To the Surface….

The Wave has started and monsters are coming out of the walls. Many, many hours of tunnel defense as the ant colony and Tiny try to escape the death that is happening in the dungeon. The wall of defenders tries to minimize the damage to the colony and the ants on the other side of the chamber digging up to the surface. Defeat the monsters in the next chamber, give the biomass to the colony. Without those monsters there is no food for the colony. They had to leave a portion of the tunnel open for this very reason, but sometimes some of the monsters lose control or attack and a few of the ant brethren were killed in the aftermath.

Anthony is keeping watch and looking for heat signatures in the chamber but all of a sudden he starts to hear some scary stuff below. The stronger monsters were fighting their way up, it must be due to the increased mana in the walls. The mana veins are starting to come into the new escape tunnel. They are moving so fast that it is visible to the eye. They start dragging dirt from the fresh end of the tunnel to tunnel entrance that opens to the chamber. Panic starts to get to Anthony, just keep digging. The tunnel becomes a moving cylinder with dirt at both ends. There is a concern that they are not getting food and it is still a long way to the surface. Anthony keeps using his mana sensing skill to look for other monsters near the tunnel so the colony can eat. Finally the find something, is it more powerful or weaker? Anthony and the queen modify the tunnel so that Anthony and Tiny can bring back biomass.

As the colony nears the surface, they run into some stone and Anthony chomps through it. He realizes that it is a stone building and as exits it, he realizes it is a church. The people kneel and pray around him. The preacher whacks him with an ornate mace. Anthony bites his arm off. The congregation panics but Anthony uses gravity to hold them still. Then the colony leave the church, the congregation in shock at the number of ants. They march an hour away and set up the colony. Hopefully no one saw them and they can leave peacefully in the forest.