Chrysalis

Chapter 383

"At last our time has come!" Bella exulted.

"Our moment to shine!" Agreed Ellie.

"I'll be glad to get out this damp hole finally," Bella huffed.

The two core shapers glanced around at their cramped compatriots and their loyal shadow beasts, crammed into this small underground chamber.

"We can go, time to move out!" A scout near the entrance confirmed.

"Here we go!" Elllie cheered as the ants and their pets began to charge towards the entrance to the surface tunnel.

It's taken a long time for the Carvers to complete this chamber, time in which the Core Shapers had further refined their tactics and tried to squeeze the last few mutations out of their charges before the battle.

They were as ready now as they could possibly be, given the circumstances.

"Do you really think that we should be heading up there?" Ellligant worried.

"I mean, I know we agreed not to. But I don't believe that every member of the council has managed to restrain themselves. Do you? Remember the name of this strategy?"

a good

"So let's go!"

two of them weren't technically supposed to have crafted their own pets, but they figured there was no better way to

to mention, how were they supposed to properly train their skills and test the limits of their caste without their own pets? With such reasoning they had convinced themselves to not only create their own pets, but invest in them to an absurd degree, even giving

updates,

the ground are we?" Ellie asked the scout who lead their procession

down. The final staging chamber above us is ten

to build so many tunnels without the ground

to unlock some truly impressive skills,"

colony and every member of every caste approved of their work.

thudding sound as creatures above brawled back and forth. From the ceiling, dirt broke away and trickled down

soil. The ants moved in complete silence, even more so than usual. The Shapers didn't have much time to talk to each other

the staging chamber. Multiple tunnels, even narrower than that which they had come

and head to the designated tunnel entrance. Pets first, shapers

as the rumbling clatter from overhead grew ever louder. Dirt fell regularly now, trickling over carapaces and

were unable to stop and clean them in such narrow tunnels!

mandibles and resisted the powerful urge to

up,] she told

both

a shame that they'd reduced their intelligence to this extent, she reflected, it would be nice if they could hold a decent conversation. But,

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