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.

replied as she snatched up the smaller ant, threw her on her back and rushed to the blast

w-w-w-will save

think she’s beyond

and into the gate matrix. As predicted, the matrix blew

CAN SEE EVERYTHING!” Brilliant roared.

close to the unstable mass of power she could reach out and touch it. Within her heart, Experimant said a quick farewell to the disturbed

“L-l-leader! Be c-c-careful!”

“BAH! CALL ME BRILLI-”

in a second. Brilliant never got a chance to complete

down from above. The chamber had been built to withstand magic detonations, but that last one had been

minutes before the room stopped shaking and Experimant felt confident enough to

a

here,” Brilliant said,

you are…”

want to know how I

“Not really-”

leg. “And that was the best experiment we’ve run so far! The results were

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

Come on, all of you out of the cages.

of our sensor arrays melted?” Experimant grumbled as she helped the rest of the

I got a good look at what they were detecting

then realised she said it out loud, went

Come on!

the while. Assistant hesitantly made

come on… YES!” Brilliant punched the air with her two front legs as

refused to work, she savaged it with a bite before running to the next. In short order, she’d either repaired or fatally damaged all ten of the outer detectors and started poring over the printed scent-pages

by infusing the liquid mana was just what we needed. See these readings? Are you

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