By Gandalf I'm tired.
BAM!
Stop hitting me, dammit!
DOOM CHOMP!
Just like every time I activate the Skill, a team of Legionaries with heavy shields leap forward, activating a host of abilities and anchoring against each other.
CRUNCH!
Despite my mandibles biting deep into the metal slabs these muscle heads call shields, I once again am not able to penetrate through and deal real damage. Stupid tin cans! Eat acid then! I drop my thorax low and raise my abdomen so I can blast the a-team in front of me with a face full of burn juice before resetting my position in the formation. The ants on my left and right depend on me to protect their flanks and if I extend too far or drop back a bit I expose them to unnecessary danger, something that's happened a fair bit over the course of the battle.
"Need a heal?" I scent the pheromones of my designated healer friend behind me.
"You've recharged already?" I'm a bit shocked.
"Nope. But I've found another healer who can top you off if needed."
seemingly high level the healer who was placed behind me in the battle line turned out to be, and now, when healers are needed desperately all along the line she just so happens to have another of her caste waiting in
"get that
see Tiny off to my right getting battered in the chest. A salvo of fireballs and charged arrows strike him right in
Make sure Tiny gets
I'm worth and blasting everyone I can see with gravity bolts. It's been a miracle that Tiny made it this long, he's not exactly built for endurance. Without the armour protecting him, I'd have ordered
BAM!
probably do with some extra shielding now… The Legion forces are quick to capitalise on my poor position and close around my flanks faster than Vibrant eating breakfast. My senses sharpen to their finest point
going to take it out of you, no matter who you are. Although the gravity domain and bolts that I'm firing out might not seem like they have much of an effect, I'm confident they are keeping me alive right now as the soldiers targeting my life find it
Chomp! Chomp! CHOMP!
chance to put down the indescribably attractive ant that I am has lured the Legion away from the area Tiny fell and the Colony has rushed extra numbers to shore up
call back to them. [Once Tiny is safe,
[MASTER!]
get told off pretty bad by Crinis after this. Perhaps death is the answer. No! Can't think like that, need
of the Eldest falter as they are quickly surrounded. The loss of the great ape guardian has been keenly felt in the
there and fight!" she orders every ant in reserve forward. "Follow the Eldest and battle
comes back the roar as the ants, only recently healed from their injuries plunge back into
be left behind, Victor herself runs forward to join the conflict. What does it matter if she were to fall here? After this, there are no more plans or strategies that she needs to look over. Either they stand here, or perish. Sensing the frantic energy of these final moments, the human allies join with the surging ants as they charge forward with their final gasp of strength. All the while, the Eldest rampages throughout the Legion ranks, throwing their weight around and absorbing an absurd amount of punishment as they seek to disrupt
Victor roared as she lunged forward, her mandibles chomping as she hurled her body into the soldiers in front,
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