Epic Of Caterpillar

On this floor, the mist obtained a lesser purple color to it, and from time to time, we would encounter small groups of poisonous mushrooms, it seems that these things poison was causing the mist to become this color… Wait, then isnʼt this whole mist poisonous, how could normal adventurers cross this? Thankfully, everyone in my family had either Poison Immunity or High Poison Resistance even the pure Humans, and the Fire Oni had Poison Resistance alongside Intoxication Resistance, and with their big and vigorous bodies, they were just fine.

Nesiphae and Amiphossia felt especially at ”home” here, probably because of the high Poison affinity both have. I ended saving a lot of this Mist on my Item Box by their request, what will they even do with it?

The monsters here began to take on Poisonous or Venomous elements. Although there were classic weak ghosts around, there were also Poison Ghosts, ghosts in which phantasmal bodies were made of poison that can affect its prey souls. There were Venomous Purple Skeleton Soldiers, humanoid skeletons which bones were purple-colored, and were obviously poisonous. These monsters also had poisoned weapons like daggers and arrows.

There were also Phantom Foxes, now evolved once again, they were named Four-Tailed Phantasmal Foxes, these beings were even stronger, having big bodies over three meters tall, their tails served them to conjure different spells at the same time, and it also increased their magic powers. I also found some of their subspecies that specialized in Poisonous Phantom Spells.

And lastly, we found new species of superior Walking Mushrooms, like the ones in the Grand Forest, these walking mushrooms were larger, having more humanoid bodies, with a defined torso, long arms, and legs, and wore leather armor and weapons. They had big purple mushroom caps over their heads, which were featureless outside of the two small black eyes, they also lacked mouths.

The Empress however was a beauty, with a humanoid body and a mouth, of course, she was rather petite but very beautiful, her fair white skin and scarlet eyes made her resemble a vampire instead of a Walking Mushroom. She had very low intelligence though and only commanded the Walking Mushrooms to do her bidding. The whole colony of Walking Mushrooms was easily killed and eaten by us, their flesh was delicious when grilled, having both the qualities of mushroom and meat.

Reaching the stairs to floor 81, we encountered a group of Poisonous Ghosts being controlled by three Four-Tailed Phantom Foxes, a new meal for all of us, thatʼs it. Amiphossia found these Poisonous Ghosts especially helpful to increase her powers and nourish her phantasmal soul, as they had two of her element affinities.

After the feast, we rushed towards floor 81 without any problems, the traps were easily disarmed by the Ghosts that were following us like loyal dogs, while the loot was also gathered by them, I then saw that having Ghost Clones for a task like these could be more beneficial than Slime Clones.

[Kireina] gained 343.490.577 EXP]

[LEVEL 046/250 EXP 0.564.218.089/2.100.000.000 EXP]

[Kireina] learned the following Skills]

[Phantasmagoric Flesh and Bones]

[Venomous Ghost Psyche]

Instead of just eating the small ghosts that followed us, I enslaved them and put them into a ”Rest” state, saving them inside of my Item Box. I wanted to experiment with them in the future, and maybe find a way to create my own Ghost Clones as well with my own means. At most, I can create Aura Clones, and enhance them with my Slime and Flesh, but thatʼs something entirely different. I was surprised but happy to find something that I lacked still, Ghost Clones would be very useful and I cannot solely rely on my daughter for her to create them to help me out.

Although I felt like if I ate some of her Ghost Clones, I would get something… A skill, perhaps. But I feel wrong to ask my daughter, ”Ami, can I eat some pieces of your soul?”. It just feels as wrong as asking my family or servants to donate their blood for me to get on some free skills, it may seem convenient and very easy, but it just makes them seem as expendable things, and thatʼs not my intention. There needs to be a line between food and family…

When Amiphossia began to explore floor 81, she came across a strong presence… No, various strong presences. Suddenly, hundreds of Undead rushed towards us, they were hundreds, no, thousands.

”Sigh… Here we go again…”

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