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.

time. Standing on the front line as the soldiers, scouts, mages and healers ahead of me prepare

go

lead the way,” Solant

“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 to deploy my domain, or a gravity well? I

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

a bit more. They creep

Good so far. But now I’m worried that I’m moving

ahead of me turn and retreat, rushing past me in a blur as the

NOW WHAT?

Do I strike?

the plan? I don’t want to unravel the strategy! The whole point of this exercise is to train Solant and

should unleash some gravity magic, slow the enemy

me not doing that? DAMMIT! This is giving me a headache. The monsters are almost on top of me

my body, bury my head in the rock and accept

on me ceaselessly. Protected 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

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

gnawing feeling that I’m doing something wrong continues to eat away at me, and every second,

OOF!

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 shell. Lousy sentient

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