Chrysalis

Chapter 461

I'm a little nervous. What's the story going to be? No matter what I don't think it's going to be something I like. Don't keep me in suspense, let me hear the damage. Just how bad are things going to be. The three guards remain perfectly still during this time, watchful and poised they don’t miss a single movement I make. The three older shapers are a little more mobile, but not much. I get the feeling that these Golgari are a little more attached to stone than just having different varieties of it for skin. They are unusually still when they don't have to be moving, as if becoming a rock themselves.

[You know the purpose of our Cult?]

[Absolutely. You desire for a twentieth ancient to take its place amongst the other nineteen. Something about 'closing the circle' or some such.]

She nods her head in agreement.

[That is correct. We seek to empower a monster in order than it may come to dominate the lower Strata and achieve a tier of evolution on par with the existing ancients.]

I'm a little surprised to hear that.

[Do you actually know what tier the ancients are?] The theoretical maximum tier? I wonder how high it is! Ten? TWENTY?!

[No, we don't.]

Dang.

[To our knowledge there have been only two conversations between the sapient races of the surface and the ancients. During the Cataclysm we now refer to as the 'Time of Rending', the mana level in the Dungeon rose to unprecedented heights. When the tunnels connected to the surface, mana from the centre of Pangera flooded the skies, followed a tidal wave of monsters that nearly washed away any remnant of civilisation on this world.]

Yikes.

bad. How long ago

to this day. Scholars debate the history of these events, for not

not? That's how monsters get stronger

This we believe to be true. So why consume so much? Could it be

and these people think they

[Sure…] I lamely agree.

passed on from a dialogue between a powerful Kaarmodo Wizard and Arconidem, who rose under their lands. For us, it was Yarrum, the Eternal Worm. A Shaper by the name of Irrin Stelix communed with the great worm before founding the Cult of

they say? The ancients, I

snap

will not share,] the words are sharp,

sure. No need to

about half

not able to receive the words of the ancients. It

course it is. Gotta … you just gotta love

a brief pause in the dialogue. I presume the three of them were discussing my incredible, sincere and fervent

new voice breaks into the conversation, younger, a little more light than

could I? It was the first

eventually turned into a boon for the colony, enabling us to harvest experience and Biomass at an unprecedented speed. By the

waves, this was much longer and more intense. The mana levels in the upper strata rose beyond what we

help but muse, [it started to rise not along after I was born in the Dungeon and

is another brief pause as

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