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.

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

long enough for the vines to surge up

was your fault,”

replied icily. “The creature is clearly weak to fire, you should have

its vines. You could

because you’re mad the Eldest didn’t teach you the volcano

because they didn’t have a mega-ice spell for you to learn. It’s not my

use it. Go help Advant without setting her on

“Maybe I will!”

to

long moment, staring at each other until

Eldest were here to see your incompetence, you’d be back

defended herself icily. “Propellant,

want to hear it,”

work, repairing the extensive damage 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

unusual, exceedingly rare, but it did happen. Then again, two individuals with such diametrically opposed personalities were

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 one counting

to come with so few in the team because I assumed you two would be such an asset that it didn’t matter. Not only are

at each other askance, antennae drooping with shame, though neither

let out a frustrated

I know everyone is stressed right now. The Eldest is out of commission for who knows how long, and we have a ton of things to do, but you two can’t let something petty get in the way of your

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

say,” Advant remarked, still picking chunks of vine from gaps in

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

is bothering the two of you is resolved as soon as possible. For now, let’s focus on

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