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

potentially dangerous. I don’t want

the two followers to ever see their leader encounter knowledge that she seemed to find

she told them. “I want both of you here, full-time, to assist for the next week. Make sure your teams know

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

this even do?”

can tell you

rightful author, this tale is not meant to

it does, then what do you need us for?”

need to know how it works!” Brilliant snapped 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!

No, I wouldn’t,”

d-do?” Assistant asked

Put a monster in one end, get distilled essence

of the other two ants. They glanced at each other to confirm

you… elaborate?”

Brilliant sighed. “When a monster is

“They… die?”

they die! But there’s

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

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

Experimant interjected. “Could the experience not come from the system itself? Is experience even

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

both

is this. When a monster dies, does its slayer gain all

was a

“No.”

where does the rest

neither Experimant nor

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