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 coming?! They need to

close, they didn't seem to want to stop. I think

At least let me see

changes whilst I was gone. A writhing mass of flesh and tentacles rises from my back like a pillar,

[Crinis! Are you alright?!]

Don't worry about me, Master. I'm here to keep

me, Crinis. We need to end this

crumbles as a huge pair of mandibles

"LEEEEEEROOOOOOY!!!!"

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! Some of the Colony members

I scream, but since my pheromone gland is covered, they don't smell

to fix this!

seconds, buried under an avalanche of insects. Only a few have the intelligence to flee the second an ant is seen, the rest fall victim to the relentless crush of the Colony.

Dammit.

Eldest has been

"West tunnel, clear!"

"East tunnel, clear!"

stop those claws! Scouts every hundred metres for a kilometre in all

the emergency tunnels!

the council

"They're on the way!"

The Vestibule is completely alive now, whispering to me the needs and desires of every ant within range. It's overwhelming at first, but when I hear the council members are coming this way, I lever myself to my

her, but she's still clinging to

Crinis, Invidia. We need to get

[Yes, Master!]

[Harrrr.]

[Yesssss.]

gather around

friend Jim

metres down the tunnel. Take

"Thanks."

was a scout. Judging by the long antennae and sleek carapace design, it would be weird if they were a soldier. As time passes and I move further away from the site of the battle, the number of ants congregating actually increases. More and more of them are flooding out of the nearby

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