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.
finally. “It’s
“You’re sure.”
us, but a
“Go for it.”
the best
get a little deeper and we can set up a perimeter. Then we can
efforts. The fighting was thick along the edge of the shields as the insects continued to press in on them from all sides, but so long as the mages held the barriers in place, they would hold
the ants 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
what he could to support the more experienced fighters closer
to make a
he noted how tense he looked. The
I’m ready,”
steadied him with a firm grip on his
fine. We’ll start pulling them into the shield
took a deep breath to settle
forward to it,” he
and keep your eyes on the prize!
numbers. They were everywhere, climbing over the roof, on the walls, even
he flung another slash through the shield. “They could
Hartos chuckled.
monster’s mind. These ants may be smarter than the average, but that doesn’t make them as clever as you and me. Perhaps they’re protecting something and don’t want to leave their posts, or they’re fighting other monsters, or a hundred other reasons. Besides, even if more came, it wouldn’t make a difference, we haven’t
called from amongst
to get to work then,”
to the hundreds of gathered mercenaries, but before he said a word, the world turned
have time to be afraid, the only thing in his mind was confusion as the ground beneath his feet simply disappeared and he
flashed through his thoughts of mandibles scraping and scratching at
as he flailed wildly with his
him as the entire expedition plunged downwards. What had
to the ground heavily. Drake crashed into the stone floor, landing on his side. He
name of the Path was that?” Hartos bellowed from somewhere nearby. “Sound
undercurrent of tension that sent a chill through
is the light?!” Hartos
Drake almost sagged back to the ground in relief when he didn’t see any ants nearby. His mind had conjured a thousand ravenous mouths ready to descend on him
realised how strange that was. Where were they? They’d been
Something shifted behind him.
he
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