Chrysalis

Chapter 115

This stupid wave! Just how threatening does it have to get? I'm already a wrecked heap. A heap I say!

Now the veins are extending into the escape tunnel, which will surely cause monsters to spawn right under our feet!

An addition we have to deal with these unknown threats from below? It's enough to drive an ant crazy!

Ok.. Think Anthony, what are you going to do?

Stay and fight? Against what!? We have no idea what sort of horror is going to ascend up that tunnel, eager to eviscerate our most sensitive zones? There is absolutely no way we stay here and battle it out against whatever is coming up. One of the first things I learned about in this Dungeon is not to pick a fight you aren't sure you can win.

Run?

Run where? The tunnel isn't complete! All we can do is run up towards a dead end! They don't call 'em life ends for a reason!

Only one choice remains! Hide!

"Quick! We need to cover up the entrance and seal this tunnel!" I shout to the workers around me,

The workers respond to my call to action rapidly, as they usually do. This is a family that can be relied on in a pinch!

A hundred workers leap into action, hauling dirt up to close off the remaining open section of the tunnel entrance, quickly shovelling dirt with their mandibles.

From beneath us the sounds of bloodcurdling screams and the wild gnashing of teeth, grinding away at the bones of still living foes echo endlessly, certainly providing ample motivation to my own digging efforts.

there? Actually, I'm

experiencing a kind of existential terror that I wasn't sure the beasts I'd

to investigate, to explore the deeper layers below just to know, just to see what it was like down

that feeling, I have to say. To the surface my fellow ants (and Tiny), maybe find a mountain to climb when we

further into the escape tunnel. The

the mana concentration still growing?! Is that why they are moving in this way?

about it!

crawling all over each other in their

continue to grow louder we quickly seal off the escape tunnel,

vibrations that pass through the loosely packed soil are enough motivation for me to continue stacking dirt against the entrance. I want to get

stacking that dirt, fellow workers! Start bringing it

the entrance, trying to put an amount of earth

the dirt far enough back that even the gradually extending tendrils of the mana veins on the wall have been covered over. Any monsters that spawn in those walls will claw themselves out

actually dig themselves out into the tunnel they'll be easy pickings for the

has entered a strange state now, completely sealed within a dirt cylinder. As the rest of the Dungeon is plunged into blood

worries I have are air and food. I'm not exactly sure how much air monstrous ants require in this world, monster live up to 10000 km under

appetite, the need for sustenance is constant. Without being able to charge out and secure Biomass every few

long will Tiny last

if I can put off letting him know

period of time helping the digging, with the sounds rippling out from the Queen's chamber growing more and more muted until barely the slightest of vibrations

cohort of workers have been furiously ripping into the soil and rock the entire time Tiny and I have been occupied with the defence. A lot of progress has been made! According to my

is still diligently digging, her massive mandibles ripping huge chunks out of the solid ground in

smaller workers at this end of the tunnel are still vibrating with enthusiasm, fawning over their mother and, vigorously transporting

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