Chrysalis

Chapter 522

[DAMMIT CRINIS! I can't see!]

[It's fine!]

[How is it fine?!]

[IT JUST IS!]

[No! How the heck can I fight if I can't see the enemy?! What is even happening?!]

[I'll fight for you! You don't need to do anything!]

[Are you kidding me?! There's no way you can take them all on by yourself!]

[Watch me!]

[I CAN'T!]

I'm currently entombed in a shell of Crinis after all. Not only is she covering my eyes, she's covering all of me! How is she even doing this? She sent her entire body through my shadow in a flash! So much faster than she was able to use the Shadows before. This can only mean one thing…

[You've evolved!]

[Of course, Master! Did you think I would rest before coming back to your side?]

[Well… no. I didn't.]

My Vestibule tingles with energy, causing panic to spark inside me.

[Wait, Crinis! What's the Colony doing?!]

[Oh, they're coming! They'll be here any minute.]

Through the liquid shadow flesh of Crinis' body I can sense the ongoing battle. Thuds and impacts ripple through her form as she takes damage that had been directed at me.

They need

seem to want to

Crinis! At least let me

the pitch black Crinis had inflicted on me. She appears to have gone through a few changes whilst I was gone. A writhing mass of flesh and tentacles rises from my back like a pillar, three separate mouths gaping and gnashing

[Crinis! Are you alright?!]

worry about me, Master. I'm here to

We need to end

as a huge pair of mandibles break through

"LEEEEEEROOOOOOY!!!!"

war cry of the dumbest ant in the history of the species floods the tunnel as a HUGE soldier bursts through the wall and dives headfirst into combat. The Golgari are dumbfounded for the smallest of windows before they move to respond. That's Leeroy?! She's big!

are you doing?!" I scream, but since my pheromone

off, Crinis! I need to fix this! NOW!] I

Golgari are overwhelmed in seconds, buried under an avalanche of insects. Only a few have the intelligence to flee the second an ant is seen,

Dammit.

Eldest has been

"West tunnel, clear!"

"East tunnel, clear!"

move, move! Don't stop those claws! Scouts every hundred metres for a

the emergency tunnels! Earth mages at the

council

"They're on the way!"

wrap around me once more. The Vestibule is completely alive now, whispering to me the needs and desires of every ant within range.

but she's still clinging to my

Crinis, Invidia. We need

[Yes, Master!]

[Harrrr.]

[Yesssss.]

respond in their own way and gather around me as I

friend Jim went?" I ask the

him a few hundred metres down the tunnel. Take a left at the

"Thanks."

battle, the number of ants congregating actually increases. More and more of them are flooding out of

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