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.

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

the horde with deadly fire, torching dozens of monsters with flamethrower like magic before retreating through the tunnels

of the hatchlings move into the soldier caste recently" Antionette informed me,

I could

to raise up the future generations of mage ants" Propellant told me ruefully. "We didn't anticipate

still, I would have loved to have more mages right now. To clear away large amounts of weak enemies they would have been indispensable. There may be a use for the mages we

is a quality all

We have two main objectives, we need to whittle down the horde that's coming our way, I need to help with that so I can

your next evolution, Eldest?" Victoriant asked,

going to battle against creatures as strong as those coming our way,

monsters but tackling anything stronger is going to be beyond us for

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

or egg laying to a high extent in the lead up to this crisis?" I asked

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

rather that we divert a significant portion of the soldiers currently acting to gather food to

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

the hatchling training program continues to run unabated. Each new hatchling

each of them at the same time, something you can only do with extensively upgraded compound eyes, one of the benefits of

sense to

for a few hours will

Crinis needs to evolve and we all need some rest. We've been pretty flat out for the last few days and I suspect

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