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.

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

foul, noxious slime they can find and soaking it up

efficiency has really gone up,” I observe,

hisses with satisfaction as rock and debris trickles down from overhead, so

perform their duty when Solant… and you… took them

or is the mist more

of the fifth, the mist is… difficult to describe. Wherever it touches the poisonous gas, the two just seem to… cancel each other out. As it rises into the air and reaches the strings of mucus attached to

most critical issue for them would be how much cleansing mist they can produce per unit of slime consumed. If

of that curve

evolution before they are just ahead

Huh…

the experiment is a raging success! The wuffers are doing a stellar job 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

there. The shockwaves from the continuous explosions, punches and the shrieks of Crinis’ victims are absolutely deafening.

going to make sure

course. N-not at all,

let me, remaining behind with the small team

patches of ooze to find that things are as busy as

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

tell me it was

FIGHT!] Tiny

It ssssshall

[DIEEEEEEEE!] Crinis screams.

so they’re getting a bit greedy. That’s fine, we

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

agree, while Crinis continues to shriek and fight, a forest of tendrils lashing out at the monsters ahead of

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