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.

her head. “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

long enough for the vines to surge up the tunnel once again

was your fault,” Propellant

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

its vines. You

just being petulant because you’re mad the Eldest didn’t teach

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

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

“Maybe I will!”

to

each other until a bedraggled figure trudged

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

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

to hear it,”

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

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

in the way of their task, which was not acceptable. Especially because Advant

agreed 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 you not an asset, I would rather have any other two mages than

looked at each other askance, antennae drooping with shame, though neither willing to

out a frustrated puff of

and we have a ton of things to do,

Coolant said. “We are not

still picking chunks of

“I’ll do my best not to set you on fire.

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

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