Chrysalis

Chapter 1043

“SHIELDS!” Advant shouted, her pheromones washing over the entire area in a mighty burst.

The two mages, thankfully, were quick to respond and a shield sprang into being around the large soldier, mere moments before the mess of vines engulfed her completely.

She lunged forward, mandibles snapping as she sheared through hundreds of the tough, living ropes, not noticeably making a dent in them.

“Need some fire?” Propellant asked, eager.

“Of course I want some damn fire! Why are you asking? Just cast it already!” Advant hollered.

An immediate burst of flame washed over her, igniting the vines and driving them back temporarily. Of course, it also set the fine hairs on her antennae on fire at the same time….

“Not me, you idiot!”

“Sorry.”

Unsurprisingly, Propellant didn’t sound all that apologetic as she watched the plant monster retreat, smothering the flames with its innumerable vines. Coolant sighed and conjured a jet of water to douse the singed soldier.

“Really now, you should be able to aim better than that, sister.”

Now dripping wet, Advant fumed silently for a moment before deciding she could no longer hold it in.

“You two have been useless since we got down here,” she sniped at the bickering mages. “If I didn’t know better, I’d think you’d had a falling out of some sort.”

Propellant and Coolant stood awkwardly for a moment.

“Fine, whatever. You’re being ridiculous. Get over yourselves and stop making mistakes, or I’ll tell the Eldest how stupid you’ve

to be embarrassed just long enough for the vines to surge up the

your fault,”

fault?” Coolant replied icily. “The creature is clearly weak to fire, you should have

water within its vines. You

mad the Eldest didn’t teach

have a mega-ice spell for you to learn. It’s not my fault that fire

help Advant without setting her on fire,

“Maybe I will!”

to see

long moment, staring at each other until a bedraggled figure trudged out of the

“If the Eldest were here to see your incompetence,

wrong,” Coolant defended herself icily. “Propellant, on the

hear it,” the soldier

smaller wounds as well, places where the

for any members of the Colony to have a disagreement of any kind. Beyond unusual, exceedingly rare, but it did happen. Then again, two individuals with such diametrically opposed personalities were

along quite well, but for whatever reason, they were letting their argument get in the way of their task, which was not acceptable. Especially because Advant was the

you assure me right now that you can both operate at your best going forward, or we turn around and go back. I only agreed to come with so few in the team because I assumed you two would be such an

siblings looked at each other askance, antennae drooping with shame, though neither willing to

let out a frustrated puff

have a ton of things to do, but you two can’t

are quite right,” Coolant said. “We are not performing our tasks

picking chunks of vine

my best not to set you on fire. I can’t promise you won’t get singed, though. It’s fire,

light roasting was the issue. I sincerely hope that whatever is bothering the two of you is resolved

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