Chapter 1437 – Tell Him He’s Dreaming

Morrelia was frustrated.

“Tribune, you need to relax a little, you look like you’re going to bite someone’s head off,” her fellow Tribune, Joshen Aurelis noted.

She narrowed her eyes at the man, irritation bubbling just beneath the surface. Joshen wasn’t someone that Morrelia was able to get along with. He was too stuffy, too… clean. Being in the Legion was a career of being ankle deep in blood and guts, so how was this guy always so spotless? It shouldn’t have been possible!

“I just might,” she growled.

Joshen sighed and put down the papers he was carrying. The two were the sole occupants of the officers’ tent, which wasn’t as unusual as it sounded, considering most of the camp was asleep. They were the only two who’d be inside at such an hour.

“You aren’t still obsessing over your bizarre scheme?” he said.

“Bizarre?” Morrelia snapped. “What’s bizarre is having an entire Legion of elite troops sitting on their hands in the fourth doing nothing. There are hotspots throughout the Dungeon that desperately need help, what are we achieving by staying here?”

“We are fulfilling our mission,” Joshen said patiently, and perhaps, a little condescendingly.

“No, we aren’t,” she forced out through gritted teeth. “What is our mission, Joshen?”

“To isolate and kill the prospective Ancient.”

“And how exactly have we gotten closer to achieving that objective today? Tell me, Joshen, what bold strides have you made?”

“You know as well as I do that pursuing the monster into the fifth stratum would be suicide. We are waiting for the Krath to do our work for us.”

“So you admit we aren’t doing anything.”

“Someone has to be here to confirm that the mission has been achieved.”

“And how are you going to do that? You think the Colony is just going to tell us?”

“You know as well as I do that our Dungeon seers are close enough to confirm the creature’s death the moment it occurs.”

“And how long will that remain true? How deep will the target go before they’re no longer able to be sensed through the interference of the fifth?”

“I will admit, as I have in the past, that will become a problem, but right now it isn’t.”

Morelia threw up her hands.

“So we just stay here, doing nothing, achieving nothing, hoping that the Krath are able to kill our target?”

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“Those are our orders,” Joshen shrugged.

At this point, Morrelia made the sensible decision and stopped talking. This guy was just infuriating. As long as they were doing as they were told, he was satisfied, whereas Morrelia was climbing up the walls, desperate to be doing something useful.

If she asked her mother for advice, the woman would probably tell her to do whatever she wanted. Minerva hadn’t exactly been amazing at following directives, but she was such an effective leader and fighter that the troops went along with whatever she wanted to do anyways. It didn’t hurt that she was almost always right in her strategic decisions, either.