Chapter 34: Verdant vengeance
Chaos. Shock. Panic.
The once coordinated Spore Choir was in as state of chaos and panic.
Not even in their wildest nightmares did they imagine that the Verdant Lord that barely just survived their initial invasion would dare to invade back.
Invasion... it was such an alien term to the Spore Choir when it was not them doing the invasion. After all, it was always them before today.
By the time they detected what was happening and their perimeter nodes activated, I had already assimilated ten more meters of territory; ten meters of them.
The network howled. Spores surged, desperate to regroup.
I didn't let them.
I summoned the bloom.
Not the Bone Bloom, no. That had failed me against Thryss, it was still experimental. But this was something even worse.
Something I'd hidden even from myself. A Fungal Bloom taken from their own rot, reengineered through spite and rooted alchemy. A corrupted Choir strain turned into a weapon just like the one I used to defend my territory.
I released it.