Chrysalis

“This is disturbing news, Eldest,” Sloan and Victor don’t look pleased with what I have to say.

“Apparently, this is going on everywhere in the stratum right now, but as monsters, we are especially vulnerable.”

The two generals nod as they ponder this issue. The idea of having a hostile monster group raising a corrupted Colony to fight against us is certainly not a welcome one.

“We will take every precaution to prevent someone from being taken, and implement checks to ensure we can act swiftly to recover any of our family who are… but…”

The two look very uncomfortable as Sloan lays this out.

“But what?” I ask, impatient.

“It’s impossible that we would be able to succeed forever. Even if we get through two, three, ten waves without a single member of the Colony being captured, they only have to succeed once. In the long term, defence is not a viable strategy.”

I can see what they mean. We can fend off the Krath here in the fourth ten thousand times, but they only have to succeed a single time, drag a captive away and throw them into the sludge. From there, it’s only a hop, step and a jump to creating their own colony.

“We have to go on the offensive,” I say the thought out loud, and the two generals agree solemnly.

“Eradication of the Krath is our only viable path forward. We must exterminate them from the Dungeon completely.”

a completely corrupted layer of the Dungeon, hostile to life in an almost comically extreme way. It’s going to be horrendous fighting down there, and without losing a single

to be capable of making the hard decisions to

best in the meantime, but start planning now. One thing I want to establish at the outset, I think Solant should be the one in charge of the fight. It’ll be unconventional, and our opponents are renowned for their slipperiness

reluctant to put their trust in the little general due to the odd way she thinks, but we’re talking about the ant who was

“When there’s a tough slug monster,

great deal. Thank

out of the way and park myself down in the central chamber beneath the nest. I’m not exactly close to the front lines

any dangerous beasts from the fifth, be especially careful when engaging with them. If you have trouble driving them back, call for me and

[They leave disgusting slime and putrid mana everywhere

as much as they can; makes it easier for them to fight. That’s a good point actually, if you can safely burn off or otherwise destroy the terrain advantage, then make sure you do, but

big

off slime and goop, alright? You’ll struggle to fight against those monsters

[Punch.]

[Tiny...]

[Punch!] he insists.

I know you’ve got some firepower in those cannons, but if you get that close, you make yourself vulnerable to poison shenanigans. You have to be careful against these

a brooding silence from the big ape

grunts. [Will be

about as good as I’m going

you stick a tentacle into one of these creatures, they