moment before a smile crept over his face.

"The team had to stop depending on me and work on their own, that is what they said just a few days ago," he said out loud, making both Elias and Clara look at him with perplexed expressions.

"So you are thinking of skipping the training... Will your professor let you do it?" Elias asked.

Theo looked at Elias for a moment.

"Elias, you are forgetting why any of this is happening."

Elias looked at Theo with even more curiosity, which was only natural.

"I came to the academy to improve my knowledge. My family name itself can bring me a lot of fortune later on when my strength improves and I join the wars and gate subjugations."

"I don’t need to prove anything to anyone. Taking part in these Kingdom Games is a perk I got for making a deal with the headmaster. Now that my position in the team is established, I have already completed my end of the deal and expect the headmaster to complete his end of the bargain."

"For now, it is important for me to get the hive link connection back again. All this academy stuff has made me sidetrack what is supposed to be the main goal for the future."

Theo looked at Elias and Clara with determined eyes.

"Elias, I want you to find out where Professor Velra is at the moment, you have to be fast too."

Theo gave a command to which Elias smiled as if his specialty was finally being used again.

"Understood."

He spoke and left right away.

"Clara, have you seen any improvement in the silk fabric?" Theo asked, to which Clara shook her head.

"It’s still the same, young master. I have been trying to weave it with the help of the book the academy gave me. But it’s tough without getting to see it being done in front of me."

"Why not take help from your professor?" Theo asked, to which Clara stopped for a moment.

Her poker face activated and she spoke, "I will take her help later."

Theo looked at her eyes and sighed.

"Clara, you don’t like wasting my time, right?" Theo asked.

"But of course, young master," Clara said in a way as if it was a given.

"Well then, I know you are lying so without wasting my time, tell me the situation in a brief manner," he said with serious eyes.

Clara’s mouth opened to redirect the conversation but she bit her lip, as if knowing Theo wouldn’t let this go, which would in turn waste more of his time.

"I..." She tried to speak but stopped and looked at Theo with beady eyes.

Theo saw her become so vulnerable so quickly that he knew it was something serious.

"Tell me."

"This... please don’t judge me for this, young master."

She spoke again without making eye contact, making Theo gulp this time. Just what was she going through?

"I... am scared of my professor. I don’t approach her on my own," she spoke.

"...."

Theo looked at her and tried all he could to keep a straight face, until he couldn’t anymore.

"I am trying not to judge you right now, Clara," Theo spoke while trying to keep his laugh inside.

Clara looked at him with a frown.

"You don’t have to laugh about it, young master! It is okay to be scared of a professor."

She spoke as if trying to prove something to him, making Theo try to stop his laugh.

"Why is it okay to be scared of a professor?"

"Because you don’t know who my professor is, young master. But she is a very important person... I look up to her a lot. She is one of the best fabric makers in the whole kingdom."

When Theo heard that, his eyes glistened white.

’JACKPOT’