Grant had always been a quiet one, even when I'd trained her. I wasn't shocked at all when she'd evolved into a Soldier, low-key dedication to the colony was always her way. As I watch Garralosh charge once more in an unthinking mad frenzy, I feel so lost, tha...
2019-10-31 10:49:45 +0000 UTC View Post
That craft Leather faced lizard! He'd let Garralosh regain control of her body a few seconds before me! Now I'm deep in the brown town! My enhanced neural network fires at a speed beyond what would normally be possible and I'm dodging before my brain can fully...
2019-10-31 04:32:35 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor note. Man it's nice to get back to typing in Anthony's voice. Very casual and breezy. Other characters are so serious, it's nice to just lightly write on through no matter happens, since Anthony doesn't dwell on any of it!
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2019-10-30 08:54:09 +0000 UTC View Post
I'd not attempted this spell before, but I'd known how to do it since my mind magic affinity skill had ranked up. Essentially, the spell allowed the wielder to invade the mind of the other. Garralosh had almost successfully done something similar with pure, ra...
2019-10-28 09:11:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Beds are wonderful things, don't you think? Especially if you have a good one. My family had never shown me affection in any meaningful way, but I did have decent stuff. At least, I did until the collectors got hold of me. My bed had...
2019-10-28 02:34:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Perhaps, somewhere deep inside the leathery hide and muscle bound physique, there still exists the person Garralosh was before she came here. Maybe I can shock her with an image, or sensation. It's been a heck of long time since she came here, but it might get...
2019-10-26 03:54:24 +0000 UTC View Post
I revel in my triumphant bite for a fraction of a second too long. Even the tingle of my antennae and a lightning quick response isn't enough to completely save me from the retaliatory sweep of Garralosh's mid leg. It's hard to twist an ant body. Hard in the s...
2019-10-25 10:19:22 +0000 UTC View Post
I wove the bridge deftly and with incredible ease, the likes of which I hadn't felt before. The extra stats flexed their muscle here, the Cunning allowing me to comprehend and visualise the complex patterns with so much more clarity, the Will allowing me to ha...
2019-10-25 06:59:15 +0000 UTC View Post
How long have I been asleep?! Just what on earth went on around here?! From the mound of the nest the surrounding area is a complete disaster zone! The rings of walls the colony had worked so hard to build were in ruins, smashed apart and in places the dirt wa...
2019-10-23 08:28:02 +0000 UTC View Post
The Queen felt herself grow larger as she borrowed the strength of her children. The ants felt themselves be diminished but they let go willingly. They would sacrifice far more for their Queen, this was nothing to them.
Garralosh watched from the place s...
2019-10-22 19:58:27 +0000 UTC View Post
The Queen of the colony charged toward her much larger foe, her momentum built with each step. To the ants on the wall, she looked majestic, a shining beacon of strength that attacked with grace and courage.
But the closer she drew to Garralosh, the more...
2019-10-21 06:31:26 +0000 UTC View Post
"Vibrant! We need to get to the Queen!" Grant punched out her pheromone message with all of her strength.
"Wha? To Mother? Why?" The fast moving ant slowed down for a just a moment to respond.
"Garralosh is coming to the wall! We need to bring her ...
2019-10-18 04:08:32 +0000 UTC View Post
"Hi-Hi! How's it going Mother? You can glow now? That's cool! Can I glow someday, or is it a Queen thing?"
The Queen didn't have time to spare to turn to the babbling child who had appeared beside her. She was deep in battle with a colossal Garralosh Spa...
2019-10-17 02:00:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Socs has been doing some crazy awesome fan art for Chrysalis and I've linked pieces here and there on Royal Road but (stupidly) never posted any of it here. Feast your eyes on some of this insane Chrysalis art!
You can check out the art directly at deviant art right here:
2019-10-15 23:37:19 +0000 UTC
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Vibrant was elated. After hunting and working right up until the battle had begun, she'd been told that she and her squad should rest so they'd be able to fight at their best when it mattered the most. Naturally she'd refused. Rest?! REST?! Laughable! With so ...
