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!”

Victor replied grimly, her mandibles grinding together. “Come with me, we need to

gone far when the scouts returned from the walls,

three of them

some breathing room, we can

need to move fast,” Advant agreed. “I’ll take these ants and go ahead, you gather up everyone

“Sounds good.”

order, the soldier had the ranks organised and set off toward the central

Advant was capable, more than capable, of dealing with whatever she found. Soon, the troops from the walls began to trickle in. A few hundred at first, but then in their thousands. Weary, injured,

but it was exactly this kind of situation that

assessment checkpoint set up for

fighting fit ants into four columns and had them

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

risky, and had instead broken it into segments. Although each segment was

the central shaft as possible was the first priority on

Forward, into the breach!” she called, leading her troops from the front and straight

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

and down,

happened to the nest, whoever had done this, they

the shaft. When they reached it, Victor knew

Inside was simply… darkness.

sending wisps or tendrils into the air that curled in on themselves before they dissipated like smoke, or fell back down to merge with the shadows below. It was almost as if they were staring into the deepest and darkest depths of the shadow

this an invasion by monsters of the

case may be, the scent 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 the numbers necessary to storm the rest of the fortress. She

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