Chrysalis

Look, I don’t know what they expect me to say. You’d think I’d get better at this, since I’ve left messages for a few of the other castes, but it really isn’t the case.

You’re Soldiers. You Soldier. You get it, I get it, we all get it. In many ways, this was the easiest of all of the evolutions I designed for our species, all you had to do was get bigger and chunkier. All of the stuff I found useful for fighting up close, I made sure you would also get. Inner-carapace plating, healing gland, mutable muscles, all that good stuff.

I suppose if I had to say something, it would be this: Remember Grant. She was one of the first ants I ever trained myself, a member of the Council, and she died heroically to protect me from Garralosh.

Without her sacrifice, I would not have survived that battle, and all I did for the Colony after would never have occurred. I still wonder if it was worth it. A noble, intelligent and selfless ant like Grant, what would she have been able to achieve, had she lived?

In many ways, she epitomises what it means to be a Soldier for the Colony. You are the biggest, the strongest, the toughest. It’s your role to put yourself in harm's way so that others don’t have to. Where the fight is thickest, where the hunt is most intense, that is where you are to go.

I only ask that you make sure you come back.

It isn’t always possible, I know that, and it breaks my heart… but do your best.

And forget Leeroy. She was born stupid and not much has changed.

- Message from the Eldest to the Soldier caste.

for the tier eight demons, Torrifex and sisters, continues to be both unfruitful, and a massive pain in the

in a neverending melee. Of course, higher ranked demons appear constantly, popping out from the waves of weaker monsters, seeking each other out or throwing themselves at us in a blind

It’s exhausting.

they start to do so, they gather an unstoppable momentum. The more they group up, the faster they run into more recruits, so the horde grows even faster. It

large or how small, but none of them are hiding our targets, and

out combat. My muscles never get fatigued, my glands never run out of energy, and I heal superficial damage to my carapace

accumulates wounds like they’re going out of fashion and even Crinis loses a lot of shadow flesh during each conflict. The two of them need time and Biomass

my gravity domain, they’re relatively safe, but even then, strong enough demons

experience is really pounding into my thick head just why the waves are so terrifying, especially on the third. Without the Vestibule, I’d be too tired, too injured and too mentally fatigued to

And I’m super strong!

pull up stumps and get out of town. Leave the disaster zone and come back once the mess has died down. Not the Colony, though! We’ll seize the unprecedented opportunity of the

anything like a tier eight core, and we’ve been out here

he looks at me. Al, due to his nature as

they may have retreated deeper still. It’s possible Torrifex is

would suck. No way he figured out my Altar combo that

big moron seemed happy enough to come at

as smart as he is, with the knowledge that he has, he probably has

perhaps. Torrifex is a loyal servant of the Demon God, but he has no wish to die. Rather, as close as he is to evolving and joining the