Chrysalis

Chapter 1059

Hartos looked around and was satisfied with what he saw. The mercenaries had managed to penetrate the mountain in good order, and despite the intensifying attacks from the ants, they had maintained their formation.

He couldn’t help but sneer. Those fools who’d refused to join him would be crying bloody tears when they saw the haul he returned with. Thousands and thousands of ants surrounded them already, and soon enough they’d be dead, just waiting for their cores to be extracted.

But it didn’t hurt to be careful.

“Artis!” he barked.

“What?” his long-time crewmember replied, sounding harried.

“I need you for a second.”

“Make it quick,” she snapped, “this shield doesn’t maintain itself.”

He frowned, both at her tone and the implication of her words.

“Are we really being pressured that hard?”

The mage glared at him.

“Of course we are! Look around you, the bugs are endless! No matter how much firepower we pump out, they keep coming.”

“But you can hold?”

“Yes, we can hold. It’s just very difficult work!”

He nodded.

“Good. I want you to check and make sure the mythic is still asleep. We don’t want to be in here when the damn thing wakes up.”

“That’s the truth,” the mage muttered.

She fumbled about in her robes and removed the array from one of her dozens of pockets. She stared at it intensely for a few moments.

“Well?” Hartos demanded.

“There’s tens of thousands of monsters in this mountain, wait a damned second.”

He turned his eyes back to the struggle along the perimeter as the mage continued to study the device.

she said finally. “It’s

“You’re sure.”

the mythic and us, but a signal that strong is hard to miss. I’m sure.

“Go for it.”

his mind dwell on the best case scenario. If they managed to dig in deep

harder!” he roared to the surrounding mercs. “We get a little deeper and we can set up a perimeter. Then we can start getting

of the shields as the insects continued to press

couldn’t use the full weight of their numbers, it didn’t matter where they fought them, on the surface or in the heart of the nest. In fact, the nest was better, since that’s where most

what he could to support the more experienced fighters closer to the edge. Hartos walked forward

a fortune?”

he noted how tense he looked. The pressure was clearly getting

ready,”

older mercenary steadied him with

start pulling them

took a deep breath to settle

forward to it,”

roared. “Another ten metres and we’ll start! Listen to your crew leaders and

came in large numbers. They were everywhere, climbing over the roof, on the walls, even walking on the shield itself or lunging up from beneath. Along

they coming with more?” Drake asked as he flung another slash through the shield.

Hartos chuckled.

and don’t want to leave their posts, or they’re fighting other

mark!” Artis called from amongst a cluster

to get to work then,”

to bellow his orders to the hundreds of gathered mercenaries, but

He didn’t have time to be afraid, the only thing in his mind was confusion as

through his thoughts of mandibles scraping and

he cried as he flailed wildly with his

cries rang out around him as the entire expedition plunged downwards. What

his side. He managed to brace himself and prevent his head from smacking into the rock just in

nearby.

that sent a chill through the

is the light?!” Hartos

back to the ground in relief when he didn’t see any ants nearby. His mind had conjured a thousand ravenous

was. Where were they? They’d been everywhere around them only a moment ago, so what had

Something shifted behind him.

he

The Novel will be updated daily. Come back and continue reading tomorrow, everyone!

Comments ()

0/255