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 them,

depopulated due to the residents volunteering to become soldiers in the

So… the opposite problem. How the heck

So, things are going well up there, I guess. How about

given we have the architects of the entire program right here with me. Theresant and Florence are in attendance, each of them resplendent, tier five Brood Tenders, emitting a soothing aura that refreshes

happily opens up, clacking

us uncovering what we believe to be the best possible combinations. A fully grown hatchling has a significant statistical advantage over

be aware that it has been stolen.

want to learn, right? You don’t

what they want to be, the first question they ask

Obviously, they’re ants.

just fold at the first obstacle! You’ve

trying to divide themselves up according to what they think

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 the

are the Brood Tenders handling things? No problems? You have

expansion happening in the first and second stratum; with less new nests being built, we aren’t having to establish new antcademies or brood rearing chambers. So,

the grubs all

students are

It’s difficult to say, but across all of the nests, we are graduating close to one hundred

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