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!”

we’re under attack,” Victor replied grimly, her mandibles grinding together. “Come with me,

the scouts returned from the walls, frazzled

to the walls!” they reported. “The three of them are spread around the fortress

guardians can give us some

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

“Sounds good.”

order, the soldier had the ranks organised and set off

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

organised and moving was no small task, but it

central planning chamber and establish an emergency hospital there. I want an assessment checkpoint set up for every ant

short amount of time, she had divided the fighting fit ants into four

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

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

the central shaft as possible was the first priority

she called, leading her troops from

her troops were thick in the air, they’d already been here

tunnel. Normally, the veritable heart of the fortress, filled with ants rushing up and down, now it was deserted. Victor saw

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

shaft. When they reached it, Victor knew immediately that something was very wrong. Instead of

Inside was simply… darkness.

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

an invasion by monsters of the second stratum? That

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

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