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.

For whatever reason, they have just… come out

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

gone up,” I observe,

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

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

the mist

of the 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 up and

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

of that

evolution before they are just ahead of breaking

Huh…

an endless buffet of experience for my pets, which is fabulous! I can’t wait to see what

over there. The shockwaves from the continuous explosions, punches and the shrieks of

going to make sure

N-not at all,

remaining behind with the small team

scoutting carefully over the remaining patches of ooze to find that things are as busy as I thought they were. In

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

moly! Why didn’t you tell me it was getting

Tiny

It ssssshall be

[DIEEEEEEEE!] Crinis screams.

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

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

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

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