Alir cocked an eyebrow.
"What sort of insect?" he asked, his interest piqued.
It wasn't unheard of for an insect swarm to get out of control and pour into the second strata, their numbers making up for their generally weak individual strength, but that's usually where things would end. Generally speaking, the surface and upper layers of the Dungeon had far more to fear from swarming monsters than deeper down. For them to make it to the lower parts of the second strata was already quite the achievement.
"Ant," the massive demon replied succinctly.
"Ant?" the priest was surprised. Ants? "How deep were they?"
Grokus steepled his fingers atop his own bulging flesh.
"My scout encountered one just inside our strata, blocking the path to the second."
"Inside the third?" now he was really surprised, "what tier was it?"
"Six."
"SIX? An ant?"
"Do not make me repeat myself, priest."
a high tier ant was… exceptionally rare, if not completely unheard of. Without access to the complete Church records he wouldn't be able to check, but certainly he himself hadn't heard of such a thing in all his years. What could it mean for such
had three pets, each of
pointed in
"Traveller. Has to be."
confirmed, nodding thoughtfully even as his larger mouth snaked out a tongue to grasp a hunk of Biomass being proffered by a
think this traveller is raising up their colony? Creating an
not? Without more information,
to put off his work for an afternoon to document this rare occurrence for the church records, though
you'll be able to deal with it, it certainly wouldn't be the first time the city had been attacked during my stay
Grokus waved a hand.
great desire to leave my post, nor do I wish to send my precious forces above at this time. We have a war scheduled with Orpule in a few days and
unhealthy species for a ruler. Her desire for
during a wave? Is
city's population has grown rapidly over the past week, with new demons
you," Alir surmised, seeing what the demon wanted. With his own forces committed against his fractious contemporary, he didn't have the resources to try and nip the problem possibly growing
a great deal of resources to be had in exterminating a Colony of such creatures," Grokus smiled with both mouths, a disturbing sight to say the least, "I'm sure
us free use of
The demon grinned.
free would be the right word.
Alir grunted. Typical.
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