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.

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

It was

Of course it was.

wrong with your

They’re

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

Resigning from the Legion? It’ll

bridge when

the topic to something happier. See you in the

you down there,]

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

of one thick layer, we

all the more quickly, rapidly filling

shapers above to pull back their extended

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 who dares so much as whip out a mop down

to be out there, watching and waiting,

the last mission. That thing was fast, and far too clever to be just another monster. I’ll

threatening than the usual, I suppose—so I signal the go ahead and head down into the fifth once more. Soon after, a huge blob of cleansed mana follows, packed with ants and

guests stay safe, alright?] I ask the

a

and the other two are with her, alright? No need for

his

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