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.

she shook her head. “Fine, whatever. You’re being ridiculous. Get over yourselves and stop

be embarrassed just long enough for the vines to surge up

your

fault?” Coolant replied icily. “The creature is

has water within its vines. You could have frozen

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

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

great, then use it. Go help Advant without setting

“Maybe I will!”

love to see

a long moment, staring at each other until a bedraggled figure trudged out of the

the Eldest were here to see your incompetence, you’d

done anything wrong,” Coolant defended herself icily.

I don’t want to hear it,” the soldier cut

carapace. There were a number of smaller wounds as well, places where the vines had pierced flesh and inflicted harm. The healer grumbled

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

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

two options on the table,” she told the two mages. “Either you assure me right now that you 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 you two would be such an asset that it didn’t matter. Not only are you not an asset, I would rather have any

drooping with shame, though neither willing to admit fault in front of

a frustrated

have a ton of things to do, but you two can’t

Coolant said. “We are not performing our tasks

picking chunks of

you on fire. I can’t promise

I sincerely hope that whatever is bothering the

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