Chrysalis

Chapter 685

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."

in the battle line turned out to be, and now, when healers are needed desperately all along the line she just

totally fine," I lie, "get that healing

in the chest. A salvo of fireballs and charged arrows strike him right in the chest plate, knocking him off his

Tiny gets out of

quickly, instead, charging out again, snapping my mandibles for all 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 him out of the fight ages ago. If I actually survive long enough, I'm going to find Smithant and personally thank that little genius. I'll have to

BAM!

My senses sharpen to their finest point as my antennae, reflexes and muscles move in perfect synchronisation, deflecting and dodging every blow I can and diverting others to clash against my

of thousands of monstrous ants is 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

Chomp! Chomp! CHOMP!

the Legion away from the area Tiny fell and the Colony has rushed extra numbers to shore up the line as Crinis

back to them. [Once Tiny is safe, please come

[MASTER!]

off pretty bad by Crinis after this. Perhaps death is the answer. No! Can't

of the great ape guardian has been keenly felt in the lines,

in there and fight!" she orders every ant in reserve forward.

THE COLONY!" comes back the roar as the ants, only recently

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

her body into the soldiers in front, buckling their line

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