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.

do, I run out of time. Standing on the front line as the soldiers, scouts, mages and healers ahead of me prepare to fall back, I

could go poorly. My

you’ll lead the

“O-of course!”

that mean? Lead the way literally, as in, move forward at the head of the troops? Or do we start with an acid barrage? She talked about acid, I’m sure of it…. Or magic?

corrects me I take a few more. The troops behind me begin to shuffle forward and I

a bit more.

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

forward until the ants fighting ahead of me turn and retreat, rushing past me in a blur as the ravenous monsters

NOW WHAT?

Do I strike?

chomp, but I hesitate. Would that ruin the plan? I don’t want to unravel the strategy! The whole

bite. Maybe I should unleash some gravity magic, slow the enemy down for the rest of the ants to deal with? That’s helpful,

that? DAMMIT! This is giving me a headache. The monsters

my body, bury my head in the rock and accept my fate. If I can’t decide what I should do, then I shall do nothing! Clearly, this is the best

monsters begin to batter at my carapace. Claws scratch, teeth scrape, blows rain down on me ceaselessly. Protected by my absurdly tough, compressed diamond carapace, reinforced by the plating beneath and constantly

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

has acid tough enough to eat through my carapace, I’d love to meet them. In fact, it’s possible a nice

something wrong continues to eat away at me, and every second, I question whether or not

OOF!

earth elemental just

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