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Chapter 1373 - Brilliant Brilliant-ing
🕑 Added 2024-05-23 02:00:02 +0000 UTC“Oh… oh, I don’t like the smell of that at all.”
Her antennae waggled furiously as she tried to waft away the stink of whatever sorcery had been performed here. Whoever had performed it had gone to great lengths to scrub the signs away, but they hadn’t expected someone with her level of intelligence coming onto the scene.
After all…
“I’M BRILLIANT!” she declared to the empty room, then cackled gleefully.
She had so many things to do, so many ideas, it had her head spinning most days, but the Eldest, her largest and most demanding Senior, had requested she complete this task personally, and so she would. She’d left her labs and gone to the third stratum, to the city of Roklu, in order to investigate the former Church of the Path facility here.
As she looked around the chamber, her thousands of lenses each reflected the light differently, each looking at something the others weren’t. In just a few moments, she noticed something.
“Interesting…” she murmured.
It was a little irritating, having to adjust the position of her head in order to point the lenses in different directions, but after a few minutes of finicking, she managed to isolate what she’d been looking at. Her eyes were able to see almost everything at this point, each lens picking up on something different. Using her eyes to ‘see’ in the traditional sense was almost impossible now, she relied on mana sensing for that, but her eyes now acted as sensors, able to scan for thousands of blends of light, mana, energy and everything in between.
“Trying to hide from me? I can see EVERYTHING!” she snapped her mandibles mockingly at nobody as she advanced further into the chamber, antennae sweeping through the space her eyes had identified.
She almost tripped when one of her legs found the edge of the depression in the floor. She’d been so intent looking upward, she hadn’t even noticed the floor wasn’t flat. Such a terrible oversight! Luckily, no one had been present to witness her mistake.
Not that she made mistakes.
“Because I’m BRILLIANT!” she cackled once more.
Judging by what was overhead… as well as this depression…
She looped around it, casting her eyes across the floor, down into the depression, then back up into the air. She looped around it again. Then a third time.
Finally, she sighed and began to work her own unique blend of mana. She had done everything possible to ensure that there wasn’t any speck of existence that was beyond her gaze. After all, secrets could be hidden anywhere, which meant she had to be able to hunt them everywhere. Not even dimensions were enough to hide something from her.
Neither was time.
Slowly, piece by piece, the enchantments that had been built into this room began to put themselves back together. Whoever had broken them had been thorough, extremely thorough. She pitied them. A little.
It was a strain. Using this spell for even a few minutes was a strain, but for this, she needed to hold the cast for much, much longer. Yet, as the mystery began to unravel right before her eyes, Brilliant could only feel her heart begin to pound with the thrill of discovery. The answer was coming… she just… needed… to hold… a little… more!
Eventually she collapsed, quivering onto the hard stone floor. She lay there for a while, recovering, letting her glands and core replenish their energies. When she was sufficiently recovered, she turned her gaze back to see what she had achieved.
Glowing symbols, lines of power and currents of mana, ever so faint, almost ghostly, now hung over the depression and were engraved into the floor around it. Yet, not all of them.
At best, she’d managed to recover a third of the complete enchantment, and even then, she felt there were elements missing. It was too long ago that this had been destroyed, but even so, her mandibles clacked gleefully as she absorbed every detail.
This was a start. A great start! There was much here she didn’t understand, things she’d never seen before, which was exciting! If she saw something she didn’t know, it wouldn’t be long until she turned it into something she did know. After all, just who was she?
The little ant continued to prance around the semi-sphere depression in the ground, examining each piece of the enchantment she’d managed to uncover with obsessive detail.
“Yes… I see… I see!” she muttered (and occasionally shouted) to herself.
“That would lead to… something. And that something would then… do something.”
So much she didn’t know. What an incredible find this was! She would have to thank the Eldest at some point for this task. It was proving to be far more interesting than she’d imagined.
“Gathering… storing… extracting… but how? Why?”
