Echoterra: Rise of the Verdant King

A change. I felt it.

I changed.

I don't know what flipped. Perhaps it was the desperation, or the hatred. Maybe it was just evolution, waiting to be acknowledged.

But I felt them.

They came.

BZZZ!

Hundreds. Thousands. Like whispers through the soil, they came. Aphids. First a trickle, then a tide. Wriggling, pale, hungry creatures. Their small minds reached out to me, and I answered.

I didn't call them.

I summoned them.

Not just the aphids. Ants, beetles, mites. Even the twitching of something larger; tiny rodents, burrowing mammals, ears flicking as they rose from nests all across my territory, eyes wide with terror and obedience.

Instantly, I knew. 'I-it's my evolution'.