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

sure it was the… reincarnator?" She protested, "all of the ants are smart,

was a fierce warrior,

say, but most Legionaries who fall within the Dungeon do not get buried. No, your father and I believe it was a

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

just people? Humans, like us? They didn’t choose to come back this way, right? The Dungeon

the loremaster shared

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

commander backed

human, monster. Truth be told, the abominations are the most dangerous of all monsters. All the drive, experience and

you think it decided to strike now?" Alberton

Titus grunted, "that's the easiest to understand. We pushed hard into the ants and killed many, so it decided to strike back. In a way, this is my fault. We could

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 the Sapients eventually, better to put the ants down now before they became too large a

she believed that, but she was 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

snapped out of her thoughts to realise that her father and

the

Legion is deployed in a lot of places

people up from

Titus grunted.

to the thinner mana. No, we'll have to make do

be

"You think I care?"

Far above.

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