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

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 which

recently" Antionette informed me,

I could

future generations of mage ants" Propellant told me ruefully. "We didn't anticipate a need for a number of mages at this stage and wanted to take more

enemies they would have been indispensable. There may be a use for the mages we have, of course, but there is a lot

say: Quantity, is a quality all of its own. That's practically the ants

down the horde that's coming our way, I need to help

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

If we're going to battle against creatures as strong as those coming

tackling anything stronger is going to

onto me, didn't you? She's

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

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

think anyone is suggesting that we cease food gathering operations completely" Sloan assured her, "but rather that we divert a significant portion of the soldiers currently acting to

she and her fellow Brood Tender were clearly not happy. I understand it, less food coming in means less brood. What else is a Brood Tender going to

also need to keep enough senior workers here to ensure that the hatchling training program continues to

can only do with extensively upgraded compound eyes, one of

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

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

all need some rest. We've been pretty flat out for the last

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