Chapter 1451 – Snake Assault

The problem with trying to get my mandibles on these newly spawning monsters, is that they’re rare and only just beginning to appear in these tunnels. There are plenty of areas within the safe-zone where they aren’t appearing yet, and when they do pop up, the Colony is, of course, dealing with the problem as soon as they can.

What this means is that, even though I go looking for some monsters to chomp on, I can’t find any. Though I search high and low, every time I think I’ve come across something to chomp on, the Colony has already swept in and dealt with the matter.

This level of efficiency is… good… I suppose… but now I have nothing to do except go and fight this stupid snake! Lousy Colony, being all super good at doing stuff all the time.

All I can do is sigh, give my antennae a clean and head off to let Solant know I’m on the way. She gives me a nod, but I can tell she was already aware it was going to end up like this. Know-it-all.

My suspicions are confirmed when I reach the lower levels of the safe-zone to find a medical team and a large battalion of ants ready to hold the line should the snake try and make it up into our territory.

Hey, if the monster wants to ram itself headfirst into the purified mana, then I’m all for it, though I suppose we’d want to minimise the damage a creature this size would inflict should it get in there, even for a few moments.

With a final wave of the antennae to the waiting ants, I head out into the toxic mana, making my way toward the vertical shaft I’d found previously.

Things are much as I remember them from last time, with the exception of the centipedes. CURSED CREATURES. They are, blessedly, still nowhere to be found, not having returned since my last visit. Now that I’m here, I enter stealth mode, as much as a monster of my size can. I pull my mana in close and tight, sticking to the walls of the shaft and keeping to the shadows wherever I can, and all the while, my senses stay sharp and on the lookout for goop-snake.

To my surprise, I find it doing pretty much the same thing as it was the last time I was here: lazily coiled about itself, basking in the slime and thick mana pooling at the bottom of the junction. I have to be careful, since fighting while on a vertical surface isn’t exactly my strong suit anymore. My Grip has been improving bit by bit, but it’s proving difficult to keep pace with my size.

I might have to make my claws mutable in my next evolution, so I can be as mobile on odd surfaces as an ant should be.

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Though… I’m probably going to become pretty darn huge after my next evolution. I’m already larger than a bus, I’m like a full on truck. After the next one… I’m running out of vehicles to compare myself to. Do I have to upgrade to buildings?! If I keep evolving, am I going to get to the point I could look King Kong in the eye?!

Best not to think about it.

Instead, I’ll focus on my opponent for the day, this slippery, slime-coated, snake. Now that I look more carefully, it really is a rather large monster. Its body isn’t as wide as I am, but it’s so much longer that it probably outweighs me two to one, even with my gravity-compressed diamond. That’s a heck of a lot of Biomass, which nobody is going to be able to eat… such a shame.