Chrysalis

Chapter 1136

“MORE POWER, DAMMIT!”

“We don’t have any more! We don’t have the power!”

“It’s so close. So close! Empty the tanks, we need every drop!”

“But… but that’s madness!”

“It’s not madness… it’s BRILLIANT!”

Electricity crackled, lightning flashed and sparks fell like rain from overhead as the ants scurried to follow the orders of their leader. Atop her observation spire, Brilliant cackled, her mandibles snapping together in a staccato rhythm as the flashes and explosions lit her from below, projecting her demented shadow onto the wall.

“Th-th-the b-backup m-m-matrix is collapsing!” Assistant whimpered.

“It’s fine, we have three backups!”

“This IS the third backup!” Experimant roared.

“Not to worry, I installed a secret fourth backup matrix and didn’t tell you!”

“That’s just a lie, isn’t it?!”

Another explosion rocked the chamber and Brilliant teetered on the edge of her spire, a hair's breadth from losing her grip and falling into the swirling maelstrom of light below. The many-faceted eyes of the mage were filled with an unearthly glow, and for a long moment, Experimant was convinced she’d finally lost her mind.

“Dump the tanks and then hit the cages!” she shouted and hundreds of lab ants rushed to follow her orders.

“Th-th-th-th-th-this will overflow the matrix for sure!” Assistant said.

snatched up the

who w-w-w-will save the

think she’s beyond

the underground pipelines and into the gate matrix. As predicted, the matrix blew almost instantly, rocking the chamber once more and sending deadly blasts of unstable mana arcing through

CAN SEE EVERYTHING!” Brilliant roared. “I CAN SEE

of power she could reach out and touch it. Within her

“L-l-leader! Be c-c-careful!”

“BAH! CALL ME BRILLI-”

in a second. Brilliant never got a chance

ducked for cover as stone and debris rained down from above. The chamber had been built to withstand magic detonations, but that last

room stopped shaking

a

Brilliant said, emerging from

course you are…”

you want to know

“Not really-”

leg. “And that was the best experiment we’ve run so

“Y-y-you're alive?” Assistant mumbled.

Come on, all of you out of the cages. We’ve

Experimant grumbled as she helped the rest of the

But that’s fine, I got a good look at what they were detecting

study it, then?” Experimant said, then realised she said it out loud, went

project it if necessary. My brain, that is. Come on! We are on the verge of a breakthrough after this one, I can feel

the dust and began rummaging about, shouting and exclaiming all the while. Assistant hesitantly made her way from the perimeter as the rest of

air with her two front legs as an array embedded into a reinforced stone

next. In short order,

mana was just what we needed. See these readings? Are

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