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."
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
"get that healing where it's
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
Tiny gets out of
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 any see-through materials when I get my own armour. I can't have my
BAM!
My senses sharpen to their finest point as my antennae, reflexes and
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 out of you, no matter who you are. Although the gravity domain and bolts that I'm firing out might not
Chomp! Chomp! CHOMP!
done 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
work!] I call back to them. [Once Tiny is safe, please come and rescue
[MASTER!]
Perhaps death is the answer. No! Can't think like
the lines Victor watches the surge offense of the Eldest falter as they are quickly surrounded. The loss of the great ape guardian has been keenly felt in the lines, but there is nothing for it, the Colony has no choice
she orders every ant in reserve forward. "Follow the Eldest and
the ants, only recently healed from their injuries plunge
that she needs to look over. Either they stand here, or perish. Sensing the frantic energy of these final moments, the
body into the soldiers in front, buckling their line as the next wave ran over her back to crash in
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