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 smaller

who w-w-w-will

think she’s beyond

gate matrix. As predicted, the matrix blew almost

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

mage was hanging upside down from her spire, so close to the unstable mass of power she could reach out and touch

“L-l-leader! Be c-c-careful!”

“BAH! CALL ME BRILLI-”

expanded rapidly, enveloping the entire room in a second. Brilliant never got a chance to complete her

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

five minutes before the room stopped shaking and Experimant felt

get a quick

Brilliant said, emerging from

you are…” Experimant

to know how I

“Not really-”

herself on the carapace with a front leg. “And that

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

you out of the cages. We’ve got to

melted?” Experimant grumbled as she helped the rest of

fine, I got a good look at what they were

extract your brain to study it, then?” Experimant said, then realised she said

Come on!

about, shouting and exclaiming all the while. Assistant hesitantly made her way from

Brilliant punched the air with her two front legs as an array embedded into a reinforced stone pillar flickered

refused to work, she savaged it with a bite before running to the next. In short order, she’d either

we got by infusing the liquid mana was just what we

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