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.”

gestured to the enchanting array she

this is ugly stuff, potentially dangerous. I don’t want any of our other work tainted by

to ever see their leader encounter knowledge that she seemed to find distasteful. Their own burgeoning sense of unease

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 in your

to stare at the array. It was… uncomfortable

even do?” Experimant

you that,” Brilliant said

is not meant to be on Amazon; report any

know what it does, then what do

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

I wouldn’t,”

it d-do?”

a monster in

either of the other two ants. They glanced at each

elaborate?” Experimant

“When a monster is killed,

“They… die?”

they die! But there’s more,

to the person who l-l-landed the finishing

“In other words, something is taken from the monster and given to the

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

individual on this planet

prodded both

a monster dies, does

a simple

“No.”

where does the rest

in the air, but neither Experimant nor Assistant could

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