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!"

a little faith in the Eldest. When have they ever let us

was a six legged storm, stirring up change wherever they went, but to date

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

battle is progressing," Victor suggested and moved to

her mandibles in

we are

sighed, but

as much as you. But the two of us are the best generals in the

wouldn’t go that far,"

with the muffled scents of a dozen different

wall has done its job," Victor observed as she poured

reserves from

wall wasn’t built to

to tear

Time to sound

turned to the scouts waiting to carry

wall. Prepare the reserves. We want every family member

eyes back to the map. Ants poured

loss was huge. The retreat needed to be managed carefully, with precision. An orderly retreat back to the second wall was the aim,

taken her place amongst the

the retreat, the spell

for it!" Proppelant bellowed, "draw out every scrap of your

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