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 not confident

existential terror that I wasn't sure the

deeper layers below just to know, just to see what it was like down there, what sort of creatures

To the

further into the escape tunnel. The speed is still slow, perhaps only as much as thirty centimetres

that why they are moving

think about it! Just

move faster as the dirt flies, ants crawling all over each other

we quickly seal off the escape

are enough motivation for me to continue

that dirt, fellow workers! Start bringing it from the other end of the

entrance, trying to put an amount of earth between us and the horrors

that even the gradually extending tendrils of the mana veins on the

themselves out into the tunnel they'll be

of the Dungeon is plunged into blood and madness these ants and I exist in a separate,

air monstrous ants require in

other hand. The colony has a voracious appetite, the need for sustenance is constant. Without being able to charge out and secure Biomass every few hours

how long will Tiny last without

now, if I can put off letting

from the Queen's chamber growing more and more muted until barely the slightest of vibrations can be felt I decide

the defence. A lot of progress

mandibles ripping huge chunks out of the solid ground in front of her as she cheerfully

at this end of the tunnel are still vibrating with enthusiasm, fawning over their

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