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.

incredulously, before she shook her head. “Fine, whatever. You’re being ridiculous. Get over yourselves and stop making mistakes, or I’ll tell the Eldest how

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

was your

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

within its vines. You could have

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

didn’t have a mega-ice spell for

help Advant

“Maybe I will!”

love to

for a long moment, staring at each other until a bedraggled

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

defended

I don’t want to hear it,” the

done to Advant’s carapace. There were a number of smaller wounds

have a disagreement of any kind. Beyond unusual, exceedingly rare, but

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

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

looked at each other askance, antennae drooping with shame, though neither willing to admit fault in front of the

a frustrated puff

is stressed right now. The Eldest is out of commission for who knows how long, and we have a ton of things to

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

Advant remarked, still picking chunks of

not to set you on

was the issue. I sincerely hope that whatever is bothering the two of you is

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