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.

legitimately can’t explain it. For whatever reason, they have just…

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

efficiency has really gone

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

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

is the mist

the two just seem to… cancel each other out. As it rises into the

would be how much cleansing mist they can produce per unit of slime consumed. If they aren’t ahead of

ahead of that

it will take another evolution before they

Huh…

can see, the experiment is a raging success! The wuffers are doing 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 are like once this rampage is done. Fingers crossed they’ll be getting close to the tier seven evolution. In fact, I have

shrieks of Crinis’ victims are absolutely deafening. I

going to make

course. N-not at

let me, remaining behind with the small team of shapers they’ve

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

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

you tell me it

Tiny roars,

It ssssshall

[DIEEEEEEEE!] Crinis screams.

bit greedy.

then, make a little room for me. I’ll help out, and I’ll do my best to make sure that I’m not taking

and fight, a forest of tendrils lashing

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