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.

on Pangera I’m going to 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 still have absolutely no idea what

go poorly.

if you’ll lead

“O-of course!”

head of the troops? 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 a gravity well? I DON’T

few more. The troops behind

forward a bit more. They

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

me turn and retreat, rushing past me in a

NOW WHAT?

Do I strike?

mandibles flex, 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

slow the enemy down for

a headache. The monsters are almost on top of me now… what am I supposed

the rock and

scrape, blows rain down on me ceaselessly. Protected by

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

has acid tough 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 even more impressive

at me, and every second, I question whether or not I should stick my head

OOF!

I can feel, an earth elemental just clobbered me with one of its boulders, hard enough to

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