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.

it. For

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

has really gone up,” I observe,

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

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

I crazy, or is the mist

touches the poisonous gas, the two just seem to… cancel each other out. As it rises into the air and reaches the

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 aren’t ahead of that curve, then they need to absorb more slime than they can produce mist. Since the slime is self-propagating, they need to be making much more mist

they ahead of that

take another evolution before they

Huh…

buffet of experience for my pets, which is fabulous! I can’t wait to see what their Levels are like

of Crinis’ victims are absolutely deafening. I think I might need to head over there and check things

going to make sure those

course. N-not

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

way forward, scoutting carefully over the remaining patches of ooze to find that things

holding back the tide against a tsunami of sludge, slime, frogs and slugs. The tunnel is full of them.

tell me it was

FIGHT!] Tiny roars,

It ssssshall be

[DIEEEEEEEE!] Crinis screams.

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

me. I’ll help out, and I’ll do my best

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

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