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.

terrifying. I never want to see him, or

not. It

Of course it was.

wrong

at me! They’re the weird ones,

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

she snorts. [Those two? Resigning from the

Well, I’ll cross that bridge when

shift the topic to something happier. See you in the acidic, toxic, poison-filled fifth stratum. I’ll be

down

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 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 ‘plug’

job all the more quickly, rapidly filling the tunnel above them with cleansed mana

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

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

the potential for the Krath to be out there, watching and

the 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 far too clever to be just another monster. I’ll be interested to see

can’t see, or 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 bloodhounds detecting

Legion guests stay safe, alright?] I ask

a face at

Morrelia is cool and the other two are with her,

his

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