Chrysalis

Chapter 1058

Rillik watched as the dense pack of mercs floated over the water on a shield toward land. He shook his head.

“Do you think they’ll be alright?” Elly asked, uncharacteristically soft-spoken.

“No,” the golgari said, his voice flat.

“I find their tactic questionable,” Lacos noted, a hint of curiosity in his tone. “If they did not find success yesterday when attacking in numbers, why try again with an even larger group?”

The leader of the crew unclenched his hands from the railing at the edge of the the deck and rolled his shoulders, trying to ease the tension there.

“Let’s head down into the boat. We can talk on the way.”

The other two nodded, and together they checked their gear before climbing down the rope ladder into the waiting dinghy. Once they settled in their seats, Rillik picked up the oars, pushed off the ship and resumed his speech.

“There’s two schools of thought when it comes to tackling weak monsters in large numbers. One way is to split wide and pick at them from the edges. If they try to swarm you, there’s space to just pull back to prevent getting surrounded. It’s slower, but much, much safer.”

“And the other way?”

Rillik grunted.

“Go all in. Ball up in numbers and dive into the middle. The theory goes that the number of enemies doesn’t really matter beyond a certain point. With enough people, you can layer shields, support and firepower to the point where the weak monsters can’t touch you. It can work well enough under normal circumstances.”

“Normal circumstances?” Lacos asked.

dumb and unorganised. It’s possible that people have run into intelligent swarm monsters before, but I’ve never heard of it.

“They obviously disagree.”

They got a few kills yesterday and the cores

He shook his head.

so huge they aren’t thinking about

Most crews had been cautious, as he had, poking and prodding to assess the monsters before they went in, standard delve tactics. A smaller number had

the leading cause of death amongst mercs,

quietly, “unless they retreat early. The moment

tried to let it go. He’d said his piece in the morning, Drake was a grown

they

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lively there, lad!” a voice

replied as he raised his blade and sent another slash streaking through the

scatter across the terrain. He grit his teeth as they clacked their mandibles, sure they were

“Damn monsters,” he grated.

them was unnerving. The ants were huge. Heavily armoured beasts, the frontline insects were durable beyond the mercenaries’ expectations, shrugging off a lot of punishment and retreating when they took serious

fine!” Hartos shouted. “Ball up, stay together, and

their Skills and magic to push back the waves of ants, who blasted them with acid and spells

shoulder, “scared of our numbers. Notice that we haven’t been surrounded

invite us deeper?” Drake asked, a hint of uncertainty in

Hartos grinned savagely.

them. We’ll smash them to bits

large crew leader turned to roar over the

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