Chrysalis

Chapter 1387

“Oh, I don’t like this. I don’t like this at all,” Brilliant muttered.

“What have you gotten us into this time?” Experimant groaned looking over her leader’s carapace.

“Th-th-that… looks nasty,” Assistant agreed.

Brilliant clacked her mandibles in irritation.

“I’m not investigating this because I want to,” she told them. “The Eldest asked me to work out what the Church of the Path were doing in their fancy, secret rituals, and that’s what I’m doing!”

“The Eldest did?” Experimant said. “Then why haven’t you finished yet?”

“Because it’s difficult. Do you think just anyone can put together the pieces of an extremely complex ritual with only a few faded scraps to work with?”

The little ant looked at her two trusted aides sideways.

“There’s only one type of ant who can….”

“Which type?” Assistant asked before Experimant could stop her.

“One that’s BRILLIANT!” the little annoyance cackled, throwing back her head and flailing her front legs around.

“O-Oh… I sh-should have known….”

“Yes,” Experimant growled, “you should have.”

She looked around the lab they were currently standing in. At the moment, it was filled with little else but Brilliant’s scratchings. Half-formed engravings, bits of slate with designs scrawled over them, several enchanting arrays, the purpose of which wasn’t at all clear.

“Is there a reason you’ve pulled us from the projects we’re managing?” Experimant finally sighed. “My team was on the verge of making a breakthrough.”

“Without me? I doubt it!” Brilliant cackled once more, causing Experimant to grind her mandibles. “I called you here because I need your help, and because I don’t want any other members of the team to work on this.”

enchanting array she was working on with one

potentially dangerous. I don’t want any of

first for the two followers to ever see their leader encounter knowledge that she seemed to find distasteful. Their

three of us are going to work on it,” she told them. “I want both of you here, full-time, to assist for the next week. Make sure your teams know what to do

two ignored the jibe as they continued to stare at the array. It was… uncomfortable

even do?”

tell you that,” Brilliant said

rightful author, this tale is not meant to be on Amazon;

it does, then what

I have to know HOW! It tells us so

No, I wouldn’t,”

d-do?”

a monster in one end, get

They glanced at each other to confirm their mutual confusion, then turned back to

you… elaborate?” Experimant

must,” Brilliant sighed. “When a monster is

“They… die?”

they die! But there’s more, isn’t

granted to the person who l-l-landed the finishing

declared. “In other words, something is taken

interjected. “Could the experience not come from the system itself? Is experience even a tangible thing and not just a number tracked by

impatiently. “It is a number tracked by the system, but every individual on this planet

and prodded both

a monster dies, does its slayer gain all of

a simple

“No.”

where does the

question hung in the air, but neither

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