Chrysalis

Chapter 271

"Then we were fighting theshe monsters and they are like freaking shombies, I’m tellin’ you. No matter what I hit them with they just don’t shtay down. Finally I burn the shtoopid thing so much it falsh down and this ugly ass bug breaksh out of iz back and jush crawlsh off!"

"Donnelan, I think you’ve had enough. I can’t understand what on earth you’re saying."

"I’m..... FINE!"

"You are not fine, you’ve been trying to drink out of the bowl of nuts for the last fifteen minutes!"

"... Maybe I’sh had enough."

"I thought you mage types were supposed to be smart. You had enough an hour ago you moron. You’re juicier than a fiddler at festival time. I bet you can’t even walk."

Donnelan’s eyes go blank for a moment as he sways from side to side, testing his balance.

"Yous right!" he declared. "I cantsh walk."

Mirryn grunted with irritation. She’d been happy to join in and have a few drinks but she was quick to realise that the spirits they brewed down here were several levels more intense than anything they’d drunk on the surface. So she’d slowed down her pace, enjoyed the convivial atmosphere and watched the various races and social grouping here in Railleh mixing within the venue.

Donnelan had just wrecked himself and complained.

"Is he going to make it home?" rumbled the barkeep as he approached.

The enormous Golgarin male had kept a watchful eye on his business all night but hadn’t had to flex his size on anyone, something that Mirryn was quite grateful for. Easily seven feet tall and quite literally looking as if he’d been carved from a mountainside, the man looked as if he could crush two human heads in one of his massive palms.

made of stone, just that their skin was so

she assured him,

the other side of the bar, ready to

you get" Mirryn urged, grabbing her friend by

Eashy!" he mumbled as

few stops on the

night?" a quiet voice found her from the dark

quarters, further down this wing of the barracks. All of the Liria branch trainees who had been

coughed awkwardly, "bigger for

"I’m not surprised. Young Donnelan always struggled to deal with stress. Considering how much has changed for

say, we’ve had our lives turned upside down. We don’t even have a home on the surface anymore" Mirryn pointed out, a little bitterness leaking through. "It shouldn’t shock anyone that some people can’t

and walked towards the far

only hope and pray that some of them have survived and fled. Until the mana levels recede, our duty is to hold the Bulwark and prevent even greater

her officers hand off

life up to this point, and it isn’t stopping. Even now the soldiers in the forts are fighting. No matter how much we fight it doesn’t seem to matter. Are we

monster we kill is a threat that has been removed, every day we hold the

be sealed off? Is this sort of thing normal for the

closed her eyes for a moment before opening them and looking directly into the younger Legionary. Mirryn had always been strong. Not only had she taken to the Legions training

Aurillia of herself when she was younger. This was a Legionary who would go far.

know about the Ancients?" she

blinked at the sudden

mean, are you referring

her head, "I’m talking about the Ancients.

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