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 stay

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

Crinis! At least let me

gone. A writhing mass of flesh and tentacles rises from my back like a pillar, three separate mouths gaping and gnashing at the air as she sends her limbs twisting through the air toward the Golgari. For their

[Crinis! Are you alright?!]

about me, Master.

need

a huge pair of mandibles break through

"LEEEEEEROOOOOOY!!!!"

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

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

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

late the moment I was captured. Once Leeroy has made her 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. 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. Before I can count to ten, the

Dammit.

has

"West tunnel, clear!"

"East tunnel, clear!"

move! Don't stop those claws! Scouts every

close the emergency tunnels! Earth

the council been

"They're on the way!"

family wrap around me once more. The Vestibule is completely alive now, whispering to me the

a little after I yelled at her, but she's still

Crinis, Invidia. We need

[Yes, Master!]

[Harrrr.]

[Yesssss.]

gather around me as I begin to

tell me where my friend Jim went?" I ask the ants

You should find him a few hundred metres down the tunnel. Take a left at the branch,"

"Thanks."

from the site of the battle, the number of ants congregating actually increases. More and more of them are

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