Chrysalis

RAGE! RAAAAAAGE! That damned worm! How could he do this to us?! After everything we did for him?! He's food. FOOD I TELL YOU! If I ever get my mandibles on that worm I'll feed him to the larvae myself! The mere thought of the brood being destroyed by the golgari makes the mana in my body boil like the lava I'm spitting out of my mouth. He let them in to the egg-laying chamber?! With MOTHER?!

I'm so damned angry I'm going blind! I'm going to bust a vein at this rate! Is that even something I can do? Perhaps I'll be able to manifest it out of sheer anger, at this rate, I can believe I'll make it happen.

I channel my anger into the only positive avenue I have available to me. Chomping like a fiend and blasting my enemies with bolts of lava to the face! All I get in exchange is about seventeen sword strikes to the carapace and I think someone kicked me… Since Vibrant and her crew had to take off, things have gotten tense here at this gate, and when I say tense, I mean, real tense. The Legion is pushing us hard and the ant line has been driven back to within the shadow of the gate. Spells and arrows are smacking into the grand metal structure already, but so far the enchantments are holding steady and there's been minimal damage.

"Come on you slackers! Are you trying to live forever?!" an ant bellows from nearby.

"Victor! What the hell are you doing here?!" I cry.

"Trying to shore up the line! We diverted a portion of the troops from the other front to here, but they haven't been able to make up the difference. We need to go harder!"

I check my menu for a second. I'm getting constantly topped off with healing, pumping my regeneration gland on cool down and the Vestibule replenishing my energy. With all of the ants in the nest providing me with a portion of energy, I've been able to push well beyond the normal limits of my body, but even that has a limit. I've been chomping and throwing my weight around out here for a long time and I'm starting to feel it.

[Tiny! You got much left in the tank big guy?]

The giant ape has been giving his all in the fight since the very beginning and to be honest I'm not even sure how he's still out here swinging. In reply to my query, the exhausted and battered bat-faced gorilla flashes me a grin full of fire before he throws out another fist. I mean fist literally now, since he's long been out of the stamina required to activate his skills properly. His hands are a bloody mess by this point, but he doesn't flinch as he crunches his knuckles into the shields of the enemy over and over again.

[Crinis?]

my reserves of shadow flesh, Master! They’ve been targeting my limbs

Dammit.

don't take too many risks. I can't afford for you to take

[You're taking damage…]

[What was that?]

[…]

The Legion are a terrible matchup for her and she's done far more than I expected of her at this point. Instead of trying to saw the

I feel another wash of healing flow over my

asks

been better," is all I

to take it in

to move back?" she

we need to let the healers and generals behind us know in advance. Even a few seconds is enough for them to uproot their positions and find a new bunker further back before we crawl backwards. Needless to say, this has already happened numerous times over the course

going to be behind

she says before she sinks back below the surface of the tunnel floor to

get a good grip on a shield for once. Gimme that! I pull the slab of layered metal to one side and unleash a blast of lava that coats the Legionary in front of me right across the chest plate. The stone there glows bright red from the heat as he falls back, releasing his

shield back over the lines and reset my mandibles for