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 landing,” Drake

chin in one webbed

they have jaws? Their jaws full dealing with those

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

side, “and why we play it as cautious as we can until we

groups are out there earning money

glaring at the mountain as he clutched the hilt of

Drake? If this

bled out of the man, but he still simmered as he

he said quickly, “nothing

starts to sink into your thick head? Are other groups on the mountain? Yes. Are they

expect it to be ants, but isn’t that

shook

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. I’ve taught you to analyse monsters, what do you think we are actually seeing

they’d gathered from a morning

a moment. “There’s a watch on the shoreline, there has to be.

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

no doubt they’ve been monitoring us somehow,” Drake said. “It’s possible they even

at him as if he were insane, but

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 it’ll be incredibly dangerous

a long while

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