Chrysalis

Chapter 641

The Storm rages in the sky

The Madness lurks in the dark

The Eye watches all

Whilst

Their Master sleeps

Until The Day

When All Become One in Him.

- Prayer of the Faithful

With reluctance I let the construct dissolve away and give my brains a chance to rest as the battle draws nearer. I'm still not proficient enough with it to employ the thing in battle, better to give my all to pump out a gravity bomb and then do what I can to support the ants around me. No matter how sneaky I get, the bombs haven't managed to inflict any casualties after the first, but if I stop throwing them then perhaps the Legion would start to spread their numbers thinner and push us harder on a wider front, something I don't want. So every fight starts with a bang, so to speak, as long as I'm around, just to keep them on their toes.

"Are you ready, Eldest?" Wills asks as my pets and I push our way to the front.

"Rested as I've ever been," I lie, "how about you? Manage to get a bit of torpor in between battles?"

My antennae poke forward in an accusatory manner as I ask my pointed question. The scout backs up defensively.

to retreat as I move forward. "I'll get some

I raise an antenna.

Four hours! That's all

I lower the appendage.

scout, "but you have to remember that rest is a weapon. We need our decision makers to be sharp and thinking clearly, not fatigued and run off their

mental reserves just before showing up to a fight. Thankfully, I have the Vestibule in my back pocket, which means I'll

to find the time, there's a ton

every member of the Colony isn't saying the same thing since the day they were born?" I ask sceptically. "Find some scouts you

away to help organise the artillery as the front line of ants begins to take shape around the defences. The closer we get to the nest, the more thorough and elaborate the preparations the carvers have been able to make. Where once were simple tunnels, walls and ambush points are now pit fall traps, rock falls, hardened rock stakes, reinforced compacted stone barricades and more. I can only imagine how irritating it is for the enemy to clear one set of walls after a tough fight, only to find an

Legion has begun to form up opposite us. Similar to us, they are strangely quiet as they arrange themselves in rows of heavily armed soldiers, their faces hidden behind

Won't be long now.

the line and they clearly see me, so I don't see what would be the point. After almost ten of these conflicts

it. Even with Invidia helping to

the approaching wall as fast as I can. This much is totally standard by this time, things

that isn't going as expected. Rather than his usual restless moping during this part of the battle, Tiny is agitated, thumping his chest and bellowing his rage at the encroaching Legion soldiers. The great ape’s eyes

you alright buddy?] I

shake his fists at the enemy and blast them with arcing bolts of electricity. When his blows fail to leave much of an impact,

there big guy,

Too late.

unfurls his dark wings and leaps forward from the wall, hurtling himself

idiot!?] I mentally roar at him but he isn't

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