Chapter 251 - Monkeying Around

I continued my journey, with active. The gnats seemed to have welcomed the prospect of getting burnt. They didn't move when they went up in flames, they instead remained still and burned to ashes in that very spot.

I found them to be eccentric, I mean they were the same bugs that I saw earlier ripping each other apart enthusiastically, and they became statues that simply stood while flames consumed them. Seeing as they were intelligent, I deduced that their community was just one where honour, duty and hierarchy was emphasized. One wouldn't just choose to have their bodies go up in flames unless it had been hammered into them the honor of dying in battle at the hand of something or someone stronger.

It was probably why they fought each other so, I had sensed no personal animosity between the gnats of each warring faction, they did the killing out of duty and were simply pawns.