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 to stay

close, they didn't seem to want to

me see what's happening! That's

flesh parts and lets the light in once more, blinding me momentarily after 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

[Crinis! Are you alright?!]

about me, Master. I'm here to keep

need to

wall to my right crumbles as a huge pair of mandibles

"LEEEEEEROOOOOOY!!!!"

the wall and dives headfirst into combat. The Golgari are dumbfounded

doing?!" I scream, but since my pheromone gland is covered, they don't smell a thing

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

entrance, a dozen similar holes open up from all angles of the tunnel and hundreds of ants swarm out of them. The Golgari are overwhelmed in seconds, buried under an avalanche of insects.

Dammit.

has

"West tunnel, clear!"

"East tunnel, clear!"

claws! Scouts every hundred metres for a kilometre in

the emergency tunnels! Earth mages

the council been

"They're on the way!"

finally freed from Crinis' death grip, I feel the welcome buzz of my family wrap around me once more. The Vestibule is completely alive now, whispering to me the needs and desires of every

but she's still clinging

Invidia. We need to

[Yes, Master!]

[Harrrr.]

[Yesssss.]

own way and gather around me as I begin to march

Jim

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

"Thanks."

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 tunnels and climbing out of small emergency tunnels that they've dug

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