Chrysalis

Chapter 1158

After thinking about it for a while, I decide I don’t want to think about it anymore and get some sleep.

I mean, there’s humans in there already, why not some demons? Who cares, the more the merrier. All that good stuff.

There’s definitely some serious ramifications to something like this, but I can’t work out what they are, so I’m going to stop trying.

When we wake up, we consume the second half of the Biomass, and then go back to sleep again. When I awake the second time, I see I’m the last to get up; Al has already taken off somewhere while Tiny, Invidia and Crinis have just been enjoying each other’s company, or so I assume.

To my surprise, someone else has decided to show their face.

“Sloan? Didn’t expect to see you here. Don’t you have some stuff to deal with? Like… the wave and such?”

The general gives herself a little shake and lets out a small laugh.

“You don’t think you’re important, Eldest?”

What a ridiculous question.

“All I’m doing is sleeping. There’s nothing important going on here.”

“And what about the powerful demons you took down to save the Colony on this stratum?”

“Well, that was yesterday. Don’t live in the past, Sloan, it’s the future that we need to be concerned with.”

Another little shake.

“Well, it’s good that I came here to talk to you about the future then. There’s something I’d like you to look into, Eldest.”

“Really? I thought I’d be heading down to the fourth as soon as possible to help relieve the pressure there. Things must be getting nuts down in the deep.”

The little general nods her head.

you to head up,

“To the second?! Why?”

forward a

think we may have identified another

Ah, nards.

crazy as Brilliant,

Sloan hesitates.

she says, extremely

down

like Brilliant,” the general assures me, “but she’s

“Elaborate.”

in every training exercise, including every Tunnel Ball match they’ve been

A general this time, huh? I’m not mad about that. There’s something about the glint in Sloan’s eye that I

Sloan? Not happy to be shown up in the strategy

may be unexpected, but her grasp of overall strategy

“For now.”

“Y-yes… for now.”

do, head up there and… what? Take her under my wing? Pass on my grand knowledge of warfare and how to lead

“No, of course not.”

That’s a little hurtful.

to beat her!” the general declares, clacking her mandibles with sudden passion. “Learning from failure is a key element in the Colony’s education, but she refuses to lose! Someone needs to put her in her place — I mean

her an even

to the second stratum to beat down on some ants barely out of training? And I should be doing this instead

carefully as possible. So far, you’ve been involved each time and, as a result of your training, they’ve made great strides and contributions to the family. I’m

going to be for me

core is starving here?” Sloan asks, genuinely

Who knows what the Colony will do if they think

I need to go to the second?

where

“The stadium?!”

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