Epic of Caterpillar
chapter-245

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Suddenly, the giant Chimera Beast started to absorb on the energy of the Dungeon in high quantities and at the same time, it created hundreds of eggs inside of its body, which was quickly expulsed, these eggs were different than the previous floor eggs, having the Chimera Beasts inside fully grown, and seeing as there were thirty to fifty Chimera Beasts in each egg, by the time that every egg broke around eight hundred Chimera Beast rushed at us, barely fitting in the wide room, which now seemed to be very tight due to the sheer amount of monsters. It seems that the "mother" of these beasts cannot fight by itself, so it creates her offspring's in big quantities to kill us.

It seems that this beast was the "replacement" for Nefertiti, but I don't know if the Dungeon is aware that it's sucking on the energy, or probably doesn't care anymore as long as it kills me… Anyways, my children and wife began to massacre the colossal beasts, the smallest ones being twelve meters taller, while the biggest beast was over twenty-five meters tall. Their bodies varied in forms and beast combinations, but they always managed to somehow look hideous no matter what they were made of.

Clash!

The big group of beasts was suddenly cut in half as my family slaughtered them with their powerful techniques and magic, massive explosions generated from the magic casters left big craters filled with burnt pieces of minced meat. I saw that this was a nice spot to gain some EXP, even if we would take some hours. Although with my capabilities, I could kill the Mother Chimera immediately if I wanted, accumulating some EXP first was fine. I also wanted to see if the Chimera Beasts being constantly born from the Mother Chimera could have mutations.

After half an hour, only around a hundred Chimera Beast remained, which were easily smashed to pieces. The Chimera Mother quickly laid another hundred or so eggs, bringing more beats towards us. I devoured a grilled chimera tentacle while resting on a massive pile of corpses, I was relaxing a little bit.

Just as I thought, the Chimera Beasts developed mutations. Somehow, after being burned alive for so much, the Chimera Mother learned this weakness and generated her offsprings with [High Fire Resistance] and some even had [Fire Immunity] right off the bat. This was very amazing; how could this monster just generate skills for her offsprings so easily?

After another half an hour, the second generation of Chimera Beasts was slain without many problems, even with [Fire Immunity], that was just a minority, and they were just killed with other elements like Thunder or Wind. The Chimera Mother learned from this, and quickly generated a third generation of beasts, she laid another one hundred eggs like nothing and controlled the beast, telling them to kill us without leaving anything left.

The beast was now bigger, sturdier, and more muscular as well, they held sharp beaks and claws, and their tentacles were incredibly sturdy, covered in shark scales now instead of the frail and sticky skin. Most of the third generation was now completely immune to Fire and had high resistance to Thunder and Wind, some even having immunity to all of them. Impressive, that was awfully fast, Mother Chimera!

The third wave fell even faster than the previous one because my family was getting bored, so they went more seriously and devastated the monsters without playing around so much. Still, it was an amazing EXP from killing all of these armies, and everyone was steadily gaining levels and strength. My children used their techniques and Auras that they learned from me and applied them on their bodies as they fought endlessly, improving their physique and psyche passively.

The fourth-generation came as well, that Chimera Mother wasn't giving up at all. It was now completely immune to Fire, Thunder, Wind, and Earth, and also possessed high resistance to physical damage. Although I don't believe that they could generate physical damage immunity. However, it would be fun if they could, and my family would have to find other ways to kill them this way, learning and becoming stronger.

This time this wave was at least three times as strong as the one before, their bodies were as if they were made of steel, covered in hard scales and shells, and still having incredible speed as well. Their various immunities helped the beast be more resilient, and most of my family had to use different elements that they usually don't use, going in more serious, this quickly became amazingly good training, they practiced various of their Skills and leveled them up.

Around halfway through I joined in while using my [Fallen Winged Demon Armor], enhanced with Blood Attribute, it became scarlet red and its wings released a bloody and eerie aura. I infused my Aura with various Shadow, Dark, and Blood Spells and generated thousands of giant needles made of Shadow and Blood, raining over the waves of beasts, devastating them, without a care about their immunities or resistances.

"I wonder if you can generate Blood, Shadow, or Dark Immunity now, lets keep playing around, Mother Chimera!"

My provocation seemed to work, as Mother Chimera absorbed Dungeon Energy wildly, its eyes became red shot and it was clearly furious. It generated another one hundred and fifty eggs which swiftly hatched, thousands of Chimera Beast came our way. They now were incredibly strong, having [Physical Contact Damage Immunity] and another element, even having resistance to Shadow, Dark, and Blood! It really worked; this was getting ridiculous at this point but I couldn't stop testing this beast. I used various of my other skills and decided to level them up as my family did, now that I didn't fused Skills as often, it was better to level up the skills that I had.

However, because they were awfully strong, it took a lot of repeated usage for them to level up at all. If possible, I wanted to level up my [Arms of Demise] to level 10 and evolve it, so I dedicated myself to summoning these things endlessly. Although they were easily destroyed by the beasts, they still put on some fight or were annoying at worst, giving openings for my family.

