Red watched the three-way war raging across the Fungal Deep. The Caustic-Mandible ants sprayed melting streams of acid, the Obsidian-Carapace ants crushed everything in their path, and the Parasitic Amber-Hive relentlessly threw hollowed-out chitin husks at both of them to expand its territory.
It was a perfectly balanced nightmare.
Red pulled up the diagnostic overlay for Sector 5.
[FACTION STATUS: SECTOR 5 ECOSYSTEM]
[CAUSTIC-MANDIBLE CASTE: 45,000 UNITS]
[OBSIDIAN-CARAPACE CASTE: 35,000 UNITS]
[PARASITIC AMBER-HIVE (ANOMALY): 80,000 UNITS]
[CURRENT FAITH GENERATION: 0 / DAY]
Red stared at the zero. The original ten thousand ants that had worshipped him as the Hive-Mind were dead. These new generations had been born in the dark, fighting for their lives against the acid. They didn't know him. They only knew violence and survival.
