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

the scouts returned from the walls,

“The three of them are spread

join us here. If the guardians can give us some breathing room, we can right the situation inside the nest and then get back to the defence before things are too

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

“Sounds good.”

ranks organised and set off toward the

troops from the walls began to trickle in. A few hundred at first, but then in their thousands. Weary, injured, and still recovering from their heroics on the walls, they were more

but it was exactly this kind of situation that Victor

into the central planning chamber and establish an emergency hospital there. I want an assessment checkpoint set up

amount of time, she had divided the fighting

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

decided that having a single shaft that 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 a chokepoint that

as possible was the

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

scent trails left behind by Advant and her troops were thick in the air, they’d already been here and

and down, now it was deserted. Victor saw nothing but a blank

to the nest, whoever had done this, they

reached it, Victor knew immediately that something was very wrong. Instead of the huge, arterial path that connected the depths of the nest to the peaks, she saw…

Inside was simply… darkness.

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

of the second stratum?

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

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