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 grumbled. “They’re only

his chin in one webbed hand,

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

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

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

groups are out there earning

glaring at the mountain as he clutched the hilt

Where is your patience? Do you have debts I don’t know about, Drake? If this is about money, talk to the group, we can

of the man, but he

quickly, “nothing

into your thick head? Are other groups on the mountain? Yes. Are they making money? Yes. Will they all make

be ants, but isn’t that a

shook

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

from a morning of trying to reach the shore

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

laying traps, even openly taunting us. All signs of intelligent behaviour,” Lacos

no doubt they’ve been monitoring us somehow,” Drake said. “It’s possible they even have some sort of primitive tracking device

at him as if he were

lighting up that mountain like a

a long while until Rillik

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