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 what she saw

the… reincarnator?" She protested, "all of the ants are smart, couldn't it

a fierce warrior, but she was still too

who fall within the Dungeon do not get buried. No, your father and

to understand what the right thing to do was. The Colony was peaceful, she knew that, yet the Legion insisted that they be wiped out before they became a greater threat. The ants were peaceful for now, but what about in the future?

"aren't they just people? Humans, like us? They didn’t choose

the loremaster shared a

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

commander backed him

be told, the abominations are the most dangerous of all monsters.

decided to strike now?" Alberton thought out

grunted, "that's the easiest to understand. We pushed hard into the ants and killed many, so it decided to strike back. In a

The thought of the dead Colony members weighed heavily 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 that they would turn against

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 devastating as the beast had been to the frontier kingdoms, she

snapped out of her thoughts to realise that her father

from the fortress?"

is deployed in a lot of places putting out

people up from

Titus grunted.

to be like down there? Besides, we can't afford the time it would take to acclimate them to

be

"You think I care?"

Far above.

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