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.

For whatever reason, they

into whatever pile of foul, noxious slime they can find and soaking it up like a paper-towel, wuffing away the whole

gone

would have liked. Invidia hisses with satisfaction

evolved just enough to perform their duty when Solant… and you… took them

or is the mist more potent

fifth, the mist is… difficult to describe. Wherever it touches the poisonous gas, the two just seem to… cancel each other out.

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 the slime is

ahead of that curve

take another evolution before they are just

Huh…

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 be getting close to the tier seven evolution. In fact, I have my suspicions that Invidia might already be there, or at least very

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

I’m just going to make sure

course. N-not at all,

behind with the small team of shapers they’ve brought with them, the actual ‘masters’, or ‘mistresses’, I guess, of the

scoutting carefully over the remaining patches of ooze to find that things are

against a tsunami of sludge, slime, frogs

tell me

FIGHT!] Tiny

It ssssshall be minessssss,] Invidia

[DIEEEEEEEE!] Crinis screams.

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

over a bit, then, make a little room for me. I’ll help out, and I’ll do my best to make sure that I’m not

shriek and fight, a forest of tendrils lashing out at the monsters

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