Chrysalis

Chapter 261

As the voices of the new hatchlings ring throughout the room, and I start to wonder just what it is that I've done, another voice sounds within my mind.

[Original Species has been detected. New species type has been assigned.]

Gandalf?! What the heck are you on about?!

Is he saying that the new hatchlings are recognised by the system as a different species to mine? I did make a lot of changes…

Does this mean that the workers will attack them? That would be terrible!

Before I can process the implications of what is being said, the voice of the grey one continues to speak.

[You have been designated as the progenitor of this new species. Do you wish to align your species, and that of your colony, with this new archetype?]

Uhhhhhhhhhh.

Yes?

I suppose?

The instant I assent within my mind, there is an audible rumble around and within me. A lethargic feeling rises up through my limbs and claws towards my mind, dragging me down into the lassitude I recognise as Torpor.

[Crinis! Watch me …]

Before I can finish the sentence, my thoughts slow like congealing grease until they move no more.

…

I'm up!

How long was I

each other with increasingly loud voices.

Is everything alright?]

long it's been

moments, I haven't even made it

What in the name of

something about new species and I agreed to have

my species has changed.

tunnel from below and stuffing themselves into

Wait a second!

her way up. I ignore her confused questions and throw myself into the Queens chamber. Behind me I can see more workers making their way in from outside, crowding the entrance and crawling over each other

her has grown eerily still. The stillness feels so strange

out of the way

boy. I hope I

situation correctly, the moment the new generation was born, the system recognised that a new species had been created, then gave me, the creator of that species, the right to change the entire

for my species to change, why is it taking so much longer for them? Is it because I'm already quite close to what the new generation can evolve into, whereas the others aren't? What's going to happen to the workforce? Will they all

I'm so confused!

The new hatchlings!

the chamber, once again passing Crinis who was carefully climbing down, trying not to obstruct any

have grown still

you,

"…."

That was quick.

twenty small hatchlings turn to me, immediately quietening down. I didn't realise I had this much charisma as a leader. I'm

nest at the moment, so I need you to keep still for a second so I can

they respond

Queen's chamber. Crinis, head to the top of the nest but stay within the anthill, don't

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