108: Queen’s Decree

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A new dawn bled across the Dune Flats, revealing a battlefield unrecognisable from the day before. Where once one million disciplined soldiers had stood, scarcely half that number remained and those survivors wore exhaustion like cracked lacquer on their carapaces. 

Four hundred thousand ants soldiers had died. Over a hundred thousand ants were very badly injured. Losing a leg or arm or fatal injury. Rest of them are exhausted from the battle. The underling's of the desert ruler had retreat far far away, when the desert ruler fell in battle.