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

noxious slime they can find

gone up,” I observe,

we would have liked. Invidia hisses with satisfaction

and you… took them out. Originally, we’d wanted them to have at least

crazy, or is the mist

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 at them until they shrivel

produce per unit of slime consumed. If they aren’t ahead of that curve, then they need to absorb more slime

they ahead of

before they are

Huh…

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 their Levels

really are going crazy over there. The shockwaves from the continuous explosions, punches and the shrieks of

a minute, I’m just going

course. N-not at all,

the small team

things are as

to be almost literally holding back the tide against a

Why didn’t you tell me it was

FIGHT!] Tiny

ssssshall be minessssss,]

[DIEEEEEEEE!] Crinis screams.

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

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

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

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