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...”

get on that after this battle, you’ve had your fun. Now get back

Immortals grumble and turn back to fighting, but it's easy to see that the fire has gone out

termite nest, their scent trails are all around us, along with literally tens of thousands of them all around us, climbing up

aren’t pumped up for this then what the

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

Let me at ‘em!

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 me, throwing myself into the waiting jaws of the

before I even land. WIth plenty of brain power to spare, I pour all of my mental energy into compressing the mana as tight as possible before I release it and it’s pleasing to

snapping and crushing as I raise my business district high and blast

Eat acid you suckers!

elemental magic, I have another use for that, but I won’t get the chance this soon in the

up close and

upon the enemy, channelling the intent of my entire family into my mandibles as I rip my way through the bugs in

In the distance I can see

wide path and high ceiling only narrow

their shot,

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

that the battle is one sided so far. Against the might of

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

Muahahahahahaha!