The pheromones linger within the environnt, an undeniable manifestation of the presence that emitted them.
A presence I know all too well.
Although I cannot see her, I simply know that she is positioned sowhere behind Gioras' troops.
Just how can this be?!
I find myself moving closer, back out of the tunnel, to see more of what transpires there.
Naturally, I make sure to stay behind our defensive line.
But I need to know what is happening!
From what I can gather of the situation, it seems like reinforcents arrived directly at Gioras' back.
As we should be able to defend a little while longer with what is left of our troops, this ans he's pincered and thus basically done for strategically.
"To think you'd arrive at the most crucial mont. Seems like I'm completely out of my luck." (G)
"Did you trulye belieeve wee wouldn't notice troop movents of such magnietude? Considerieng the amount of reesources we applied to the sole cause of surveyieng the surface that's actuallye insultieng." (L)
"I thought you concentrated on the vicinity of the capital." (G)
"That was onlye in thee beginning. Once thee news of what happEned reeached the whole swarm wee used everye available reesource. A single lost princEss outweighs thee cost of any Effort we're capable of pursuing. But naturallye I would sEnd out scouts to inform e about anye noteworthy hostile forcEs. Especieally, your 'army' had to be surveeiled. But that doesn't an wee wouldn't keeep track of unusual moventz of your unitz. Such forcEs suddenlye entering thee underworld speeaks enough!" (L)
Liseti's speech got better.
Nonetheless, it's still terribly shrill on the ears.
But I assu Gioras has more pressing matters than his hurting ears.
"What happened to my n? I left a whole contingent to guard the entrance. How can it be that you overca them without our notice?" (G)
"I feear your human top speeed is no match for hunteers ien full sprint!" (L)
Uh, I don't envy those people.
Hunted to death in the dark by small killer predators.
There are nicer ways to go.
"That's too bad. n! Hold this corridor! Don't let any of these creatures through! Plug it up with their corpses!" (G)
"Very wEll! Humanz who lieke to surrEnder can do so! Wee won't botheer huntieng thEm down. Everyevone else wiell eet their End now!" (L)
At this, pheromones of giant magnitude fill the cave.
All of them carry the order to attack, received and emitted anew by any drone that is affected so not even a single one will miss it.
Even so drones of Chera's escort seem affected, but a shrill pheromone order from Chera, who I now find right at my side, calls them back, as we cannot afford to lose our last line of defense.
To the credit of the human army, no one tries to run.
They probably wouldn't even know where from here.
Nonetheless, the tide of the fight completely changed now.
If before the humans were slowly advancing against our defensive forces, who were solely intent on stalling them, now they fight the ferocious onslaught of a much greater army of insect claws and mandibles.
At one point, the humans are driven back from the tunnel and an ever-spreading circle of insects expands from the entrance.
"Up the hill! Take the princesses! It's our only chance!" (G)
Now the orders change and they desperately try to advance to our position.
I suppose if they could get their hands on us, they might use that as leverage to have our troops retreat and use their remaining earth mages to escape to the surface through our very own tunnel.
Confronted with this, I beco slightly nervous.
(E)
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