Epic of Caterpillar
chapter-2333

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Once we entered my Divine Realm, we immediately moved to the castle, where a huge feast of Cosmic Dishes was awaiting my rescued wives. Wagyu and the Chimeras' team were out of commission though, too exhausted, and very tired, I wish I could talk to them, but that'll have to wait for later. Flora is very durable in comparison, waking up instantly.

Perhaps due to her immense amount of accumulated Elemental Particles, which surpasses that of even Star Eater Realm Recessed due to her immensely long life, yes, she's older than those guys too.

Something that I had discovered about the Supreme Gods of Genesis was how much potential and talent they had sealed within them, confined into the Supreme God Realm. But after coming out of Genesis, their power naturally developed very quickly.

Flora, after turning into that thing, was already about to become a World Devourer Realm, if anything, she needed to eat a Realm Fragment now to be done with it.

Well, everyone will be absorbing those, as everyone will be evolving now that they're here!

"Nom, nom, nom! Hmm! Mama, this food's good!" said Ailine, eating her fill as she sat down at the side of Rimuru. "I never tasted such a delicious fried rice before...!"

"Guguuuu! It's really guuud!" Rimuru agreed. "These fried croquets made of cosmic crab, and this fried starshine tuna fish, they're also good!"

"Glad you like it," I smiled. "And-"

"Mamaaaaa!"

Suddenly, before I could continue talking, a cute little cyclops fairy girl flew towards me, landing on my face and hugging me.

"Vudia! So you were inside of Brontes Divine Realm then?" I gasped.

"Yes, she was resting," nodded Brontes. "I didn't want to risk her life out there... She was sleeping and just woke up. Sleepy girl."

"I'm happy you're back mama! You saved everyone!" Vudia kissed my cheek. "Sorry for being so weak... When the big monsters showed up, I wasn't able to do a single thing..."

"The difference in realms and power level must have been too big in that time," I sighed. "Don't worry about it. After you eat your fill, you're all ascending to higher realms! You too dear."

I kissed her cheek, as she sat over my legs, wanting my attention.

"That's nice! Let's eat and go save everyone else quickly then!" she said, already gaining a lot of confidence. Yes, that's very like her.

"Ryo and Amiphossia were with the other team," said Zehe, sighing. "I'm sure they'll be fine; they are much stronger than us after all."

"My Amiphossia will protect everyone, I am sure," Nesiphae nodded. "Oh! Scarlet, my dear! Have you behaved?" she noticed Scarlet arriving from her nap.

"Mommyyyyy!" Scarlet jumped towards her, hugging her, and kissing her, wrapping around her body. "I missed you! I also miss mama... Where is she?"

"Nixephine? She's with Nefertiti last time I saw her," said Nesiphae. "We might meet them very soon, accompany us so we can pick everyone up then, honey."

"Okay!" Scarlet nodded, cuddling with her mother.

Scarlet was the daughter of Nesiphae, Nixephine, and me, conceived in a rather... wild night, inside a dungeon, when all three of us were particularly... well, in the mood to experiment stuff.

We haven't done anything similar ever since though, but I have grown curious about it lately...

Anyways, now its not the time to think about such things.

"We should hurry," I said. "Let's quickly eat!"

As I ate with everyone, I also drank some Elixirs I had. Not only the ones I obtained recently but also all those I extracted from the Recessed Beasts I battled and hunted down.

I am quite a fair person, so I mostly left all the loot obtained from the dungeons to my children, who hunted the monsters to begin with, also everyone owned whatever loot they got from the Recessed Beasts they slain.

It would be way too selfish to just ask them to give me all what they worked hard for, so I only keep what I have hunted myself. Perhaps the little Sin of Greed seed inside of me gets quite annoyed by that thought process, but I like to be fair, especially with my beloved family.

Aside from the Elixirs, I also ate all the Soul Shards I found too, further increasing my Stats and enhancing my power.

Ding!

[You have consumed: [Divine Recessed Beast Blood Elixir (SSS Grade)] x50 [Divine Recessed Beast Soul Shard (SSS Grade)] x30 [Divine Cosmic Spirit Elixir (SS Grade)] x30 [Abyssal Cosmic Miasma Elixir (SS Grade)] x30 [Mixed Cosmic Spiritual Miasmic Soul Shards (SS Grade)] x50!] [You have consumed a large quantity of powerful energies and soul essence! Your Body, Soul, and Cosmic Power have been enhanced greatly!]

[You gained +10.000.000 Essence!]

[You gained +4.000.000 Cosmic Power and Soul Aether!]

[You gained +3.000.000 to all other Stats!]

[A Few Skills have Leveled Up!]

"Nice, good enough for now," I nodded. "Now..."

There are a few things I left hanging because I hurried up a lot, and honestly I want to hurry up right now too, but I might as well get a few of them done.

So basically, there are four things I can do, forge a Psyche, a Physique, Rank Up my Class and Subclass using the Class and Subclass Fusion area, and also further evolve my {Essence} Stat by combining other Stats together, apparently?

I am quite curious about the latter; I remember I created Essence by doing that took fusing energy-based Skills into something that encompassed them all.

But it seems that to advance, it requires me to do the same, but with other Stats? Not to just

enhance the already existing {Essence}!

It is a bit weird, yeah, I have to admit it...

But what can I fuse then?

Anything or...?

There's a lot I could fuse, but I'll go for an easy and safe one, I think.

I touched my Status and forcibly grabbed [Agility] and [Dexterity], pushing them together

and triggering fusion by spending Essence.

FLAAASH!

Ding!

[You have forcefully fused the [Agility] and [Dexterity] Stats!]

[A New Stat is being born, created from the fusion between two Stats!]

RUMBLE!

Lightning surged from my body, as I felt my senses expand greatly, I could even feel every single connection to my powers, lines of lightning fused into skills and more...

[You have created the [Deftness] Stat!]

[Stat]: {Deftness}

A Stat created by fusing [Agility] and [Dexterity] together. It encompasses not only movement speed, reflexes, and the ability to do things dexterously and precisely, enhancing hit rate and even critical attack rate, but it also directly enhances the power of Techniques, Spells, and Abilities that require a certain amount of Dexterity to work. Cosmic Energy directly affects Deftness, making it stronger the more you use it in combination with these

Abilities, Techniques, and Spells.

1 Deftness Stat = 5 Agility & Dexterity.

For every 500.000 Deftness, Movement Speed, Sensing Abilities, Fighting Speed, Dexterous Movements, Accuracy, Critical Rate, and Abilities, Techniques, and Spells Power increases by

30%.

For every 1.000.000 Essence, you gain +5% more chances for a Critical Hit to trigger using Abilities, Techniques, or Spells, causing x5 Damage and ignoring half of a foe's Defense.

Well, this is not bad at all...

Ding!

[You have met the conditions for {Essence} to evolve into the next stage!]

[The {Essence} Stat has evolved into the {Ancient Essence}!]

"Ancient... Essence?"

FLASH!