My family was constantly fighting and adjusting their strength to the ever-growing beasts, Ryo had begun to enhance his muscles and punches with other elements he wasn't so used to like Light or Nature, which came from his gauntlets. Amiphossia was mostly fine, as the beast didn't develop [Phantasmal Immunity] yet. Valentia was rampaging everything, even with the monsters [Physical Contact Damage Immunity], she was able to slaughter them with her [Monster Hand] that could infuse her Aura into it and generate other types of elements or combinations that could surpass the Immunities partially, but that was enough for Valentia to exert her incredible strength and massacre the monsters. Aarae, Vudia, and Ailinie were practicing with countless of different elements, learning from each other while leveling their spells, it was an enriching experience for them.

My other wives could handle things without much trouble, although Alice's primary elements were already blocked with [Thunder Immunity] and [High Blood Resistance], the same for Brontes. However, Alice had her powerful [Legendary] Relic Lance that could break through flesh no matter what, is a special effect of it, and Brontes held the blessing of a Thunder Oni God, which gave her the ability to break through immunities with her Heavenly Thunder, although with reduced damage, so she had to put on more effort.

Zehe was able to practice other elements now and was receiving the support of Rimuru, even to the point of learning from her as if she were a teacher. The rest was mostly fine as their elements were already either enhanced by a God Blessing or very rare for the Chimera Mother to generate an immunity right away.

The Fire Onis was having the hardest time, and the entire group could barely hold against one Chimera Beast, so I had to give them a hand in such an unfair fight for them. I enhanced all their capabilities with some of my party buffs like I did with my family and also granted them a [Heavenly Azure Sand] to take care of them, there was the [Azure Gemstone Tattoos] as well. Their Fire damage was negated and they could only use their non-elemental non-contact physical techniques, absurdly repeating the usage of them, they swiftly started to level up these skills.

I support everyone with my [Arms of Demise], crushing 60% of the wave by myself. An hour later the wave was completely annihilated and the Mother Chimera was incredibly exhausted, her body was bulging from everywhere and she seemed to have taken too much Dungeon Energy, more than it could handle, it was about to explode.

Splat!

With a loud noise, the fleshy beast saw its last day as it exploded into pieces, it had taken too much Dungeon Energy, which is just a lesser version of Divine Energy, taking on too much at once would surely kill her, I was enjoying the moment before this happened.

However, to our surprise, the last egg was left inside of the fleshy mess of the Chimera Monster's Corpse. It contained a new Chimera Mother inside; however, it was badly developed and would need a lot of time to grow up. I already had some Chimera Beast as Guardians on the Kingdom, so I decided to keep this egg on my Item Box, the power of this monster to generate eggs so easily could come in handy someday.

[Calculating EXP gained…]

[Kireina] gained 786.620.430 EXP]

[Kireina] gained one level!]

[LEVEL 044/250 EXP 178.865.840/1.350.000.000 EXP]

There were so many corpses piled up that it filled 80% of the entire floor. The fleshy piles of meat from the Mother Chimera were also plentiful and we decided to eat these first. Although I snacked on some corpses with my Aura from time to time, I was getting hungry again… I swiftly started to grill the massive chunks of meat from the Chimera Mother, while eating some others by dissolving them as a Slime.

I also devoured a big pile of over one thousand Chimera Beast that was unrecognizable, as they were into pieces. Afterward, I ate more of the Mother Chimera, it was a very interesting fishy flavor, and each part as its different flavor to it, although we were hungry so we just grilled it, added some sauce, and ate it with some liquor or tea.

Two hours later, the Chimera Mother was completely eaten and the corpses of the Chimera Beasts barely remained, which I saved on my Item Box. Because this time I ate an absurd number of colossal monsters, it was natural to gain some Skill at the very least.

[Kireina] learned the following Skills]

[Forbidden Summoning Magic; Mutant Chimera Egg]

[Chimera Mother's Grand Blessing]

[Chimeric Multi-Species Orichalcum Shell Creation]

Unlike other bosses, this one didn't give the usual Loot Box rewards, what a pity… Other than that, the Boss did not respawn back and the floor was empty outside of the bloody marks everywhere.

We took around five hours to complete the previous floors after leaving Nefertiti's city, and it was still quite early to rest, so we continued through Dungeon, descending towards floor 70 through the stairs.

The Dungeon had turned awfully silent and it began to create a strange very cold mist, that wouldn't let us see above three meters. However, most of my family members and I are had some kind of [Eye] Skill, so we were able to see through the annoying Mist anyways.

As we quickly flew downstairs, I sensed several beings approaching us through the extensive domain of my Aura, which covered five hundred meters of my surroundings. These new beasts were real Dungeon Monsters generated by it but were strange compared to the previous ones.

Instead of being Chimeras or Desert-Adapted Sea Monsters, they were a big group of Undead! However, they were somehow related to the previous monsters, as they were Undead Fishmen, Giant Sharks, and even Lobsters. I've never seen a Zombie Lobster before.

The Undead Fishmen were just the bones with some flesh, they had blue cores on their chest filled with Phantasmal Blue Flames, they held bone weapons and powerful Ghostly Skills. Meanwhile, the other marine-like beasts were in the bones as well, floating and drifting around, some seemed to be of higher evolution ranks, having their bones reinforced with a thin yet sturdy layer of magic and having dark-colored bones. The Zombie Lobsters were in reality their incredibly sturdy shells but filled with countless spirits, they had a strength that surpassed them when they were alive. It has been quite long since I've eaten some Undead now that I think about it.

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