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.

Eldest, I legitimately can’t explain it. For whatever reason,

again at the little guys, gleefully wibbling into whatever pile of foul, noxious slime they can find and soaking it up like a paper-towel, wuffing

really gone

off, probably closer than 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

the mist more

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

slime consumed. If they aren’t ahead of that curve,

ahead of

take another evolution before they are just

Huh…

happens to be 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 Invidia might

they 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 might need

minute, I’m just going to

N-not at all,

small team of

that things are as busy as I thought they were. In fact, I’ve never seen anything quite

them appear to be almost literally holding back the tide against a tsunami of sludge, slime, frogs and slugs. The

Why didn’t you tell me it was getting this

Tiny

It ssssshall be minessssss,] Invidia

[DIEEEEEEEE!] Crinis screams.

getting a bit greedy.

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

continues to shriek and fight, a forest of tendrils lashing out at

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