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.

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

front ranks of the horde with deadly

the council shifted uncomfortably. "We've had most of the hatchlings move into the soldier caste recently" Antionette informed me, "Large numbers of scouts and soldiers have been born. Our more specialised castes have

could understand, but

and I have been doing 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

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

Quantity, is a quality all of its own. That's

coming our way, I need to help with that so I can reach my second objective, which is to level up so that

next evolution,

If we're going to battle against creatures as strong

tackling anything stronger is going to be beyond us for a time. If the Eldest can evolve then

wanted to dump all of the hard work onto me, didn't you? She's technically correct, but that doesn't serve to

the lead up to this crisis?" I asked the gathered council, "If we don't survive the upcoming

food gathering entirely, surely?" protested Florence, the to this point silent Brood Tender,

her, "but rather that we divert

I understand it, less food coming in means less brood.

to run unabated. Each new hatchling deserves the best

each of them at the same time, something you can only do

little sense to them I suspect, thankfully by virtue of being old they have to listen to me. Hooray for strict

a few hours will you, Senior?"

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 week or so

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