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.

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,

go poorly. My

lead

“O-of course!”

start with an acid barrage? She talked about acid, I’m sure of it…. Or magic? Was I supposed to deploy my

I take a few steps forward, and when nobody corrects me I take a few more. The

creep forward a bit more. They creep along behind

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

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

NOW WHAT?

Do I strike?

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

gravity magic, slow the enemy down for the rest of the ants to deal with? That’s helpful,

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

under my body, bury my head in the rock and accept my fate. If I can’t decide

rain down on me ceaselessly. Protected by my absurdly tough, compressed diamond carapace, reinforced by the plating beneath and constantly regenerating,

seconds tick 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

eat through my carapace, I’d love to meet them. In fact, it’s possible

the gnawing feeling that I’m doing something wrong continues to eat away at me, and every second, I question whether or not I should stick my head out and do

OOF!

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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