Chrysalis

Chapter 1057

The ant stared at them. Rillik, Elly, Drake and Lacos stared back.

A pause.

Rillik swore viciously, then began to turn the boat around, not bothering to hide his frustration.

“Let’s just kill it and get on the mountain,” Drake said. “There’s only one.”

Rillik didn’t bother answering, still openly cursing.

“There is never just one,” Lacos quoted the advice their leader had imparted earlier in the day, then he pointed over the monster.

Drake turned to see where his friend was pointing, it took a moment, but he eventually noticed several sets of antennae poking from behind trees or around the edge of a bush. It was like the ants were hidden, but not so well that they wouldn’t be found if you actually tried to find them.

The ant in front of them clacked its mandibles several times, the sharp, percussive noise ringing out in a rhythm that felt distinctly like mocking laughter.

“Ah, shut up you damn monster,” Rillik growled as he hauled on the oars.

The rest of the crew slumped in the boat.

“That’s the fourth time we’ve tried to land today,” Elly groaned. “How are they always waiting for us when we get there?”

force a landing,” Drake grumbled. “They’re

held his chin in one webbed hand,

made landfall already, maybe hundreds. The ants should have their… jaws? Do they have jaws? Their jaws full dealing with those mercenary groups, but still, we

oars for a moment, staring back at the

jobs without enough information,” he spat over the side, “and why we play it

“other groups are out there earning money and

at the mountain as he clutched the hilt

I don’t know about, Drake? If this is about money, talk to the group, we

the man, but he still simmered as

quickly, “nothing

how many times do I need to show you the folly of rushing in blind before the message starts to sink into your thick head? Are other groups on the mountain? Yes. Are they making money?

but isn’t that a good thing? They’re first stratum monsters, not fourth, and they have strong cores.

just shook

you think you’ve found a free buffet? Don’t be daft. And look

mercenaries considered the evidence they’d gathered from a

there has to be. Except that doesn’t make sense…

of monstrous aggression. Baiting tactics, laying traps, even openly taunting

possible they even have some sort of primitive tracking device like

looked at him as if he were

thousands and thousands of the little buggers lighting up that mountain like a maypole, an ocean of gold to mercs

a long while

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