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."
how capable and seemingly high level the healer who was placed behind me in the battle line turned out to be, and now, when
lie, "get that
as the fight rages on. A few more exchanges and I see Tiny off 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
sure Tiny gets out of there in one
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 see if she can find
BAM!
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 as my antennae, reflexes and muscles move in perfect synchronisation, deflecting and
to fight your way through tens of thousands of monstrous ants is going to take it out of you, no matter who you are. Although the gravity domain and
Chomp! Chomp! CHOMP!
to see that my distraction has done its job. A chance to put down the indescribably attractive ant that I am has lured the Legion away
work!] I call back to them. [Once Tiny is safe,
[MASTER!]
after this. Perhaps death is the answer. No! Can't think like
quickly surrounded. The loss of the great ape guardian has been keenly felt in
ant in reserve forward. "Follow
only recently healed from their injuries plunge back into the fray
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
she hurled her body into the soldiers in front, buckling their line as the next wave ran over her back
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