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!”

with me, we

hadn’t gone far when the scouts returned from the

they reported. “The three of them are spread

relieved. “Tell the troops to fall back and join us here. If the guardians can give us some breathing room, we can right the situation inside

take these ants and go ahead, you gather up everyone from the walls and follow

“Sounds good.”

had the ranks

whatever she found. Soon, the troops from the walls began to trickle in. A few hundred

task, but it was exactly this kind of situation

who is too injured to fight into the central planning chamber 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. Scout leaders to me. Stick to your

divided the fighting fit ants into

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

was too risky, and had instead broken it into segments.

much of the central shaft as possible was the first priority

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

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

Normally, the veritable heart of the fortress, filled with ants rushing up and down, now it was deserted. Victor saw nothing but a blank tunnel ahead of her, whilst behind, thousands of troops marched in

to the nest, whoever had done this, they

bottom of the shaft without incident and exited, moving down the wide tunnel that led to the next segment of the shaft. When they reached it, Victor knew immediately that

Inside was simply… darkness.

themselves before they dissipated like smoke, or fell back down to merge with the shadows below. It was almost as if they

monsters of the second stratum? That

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

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