Chrysalis

Chapter 628

"What will we do with them?" Morrelia's voice was subdued.

Titus stared unblinking at the five bodies arranged before him.

"They will be returned to their families for burial. If their families do not claim them, or if they requested it themselves, they will be taken to the surface and buried in the Legion memorial in Tanna."

Morrelia turned her head to gaze up at her father.

"There's a Legion memorial?" she'd never heard of such a thing. She hesitated for a moment. "Is that where brother…?"

He nodded grimly.

"We don't bury our dead in the Dungeon. They deserve the light of the surface, not this cursed world below."

The commander stood with his full guard as watch for the fallen Legionaries. Found outside the camp, there had been little mourning, or even surprise when their comrades had been found. Death was part of war and the Abyssal Legion was always at war.

Alberton approached from one side.

"Interesting that they were not eaten," he observed, "most monsters won't pass up the opportunity for Biomass, especially social insects."

Morrelia was shocked by the man's callous attitude but Titus merely nodded.

"This was the abomination's work," he said.

"You are likely to be right," the loremaster agreed. "Either it wanted to send a message, or wasn't ready to feast on its former species."

Morrelia felt sick at the idea of Anthony being responsible for

protested, "all of the ants are

a fierce warrior, but she was still too green

the Dungeon do not get buried. No, your father and I believe it was a lingering sense of humanity within the abomination that caused it to act

Legion insisted that they be wiped out before they became

still don't understand why you refer to them as 'abominations'", she said, "aren't they just people? Humans, like us? They didn’t choose to come back this way, right? The Dungeon did that to

the loremaster

as monsters as people," he warned her, "they may have been something like a human in their past life, but each and every one of them is twisted, broken. The records tell of numerous occasions where we encountered such beings. In every case they were eventually put down at great cost. The Dungeon chooses the souls it does with good reason, each of them is chosen to further its purpose. That is just another reason why they should be killed as swiftly as

commander backed

what they were. Not human, monster. Truth be told, the abominations are the most dangerous of all monsters.

you think it decided to strike

into the ants and killed many, so it decided to strike back. In a way, this is my fault. We

on her, and the thought of Anthony, filled with a thirst for revenge fighting and killing her fellow Legionaries was awful. Who was right? Who was wrong? She wasn't sure what she should do in this moment. Should she confront her father and tell him the Colony was peaceful? After what had been said today, she didn't think it would matter. Alberton and Titus would simply say

far from as experienced with these things as her elders were. What if she was wrong? The idea of the Colony turning itself against humans the way Garralosh had done seemed absurd, but the damage they could do if they chose to… As

realise that

the

least. The Legion is deployed in a lot of places putting out fires after the last wave,

calling people

Titus grunted.

there? Besides, we can't afford the time it would take to acclimate them to the thinner mana. No, we'll have to make do with what we have for now. It's going to take longer

the golgari be happy about

"You think I care?"

Far above.

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