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.

so few mages? When fighting against a huge horde, like the one coming to kill us right now, more mage ants

of mage ants who blasted the front ranks of the horde with deadly fire, torching dozens of monsters with flamethrower

of the council shifted uncomfortably. "We've had most of the hatchlings move into the soldier caste recently" Antionette informed

could

mage ants" Propellant told me ruefully. "We didn't anticipate a need for

now. To clear away large amounts of weak enemies they would have been indispensable. There may be a use for the mages we have, of course, but there is a lot that

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

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

close to your next evolution, Eldest?" Victoriant asked, sounding oddly

going to battle against creatures as strong as those coming our way, we're going to need every little

monsters but tackling anything stronger

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

to a high extent in the lead up

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

her, "but rather that we divert a

mollified, Florence settled back, though she and her fellow Brood Tender were clearly not happy. I understand it, less food coming in means less brood. What

hatchling training program continues to run unabated.

do with extensively upgraded compound eyes, one of the benefits of

each nodded in agreement, more to appease me than anything else. My insistence on equal treatment for the hatchlings still makes little sense to them I

won't be ready to move out for a few hours will you, Senior?" Sloan

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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