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

guys, gleefully wibbling into whatever pile of foul, noxious slime they can find and soaking it up like a

efficiency has really gone up,” I

hisses with satisfaction as rock and debris trickles down

took them out. Originally, we’d

crazy, or is the mist

the goop, as well as the invidious mana of the fifth, the mist is… difficult to describe. Wherever it touches the poisonous gas, the two just seem to…

consumed. If they aren’t ahead of that curve, then they need to absorb more slime than they can produce mist. Since

of

evolution before they are just ahead of

Huh…

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 are like once

the continuous explosions, punches and the shrieks of Crinis’ victims are absolutely deafening. I think I might need to head over there and check things

a minute, I’m just going to

course. N-not

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

carefully over the remaining patches of ooze to find that things are as busy as I thought they were. In fact, I’ve never seen anything quite

literally holding back the tide against a

tell me it was

Tiny roars,

It ssssshall be

[DIEEEEEEEE!] Crinis screams.

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

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

fight, a forest of tendrils lashing out at the monsters ahead

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