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

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

your fault,”

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

within its vines.

you’re mad the Eldest didn’t teach

didn’t have a mega-ice spell for you

great, then use it. Go help

“Maybe I will!”

love to

a long moment, staring at each other until a bedraggled

out. “If the Eldest were here to see your incompetence, you’d be back in training

haven’t done anything wrong,” Coolant defended herself icily. “Propellant, on the other

it,”

small healer came forward and began 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

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 Coolant and

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

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

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

out a frustrated puff of

knows how long, and we have a ton of things to do, but you two can’t let something petty get

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

say,” Advant remarked, still picking chunks of

best not to set you on fire. I can’t promise you won’t

I sincerely hope that whatever is bothering the two of you is resolved as soon as possible. For now, let’s focus on the task at

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