Chrysalis

Chapter 1243

“Wuff, wuff, wuff.”

I don’t know why, but these new pets the shapers have designed seem to have such a positive outlook on life. There’s a gleam of simple joy in their eyes as they wibble and wobble about the place, soaking up vile goop and emitting their mist.

After evolving, they’re a bit bigger, but not by as much as I expected. It makes sense on reflection, what would they need Might for? Or toughness? They have one job, and all their evolutionary energy can go into that.

“Why did you make these guys so cheerful?” I ask Bella as my comrades continue to go to war against the enraged fifth stratum beasts in the background.

“Do they… need your help?” she replies, looking nervously over my shoulder.

“I’m sure they’re fine.”

“There seems to be a lot of screaming….”

“That’s the slugs.”

I do check before I reply, of course I do, but I snatch my senses away as quickly as I can. Even still, I continue to hear Crinis raving in my mind.

[FILTH! YOU DARE CONTAMINATE THE MASTER’S AIR! I WILL RIP UNTIL YOU CAN BE RIPPED NO MORE!]

Shudder.

“Well… we didn’t, really. I don’t think we spent any time shaping their personalities at all. Perhaps it’s come about as a result of their function?”

“What, as cleaners?”

She shrugs helplessly with her antennae.

can’t explain it. For whatever reason, they have just…

whatever pile of foul, noxious slime they can find and soaking

gone up,” I observe,

probably closer than we would have liked. Invidia hisses with satisfaction as rock and debris trickles down from overhead, so I

and you… took them out. Originally, we’d wanted them to have at

crazy, or is the

just seem to… cancel each other out. As it rises into the air and reaches the strings

consumed. If they aren’t ahead of that curve, then they need to absorb more

ahead of that

before they are just ahead of breaking

Huh…

and it just so happens to be summoning an endless buffet of experience for my pets, which is fabulous! I can’t wait to see what their Levels are like once this rampage is done. Fingers crossed they’ll

crazy over there. The shockwaves from the continuous explosions, punches and the shrieks of Crinis’ victims are absolutely deafening. I think I might need to

a minute, I’m just going to make sure

N-not at

are more than happy to let me, remaining behind with the small team of shapers they’ve brought with them, the actual ‘masters’, or ‘mistresses’, I

patches of ooze to find that things are as

be almost literally holding back the tide against a tsunami of sludge, slime, frogs and slugs. The tunnel is full of them.

moly! Why didn’t you tell me it was getting

FIGHT!] Tiny

experience. It ssssshall be

[DIEEEEEEEE!] Crinis screams.

getting a bit greedy. That’s

room for me. I’ll help out, and I’ll do my best to make sure that

to shriek and fight,

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