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.

line as the soldiers, scouts, mages and healers ahead of me prepare to fall back, I still have

go poorly. My

if you’ll lead the

“O-of course!”

forward at the head of the troops? Or do we start with an acid

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

bit more. They creep along

now I’m worried that I’m moving too slowly, or is it too quickly? Do

scuttling forward until the ants fighting ahead of me turn and retreat, rushing past me in

NOW WHAT?

Do I strike?

ready to unleash a powerful chomp, but I hesitate. Would that ruin the plan? I don’t want to unravel the strategy! The whole point of this exercise is to train Solant and let her practise her

Maybe I should unleash some gravity magic, slow the enemy down for the rest of

doing that? DAMMIT! This is giving me a headache. The monsters are almost on top of me now… what

my head in the rock and

on me ceaselessly. Protected by my absurdly tough, compressed diamond carapace, reinforced by the plating beneath and

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

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

eat away at me, and

OOF!

a 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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