Chrysalis

“Hold, dammit!” Brilliant roared.

“I’m not sure it can take it,” Assistant cried out. “It’s going to overflow!”

“It needs more power! Give it everything you’ve got!”

“We can’t do any more, the matrix will collapse!”

“A little further,” Brilliant urged as the mana surged and frothed. Dimensional boundaries were cascading around them and she could peer into them all, flashing images of twisting reality that bent and warped themselves around her.

They were so close!

“It’s gone! Run!” Assistant shrieked, and Brilliant was vaguely aware of her followers ducking for cover or diving into the blast cages. She herself didn’t move, of course, transfixed as she was by the beauty she beheld in front of her.

“So beautiful,” she whispered.

A moment later, she was spear tackled and knocked from her observation platform.

“Experimant! What are you doing?!” she yelled.

with irritation. “It’s a little difficult to make use of

point the Eldest had been at pains to make, numerous times,

find me,” she boasted,

up only for Experimant to yank her back to the ground. Then the explosion finally happened, the haywire mana

right,” Brilliant muttered. “Forgot

and carvers that made up her merry band began to emerge from the reinforced concrete bunkers someone had decided to install in their research chamber. She strongly

an enthusiastic tap with an antenna. “Fantastic experiment, another rousing success! We are

as she finally emerged, still hugging the floor as the last few sparks danced across the walls. “It seemed like it went rather poorly

mandibles to emphasise her pheromones and mimic the human sound. “How many times do I have to teach you? Only a truly successful test will end with a multiple manifold-collapse. We were able to peer deeper into the weave than ever before! Our goal

behind thick layers of hardened ice and embedded within a holding structure of living stone, the array

Our spatial pathway managed to make it

any ant who travelled through it would be liquified. Not

discover the secrets of teleportation magic without exploding a few gateways. If you could

sure my brain could

don’t understand why this is so difficult…” Experimant huffed, clearly frustrated, her antennae swinging low. “If we only want to travel through regular space,

on her helper, contempt evident in every line of her carapace, but it

as r-regular space. It is a dimension. Everything i-is a dimension. If you punch a h-hole in

looking to find a destination in three dimensional space, but rather find our way back to it. Right now, all we are doing