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!"

little faith in the

was a six legged storm, stirring up change wherever they went, but to date they had never

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

the battle is progressing," Victor suggested and moved to

clacked her

that we are

sibling sighed,

But the two of us are the best generals in the colony. We can best serve the colony from here. Don’t

that far,"

two relatively calm generals, the war chamber was a flurry of activity and filled with the muffled scents of a dozen different conversations. Ants crawled carefully over the map, making constant adjustments to

if the first wall has done its job," Victor observed as she

Sloan proposed. "If we commit the reserves from the second wall we

be 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

the other tried to tear it down. After the back and forth

then. Time to sound the

to the scouts waiting to carry messages to

the first wall. Prepare

generals turned their eyes back to the map. Ants poured over it once more, making the delicate adjustments based on the

The retreat needed to be managed carefully, with precision. An

Proppelant had taken her place

the word came for the retreat, the spell slinging

bellowed, "draw out every scrap

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