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.

like the one coming to kill us right now, more mage

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 crispy

the soldier caste recently" Antionette informed me, "Large numbers of scouts and soldiers have been

could understand, but

from scratch and explore methods to raise up the future generations of mage ants"

mages right now. To clear away large amounts of weak enemies they would have been indispensable. There may

quality all of its own.

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

next evolution, Eldest?" Victoriant

need six more levels. If we're going to battle against creatures as strong as those coming our way, we're

the ability to chip away at the number of weaker monsters but tackling anything stronger is going to

hard work onto me, didn't you? She's technically correct, but that doesn't serve

think we can agree that we don't need to prioritise food gathering or egg laying to a high extent in the lead up to this crisis?" I asked the

protested Florence, the to this point silent Brood

"but rather that we divert a significant portion

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

ensure that the hatchling training program continues to run unabated.

only do with extensively upgraded

more to appease me than anything else. My insistence on equal treatment for the hatchlings still makes little sense to them I suspect, thankfully by virtue of being old they have to listen to me.

to move out for a few hours will you, Senior?" Sloan asked

pretty flat out for the last few days and I

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