I huddled beneath the earth with my brethren. The narrow tunnel was claustrophobic to say the least, the ceiling hung low over my head and knowing just how thin it was didn’t help my space issues. My digging skill conveyed to me the awareness that the tunnel was structurally sound, but for some reason it didn’t help. Perhaps I was …

It took a good bit of travel before we were able to reach the first staging area on the path between the nest and the anticipated direction the horde would be travelling. A steady stream of workers ran back and forth in long lines, bringing information back to the nest or returning for designated rest periods. I found it curious …

Filled with energy and a surging sense of purpose I launched myself out of the colony and into the open air of Pangera, my new world. Crinis, Tiny and I moved with deliberate haste and made our way toward the village. Before we move to the front line and engage ourselves with the activities of the colony there, I wanted …

It took some time for the itching to pass, as it always did. When I finally regained full control of my body again, I picked myself up from the floor, dusted myself off, cleaned my antennae and attempted to move as if nothing had happened. The soldiers keeping an eye on the room pointedly didn’t look at me as I …

Curious about Crinis’ new Shadow eye I dive deeper into the information hidden within her core, laid bare before my core surgery skill. Ah, interesting. It’s dense bloc of information, clearly a powerful organ, far more than the average, if anything I would think that the majority of her evolutionary energy was spent on this. From what I can gather, …

With the main bulk of the planning done, it was time to get my group rested and ready to head back out into the fray. Not long after the council broke up, Tiny stumbled into our chamber only to flop onto the floor and returned to sleep, absorbing the mana of the Dungeon to restore his exhausted core. Speaking of …

“With your permission Eldest, I will leave the council and begin to organise a workforce to prepare our initial fortifications” Tungstant said. I waved an antennae in approval and the small, dextrous ant climbed up the wall and out the roof of the chamber in a moment. “Alright then. Pitfall traps, tunnels to attack, I like all of these ideas. …

“Welcome back Eldest” Victoriant, the budding queen to be, greeted me. At the sound of her voice, the others turned their antennae toward me, signalling that their attention was with me as I crawled down the wall and onto the floor in the centre of the chamber. There were a few soldiers present, I noted, to keep the spawning monsters …

THWACK! HIYA! SNAP! The moment I entered the Queen’s chamber, a powerful antennae came flying at my head. This time though, I was prepared, I’d thought ahead, inspired by Morrelia’s thoughtfulness I had anticipated how my reception would begin. Thus it was that I stood upside at the entrance, clinging to the roof with one of my mother’s antennae clasped …

By the time we came within reach of the colony’s scent trails I’d managed to level external mana manipulation twice, and we were completely exhausted. Tiny was stumbling with every step, the poor guy was the heaviest of all of us by quite the margin and the hard running had worn him down. Stamina had levelled again for me at …