Chrysalis

Chapter 262

"Ok. Let's try this again. The enemy is down there. We can see them, we are in a superior position where they cannot fight back. All of the advantages are ours. So, what are you going to do? What is your strategy?"

The twenty hatchlings and I are positioned in one of the original four farms, clinging to the ceiling out of harm's way. I lured a monster out of the towards the edge of the open space and tied it down with a gravity bolt. The poor creature is labouring on the ground beneath us, barely able to move, whilst I try to teach these hatchlings how to fight.

The particular young worker I've been trying to teach twitches a little as I focus on my attention on them fully. I'm not sure exactly why but these workers seem a little cowed by me. Perhaps it's just that I'm older and larger.

"Well, I see the monster down there."

"Right."

"I know that I have numerical superiority."

"Right!"

Maybe this time I'm getting through to them.

"I also know that we have a positional advantage here, and the ability to attack our opponent when they can't fight back."

"Yeees?"

Here we go!

"So, I will charge down to engage the enemy, forcing myself into its jaws so that by my sacrifice my fellow workers will be able to attack without being harmed!"

DAMMIT.

Immediately the rest of the hatchlings respond positively.

"Ooo, that's a good idea!"

"Curses! I should have thought of that."

"That has to be the right answer. It's flawless."

The worker who suggested it is now staring at me like a puppy waiting to be praised. Almost wiggling with joy as the praise of his fellow hatchlings rings in his ears.

Ugh. This again.

"WRONG!"

*Thwack!*

hard I slap the worker on

to say

the workers

a splitting

to act in a suicidal way. You should always act to minimise the loss to the colony to as great an extent as

hatchlings look at me as if I'm speaking a

if any plan in which they don't die is in some way unsatisfactory. I've been trying for thirty minutes to get them to value their own lives, to think of own safety as something that is important, but it

on their part. They burn to sacrifice themselves

going to value themselves for their own sake, but perhaps I get them

me, all of you!"

antennae focus

earnest,

wish to serve the

"Of course!"

"Yes!"

before this day is done for the

whoa, slow down there. So I take it,

"Naturally!"

is the heart of the

my life for

side, just chill out

moment to compose

you do more to benefit the colony, can

"….."

be ridiculous but the fact that they are

hatchlings pipes up dubiously, "we were to serve the colony for a time, and then die

do more for the colony whilst still alive? Especially after you've taken Biomass and experience that could

say the word selfish as if throwing up vile poison and the hatchlings

"Selfish?!"

"NEVER!"

selfishness?! I would

I nod sagely.

is your duty to repay the colony with

lean closer

thing to consider. Which colony is better, one with one hundred

moment before deciding that yes, more workers is clearly superior to less workers. The

supposed to increase its numbers if

"…"

them hard.

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