2019-10-15 23:08:09 +0000 UTC View PostMassive apologies for the lack of chapters lately. Been crazy over here.
I'll do my best to catch up over the next few days.
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The Queen landed with a calamitous thud, several unfortunate monsters were crushed beneath her b...
2019-10-15 04:56:23 +0000 UTC View Post
"At last our time has come!" Bella exulted.
"Our moment to shine!" Agreed Ellie.
"I'll be glad to get out this damp hole finally," Bella huffed.
The two core shapers glanced around at their cramped compatriots and their loyal shadow beasts, c...
2019-10-11 10:39:44 +0000 UTC View PostNot gonna lie, I got a little silly with this one.
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"Haul your abdomen, Sloan!" Victor yelled at her slower contemporary.
"I'm coming!" Sloan grumbled back.
The two generals were exhausted. They hadn't foug...
2019-10-09 08:36:32 +0000 UTC View Post
"Hold the line!" sprayed Grant to the ants around her, "don't let these motherless scum over the wall!"
She faked left before she bit down hard with her mandibles on a clawed hand that threatened her. The dirt wall defences of the ants had held firm so f...
2019-10-09 01:36:37 +0000 UTC View Post
"Am I gonna make it, Ms Enid?" the boy begged tearfully.
Enid glanced down at the horrific gut wound the soldier had suffered, her face set in a calming smile.
"You're going to be fine soldier," she soothed him, wiping the sweat from his face with ...
2019-10-07 10:48:41 +0000 UTC View Post
The master was irritated.
Assan'diri could feel the rising ire of his master through the bond. Like a Blackened Death Asp monster it hissed, sibilant, at a constant measure that put all of the Setsulah on edge.
"Diri!" muttered a nearby voice...
2019-10-03 10:53:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Antionette and Victoriant sat in the secure chamber in which the Eldest was evolving. Soldiers and scouts lined the walls, Brood Tenders, with their soothing growth auras were in attendance and the two guardians watched all with a sharp eye from their position...
2019-10-02 10:51:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Electrical energy crackled over head as the ants continued to battle mindlessly on the wall. With a crack like the sound of a whip, the first strike fell directly on the Queen. Conserving her energy, the Queen was holding her section of the wall with ease when...
2019-10-02 10:49:05 +0000 UTC View Post
When the monsters pushed forward over the lines of traps and climbed over each other to ascend the wall, they found a ravenous wall of ants waiting for them. The soldiers were desperate, frantic for the opportunity to tear their opponents apart. From ...
2019-09-30 11:23:54 +0000 UTC View Post
The colony succeeded in pulling back to the second of their defensive lines with minimal losses. Each of the walls was shorter in length than the previous, allowing the ants to compress their numbers further each time they fell back.
Wills was plea...
2019-09-29 10:20:16 +0000 UTC View Post
A delivery system of flesh and bone. That's what the horde truly was. As an instrument of the dark will that controlled it, the massive gathering of enslaved monsters had been used to scour the kingdom of Liria and possibly neighbouring kingdoms as well. Here ...
2019-09-28 10:45:34 +0000 UTC View Post
"Take that!" Leeroy roared as her mandibles tore down yet another foe.
The blood and mana within her body thrummed with excitement as the battle unfolded before her eyes. The ants were fighting, gloriously fighting! All along the ...
2019-09-26 11:21:49 +0000 UTC View PostJust a note on the missed updates. I was super busy at work and then got sick, yay! Sorry about that :(
"About time they got here," Burke muttered to herself as the horde made its final approach to the outer layer of fortifications the c...
2019-09-23 10:41:58 +0000 UTC View Post
In the distance, a rising tide of fangs, claws and flesh approached. When Morrelia squinted, she could make out the individual forms of the monsters as they undulated across the land and between the trees. There didn't seem to be an end to the horde. They spre...
2019-09-20 02:52:45 +0000 UTC View Post
"What do you think, Ellie?"
"They're magnificent, Bella. Works of engineering, imagination, and unyielding effort! This must the art that the Eldest spoke of when we were in training."
"I agree! This is art!"
"Do you think the other ...
2019-09-18 11:21:28 +0000 UTC View Post