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.

explain it. For whatever reason, they have just… come out this

pile of foul, noxious slime they can find and soaking it up like a paper-towel, wuffing

has really gone up,” I observe,

we would have liked. Invidia hisses with satisfaction as rock and debris trickles down from overhead, so I know it’s

evolved just enough to perform their duty when Solant… and you… took them out. Originally, we’d wanted them to have at least reached this

crazy, or is the mist more potent as

two just seem to… cancel each other out. As it rises into the

thought that the most critical issue for them would be 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

ahead of

will take another evolution before they are just

Huh…

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 be getting close to the tier seven evolution. In fact, I have my suspicions that

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

going

course. N-not at all,

me, remaining behind with the small team

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

literally holding back the tide against a tsunami of

Why didn’t you tell me it was

Tiny roars,

ssssshall be

[DIEEEEEEEE!] Crinis screams.

greedy. That’s

for me. I’ll help out, and I’ll do my best to make sure that I’m not taking too much of the XP,

to shriek and fight, a forest of tendrils lashing

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