Chrysalis

Chapter 1198

“We’re under attack!” Victor roared!

The generals looked confused. They were fighting a wave… of course they were under attack!

“Not like that!” she groused. “There’s trouble inside the fortress!”

Messengers had gone missing. Reports weren’t coming back. Entire hospitals had gone dark. Several shifts hadn’t reported to the front over the last hour. It all pointed to one thing.

“There’s an enemy inside the nest,” Victor declared, a grim light gleaming in her eyes. “We need to rally the troops and find out what’s going on. If we can reach the Eldest and bring them into the battle, then there’s no opponent we can’t beat.”

The hundreds of ants clustered around her in the command post appeared shaken, but determined. How the fortress could have been infiltrated without the Colony knowing, it was almost unthinkable. Through the layers of fortified walls, the enchantments, the endless patrols, the hundreds and thousands of ants, the mages on constant alert!

But that didn’t matter now. No matter how’d they’d gotten in, if Victor said they were under attack, then they were.

“Quickly, to me!” she ordered.

The ants rallied bravely and rushed from the chamber, forming into ranks as naturally as breathing.

“Send runners to the walls, let them know what’s happening. They need to hold at all costs!”

Several scouts dashed away.

In the corridors, they found Advant, leading a charge of her own.

“Sister, what’s going on?” demanded the big soldier. “There’s something very wrong inside the nest!”

attack,” Victor replied grimly, her mandibles grinding together. “Come with me, we need to get a hold of this quickly and find

when the scouts returned from

of them are spread around the

the guardians can give us some breathing room, we

these

“Sounds good.”

ranks organised and set off toward the central

was capable, more than capable, of dealing with whatever she found. Soon, the troops from the walls began to trickle in. A few

and moving was no small task, but it was exactly this kind of

and establish an emergency hospital there. I want an assessment checkpoint set up for every ant to move through as they come from the walls.

amount of time, she had divided the fighting fit ants into four columns and had them advancing towards

rebirth as Formica Sapiens, to construct their nests with a main, vertical shaft connecting all levels

access to the entire nest was too risky, and had instead broken it into segments. Although each segment was close to the previous one,

shaft as possible

me! Forward, into the breach!” she called, leading her troops from

Advant and her troops were thick in the air, they’d already been here and gone ahead. She had to

rushing up and down, now it was deserted. Victor saw nothing but a blank tunnel ahead of

happened to the nest, whoever had done this, they would

the wide tunnel that led to the next segment of the shaft. When they reached it, Victor knew immediately that something was very wrong. Instead of the huge, arterial path that

Inside was simply… darkness.

shifted, occasionally sending wisps or tendrils into the air that curled in on themselves before they dissipated like smoke, or fell back

monsters of the second stratum? That

the pool. Victor was hesitant. The Eldest was further down, and if she could connect with the troops fighting

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