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."

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

totally fine," I lie, "get

to my right getting battered in the chest. A salvo of fireballs and charged arrows strike him right in the chest plate, knocking him off his feet. The big ape howls with rage but he's so exhausted he can't keep his feet any longer and topples over, scattering the Colony members beneath

Make sure Tiny gets out of there

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

BAM!

their finest point as my antennae, reflexes and

Legionaries are moving a bit slow, certainly they lack the oomph they usually do. The battle has been long as just as the ants have grown weary, even these indomitable humans have grown tired of the constant effort. Trying to fight your way through tens of thousands of monstrous ants is going to take it

Chomp! Chomp! CHOMP!

its job. A 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 the line as Crinis drags

to them. [Once Tiny is safe,

[MASTER!]

Perhaps death is the answer. No! Can't think

loss of the great ape guardian has been

fight!" she orders every ant in reserve forward.

back the roar as the ants, only recently healed from

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

body into the soldiers in front, buckling their line as the next wave ran over her

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