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….]

me guess.

guy is terrifying. I never want to see him, or his

not. It was

Of course it was.

is wrong with your

mad at me! They’re the weird ones,

can only yell at you about

Resigning from the

that bridge when I

shift the topic to something happier. See you in the acidic, toxic,

you down there,] she

since a thousand wuffers gathered together in one blob would basically block off the tunnel completely. The ones exposed to the mana

this part of the operation. So instead of one thick layer, we have staggered blobs of cheerfully puffing pets extending

can do their job all the more quickly, rapidly filling the tunnel above them with cleansed mana and allowing the ants to pile

signal the core shapers above to pull back their extended pets, ensuring no wuffer is exposed to danger prematurely while I scope

of truly awful-looking monsters,

threatening, the potential for the Krath to be out there, watching and waiting, ready to jump us the moment we

think back to that slippery slug 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

the fifth once more. Soon after, a huge

Legion guests stay safe, alright?] I ask the big

a face at

Morrelia is cool and the other two are with her, alright? No

flexes his

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