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Chapter 1621 - Eternal Search
🕑 Added 2025-06-24 10:50:53 +0000 UTC“Sisters! We arrive now at the final battle!” Leeroy called, her voice ringing out even within the darkness. Her precious siblings were around her, even if she couldn’t see them. They were a presence that she could never deny, a wordless embrace she would never refuse. “The enemy has taunted us for so long, thinking themselves outside the reach of our mandibles. They were fools, the Immortals can charge anywhere!”
“WE SEEK!”
“Deep in the heart of the stratum. Surrounded by enemies on all sides, the poisonous filth of the fifth all around us. What better place for us? What more could we possibly wish for?! Our enemies yearn to bring us death! I welcome it!”
She felt the rising hunger of the Immortals around her. They still burned for sacrifice, she did too, and this was a golden opportunity. As the last of the healers in front of them left the shadow realm, Leeroy began to gather her strength in her legs.
Within her body, she felt the fungus awaken, stirred to life by the aura of battle and struggle. Soon, it too would be unleashed on the battlefield. Like her, it hungered for sacrifice.
The Eldest had been right. This was the right evolution for Leeroy and her sisters. She had chosen wisely. She stepped forward, ready to emerge.
“Sisters! What is our purpose?!” she roared, then charged.
“WE SEEK!” they answered her as one.
The full might of their armoured column advanced, slowly at first, but with a gathering momentum. They burst out of the darkness and found themselves in a bewildering scene.
The walls of the heart shuddered and thundered around them as blue mana warred with toxic and foul energy all around them. The Eldest was down, surrounded by healers, their eyes burning with inner suffering.
Leeroy suppressed a twinge of jealousy and focused on her mission. She was here to fight, and to find her ending.
The immortals crashed to the ground, their feet deep in the rising liquid-mana and continued their charge, speed and power mounting by the second. At their head, Leeroy wore her new armour, forged by SmithSolant over the last few days. Cunningly concealed holes allowed the fungal fibres that now twisted around her carapace to wind their way about the armoured plating as well, while several gaps at the back gave room for the mushrooms that poked through. To her left and right were the only other tier seven Immortals, flanking and supporting her, their armour mirrored to hers.
Casting about, Leeroy found the enemy, high above, warring with the guardians and shadows. The nearest foes were at least two hundred metres up, the bulk of them were five times that far. Weighed down by their armour, the Immortals weren’t built for climbing or fighting in the air. They were made to smash into their foes headlong and fight to the bitter end.
So that’s what they were going to do.
“Ignite the road to the beyond! Hoist the Reliquary high!” she roared.
“Ascend!” the Immortals chanted back at her.
Not all of the Immortals were Soldiers, though by far that caste made up the bulk of them. There were mages, carvers and others along with them, all part of the armoured charge. They had made sure that there was nowhere the Immortals couldn’t go in search of their final rest.
Even far above, the Krath were not safe.
Metal clad ant legs thundered along the ground, but, after a brief pause, that was no longer true.
A golden pathway formed, just before Leeroy’s legs, that lifted them off the ground and curved, higher and higher, until the armoured column of the Immortals was charging directly upwards.
Carried forward by the unstoppable momentum of her sisters, Leeroy used every ounce of her strength, her legs gripping hard on the golden road and pushing. Her stamina plunged precipitously as she dashed again and again, each step a new activation of the Skill. Braced by the Immortals in front and behind them, the entire column accelerated upwards as they screamed their warcry.
“FOR THE COLONY!”
The armoured might of the Colony could not be denied.
Leeroy burst through the edge of the safe-zone and rushed headlong into the poisonous atmosphere of the fifth. Smithant’s enchanted device activated immediately, enveloping her in a temporary bubble. She hoped against hope that it would run out.
Before her loomed the beasts of the Krath, gibbering mouths and slime-launching snails, their shells aglow with power as they sucked in mucus and mana. That was perfect.
Leeroy lowered her head, shifted her path, and launched herself forward.
At the same time, the mushrooms along her back sprang to life, bursting out a trail of spores that streamed behind her with glittering light, like motes of gold floating in the wind.
