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. Your

see him,

not. It

Of course it was.

wrong with

They’re the weird ones,

here, a fact for which I am truly thankful, so I can only yell at you about it! Do me a favour and

two? Resigning from the Legion? It’ll never

that bridge when I

See you in the acidic, toxic,

down there,]

same as before. The main adjustments revolve around managing double the wuffers, since a thousand wuffers gathered together in one blob would basically block off the tunnel completely. The ones exposed to the mana of the fifth would do their job and purify it, only to expel the cleansed mana straight into the faces

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

fifth, the chuffing wuffers can do their job all the more quickly, rapidly filling the tunnel

I reach the bottom, I signal the core shapers above to pull back their extended pets, ensuring no wuffer is exposed to danger

mould. And let’s not forget, plenty of truly awful-looking monsters, ready and waiting to vomit up

the potential for the Krath to be out there, watching and waiting, ready to jump

end of the last mission. That thing was fast, and far too clever to be just another monster. I’ll be interested to see if something like

sense, anything threatening—more 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 wuffers. The local monsters immediately look up, like

and make sure our Legion guests

pulls a face at

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

his

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