Epic of Caterpillar
chapter-2331

Flying above the chaotic skies of Abyss, a group of Vampiress encompassed on veils of shadows glanced at the chaos happening below them. Most of the vampires' bodies were covered on red armor with black cloaks, only their crimson eyes visible beneath their helmets. Their leader, someone wearing a strange armor with a helmet shaped like the head of a lobster, glared down with anger, shaking his staff imbued with cosmic vampiric energies.

"Are you kidding me?! I almost had those precious ingredients as well! Just what happened?!" he complained. "I had tamed those mighty alien beasts so easily, and I was going to add those things as well to my collection! But now… they've been defeated?! By a single… insect woman?! And she was so bright… I can barely remember how she even looked like!"

"S-Sir Evergrande are you alright?" some of the Vampires with the angered, Knight Sorcerer seemed to have grown slightly worried about their master's mental health.

"Silence you scum! Don't speak while I'm talking to myself out loud! It is the only damn way I can cope with this frustration I feel!" the furious vampire said, exuding an enormous amount of magical cosmic power. "King Vlad and Queen Cecilia entrusted me with the protection of this area of the Dracul Kingdom… If I end up disappointing them, my entire social standing could crumble to dust!"

"But sir, you already have an army of over ten thousand Vampiric Beasts!" said another vampire by his side, pointing at the distance. "Isn't that enough?"

There was a massive army of creatures, all of them with a glowing red sigil above their heads, marching across the wastelands and protecting the territory from the "invading aliens" as he called them.

"It's not enough! You don't understand how good of a catch they were!" Evergrande sighed in frustration. "That thing that defeated them… I want her now! I'm going to get her at all costs! She seems to be somehow related with the others… Yeah, I can tell where she might go now… All of you, follow me!"

Evergrande flew across the skies once more, his vampiric and cosmic powers surging from his body as he controlled the armies of thousands of Vampiric Beasts and also Spiritual Beasts and Miasmic Beasts.

"As the strongest Lord of the Vampiric Path of Enslavement, I simply cannot let such a good specimen go away so easily!"

A wicked smile surged beneath his helmet, as the powerful vampire knights behind him followed him around.

At the same time, within a large black tower to the distance, a vampire woman with long green hair and sharp golden eyes glanced from afar.

"It seems Evergrande is once more doing whatever he wants…" she sighed. "Should I report his incompetence to the King and the Queen?"

"No, leave him…" a companion she had smiled, looking from afar, his short black hair and sharp silver eyes seemed to be enjoying the show.

Silver threads came from his fingers, not controlling anybody in particular, but the very power that moved all things and predestined them.

"I like this development… I'll at least give him my blessings," the man smiled. "Evergrande… Don't disappoint me."

The silver threads moved through space and time, shaping the very fabric of all events to occur…

After finally defeating Flora and then helping her recover, Kireina quickly regrouped with her wives, finding her swarm and the swarm queen she summoned had effectively taken down almost two thousand Spirit Beasts and Miasmic Beasts, the pools, and the mountain-sized crystals where they came from stopped producing them after a while.

Kireina had analyzed that the production of creatures from these sources was based in their accumulated energy. The Miasmic Pools had a lot of miasmic and chaotic energies, but once they ran out of it, the creatures stopped being born.

The same was with the mountain-sized spirit crystal chunks, the excess spiritual energy that was produced from them, which once it touched another atmosphere produced these spiritual creatures, had already exhausted its internal, moving energy, resting, and becoming completely inert.

Surrounding her wives were some of her children too, and a few more of her wives and friends she had brought from her Inner Realm to help, the reencounter was quite emotional with children and wives greeting and hugging one another alike.

"Rimuru! I'm so happy to see you all well and fine!" Gaby ran to hug her. "Brontes too! And Zehe! And Nesi! I'm glad you're alright, girls! Where are the kids though?"

"I'm happy to see everyone again, phew… Ah, Ailine is within me. Come on dear, let's defuse for now," Rimuru said.

Her slimy body suddenly shook, as several slimes emerged out of her body, her height and divine power decreased as well. The other Slimes led by the Slime group were resting over the floor, quite exhausted, and there was also Ailine, which Rimuru caught in her arms.

"Everyone is here?" she asked, looking rather sleepy. "Yawn… I-I'm so tired mama… Where's… Ah! Mommy!"

When she saw Kireina finally reach the group, Ailine turned into a big rainbow-colored slime and leaped towards Kireina, hugging her tightly by wrapping her body around her.

"Ailine! My baby!" Kireina hugged her tightly as well, as Ailine covered her face with kisses.

"Mommy, I missed you!" she started weeping. "I don't want to get separated again… No more!"

"I'm sorry, things happened… Beyond my scope," sighed Kireina. "What I had planned didn't work either and… Here we are. But yeah, I know. Don't worry, I will not separate from you ever again, calm down."

Kireina hugged her and caressed Ailine's blonde hair gently, kissing her big forehead.

"Really? You pinky promise me?" Ailine wondered.

"I do!" Kireina giggled, as Ailine's wrapped her slime pinky finger around Kireina's.

Rimuru walked to ther side and also hugged them both, sighing in relief.

"We're finally together again…" she sighed. "Hahhh… I'm so relieved…"

"Me too, I'm sorry," Kireina apologized. "I love you…"

"I love you too dear…" Rimuru smiled adorably, as she lovingly kissed Kireina. "You owe me lots of kisses guuu!"

"I do! I'll make sure to catch up once we're done here," Kireina kissed her little nose. "For now, let's quickly get all of you recovered and stronger! Who wants some homemade meals?"