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.

it. For whatever reason, they have just…

slime they can find and soaking

has really gone up,” I

goes off, probably closer than we would have liked. Invidia hisses with

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

I crazy, or is the mist

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

produce per unit of slime consumed. If they aren’t

ahead of

will take another evolution before

Huh…

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 my suspicions that Invidia might already

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

a minute, I’m just going

course. N-not at

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

climb my way forward, scoutting 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 like

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

didn’t you tell me it

Tiny

ssssshall

[DIEEEEEEEE!] Crinis screams.

greedy. That’s fine, we can

out, and I’ll do my best to make sure that I’m not taking too

and fight, a forest of tendrils lashing out

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