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 and healers ahead of me prepare to fall back, I still have absolutely no idea what

could go

lead

“O-of course!”

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? Was I supposed

take a few more. The troops behind me begin to shuffle

forward a bit more. They creep

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

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

NOW WHAT?

Do I strike?

want to unravel

gravity magic, slow the enemy down for the rest of the ants to deal

a headache. The monsters are almost on top

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

at my carapace. Claws scratch, teeth scrape, blows rain down on me ceaselessly. Protected by my absurdly tough, compressed diamond carapace, reinforced

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,

ant 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

doing something wrong continues to eat away at me, and every second, I question whether or

OOF!

collapsed on me. What the heck? Judging by the mana I can feel, an earth elemental just clobbered me with

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