Speaking of old friends, let's check in with one. I assume its been going great.
The air burned as Torrifex strode past, superheated by the seemingly endless energy that rolled off the massive demon in waves. Omen had not been able to determine exactly what speci...
2021-10-07 05:38:26 +0000 UTC View PostI can't believe how close we are to the 1000 chapter mark. This is insane. That would be roughly the halfway point of the story. Scary to think about a time when this might actually be done!
The council had thought long and hard ab...
2021-10-05 10:15:44 +0000 UTC View PostHow does one tier of monster stack up against another? It's a difficult question to answer, contrary to the expectations of many. "Bigger numbers are better, surely" is a sentiment I have heard repeated far too often and from those who should know better. It's amazing the places you can find ...
2021-10-04 10:03:36 +0000 UTC View PostWatching Brixin and her two chumps being bathed in the combined firepower of my siblings is certainly entertaining, almost entertaining enough to make me forget that I'm about to land in a world of hurt, but luckily I come back to myself quickly enough to roll over and look down at my waiting pet...
2021-10-01 11:08:07 +0000 UTC View PostWith the demons high overhead the only way the Colony could reach them was to unleash their best spells and acid blasts, doing everything possible to force the demons down, or at least drain them of mana so they were no longer a threat.
As I watch, it seems to be working. The demons use shi...
2021-09-30 10:59:06 +0000 UTC View PostThank goodness for amorphous blobs of terror! The tentacles twist through the air beneath me, creating a dense noodle stack that I plunge into like a boulder that fell off a cliff. Everything melds into a blur as I plummet the last fifty metres and then -
BANG!
Oof! In an organ rattli...
2021-09-28 11:45:42 +0000 UTC View PostNearly there.
All of the power in this world flows from the Dungeon. Cores are its greatest wealth, experience is its greatest power. For this reason one might think that the bulk of the population would dwell within the Dungeon itself, pursuing all that Pangera has to ...
2021-09-27 09:51:23 +0000 UTC View PostWhen the tide turns, it turns quickly. Sarah has taken immense damage with her reckless fighting style but all that happens is she goes harder. With literally dozens of healers lined up behind her it doesn't seem as though she's going to have any trouble maintaining her HP either, no matter how m...
2021-09-24 11:20:10 +0000 UTC View PostI watched in surprise as Sarah, of all the monsters on this ramp, sailed through the air and crash landed on the plate, soon followed by Tiny. Luckily the Colony wasn't as distrated by their antics as I was and utilised the distraction to extend the ramp in a rush, crashing it into the side of th...
2021-09-22 10:57:37 +0000 UTC View PostThe Immortals thundered through the wide streets of Rolku, a tidal wave of chitin and steel that seemed to rattle the foundations of the world itself as they ran. How many tons massed their combined charge? Who could say? Certainly not Leeroy, who ran deliriously at the head of their flying wedge...
2021-09-21 10:17:50 +0000 UTC View PostSloan looked out over the seemingly endless open space of the third stratum with trepidation in her heart. Everything that could be done had be done. The city had been rebuilt from the ground up, it's defences strengthened, over ten thousand valiant ants were in position to act as the garrison an...
2021-09-20 08:43:32 +0000 UTC View PostSarah paced back and forth on the ramp as she strove to keep her bubbling anger from rising up. Though she put a brave face on it, she was still scared. Scared of this battle, scared of what the Colony was attempting to achieve, scared of being so high up on a ramp with no rails and scared of her...
2021-09-17 07:24:54 +0000 UTC View PostThe defensive strategy of the Colony is a brutal one. Though they shy away from attrition warfare in principle, they have been known to engage in it when the grim calculus of war is sufficiently in their favour. If you are losing ten soldiers for every ant you kill, then that isn't a fight th...
2021-09-16 08:40:59 +0000 UTC View PostPublished the wrong chapter. SORRY FOLKS.
Ah mutating. The subtle joy of making some selections within your mind and then having your body literally transform into a better and more capable version of itself. Not only is it mega-convenient, it's super addictive. The feeling...
2021-09-14 07:44:17 +0000 UTC View PostFire iron. Magma crystals. Ash shards. Pyrestone. Along with cores of the demons themselves, these make up just a few of the precious resources that make the third stratum such a hotbed of conflict. For as long as the powers of the world have known of the demon layer, they have fought over it...
