Master Of None

The king of the deep caves had been stopped in the tunnel dealing with a build up of soldier ants. He had told Walker and Midnight to proceed and scout since he lacked the ability along with the free golems to do so. With Walker and Midnight away he trusted that he would hear good news soon and put his all in to smashing the heads of giant earth ant soldiers.

"Alright, this is the way to the egg chamber…they're gone. All gone." Walker found that everything was gone. The thousands of eggs he had seen were nowhere to be seen. Instead, he could tell that the earth had just been dug up.

Since Midnight saw that Walker was looking for the reasons why there was nothing here now, she started to move along the side of the tunnel. Her nose was sharp but to her, the entire place smelled like fresh dirt and giant ants. There was nothing new that she could fund until she scoured the walls. Her claws suddenly dug deeper in to the ground and then the wall when she investigated. Her soft growl was enough to get Walker moving quickly over to her.

"Good find. It looks like the ants went this way and closed up the tunnel to protect the eggs. These monsters are smart, if only they had the proper intelligence to speak and develop emotions." Walker knew that if the giant earth ants had any sort of proper intelligence that they could be an amazing addition to Genesis. However, this was a fool's dream. The ants would never be capable of the same things that other races were.

Walker slowly used his elemental manipulation skills to move the soft earth. He had to be slow and controlled to prevent alerting any ants on the other side. As he did so he noticed small holes made to keep air flowing through the new tunnels which were made very carefully. The ants had done this out of instinct which was even more amazing to a degree.

What was revealed was an exact replica chamber that Midnight and Walker had been in. The giant ants had excavated a secondary egg chamber to hide in this one however, had a small dribble of water flowing down the center. The ants hadn't just done this to hide but also to bring the eggs near the naturally flowing underground water source. "Scratch using the earth and the darkness. I am going to use water to make ice, a lot of ice."

Midnight was all for this. She knew that Walker would be able to better form the ice in to things that would break the eggs or cause them to freeze, that also came with the added bonus that Midnight could breathe her frost breath around to do more ice damage to them. It was the perfect combination that would slow all the ants that moved through the area and defeat potential future colonies.

In a burst of movement, Midnight covered Walker. They both had the shadow wrapping skill but Midnight noticed one of the nurturers coming by. They were very sensitive and Midnight knew well that she had a better handle on the control of the shadow wrapping skill. Therefore, she covered Walker until the nurturer ant passed them by. These were the ants that would try and escape with a potential queen egg. Freezing all the eggs in place would ensure that they could not easily run away with such eggs.

"Good job. Watch my back. I need a few moments." Walker focused on the water flowing through the chamber while Midnight kept him covered. She had eyes around the chamber looking for any ant that came too close or would dare try and touch them. The small eggs were in different stages of development. That made the nurturer ants react to them differently depending on what they were going to hatch in to. Therefore, there was a lot of natural movement within this chamber.

That alone made Midnight more on edge while she felt the mana around them become denser. The ants did not appear to notice this since they were more reactive to the earth elemental mana due to the affinity for it. The water was slowly gaining strength making the entire chamber almost misty. This was also ignored by the ants since they were mostly blind in the dark and relied on scent and vibrations.

"Here we go. Be ready to run." Walker released a large amount of mana to control the water elemental mana he had gathered. The water from the small stream burst up in to a sharp maze of ice crystals. Many eggs were pierced or broken while the entire chamber became frosty and crystalized. Midnight had taken a deep breath and let loose a powerful burst of frost. She had trained her frost breath easily since the weather had been cold for months due to the season. This allowed her to reach better proficiency in frost breath than some of the other elemental breath attacks. Paired with the heavy water elemental mana led to the enhanced effects. The very air seemed to be freezing.

Nurturers found the warmth in their bodies gone causing them to collapse in a dormant state or even perish on the spot. Many of the eggs would be unable to survive this for a few moments. Unfortunately, this massive change in the tunnel was felt deeper. The queen's chamber was nearby the egg chamber so that the eggs could easily be brought over from her.

​ The insect screech that echoed from the deeper chambers was the signal for Walker to ignore the pressure he felt after using so much mana. Midnight helped him back up and the two rushed away as fast as possible. They were not the only ones that heard this though. the king of the deep caves knew good news was on the way.

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