Chrysalis

Gweheheh. Feeling a little heavy over there? Is your guilty conscience weighing you down?

Or is it the weight of the gravity well I’ve snuck underneath the stadium yoinking you down to the ground?!

Muahahahahaha!

It’s not as if I even need to do it. I could turn their entire half of the pitch to muck and bury them in it, or wash them away with a solid wave of water without having to bind the Endless to the ground, but I’m doing it anyway.

They dare to try and poison the great me?! I have no choice but to exact terrible vengeance!

At the same time, I also want to get this match over with. The Call is ridiculously painful and I’m desperate to leave this stratum and get deeper into the Dungeon as soon as possible.

At this rate, I might end up calling Brilliant to warp me out of the Stadium in front of the whole crowd the moment the match is done. I’m struggling over here!

I’ve got three more turns of offence, which I’ll obviously skip. I’ve scored a point already, all I need to do is prevent those hatchlings from scoring one and I win anyway.

Let’s get this over with!

When everything is set for the next round, I smash the ball immediately, and then smash my mandibles together in another display of primal intimidation. The crowd loves it, so I give them a little sugar, waving my antennae toward the seats and ensuring every corner of the stadium gets a look at my best profile angles.

Time to humble some hatchlings again.

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into the ground when the rounds start?” Washingtant asked. “I can

replied, carefully watching their opponent across the pitch. “Doubtless they are using a type of mana that

not even sure they have to,” Leonidant muttered. “The

score, and there lies our hope of victory. The Eldest will complete their final offensive round before we do. If we conserve our

a win,”

her

wouldn’t be a loss. Unless the cake we fed the Eldest shows some powerful effects soon,

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possession, but the Great One has been giving them no room to move, no room

far, the Endless just don’t

from them, very wide but rather thin, with almost the whole team

to do, we’ve seen different

we go! IMMEDIATE wall of fire! Look

how fast that was, and it’s

sweat building on my forehead as I speak. What’s the reply from the Endless? Once again, they’ve been slow to get off the mark, very unusual for these ants, but they are advancing, forming an earth dome

much mana into that fire the stone and dirt is becoming red hot the moment they draw too close.