Chrysalis
Chapter 103
Titus was worried.
It was hard to see, the weathered lines of his face were cut deep over years of campaigning, an extra furrow in his brow, a little more tension in his stare, were signs almost impossible to notice.
Tribune Aurillia had noticed. After so many years serving in the Legion she was able to detect the subtle changes in her commander. The tightening of his shoulders, the way he constantly thumbed the blade of his famed axe, testing an edge that he had kept razor sharp for the better part of thirty years.
It wasn’t often Titus was worried.
"... suspicious activity on the part of the mercenary union and merchants guild, as well as a shift in the rhetoric of the Church of the Path have been reported over the last two weeks. Our strategists suggest that the possibility of a coup in Liria is rising by the day" Aurillia reported.
...
Titus nodded absently, his iron gaze never leaving the forest expanse that spread out before them from their vantage point on the camp walls. The forest was dark now. Very dark. Even the monsters seemed to sense that something was coming. The din of combat, constant over the last week had faded away to nothing.
There was a tension in the air, as if every living thing in the Dungeon was waiting, ready to spring into violent battle at a moment’s notice.
"Do you have any instructions to relay to the surface? Commander?" Aurillia queried.
Her commander didn’t respond, instead continuing to gaze pensively at the expanse, his ice blue eyes reflecting the dying light from the trees.
"What do you think the Dungeon was like before the Rending, Tribune?" he asked suddenly.
Aurillia was taken aback by this seemingly unrelated question. After a pausing to consider her response she answered.
"Nobody knows the condition of the Dungeon before the cataclysm commander. No-one even knew it existed".
Titus shook his head. "Of course I know that. I asked what you think it was like, use your imagination Aurillia".
the surface rose dramatically, I can only
a wave" mused Titus, "I think
of theory regarding the Rending, but no wave had ever come remotely close to
from our neighbouring Legionary
"I have" Aurillia nodded.
variation at all. Readings in Banron are the same as ours.
the beginning of a second
cataclysm? The civilisations on the
as Titus stroked his grizzled chin with one hand, contemplating the dim light
he said finally, "but I’m not sure. Something is different about this one. I just wish I
break in the conversation fell as side by side the two
Aurillia felt compelled to
instructions regarding the situation on
Titus slowly nodded.
hours. Not a single trainee or auxiliary is to remain behind. I don’t care if they have to burn the Loremasters library to the ground, Alberton needs to be
going to abandon the Queen? Do you
be a coup and the Queen will
"Then why?"
no interest to me, nor should it be to you Tribune. Our duty and
for decades. You’re talking about Alberton’s aunt!" Aurillia protested. She couldn’t believe
for a moment, his jaw visibly clenching and a spark of anger igniting in his
verge of an unprecedented disaster. The only thing standing between the city of Liria and a flood of monsters are these fortifications" he emphasised his words by slamming his fist down on the compacted earthen walls, "and the Legionaries who
ice blue eyes Aurillia could only swallow her
done commander" she
by Earth Mages were constructed in neat rows, dotted here and there with canvas
joined him on this expedition were all present here in this camp, nobody
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