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 been while they

the vines to surge up the tunnel

your fault,”

is clearly weak to fire,

has water within its vines. You could

petulant because you’re mad the

just being petty because they didn’t have a mega-ice

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

“Maybe I will!”

to

staring at each other until a bedraggled figure trudged

to see your incompetence, you’d be back in training before you

wrong,” Coolant defended herself

hear it,” the soldier cut

to go to 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 healer grumbled to herself as she worked,

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 seldom asked to work together as often as

they were letting their argument get in the way of their task, which was not acceptable. Especially because Advant was the one counting on

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 you not an asset, I would

with shame, though neither willing to admit

let out a

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 work. You’re too

said. “We are not performing

don’t say,” Advant remarked, still picking chunks of vine from gaps in

said. “I’ll do my best not to set you on fire. I can’t promise

was the issue. I sincerely hope that whatever is bothering the two of you is resolved as soon as possible. For now, let’s

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