Chrysalis

Chapter 374

A delivery system of flesh and bone. That’s what the horde truly was. As an instrument of the dark will that controlled it, the massive gathering of enslaved monsters had been used to scour the kingdom of Liria and possibly neighbouring kingdoms as well. Here and now? That mass of bodies served a different purpose. To deliver Garralosh and her children to the target of her wrath as easily as possible.

Sloan knew that only when they had destroyed enough, thinned enough of the horde away, would the true enemy show its face. Until then, Garralosh and the Kaarmodo would be content to stay back and allow their unwitting soldiers to absorb the punishment.

"The key to this battle, is holding enough strength in reserve that we can deal with the Croca-Beasts when they come," Sloan had declared at the planning meeting.

To that end, the colony had prepared waves of tricks and schemes that they could employ. The horde would pay dearly for every inch of ground they took. The worry was, the primary reserve force of the colony still hadn’t woken up.

The Eldest was still sleeping!

Sloan couldn’t help but clean her antennae over and over again in an attempt to calm her nerves. Something her sibling couldn’t help but notice.

"Calm down," Victor advised.

"I would if I could!" Sloan snapped back.

"The Eldest will awaken in time. How could you doubt it?"

"You do realise what will happen if they don’t?"

"I suspect that we’ll all be wiped out and the colony will cease to exist," Victor replied, unruffled.

"Y-yes! That’s right!"

anything? Have a little faith in the Eldest. When

hard to argue against. The Eldest was a six legged storm, stirring up change wherever they went, but to date they had never let

she settled with a sigh. The two generals were positioned in the main nest in a chamber close to the surface. In a room next to them, scouts came and went at a furious pace, passing information to a team of generals who sorted it and manipulated a large three dimensional map carved into the chamber

see how the battle is progressing," Victor suggested and moved to inspect

clacked her mandibles

that we are

sibling sighed, but

us are the best generals in the colony. We can best serve the

go that far," Sloan

scents of a dozen different conversations. Ants crawled

its job," Victor observed as she poured

still hold it," Sloan proposed. "If we commit the reserves from the second wall we could hold

too high," the other general countered, "and unnecessary. The outer wall wasn’t built to hold and was never intended to resist assault for an extended

tried to tear it down. After the back and forth was done, they felt comfortable that they had the best strategy they

to sound the

scouts waiting to carry messages

wall. Prepare the

whilst the two generals turned their eyes back to the map. Ants poured over it once more, making the delicate adjustments based on the event they knew were going to play out

reach their assigned positions. The potential for devastating loss was huge. The retreat needed to be managed carefully, with precision. An orderly retreat back to the

Proppelant had taken her place amongst

the retreat, the spell

"draw out every

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