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...”

on that after this battle, you’ve

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

their scent trails are all around us, along with literally tens of thousands of them all around us, climbing up the walls, and

up for this

Immortals are after, but I can’t comprehend it, so I can’t understand their lack of

Let me at ‘em!

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

gravity domain revolving into existence to pull the termites down 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

snapping and crushing as I raise my business district high and blast the surroundings with a healthy dose of

Eat acid you suckers!

want to let rip with my elemental magic, I have another use for that, but I won’t get the chance this soon in the fight.

it’s up close and

to answer the call! Unrestrained, I unleash all of my pent-up rage upon the enemy, channelling

of energy flooding through me I can void chomp regularly, every bite enough to smash ten termites at once. In the distance I can see the rest of

slave monsters build the entrance to the nest so wide, the wide path and high ceiling only narrow deeper in as the opening fades into darkness. Down there somewhere are the queens and brood chambers and we won’t leave

and bite as the termites throw themselves against me, climbing atop one another to take their shot, but with a hundred thousand members of the Colony in the area, I cannot be

and no matter how many small wounds they manage to pile up, I can heal them. In fact, the more I fight, the more

tell that the battle is one sided so far. Against the might of this many ants, supported by their loyal militia of sentient buff

wood chomping morons! Did you really think you could

Muahahahahahaha!