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.

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

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

was your fault,”

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

its vines.

because you’re mad the

because they didn’t have a mega-ice spell for

then use it. Go help Advant without setting her on

“Maybe I will!”

love to see

at each

“If the Eldest were here to see your

wrong,” Coolant defended

it,” the soldier cut

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 flesh

have a disagreement of any kind. Beyond unusual, exceedingly rare, but it did happen. Then again,

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

go back. I only agreed to come with so few in the team because I assumed you two

shame, though neither willing to admit fault

a frustrated

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

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

still picking chunks of vine from

set you on fire.

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

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