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.”

to the enchanting array she was working on with one

potentially dangerous. I don’t want any of our other work tainted

two followers to ever see their leader encounter knowledge that

of you here, full-time, to assist for the next week. Make sure your teams know what to do in your absence. Though they should

as they continued to stare at the array. It was… uncomfortable to look at it,

even

I can tell you that,”

not meant to be on Amazon;

then what do you need us for?”

back, uncharacteristically harsh. “It isn’t enough to be able to say what it does, that doesn’t give us a full understanding. I have to know HOW! It tells us so much information that we can’t afford to leave on the ground and

No, I wouldn’t,”

it d-do?” Assistant asked

a monster distillery. Put a monster in

much sense to either of the other two ants. They glanced at

elaborate?”

must,” Brilliant sighed. “When a monster is

“They… die?”

they die! But

is granted to the person who

something is taken

system itself? Is experience even a tangible thing and not just

is a number tracked by the system, but every individual

prodded both her team members in the

point is this. When a monster dies, does

a

“No.”

does

question hung in the air, but neither Experimant nor Assistant could really

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