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.

know, Eldest, I legitimately can’t explain it. For

at the little guys, gleefully wibbling into whatever pile of foul, noxious slime

really gone up,”

probably closer than we would have liked. Invidia hisses with satisfaction as

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

or is the mist more

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 the ceiling and walls, it eats away

how much cleansing mist they can produce per unit of slime consumed. If they aren’t ahead of that curve, then they need to absorb more slime than they can produce mist. Since

ahead of

another evolution before they are just ahead of breaking

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

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

a minute, I’m just going to make

course. N-not at

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

things are as busy as I thought they

a tsunami of sludge, slime, frogs

moly! Why didn’t you tell me it was

Tiny roars,

ssssshall be

[DIEEEEEEEE!] Crinis screams.

greedy. That’s fine, we

I’ll help out, and I’ll

Crinis continues to shriek and fight, a forest of

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