Chrysalis

Chapter 1292

“What are the lizards playing at?” Morrelia growled.

Commander Chyron chuckled humourlessly as she watched the activity in the port city with unblinking eyes.

“Trying to slither back into our good graces, I don’t doubt. Leadership is still furious with them, to put it mildly. It’ll be decades before relations get back to anything like what they were.”

“Decades. That’s not much to them.”

“True. Hardly even a blip. They may even view it as a worthy tradeoff for the ‘experimental’ action they took.”

“Are we really withholding support during the waves?”

“Completely. Thanks to that, we’ve got more resources freed up for trivial, ‘save the world’ type actions like this one.”

From the top of the old Legion fort they currently occupied, the Colony could clearly be seen. The ants were as industrious as ever, putting up their nest in a staggeringly short amount of time. Morrelia felt she could barely blink before the construction was done and hordes of ants ran in and out through the main entrance, carrying in goods from the ships down on the docks. Blink again, and the fortifications had improved, soldiers were patrolling, lookouts were positioned high up the nest and mages had begun controlling the flow of mana in the vicinity.

noticed the

thing out of

of Anthony and his family as an enemy. She hoped it wouldn’t come down to fighting, but

of them now,” she said softly. “They have territory, resources, expertise. At what point does it become too costly for

at her Tribune,

their own backyard is becoming harder and harder. The waves have people spooked, mana levels just surge higher and higher each

tale has been misappropriated; report any instances of

Rending… what could they even do? It wasn’t as if the original members of the Legionem Abyssi, those founding legendary figures, had actually triumphed over the

against the waist-high stone wall, eyes glittering coldly

to deal with were Krath raids, which were unpleasant but manageable. It’s hard to blame them, I

the pressure. The Legion has diplomats in every

“Are we ready?”

out a

the places we’re going to be needed. Which means some parts of the Dungeon will be let go, perhaps as soon as the next wave. At least

it was bad, that was an inescapable fact, but this bad? There were places in the Dungeon that leaned on the Legion for their defence. If the troops

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