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.

Get over yourselves and stop making mistakes, or I’ll tell the Eldest how stupid you’ve been while

to be embarrassed just long enough for the vines to surge up the tunnel once again to

your fault,”

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

its vines. You

the Eldest didn’t teach you the

not! You’re just being petty because they didn’t have a mega-ice spell for you to learn. It’s

great, then use it. Go help Advant without setting her on fire, for

“Maybe I will!”

love to see

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

here to see your incompetence, you’d be back

defended herself

don’t want to hear it,” the soldier

done to Advant’s carapace. There were a number of smaller wounds as well, places where the vines had pierced flesh and inflicted harm. The

disagreement of any kind. Beyond unusual, exceedingly rare, but it did happen. Then again, two individuals with such diametrically opposed personalities

along quite well, but for whatever reason, they were letting their argument get in the way of their task,

or we turn around and go back. I only agreed to come with so few

with shame, though neither willing to admit fault in

out a frustrated puff of

have a ton of things to do,

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

say,” Advant remarked, still picking chunks of

set you on fire. I can’t promise you won’t

the issue. I sincerely hope that whatever is bothering the two of you is resolved as soon

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