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.

monsters before, but I’ve never heard of it. The group up strategy

“They obviously disagree.”

few kills yesterday

He shook his head.

they aren’t thinking about what it

the monsters before they went in, standard delve tactics. A smaller number had been more reckless, diving in headfirst against the ‘weak’ ants. Those crews had lost people and gotten little

cause of death

all dead,” he said quietly, “unless they retreat early. The moment they go underground, I think that none of them will

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

if they

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lively there, lad!”

he raised his blade and sent another

nimbly dodged to the side, allowing the blade light to scatter across the terrain. He grit his teeth as they

“Damn monsters,” he grated.

nothing more. Even so, the sight of so many closing in around them was unnerving. The ants were huge. Heavily armoured beasts, the frontline insects were durable beyond

up,

thousand mercenaries in the group, using their Skills and magic to push back the waves of

our numbers. Notice that we haven’t been surrounded yet?

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

Hartos grinned savagely.

then more fool them. We’ll smash them to bits

crew leader turned to roar over the din

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