Chapter 51: The Chrysalis (2/2)
"B-b-boyfriend!?" Valera looked up at Aldrich with a blush and then looked at how she was being carried It looked like she was being carried unceremoniously like a sack of potatoes
"Sorry, but I have to carry both of you If it was just you, I could have done better," said Aldrich This was just the easiest way to carry her since his other hand was occupied with the lizard
Valera glared at the headless lizard "I will remember this…," she said under her breath
Stella went straight down, a co behind her as she neared the whirling sand pool She thrust her hands out in front of her
"Bunker Buster!" she shouted, her whole body turning blindingly bright before she detonated right above the sand
There was first a burst of incredibly blinding light, then the deafening sound of an explosion followed by aupwards
The chasm shook and trembled from the blast The explosion blasted away all of the sand below, scattering it against the walls like Moses had parted the red sea And in the , s in theup the charred ree has her upper body with one re mandible that could easily have chopped a man in two
Aldrich had Fler'Gan drop everyone dohere it was now safe
"Excellent work" Aldrich nodded to Stella and had her put the antlion head down A grave marker floated over it "Serve"
[-5 Mana]
[Mana: 168/183 ] 163/183]
[Zombie Antlion Level 15 raised]
[Units Controlled: 19/22 ] 20/22]
Aldrich took the reani head of the Antlion and then used its mandible to hook it into an exposed part of the lizard's back, locking theether so that it was easier to carry them both
"All in a day's work," said Stella as her light died down and she flipped her hair, resetting herree with the master Your capacity to enact destruction is formidable I like it," said Valera
"Least there's one thing we agree on," said Stella
"Indeed Such power co from not a trace of mana Unfathomable," said Fler'Gan "Are you certain you do not wish to undergo any experimentation?
Once I have my laboratory set, I can even ensure that the process is utterly painless You will be unconscious even, if needs be"
"Sorry, but I'll pass again," said Stella "The idea of bein' unconscious with you just made the whole, uh, 'experience' seeht's not over," said Aldrich "Stay focused, all of you Stella, you're thewith variants out of all of us, and I'n over your
Hoould you suggest dealing with this? Or getting out?"
"We could try to blast our way out of here, but the issue is we got no way to tell where to direct our firepower to get us out Plus, like I said, the inside of a Chrysalis Nest is way bigger than the outside
Granted, a Chrysalis that can only host D rank variants is probably not gonna be that big, but it isn't a certainty either" Stella paused "Or we could wait it out It's tryin' to get rid of us cause' it thinks we're a threat to it But if it knoe aren't, it ain and let us leave
This whole warpin' and changin' its insides thing costs a hell of a lot of juice I doubt this thing can do it much s warped into a blur again
"You just had to say so what Stella said to her before
Stella sighed "Guess we're even now"
They arped into a e red and pink rock that looked strangely organic The cavern's walls were grooved and ridged, and when they undulated like a living organ, that hen Aldrich realized - this was not rock, this was flesh
The cavern's walls contracted and started to slowly squeeze inwards, atte to crush everyone
"It's tryin' to eat us whole!" said Stella She started to glow "I'!"
"Wait, young one," said Fler'Gan "Our powers are far too destructive and this space far too confined The Elder and the knight will be caught in the crossfire"
"He's right," said Aldrich But without firepower to drill out of here, what could he do? He again hovered his attention over the Sign Stone in his inventory
But he held off on using it even now
"ORAA!" Valera dropped her shi+eld and slaainst a storeat crater in the rocky flesh, but it healed iet the Chrysalis brain itself, its core, punches ain't gonna' do anything," said Stella "This thing's coy it takes"
"Tell me, Stella, are these stomach walls connected to the Chrysalis?" said Aldrich, his
"No, don't think so Chrysales tend to hide their core out in brain chambers separated from their stomachs," said Stella
"But say that the Chrysalis was a hu Would you say that this stomach chamber is connected to its brain in the same way that a human's stomach is in the same body as their brain? That they're both part of the same body?" said Aldrich
"Yeah I'd say so I've heard tell of soet the brains to freeze up, so seems like it," said Stella
"Good" Aldrich held up his lantern and cast the light towards the sto and healed too quickly for conventional daeneration better than instant death?