She accelerated in her circling as her mind began to spin faster and faster, thoughts whirling and tumbling as she tried to fill in the many blanks, given the limited context she had. Sometimes it was easy, like slotting a single word into an otherwise complete sentence. Other times, it was like trying to write an entire paragraph when given only a single word. And the paragraph was in a different language.
Eventually she stopped in place, eyes locked upwards. That was where the source was, that was obvious. The target of all this enchantment was firmly fixed on that point.
And though they had removed the chains, it was still easy to see where they had been affixed to the roof, the fittings were still there, rings of iron embedded in the stone.
Whatever they did here had also been done to a member of her family, and though she wasn’t exactly sure what it was… she was growing increasingly confident… that she didn’t like it.
Foolish. Such a foolish thing they had done. So foolish to think they could get away with it. Moronic to think that she wouldn’t be able to find them.
After all…
“I’m Brilliant,” she whispered.
Comments
ManguKing
I wondering if the process only condenses biomass and mana or perhaps it also condenses the soul within each monster? If so how much more beneficial is it? And will the colony apply such methods?
Zhypher
Cried a little when she said the last “im brilliant” she said it in a smaller voice, like one in pain T-T
Gopard
Thanks for the chapter!
taukid
I didn't even notice the chapter numbers until you mentioned it. Lol, thanks 😂
Roombot
I love Brilliant
andwhyisit
RinoZ did brilliant work on this chapter.
Vibious
Noo where is chapter 1369!
Anthony Romanov
Well ant's basic eyes suck. So depending on the job they choose they evolve their eyes differently.
S_Ally
Between Brilliant and Beyn...the Church of the Path has no hope now!
Gonvas
I believe she has both space and time affinity magic.
Koala Man
Absolutely, they will call it the sacking of the Silver City , but in reality will be the destruction of the Silver City’s Church of the Path and a warning to its remaining members to never cross that particular line again …
Desmond Cheong
Looks like brilliant have unlock 2 unique magic of space (dimension magic) and time magic?
patrick n thomas
Just because she is BRILLIANT
Yanni
Brilliant is the epitome of an unstoppable force. Once she’s set her mind onto something there’s no stopping her.
Conspirant
Image comics is the best
ott043
So eccentric she literally blinded herself for the sake of discovery. Brilliant
Nathan Emerson
Brilliant is going to turn the church inside out, burning it wouldn't be Brilliant enough.
Xzeno
I get strong “Invincible” vibes every time Brilliant says her name. It’s on Prime and I would highly recommend for those who enjoy comics
Bethany Bluebird
Brilliant is going to BURN THE CHURCH TO THE GROUND and I AM HERE FOR IT!
Spaghetti And Meatballs
She's Brilliant
Rahsheem Reid
You are not of the colony. Just like Jim you intentionally hurt the colony we will make you pay for that. FOR THE COLONY
alt31415
Love how Brilliant is the type of ant to mutter catchphrases to herself when she's all alone.
Khajar
Wow! Brilliant is kinda hardcore... Sacrificed her regular sight, just to be better at her job. That's a lot of dedication! And now I can't wait to see the Colony's reaction, when they learn exactly what the Church did to their sister!
Thunderhoof
Detective Brilliant? She needs a coat, a pipe and a magnifying glass.
Buck
Brilliant on the case! I ALMOST feel sorry for the Church of the Path! Really hoping Brilliant can recreate the draining enchantment so that The Colony can use it to drain members of the Church of the Path clergy that they capture. Seems fitting.
Daddy Frog
Brilliant, will make sure that the prompt dealing with of the silver city is fair
Spirit Stones
Brilliant!
Taka
I won't lie, a little disappointed that this isn't the fifth chapter 1369
Weirwood
I can't wait for the war against the Church
Grey Knight Lord
Yes, once the Council finds about this, sacking the Silver City will begin
Briar
Brilliant continues on!!! Also Tftc and first!!