With joy soaring in her heart, Leeroy closed in on the beast as it swelled with foul energy, her mandibles wide and ready to strike. Behind her, the rest of the Immortals reached the end of the road and similarly flung themselves from it, each having picked their target. The force of their charge was such they fired from the path like steel-clad rocks flung from a catapult, like spears launched from a ballista.
The beast before Leeroy barely had time to roar in defiance before she crunched into it, biting and ripping. Acid and mucus poured down on her like rain, but she didn’t care. Her charge had crunched through the snail’s shell as if it were paper, and she soon heard the notification ring in her ears.
Disappointed the fight hadn’t lasted longer, she found her bearings and sought out another target. Already the Krath were beginning to rain down their acid and poison on her, but she welcomed it gladly. Today, Leeroy knew, she would give her life for the family she loved.
Then the spores would come, and the fungus would put her back together.
When she awoke, she would be whole once more, and, on another day, she would get to do it all over again.
Truly, she had found a most blessed existence.
Comments
Pan nong
Man I always feel the war from the immortals hehe. Nice storytelling
Meir Banon
Tftc
Peter Cigáň
Immortals are basically orks from warhammer😂
Napalm078
"At their head, Leeroy wore her new armour, forged by SmithSolant over the last few days." *Armour, forged by Smithant over the last
Roombot
Being dead is no excuse for lazing around! Get back to work!
Roombot
Awwwww Leeroy is finally happy!!!!
Yeslek Nnamhctits
I love solant's new hobby, smithing is so fun!
DrDankness
THEY REACH THEIR ETERNAL REST!!! TO RISE AND SEEK ONCE MORE!!!
Skeams
I always love reading a Leeroy chapter. Literally the funniest chapters in my opinion. WE SEEK!
S10NN4CH
thanks for the chap!! Edit needed here: The immortals crashed to the ground, their feet deep in the rising liquid-mana and continued their charge, speed and power mounting by the second. At their head, Leeroy wore her new armour, forged by {SmithSolant} *Smithant* over the last few days.
taukid
I was wondering if they would ever see it from the perspective that they GET to die over and over again rather than failing to totally die.
Ruwa
Damm so she gets off to dying and coming back
Tyrunex
Sounds like a dieing fetish to me
Shakyamunie
Man the Immortals are almost as terrifying as there are dumb, and that's a feat of nature.
alt31415
"We just want to give 100% for the colony!" "Leeroy, what about giving 99% multiple times?" "Huh? Eldest, you know I'm bad at math."
alt31415
EVERYONE knows about the Cordyceps fungus. last Of Us did not invent it!
Gonvas
They hated the Phoenix organ, I guess from their perspective, they never died. But with the Zombie option, they blackout, so is like dying and then coming back for a next time.
Buck
I have to wonder if RinoZ either played the video game “The Last of Us” or watched the television series based off the game. In “The Last of Us”, a strain of cordyceps fungus mutates to infect humans. Cordyceps fungus infect the brains of different species, especially insects, and take control of their bodies. Seems like Leeroy has her own strain of cordyceps keeping her alive.
Loulatsch
NEW CHAPTERS
Brian Schwab
Well, here’s a new typo in the 12th paragraph: “ forged by SmithSolant”. Probably from autocorrect. But glad to see Leroy has finally reached the acceptance stage!
Anthony Romanov
Well what better way to serve the Colony the keep dieing for it? They Seek death and what better then dieing ONCE? Of course it's to keep deing all over again! Maybe just maybe you die True Death for the Colony and then you will be brought to all the battle fields that other Immortals will participate!
Deathburn
Seems like Leeroy at least has come to peace with their evolution; good to see they aren't so lazy as to actually want to never work again
Navarog
Yes. Dying multiple times for colony is much better then only once.
Vibious
So leeroy just wants to die but she has no problem with reviving later?
Cindermoth
Wait, Leeroy is happy? Anthony! You must quickly recover to remedy this anomaly immediately!
Gabus Deux
The dungeon finally gave in lol. You wanna die?! Fine! But youre coming back tomorrow!
daroi holtsag
WE SEEK
