Chrysalis

“Eldest! What are you doing up here?” Leeroy complained.

“Hah. Thought you had a nice final stand setup here, did you? You thought you’d run far enough from the rest of the Colony that we wouldn’t be able to catch up and keep you alive? You should know better by now, Leeroy.”

“But don’t you need to rush deeper into the nest, Eldest?” she asks, hope still alive in her scent. “We can hold this position… against overwhelming odds, even! Yes! We can stay here, battling to control the mouth of the nest to protect you… until we fall one by one, tragically!”

Wow, she worked that up in her head quickly.

“No chance, Leeroy. I came up here strictly to keep you and all your followers alive. None of you are going to die while I’m here,” I tell her firmly.

“Dammit.”

“This sucks!”

“Ruining everything…”

“I was feeling good about today…”

“Hey! Shut up over there! You think I can’t hear you? Don’t make me walk over there!”

“Would you kill us if you did?”

“What? No!”

“Dammit...”

that after this battle, you’ve had

grumble and turn back to fighting, but it's easy to see that the fire has gone out of them, which is

all around us, along with literally tens of thousands

pumped up for this then what the hell are

I know what the Immortals are after, but I can’t comprehend it, so I can’t understand their lack of gusto. It’s not a problem though, I’ve

Let me at ‘em!

sulking corps of Immortals, I rush toward the outer edge of the formation and run right over the top of the armoured soldier in front of

of brain power to spare, I pour all of my mental energy into compressing the mana as tight as possible before I

then I’m there, crashing into their lines, my jaws snapping and crushing as I raise my business district high and blast the surroundings

Eat acid you suckers!

let rip with my elemental magic, I have another use for that, but I won’t get the chance

up close

Unrestrained, I unleash all of my pent-up rage upon the enemy, channelling the intent

bite enough to smash ten termites at once. In the distance I can see the rest of the Colony pushing forward, grinding down the enemy and rolling them back towards where the Immortals and

understand quite why the ka’armodo had their slave monsters build the entrance to the nest so wide, the wide path and high ceiling only narrow

one another to take their shot, but with a hundred thousand members of the Colony

how many small wounds they manage to pile up, I can heal them. In fact, the more I fight, the more energised I

battle is one sided so far. Against the might of this many ants,

the Colony in its strongest form, you wood chomping morons! Did you really think you could stand

Muahahahahahaha!