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

want to see him, or his axe, again

not. It was my

Of course it was.

is wrong

get mad at me! They’re the weird ones, not

only yell at you about it! Do me a favour and convince them to retire or

snorts. [Those two? Resigning

Well, I’ll cross that bridge when

something happier. See you in the acidic,

you down

descent is almost the 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

but then there’s no benefit to having more of the jelly-monsters for this part of the operation. So instead of one thick layer, we have staggered blobs of cheerfully puffing pets extending downward from the main blob to form the

all the more quickly, rapidly filling the tunnel above them with

pull back their extended pets, ensuring no wuffer is exposed to danger prematurely while I scope out the

plenty of truly awful-looking monsters, ready and waiting to vomit up an ocean of

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

first time, I think back to that slippery slug that got away from me towards the end of the last mission. That thing was fast, and

a huge blob of cleansed mana follows, packed with ants and wuffers. The local monsters immediately look up, like bloodhounds detecting some powerfully stinky socks, and

our Legion guests stay safe, alright?]

pulls a face at

the other two are

flexes his left

The Novel will be updated daily. Come back and continue reading tomorrow, everyone!

Comments ()

0/255