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."
his fancy. Such a high tier ant was… exceptionally rare, if not completely unheard of. Without access to the complete Church records he
ant in question had three pets, each of them
pointed in
"Traveller. Has to be."
his larger mouth snaked out a tongue to grasp a hunk of Biomass being proffered by a servant, sucking it into his maw with a wet slurp. "There were other ants present as
think this traveller is raising
not? Without more information, it's difficult to
certainly interesting, and highly unusual. He was tempted to put off his work for an afternoon to document this rare occurrence for the church records, though likely they wouldn't take a demon's word for it. He'd need to see it himself if he wanted to submit a report, and he wasn't about
we have abided by your strictures to the letter. If the ants invade, I'm sure you'll be able to deal with it, it certainly wouldn't be the first
Grokus waved a hand.
forces above at this time. We have a war scheduled
the City Lord of the nearest neighbour to Roklu, was an Avarice Demon, an unhealthy species for a ruler. Her desire for control led to endless conflict between her and … everyone. Even
a wave?
population has grown rapidly over the past week, with new demons
his own forces committed against his fractious contemporary, he didn't have the resources to try
be had in exterminating a Colony of such creatures," Grokus smiled with both mouths, a disturbing sight to say the least, "I'm sure the Church would be interested
allow us free use of the
The demon grinned.
be the right
Alir grunted. Typical.
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