Chrysalis

It was a busy time for the soldiers. Grant had been run off her six legs over the last week. In some ways it was a relief to have the enemy finally arrive on the doorstep! Now she'd have the chance to rip into them directly with her mandibles and not have to stress about extraneous matters!

"Make sure you watch over the eldest carefully" she commanded the guards who remained in the chamber where the Eldest was undergoing their evolution.

The soldiers would hardly have done any different, but they saluted the council member with an antennae anyway before continuing their careful observation of the chamber walls. The Eldest lay close to the centre of the chamber undergoing the process of evolution. The two guardians sat nearby, watching over their master and Grant was careful to give them their space. The two creatures were quite revered in the colony and their unending loyalty to the Eldest was firmly to their credit.

Grant stepped out of the chamber and made her way further down into the newest section of the nest. The Carvers had been excited to have an excuse to have to expand the nest in a new way and the Queen's evolution had been the perfect opportunity. She'd needed more space and to be deeper in the Dungeon which had required an extensive expansion to the lower reaches of the nest.

"Nice work soldiers. Keep up the hard work," Grant nodded to the many soldiers she passed.

She came across a general patrolling with five soldiers trailing behind her moving in the opposite direction.

"How goes things general?"

"The extra patrols are putting a strain on resources, Senior," the smaller soldier variant replied, "the Dungeon wall spawns have been faster than usual over the last day. It feels as though something has changed."

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Grant swiped her antennae in a concerned gesture.

"Have any other patrol groups reported this issue?" She asked.

"All of them," confirmed the patrol leader.

few implications of increased Dungeon

she assured the patrol, "if we can spare

Senior," the general snapped out a quick salute before she moved on with the

just every soldier, but every member of the colony, was required top side to deal with upcoming battle,

the above ground section of the nest for the duration of the battle and leave the freshly spawned monsters to battle each other here in the lower tunnels. Abandoning any amount of territory to those filthy creatures angered Grant deep down, though

way down into the Dungeon until she came to the chamber

had begun to evolve," she announced as

and their antennae twitched. The twenty members of the council were extremely busy. There wasn't so much of a formal meeting as a rolling series of consultations with whoever was present at the time. For the time being, Mendant, Victoriant, Florence and Coolant

was it?" Mendant asked, concerned,

from the tunnel above the Eldest's chamber. Like a fool, she'd feared for the Eldest's life as his own guardian hand engulfed him in tentacles that writhed and squeezed with tremendous

Eldest,

can only marvel at how powerful a mage the Eldest will become

her antennae

believe the Eldest will seek physical strength in order to lead the soldiers from the front,"

her mind, the colossal strength of the Eldest, scattering the foe and harvesting their lives as wheat before the scythe, the

in a healing magic gland?" Mendant asked

others replied, which caused the healer to drop her head

patrols need to be increased

Soldier, surprise clear in her

trend

see," Coolant replied, "there's no

Guessing would get them nowhere in