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!”

believe we’re under attack,” Victor replied grimly, her mandibles grinding together. “Come with me, we need to get a

hadn’t gone far when the scouts returned from the walls, frazzled after

guardians have reported to the walls!” they reported. “The three of them

back and join us here. If the guardians can give us some breathing room, we can right the situation inside the nest and then get

agreed. “I’ll take these ants and go ahead, you gather up everyone from the walls and

“Sounds good.”

order, the soldier had the ranks organised and set off

the troops from the walls began to trickle

them organised and moving was no small task, but it was exactly this kind of situation that

an emergency hospital there. I want an assessment checkpoint set up for every

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

common design practice for the Colony, going back to before their rebirth as Formica Sapiens, to construct their nests

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

as much of the central shaft as possible was

Forward, into the breach!” she called, leading her

behind by Advant and her troops were thick in the air, they’d

tunnel. Normally, the veritable heart of the fortress, filled with ants rushing up and down, now it was deserted. Victor saw nothing but

happened to the nest, whoever had

When they reached it, Victor knew immediately that something was very wrong. Instead of the huge, arterial path that

Inside was simply… darkness.

that curled in on themselves before they dissipated like smoke, or fell back down to merge with the shadows below.

by monsters of

trails of Advant and her leading party plunged directly into the abyss, vanishing at the edge of the pool. Victor was hesitant. The Eldest was further down, and if she could connect with the troops fighting in the depths, they’d have

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