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.

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

could go poorly. My

you’ll lead the

“O-of course!”

Or do we start with an acid barrage? She talked about acid, I’m

take a few steps forward, and when nobody corrects me I take a few more. The troops behind me begin to shuffle forward and

creep forward a bit more. They creep along behind

I’m moving too slowly, or is

I just keep scuttling forward until the ants fighting ahead of me turn and retreat, rushing

NOW WHAT?

Do I strike?

but I hesitate. Would that ruin the plan? I don’t want to unravel the strategy! The whole point of this exercise

slow the enemy down for the rest of the ants to deal with?

me a headache. The monsters are almost on top of

only thing I can think of: I tuck my legs under my body, bury my head in the rock and accept my fate. If I

the 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

and my health 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

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

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

OOF!

heck? Judging by the mana I can feel, an earth elemental just clobbered me with one of its boulders, hard enough to

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