The thing about the ant puppets are,one; they are basically living yet not, so they are almost zombies yet are live so they are very strong and agile
Two; he only needs to give them a specific set of instructions and they would follow it without stopping till they died, after all although their consciousness was shatter small fragments remnant remain and those fragment are what's making them work. Because the puppeteering ability allows the ant to 'convince' them it is their own will and action so they would react as they do when they are eating, resting or working normally. But instead of those it would be the ant telling them 'carry those stones and put it on those other stones' and they would do it and only when he want to change the other or wants to control them personally would he need to use his soul tentacles.
So basically those ant that are guarding the entrance to his new hideout would attack and kill any and everything to close to a certain perimeter of the entrance.
Third and lastly; he is able to somehow send images and messages through the soul puppeteering.
So basically our ant here is now somewhat of a necromancer.
The ant and his puppet ant guards were currently moving towards the ancestral nest which is currently under reconstruction by a large group of worker ant's reaching hundreds of thousands ants,being supervised and protected by group of soldier ant's reaching around one hundred.
During the chaotic mess of reconstruction, the ant and his guards quickly and quietly moved around undisturbed.
The ant was constantly moving his head left and right as even his soul gaze he was using to the fullest.
'found them.... 'he thought with delight, afterwards he lead his guards and their quickly started moving towards a certain direction.
When they reached their destination what was before them was the still fresh body of the false queen that died defending the colony, looking at its body the ant quickly got excited at the perfectly preserve state that it was in. It was weird to know that the ants didn't immediately start dismantling the corpse of the false queen, it seems as though it was an act of respect towards a fallen hero yet could ants comprehend the act of heroism? Or was it simple just simple fear towards the false queen that made them not approach her corpse.
'I'll have to take it easy I see' he thought as he started controlling himself once more.
Sending his puppets to carry the false queens corpse, they quickly carried out his orders and started dragging it along.
But at that moment sometimes unexpected happened. Large flow of pheromones was released Into the air, it belongs to the queen and she was not happy.
Two false queens flew out from the hidden hole below the Queen's bed, both flew straight towards the corpse of of false queen.
Seeing them speeding towards them, the ant quickly hide away leaving his puppets behind. Upon arriving both false queens didn't even take up to three seconds to rip the three puppet ants apart. afterwards both held a side and the flew away with the corpse, back into the hidden place and only then did the Queen's fury die down entirely.
'They decided to take the queen now? Is it for feeding? I remember the queen only takes the purest honey and the most cleanest parts of special catches from raids specifically only the queens of defeated colonies of other honey ant colonies or terminate queens. This I've seen from my unconscious state and my conscious state alike, and during my shot two weeks life I've seen her guards dragging over two termite queens and four honey ant queens into that cave'
'but the thing is after a queen feed enough she would start laying eggs to start a new generation. But the queen has laid any for the last few weeks after my batch of drones' he thought with suspicion.
'well,if I'm going to do that, I'll have to know as much as I can about the queen and her habits, after all this queen seems to be a rare mutation and it'll be had for me to get close to her without damage done if I'm unlucky' he thought as five tentacles rouse from the sunlike soul and started splitting into many smaller pieces and started connecting to ants in the surrounding.
Very quickly he made twenty new soul puppets making eight create disturbance while the other twelve followed him quietly.
Very quickly the supervisor discovered the ants that were causing disturbing and attacked with the other any joining them they attack together and started tearing the eight unconnected puppet ants to pieces.
Far from them, the puppet master was watching all this happen from his soul's gaze and was thankful he hadn't made any trouble attracting moves since he had gained consciousness and even while he had not.
When he reach the bedside, right below the tower like structure of the queens bed was a hole large enough for the false queens to pass. First he sent forth seven soldiers ant puppets then he entered and made the other five cover his back.
No long after entering the entrance the followed the tunnel and it's started getting bigger the further there go.
yet at the a certain point a large reddish rock was blocking their way forward.
The rock was large enough to blocks the entrance,the puppets wanted to push it yet he stopped them.
He's reason? Well what's blocking their entrance was a living being and not a rock.
Because he could see both soul, spirit and mind with his soul gaze he could directly see what it was at first sight.
'is that... A door head ant? I'm very confused now. Although I know that this honey ant queen had somehow evolved intelligence and had been enslaving smaller colonies of other honey ant I never thought she would be able to make other ant species follow her Will' he thought with more amazement.
'but I don't have time for this now' he thought seriously and sent his soul force into the mind of the creature and partially wiped out it's consciousness, then he commanded it to move out of the way.
Presently he had learnt how to control how much of a creatures consciousness he would remove and now he could simply remove the creatures consciousness temporarily by injuring or weakening their mind, or he could simply remove half of the creature consciousness by splitting its mind into two and breaking one part, this would make the creature obey him without making it an idiot that would starve to death if not told to eat.
When the door headed ant open the part to the tunnel behind, he and his puppets quickly when in their formation.