Deep within the crevices of the underground caverns.
Inside a hollow overgrown with weeds, dozens of dog-sized Insect Men of various shapes and forms were crawling all over the ground.
A sound came from the narrow crack at the entrance. Squatting at the back of the hollow was a lean, slightly stooped Insect Man with a streamlined body, a twenty-four-pack on its abdomen, and two pairs of transparent, light-gray wings sprouting from its back.
The most striking feature of this Insect Man was its eyes, which took up half of its face.
It heard the sound from the crack, turned its head, and fixed its eyes on the opening.
Its tense body only relaxed slightly when the figure behind the crack revealed half a head. Its voice held a note of surprise. "Princess, you're back? I heard you'd been captured."
After squeezing through the crack, the Mantis Person said to the Dragonfly Person clinging to a nearby rock wall, "I'm fine. They only kept me to discuss a collaboration."
