Chrysalis

Chapter 1375

It’s amazing how quickly a week can go by when you’re trying to make sure you haven’t jinxed your entire family. In a blink, we are back at the entrance to the fifth, waiting to descend back into the stratum. This time, we’ve scaled up the size of our exploratory team to double what it was before. A thousand wuffers, ten thousand ants, me and the crew, along with our Legion onlookers.

[Are you really sure you want to go down there?] I ask Morrelia. [It’s gross. And not in a casual way. The fifth is almost professionally disgusting.]

She glares up at me, her eyes dark and stormy, like they always are.

[I’ve been there before. Are you worried I won’t be able to handle it?]

[Handle it? Handle what? You’ll be all nice and safe, tucked away in a pocket of purified mana. I’m the one who has to run around in the acid and sludge.]

She looks a little surprised to hear that.

[You can survive in there?]

[Of course! Well… for a while, anyway.]

[I’m impressed. I know firsthand just how hostile to life the fifth is.]

[Bah, no you don’t. There’s no chance a human could get out there directly. At best, you were in a protective suit thicker than my carapace.]

Morrelia hesitates.

[Actually… there is a human who survived direct exposure….]

guess. Your

him, or his axe, again for the

It was my

Of course it was.

wrong

me! They’re the

parents aren’t here, a fact for which I am truly thankful, so I can only yell at you about it! Do me a favour and convince them to retire or

[Those two? Resigning from the Legion? It’ll

bridge when

Let’s shift the topic to something happier. See you in the

you down there,]

off the tunnel completely. The ones exposed to the mana of

part of the operation. So instead of one thick layer, we have staggered blobs of cheerfully puffing pets extending downward from the main blob

all the more quickly, rapidly filling the

to pull back their extended

appear to be much the same. River of mucous. Thick acid. Clouds of poison. Colourful, toxic mould. And let’s not forget, plenty of truly awful-looking monsters, ready and waiting to vomit up an ocean of bile upon any monster

there,

that got away from me towards the end of the last mission. That thing was fast, and far too clever to be just another monster. I’ll be interested to see

ahead and head down into the fifth once more. Soon after, a huge blob of cleansed mana

and make sure our Legion guests stay

pulls a face at

Morrelia is cool and the other two are

flexes his

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