2021-09-13 10:24:31 +0000 UTC View PostIt was a tired and bedraggled group that I led out of the tunnels after a few days of hunting. Trying to track down the groups of demons that had escaped from the city proved to be a massive pain the business district, much as I expected it to. Nevertheless, when we finally made out way to the pl...
2021-09-11 10:33:44 +0000 UTC View PostI have seen many things, dear readers, been to many wild wonderful and dangerous places, but even I felt a moment of trepidation as we passed between the legs of a giant carved statue of an ant and the hard stone closed around us. My two guards and I had now left the world of the sun behind u...
2021-09-09 08:12:59 +0000 UTC View PostThe Colony was like a boulder rolling down a hill. The moment the wave ended they had exploded outwards, and their momentum had only grown as time had passed. The more they expanded, the more nests they created, the easier it was for them to continue the process. More Queens allowed more eggs to ...
2021-09-08 08:36:01 +0000 UTC View Post[I really sorry about that.]
[Hey, don't worry about it. You've apologised already, I'm fine, your fine, we're all fine.]
[I mean. Sure, but I still feel bad. Is there anything I can do?]
[No, seriously, its already healing. There's no issue here.]
Calming down the rampagi...
2021-09-07 08:29:38 +0000 UTC View PostIn that brief window of stillness, as Sarah stood soaking and burned in the tunnel, the demons heard something that they would later wish they had never had the misfortune to hear. It started as a low growl in the back of the great bears throat, a rumble that shuddered through the air and rattled...
2021-09-07 08:29:09 +0000 UTC View PostWith a mighty bellow Sarah burst around the corner with myself and Tiny right on her four heels. The demons responded quickly, the two closest, both of the slaughter demons turned towards us in a flash, transforming themselves into a spinning whirlwind of death before I could blink. I should clar...
2021-09-04 06:06:47 +0000 UTC View PostAs we move through the narrow and boiling hot tunnels, we start to see evidence of the demons' passage in the form of littered Biomass and visible signs of damage on the walls. Claw marks, deep gouges in the stone and even scorches along the floor, not an easy feat in this lava filled place. Whoe...
2021-09-03 10:57:27 +0000 UTC View Post"GRRRRRRRRRR. GARRRRR!"
With another stone shattering roar, Sarah brings the full weight of her body behind a vicious slash of her right forepaw, rending the sorry ghast that had risen in front of her to pieces. Far from her valiant and intimidating voice, her thoughts are rather less impre...
2021-09-01 10:18:35 +0000 UTC View Post"Have you seriously been running this entire time?"
"Yep-Yep! I don't feel right unless my legs are moving. You feel the same, yeah? You have to move! Standing still is like dying, I can't stand it! Being still is just - "
"Enough! No matter how fast you talk, I don't have enoug...
2021-08-31 10:47:35 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Morrelia awoke her entire body was screaming in pain. This extent of muscle soreness wasn't something she'd experienced many times in her life, even in the worst of her training sessions as a trainee legionary. She grit her teeth and forced herself to rise, forcing her protesting limbs to yi...
2021-08-30 10:16:50 +0000 UTC View PostThe shadow falls like clouds, like rain;
Creeping dread begins to stain;
Shudder the heart, freeze the brain;
Ring out the laughter, again and again;
Call of you lover, daughter, son;
Sinks into your ears, your will un...
2021-08-28 11:09:56 +0000 UTC View PostIt didn't take much longer for the hatchling to complete her evolution. The jump from tier three to four isn't nearly as large as that of four to five. I imagine that my next evolution is going to put me out of commission for days, perhaps as long as a week! That does make me wonder about the fur...
2021-08-27 08:02:38 +0000 UTC View PostWhile the hatchling is sleeping through her tier four evolution, the rest of us take a break to strategize a little with Granin and co before we rest. Sometimes it's easy to forget that the others need break a lot sooner than I do, at least, whenever I'm within range of the Colony. There's just s...
2021-08-26 03:57:01 +0000 UTC View PostEnid looked down at her tea with a slight smile on her face. Not only had the ants secured a source of truly delightful tea leaves, they had also managed to procure sugar, goodness knows from where. In the same manner in which they tackled every issue, namely head on, they had begun cultivation a...
2021-08-24 10:43:22 +0000 UTC View PostWhen we returned to Roklu and made our way up the plate on which the city was built, the changes that had taken place were clear to see. Not ones to mess around, the Colony had clearly gotten to work to an extent that left the remaining local residents' heads spinning. Around the central pillar, ...
2021-08-23 10:54:39 +0000 UTC View Post