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?”

could force a

in one

they have jaws? Their jaws full

stopped cursing and laid off the oars for a moment, staring back

information,” he spat over the side, “and why we play it as cautious as we can until we learn

there earning money and we’re just getting

mountain as he clutched the hilt of his sword.

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

the man, but he still simmered as he turned

he said quickly,

sink into your thick head?

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

just shook

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.

mercenaries considered the evidence they’d gathered from a morning of trying to

after a moment. “There’s a watch on the shoreline, there has to be. Except that doesn’t make sense… don’t they have

tactics, laying traps, even openly taunting us. All signs

they’ve been monitoring us somehow,” Drake said. “It’s possible they even have some sort of primitive tracking device like we

him as if he were insane, but

Dungeon think of next?” he groused. “There’s thousands and thousands of the little buggers lighting up that mountain like a maypole, an ocean of gold to mercs like us, but

silence for a long while until

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