Chrysalis

Chapter 1358

It’s nice to have the full council around. How long has it been since I saw them all together in one place? Even Antionette and Victoriant are here, now majestic tier six queens, with huge gasters for generating many, high-quality eggs.

It’s actually the two Queens who speak up next.

“Things have been going well up there,” Antionette tells the Council. “We’ve expanded to over twenty antcademies, with satellite nests built around each of them in the second stratum. However, we are beginning to push against claimed territory.”

“Haven’t we taken a lot of ‘claimed territory’?” I ask.

“We have, but that was claimed by independent city states, which are now part of the Colony.”

Good for them.

“We are now brushing against parts of the Dungeon claimed by the major powers, and we don’t want to antagonise them.”

I mean… we could…. No, that’s probably a bad idea. Prosper in peace. This is the way.

“How are the… uh… former independent cities doing? They’ve come into the fold alright?”

“Well…” Victoriant shifts a little uncomfortably. “For the most part, yes, but the cities who were… persuaded… by the crusade…”

Good lord. What did those crazy priests do in there? Are those people suffering from trauma? Do they resent their ant overlords?

the problem with

of them were almost depopulated due to the

the opposite problem. How the

are going well up there, I

good time to ask, given we have the architects of the entire program right here with me. Theresant and Florence are in attendance, each of them

opens up, clacking

what we believe to be the best

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right? You

them what they want

Obviously, they’re ants.

just fold at the first obstacle! You’ve got to push a little

to divide themselves up according to what they think the

path in life seems pointless when they can’t really be happy unless they feel like they’re contributing to the family anyway. I wanted them to learn they could contribute to

handling things? No problems? You have enough

things are starting to slow down a little now. There’s less expansion happening in the first and second stratum; with less new nests being built, we

get to tickle the grubs all day long! I’m

ask, but how many students are we graduating

still being hatched weekly. It’s difficult to say, but across all of the

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