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.

his chin in one

Do they have jaws? Their jaws full dealing with those mercenary groups, but still, we are met

oars for a moment, staring

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

wasting time,” Drake said, “other groups are out there earning

at the mountain as he clutched the hilt of his

have debts I don’t know about, Drake? If this is about money,

man, but he

quickly, “nothing

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 head?

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 strong

shook

monster from the 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. I’ve taught you to analyse monsters, what do you

evidence they’d gathered from a morning of trying to reach the shore without being

Elly said after a moment. “There’s a watch on the shoreline, there has to be. Except that doesn’t

traps, even openly taunting us.

“It’s possible they even have some sort of primitive tracking device

him as if

buggers lighting up that mountain like a maypole, an ocean of gold to

in silence for a long while until

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