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

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

two followers to ever see their leader encounter knowledge that

to assist for the next week.

to stare at the array. It was… uncomfortable to look

even do?” Experimant

tell you that,” Brilliant

is not meant to be on Amazon;

it does, then what do

know HOW! It tells us so much information that we can’t afford to leave on the ground and not pick up!

No, I

d-does it d-do?”

Put a monster in one

They glanced at each other to confirm their

elaborate?”

must,” Brilliant sighed. “When a monster is killed, what

“They… die?”

die! But

person who

words, something is taken from the monster and given

know that?” Experimant interjected. “Could the experience not come from the system itself? Is experience even a

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

around and prodded both her team

monster dies,

a

“No.”

where does the

neither Experimant nor

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