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.

don’t know, Eldest, I legitimately can’t explain it. For whatever reason, they have just… come

little guys, gleefully wibbling into whatever pile of foul, noxious slime they can find and soaking it up like a paper-towel,

has really gone up,” I observe,

flinches as another explosion goes off, probably closer than we would have liked. Invidia hisses with

to perform their duty when Solant… and you… took them out. Originally,

crazy, or is the mist

to describe. Wherever it touches the poisonous gas, the two just seem to… cancel each other out. As it rises into the

with boosting organs they gained at this tier. We thought that the most critical issue for them would be how much cleansing mist they can produce per unit of slime consumed. If

they ahead of that curve

take another evolution before they

Huh…

eating slime, 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

they really are going crazy over there. The shockwaves from the continuous explosions, punches and the shrieks of Crinis’ victims are absolutely deafening. I think

minute, I’m just going to make

N-not at all,

happy to let me, remaining behind with the small team of shapers they’ve brought with them, the actual ‘masters’,

carefully over the remaining patches of ooze to find that things are as busy as I

against a tsunami of sludge, slime, frogs and slugs. The tunnel is

didn’t you tell me it was getting

FIGHT!] Tiny roars,

It ssssshall be minessssss,]

[DIEEEEEEEE!] Crinis screams.

they’re getting a bit greedy. That’s fine, we can work with

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

to shriek and fight, a forest of

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