Chrysalis

Chapter 1183

What to do? Do I tell them I can’t remember the plan? Would that impact my dignity as the Eldest? Maybe I’ll just play along and hope for the best. What’s the worst that could go wrong?

“Do we all understand?”

“Of course.”

“No problem.”

“Simple.”

….

“It’s straightforward, I like it,” I declare with every scrap of confidence I can muster. “I’ll leave it to you to coordinate with the generals at the front.”

“I understand.”

Solant is all business, solemn and serious as she goes about plying her particular trade. When we arrive, she goes straight to the generals and begins an in-depth conversation about what she wants to do that I immediately lose track of, but they seem to follow okay.

Following that, she moves around the resting troops, ensuring they understand what to do, drawing little diagrams and even running a few drills until she’s happy that they’ll move the way she wants them to.

The entire time, all I hear in my mind is static. This is a problem.

of time. Standing on the front line as the soldiers, scouts, mages

go

you’ll lead the way,” Solant

“O-of course!”

Or do we start with an acid barrage? She talked about acid, I’m sure of it…. Or magic? Was I supposed to deploy my domain, or

when nobody corrects me I take a few more. The troops

creep forward a bit more.

Good so far. But now I’m worried that I’m moving too slowly, or is it too

the ants fighting ahead of me turn and retreat, rushing past me in a

NOW WHAT?

Do I strike?

plan? I don’t want to unravel the strategy!

some gravity magic, slow the enemy down for the rest

on me not doing that? DAMMIT! This is giving me a headache. The

my body, bury my head in the rock and accept my fate. If I

Protected by my absurdly tough, compressed diamond carapace, reinforced by the plating beneath and constantly regenerating, I take very little

slowly trickles down, I feel a little more calm knowing that I won’t get instantly annihilated at least. I can feel the ants engaging the enemy around me, acid fills the air, a non-trivial amount of it landing on me, but I can’t really blame them for that, given my

my carapace, I’d love to meet them. In fact, it’s possible a nice acid wash will give my exterior

the gnawing feeling that I’m doing something wrong continues to eat away at me, and every second, I

OOF!

mountain just collapsed on me. What the heck? Judging by the mana I can feel, an earth elemental just clobbered me with one of its boulders, hard enough to create some cracking in my

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