Chrysalis

Chapter 322

"With your permission Eldest, I will leave the council and begin to organise a workforce to prepare our initial fortifications" Tungstant said.

I waved an antennae in approval and the small, dextrous ant climbed up the wall and out the roof of the chamber in a moment.

"Alright then. Pitfall traps, tunnels to attack, I like all of these ideas. What else have we got? How is our magic firepower coming along?" I asked.

The two mages in the room, Propellant and Coolant, shifted on their feet as they became the centre of attention for the council. The mage caste hadn't had a lot of time to build up their raw magic handling skills, and were without the benefit of my own extensive spending on brain power when it came to evolutions. Having said that, they were no slouches in the brain game and were able to choose their own elemental gland on evolution. So there had to be some juice there.

"The number of mage ants we have to work with is still limited" Coolant hedged.

There were over a thousand ants in the colony at this time, there were like a hundred new ants being born every day. How few mages could there be?

"How many are we talking about?" I asked.

"Five" Coolant said flatly.

"Five?!" I sputtered.

"Oh, seven including Coolant and I" Propellant offered helpfully.

Holy moly.

a huge horde, like the

reveal teams of mage ants who blasted the front ranks of the horde with deadly fire, torching dozens of monsters with flamethrower like magic before retreating through the tunnels which collapsed behind them, leaving decimated and

"We've had most of the hatchlings move into the soldier caste recently" Antionette informed me, "Large numbers of scouts and

I could understand, but

our best to map out the skill paths from scratch and explore methods to raise up the future generations of mage ants" Propellant told me ruefully. "We didn't anticipate a need

of weak enemies they would have been indispensable. There may be a use for the mages we have,

they say: Quantity, is a quality all of

whittle down the horde that's coming our way, I need to help with that so I can reach my

close to your next evolution, Eldest?" Victoriant

more levels. If we're going to battle

to chip away at the number of weaker monsters but tackling anything

of the hard work onto me, didn't you? She's technically correct,

a high extent in the lead up to this crisis?" I asked the gathered

shut down food gathering entirely, surely?" protested Florence, the to this point

"but rather that we divert a significant portion of the soldiers currently acting

understand it, less food coming in means less brood. What else is a Brood Tender

hatchling training program continues to run unabated. Each new hatchling deserves the best possible start

you can only do with extensively

equal treatment for the hatchlings still makes little sense

ready to move out for a few

and we all need some rest. We've been pretty flat out for the last few days and I suspect it's going to be hectic for a

The Novel will be updated daily. Come back and continue reading tomorrow, everyone!

Comments ()

0/255