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.

retreat as I move forward. "I'll get some rest after this one, I promise!

I raise an antenna.

hours! That's all I

I lower the appendage.

I tell the scout, "but you have to remember that rest is a weapon. We need our decision makers to be sharp and thinking clearly,

showing up to a fight. Thankfully, I have the Vestibule in my back pocket, which means I'll be able to recover to

it's just hard to find the

born?" I ask sceptically. "Find some scouts you can

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

silent ranks, layer on layer of ferocious insect ready to fight, the Legion has begun to form up opposite us. Similar to us, they are strangely quiet as they arrange themselves in rows of heavily armed

Won't be long now.

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

moment it appears. The enemy responds smoothly to the appearance of the magic, doing everything they can to weaken it from the second I unleash it. Even with Invidia helping to

begins anew, steady and slow as the Colony continues to fling everything they have at them. After a few moments to rest, I whip together an ice construct and start hurling spears at the approaching wall as fast as I can. This much is totally standard by this time, things are proceeding as expected. If it continues along the usual lines, I expect that we'll see a charge

agitated, thumping his chest and bellowing his rage at the encroaching Legion soldiers. The great ape’s eyes have turned a deep red and lightning has already

Tiny, you alright buddy?] I ask him,

at the enemy and blast them with arcing bolts of electricity. When his blows fail

guy, don't

Too late.

leaps forward from the wall, hurtling himself toward the Legion in a spectacularly

doing you idiot!?] I mentally

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