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,”

held his chin in one webbed

should have their… jaws? Do they have jaws? Their jaws

a moment, staring back at the ant still standing in the open, watching

side, “and why

said, “other groups are out there earning money and we’re just getting laughed

fumed in his seat, glaring at the mountain as he

Where is your patience? Do you have debts I don’t know about, Drake? If

of the man, but

said quickly, “nothing

sit down, shut up, and be patient. By the Path, how many times do I need to show you the folly of rushing in blind before the message starts to sink into your thick

get that we didn’t expect it to be ants, but isn’t that a good thing? They’re first stratum monsters, not fourth, and they have

shook his

first stratum laughing it up on the fourth and you think you’ve found a free buffet? Don’t be daft. And look at the way they behave.

from a morning of trying to reach the shore

on the shoreline, there has to be. Except that doesn’t

laying traps, even openly taunting

possible they even have some sort of primitive tracking device like we

as if he were insane,

he groused. “There’s thousands and thousands of the little buggers lighting up that mountain like a maypole, an ocean

for a long while

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