Karax POV (The Champion of Sanguiscreech Ants)
Karax stood on the edge of the chamber wall.
His compound eyes were locked on the figure vanishing into the upper tunnels. Nameless Death. He was gone, just like that.
He had not said a word, nor did he attack them again.
Karax should've been relieved, and a part of him was. But the feeling that settled in his chest wasn't peace.
It was shame.
The greatest threat the colony had ever faced had simply walked away. Not because Karax fought him off. Not because they'd won. He left on his own.
Karax—Champion of the Sanguiscreech Colony, First Claw of the Queen's Court, defender of the tunnels—had done nothing.
Nothing at all.
His mandibles clenched.
He remembered the way Nameless Death had stood there. Surrounded by those six orbs, his body a mass of scars and quiet fury.
Even at Level 2, he radiated danger so intense it made Karax's carapace tremble.
