Epic Of Caterpillar

Chapter 357 - Morpheusʼs Life-Attribute Dungeon Conquest 3/30: The Kelpie & Aaraeʼs First Love?!

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A beautiful sight filled my vision as large plains extended through the horizon, there was a clear blue sky with a few small clouds around, and a large sun illuminating and warming the place.

Aside from the scenery, there were also large pools, each one of the sizes of the Great Lake placed all around the plains, there was some surrounding forest made up of a dozen or so pine trees, where small lifeforms inhabited the place.

The large pools were filled with aquatic monsters of all shapes and sizes, from fishes to crustaceans, as we proceeded through the floors, we were able to meet some new species of monsters that we have never seen before.

Flying Squids with large featherless wings and tentacles with eyes, shelled walking fishes with large tongues, dinosaur-shaped monsters with the heads of sharks, armored octopus covered in crustacean-like shells, flying fish with three eyes, and so on.

There were also some demi-human species of monsters, like Fishmen, ugly looking humanoids with strong fish appearances, scaled bodies, and fish heads, there were also variants of the previous floors Carnivorous Dryads, who had become Seaweed monsters living inside large pools, extending their wet vines to ambush prey whenever they try to drink some water.

There were more conventional monsters in the multitude of small forests surrounding the pools, like Water Wolves, Goblins, and large Cockatrices. The Cockatrice meat was certainly delicious, and I thought about adding them to the cattle animals back in the Empire.

Fishmen were fierce and didnʼt try to speak before trying to kill us, so we had to quickly end them, my Merfolk wives and children did not feel any attachment to them whatsoever, so I did not either. We had killed a lot back in the Forsaken Labyrinth, and I remembered that the meat was rather delicious when smoked.

Alice and Brontes teamed up, using their powerful Thunder Magic in tandem to completely wipe out hordes of aquatic monsters inside of their pools, by electrifying them to death, their corpses no long after floated over the water.

Large groups of armored octopus gathered in a large lake, protecting a small island in the middle. As I molded an easy road with Dungeon Area Assimilation, we slashed and smashed to death the annoying octopus as we explored the small island, inside, there was a large room which seemed to be a dungeon of its own.

It wouldnʼt budge no matter what, so I just opened a wide hole on it with the very useful Dungeon Area Assimilation Skill, inside, we found a small pool and houses surrounding it.

The dozen or so houses seemed to be poorly made with the wood of these floors and the people living here seemed to be… centaurs.

However, they werenʼt the centaurs Iʼve seen in the surface, with their lower halves of fluffy or short-haired horses, goats or deer, but these had their lower halves of thin and slim horses, covered in fish-like scales, they also had long mermaid-like tails instead of their second pair of horse legs.

Their human upper halves were partially covered in fish scales on their arms and shoulders, with small gills in their neck, their beauty was comparable to the finest of mermaid and mermen and their hair colors were often red or green, with emerald eyes. Each man and woman were a beauty to behold.

Everyone was surprised by these strange yet astonishingly beautiful centaurs. Sofarpia and Sofelaia glanced at them as surprised as us.

The Centaurs had already noticed us and began to scream in horror over the strange invaders that had come to attack them, some ran inside their houses while others jumped over the pool in the middle of the village.

”Could these be…? Water Adapted Centaurs… Kelpies!” exclaimed Sofarpia, with a dumbfounded expression in her face.

”So those fairy tales about Morpheus-sama having a mermaid wife who gave birth to Kelpie was true!” said Sofelaia, looking at the ceiling of the wide room we were in as if she were praying to Morpheus.

”Kelpie Centaurs? So these half centaur and half mermaid people are Morpheus children?” I asked.

”Could it be that Morpheus gave them a safe home in here? Perhaps, the Centaurs in the surface discriminated over them, or their living conditions couldnʼt be fulfilled in the cold surface of Cilane…” analyzed Zehe.