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.

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

in my mind's eye already. Tunnel entrances falling in to 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

caste recently" Antionette informed me, "Large numbers of scouts and soldiers have been born.

could understand,

future generations of mage ants" Propellant told me ruefully.

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 practically the

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

next evolution,

with a dip of my antennae, "I only need six more levels. If we're going to

the number of weaker monsters but tackling anything stronger

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

food gathering or egg laying to a high extent in the lead

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

assured her, "but rather that we divert a significant portion of the soldiers currently acting to

were clearly not happy. I understand it, less food coming in means less

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

only do

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

for a few hours will you, Senior?"

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

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