Chrysalis

"What do you think, Ellie?"

"They're magnificent, Bella. Works of engineering, imagination, and unyielding effort! This must be the art that the Eldest spoke of when we were in training."

"I agree! This is art!"

"Do you think the other members of the council will agree with us?" Ellie asked hopefully.

"Not a chance," Bella replied.

The two Core Shapers didn't allow the perceived dearth of culture in their fellow council members to dim their enthusiasm at the successful culmination of their project. The colony had entered the mandatory rest period now and almost all members of the family had entered torpor. As non-combatants, the two Shapers were not expected to participate in the battle. But that didn't mean that none of the Shapers caste would be present. Fifty Shapers rested in the large chamber that had been constructed once the colony had approved the project.

These shapers were young, barely hatched in time through the dedicated nurturing of the Breed Tenders and then put through a brutal, accelerated training regime in the academy in order to bring this project online in time.

"I wonder if this is how the Queen feels. Gazing down on her children," Bella wondered aloud.

"Perhaps," Elligant mused. "Though, as beautiful as our creations are, can they really compare to the wonder of the ants the Elder created?"

"Of course not!" Bella scoffed. Then, "I do wish we could have gotten one more evolution into them before they were forced into battle."

"No point fretting. We were lucky to get this project off the ground at all. Don't you have confidence in our work?"

"How could I not? The Eldest put us onto this path with their own words! It's sure to succeed!"

"Which do you think will perform better, the Manglers, or the Reavers?"

one hundred shadow beasts that were also resting in the chamber. The council had been loath to give up the resources, but saw the potential in a force of Core Shapers with pet soldiers. How could they not? The Eldest deployed such tactics with tremendous

cores into these modified troops. Elligant's design, the Shadow Reaver, boasted enhanced arm strength, more devastating claws and fangs than the regular beasts. The

modifications by shaving away at the Cunning and Will of the original monster. With the Core

remember how they performed in the Dungeon?"

do! I do! Wasn't

devastation

lose a single one! Mark my scent Bella, after this battle the Core Shapers will rise high in the colony! The Shapers will became the true elite force

imagined the bright and glorious future of their caste. The thought that they might lose the

Elsewhere in the colony…

mages will cause the most damage!" Propellant

away the stain of the invaders by the hundreds. If not

be scared off by getting DAMP?! My Mage-Ants will be causing explosions, not hosing down the enemy! Are you

rested within the chamber. Soldiers patrolled the space as this chamber was below ground level, a

base elements that were

think the open field will have an impact on the result?" Coolant

in the Dungeon tunnels?" Propellant queried, her earlier ire vanished as if it had never

been thinking about the impact of the more open space on

spell will be much less applicable in the

to the increased range. But no

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Propellants eyes lit up.

you mean, using them

"Quite."

Ho! That does sound interesting! Have you calculated the mana

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