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.

front line as the soldiers, scouts, mages and healers

go

if you’ll lead the

“O-of course!”

head of the troops? Or do we start with an acid barrage? She talked about acid, I’m sure of it….

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

bit more. They creep along behind

moving too slowly, or

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

NOW WHAT?

Do I strike?

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

magic, slow the enemy down for the

This is giving me a headache. The monsters are almost on top

think of: I tuck my legs under my body, bury my head in the rock and accept my fate. If I can’t decide what I

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

I can feel the ants

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

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

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

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