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.

coming?! They

seem to want to stop.

let me

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. I'm

need to get off me, Crinis. We need

wall to my right crumbles as a huge pair of mandibles break

"LEEEEEEROOOOOOY!!!!"

tunnel as a HUGE soldier bursts through the wall and dives headfirst into combat. The Golgari

scream, but since my pheromone gland is covered,

I need to fix

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

Dammit.

Eldest has

"West tunnel, clear!"

"East tunnel, clear!"

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

to close the emergency tunnels! Earth mages

the council been

"They're on the way!"

The Vestibule is completely alive now, whispering

she's still clinging to

We need

[Yes, Master!]

[Harrrr.]

[Yesssss.]

each respond in their own way and gather around

me where my friend Jim went?" I ask

worm? You should find him a few hundred metres down

"Thanks."

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 tunnels and climbing out of small emergency tunnels that

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