Epic of Caterpillar
chapter-277

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It was very convenient that Yiksukesh was able to turn into a humanoid form. I was already assuming that I would end up having to take care of a one hundred meters long colossal undead snake. Still, I will have to now take care of a small, spoiled snake girl, and she isn't the cute type of spoiled snake girl that is my daughter Amiphossia… Jormungandr must be laughing at me right now.

Yiksukesh, on her petite and adorable humanoid form, glared at me with an indifferent look, but I noticed that in her lack of emotions, she seemed to be expecting something from me.

"I'm hungry"

"You already just ate ten Lesser Fire Dragons!"

"Yes, but it takes a lot of energy to reduce me into this form, all of the energy I consumed was used into this, so now I'm hungry… I want to eat"

I opened my Item Box and grabbed some cupcakes, sandwiches, and fruits, and gave them to Yiksu.

"What is this strange food? I want meat! Give me meat, hiisss!"

"Just eat what I gave you!"

"You don't get to order me around, rat! I…"

Yiksu had already begun to eat the cupcakes, the sweet and spongy texture filled her small mouth, her pale white cheeks gained a rosy color as her eyebrows raised in surprise.

"This is good"

Rimuru and Zehe approached Yiksu as they inspected her cute and adorable petite body, which was still nude.

"Guuu! Isn't she so adorable?! She reminds me of Ailine, but fleshy"

"I-Indeed, there is some cuteness in her. H-honey, can I adopt her?"

"Huh? W-What are you talking about?! She is not a kid! Although she looks like a little girl, she is a giant snake, a descendant of a demi-god! Don't treat her like a kid!"

"Lowly rat, how dare you to treat me like a child? But if you have more of this sweet spongy cake, I may forgive the pettings that you are currently doing over my head, and perhaps, future ones as well" Said Yiksu, with an intimidating yet adorable little girl voice, Rimuru, and Zehe's hearts were already won by her, as both of them squeezed her body, Rimuru took several cupcakes from the Item Box and gifted them to Yiksu, who happily ate them with her usual indifferent face.

How could Rimuru and Zehe be enchanted by her appearance so fast? What about our children? Did Zehe want a girl this whole time…? Sigh… Hopefully, our next child is a girl then.

Well, Yiksu may be very adorable, but my children are all cuter and more adorable!

"So, can I adopt her?" (Zehe)

"No! And why do you want to adopt her?! Also, why do you want to adopt her?"

"I don't know, she is just too cute~ Always seeing the little Ailine and Vudia playing around, made me want to raise a little princess as well…"

"Z-Zehe you already got Ryo!"

"But he grew so fast! He doesn't even need her mother anymore!"

"Zehe, you are already pregnant again… What if that's a girl?"

"Yeah but it will take some time to be born, it hasn't even grown as much inside of my belly! Little Yiksukesh is the perfect replacement!"

"Lowly rat, who are you calling a replacement? But I don't mind to be taken care of by you as my servants, bring me more food" (Yiksukesh)

"Right away! Aaah, you are so cute~! Right, honey?" (Zehe)

Is this fine? Is this the right thing to do? Well, I think I'm overthinking things, Zehe hasn't caused any harm with this, I suppose it's natural for a mother whose son has grown up so fast to desire another child to take care of, her motherly time was just too short. I remember my mother on Earth always talking and babbling about wanting another kid, and that I grew too fast…

"Okay, it's fine… B-But, do not adopt her! If you want to take care of her and feed her, it's fine… And also, give her some clothes! Here"

I gave Yiksukesh a set of kimonos that was dropped from a monster in the graveyard floors.

"Is this food?"

"No, its clothes! Put them on!"

"Hmm, you are so loud…"

"Honey, why are you so rude with our daughter!?"

"Guuu…?" (Doesn't get what's going on at all)

"It's not our daughter, Zehe! Uegh… Just put her kimono…"

"Alright, but apologize to little Yiksu! Look, she is all sad now"

Yiksu glared at the floor with a seemingly depressed expression.

"Is this for real? Wasn't she an intimidating and insane giant snake some minutes ago?"

"You're so loud… Shut up"

"Honey!"

"…"

As all of this happened, Rimuru seemed to be completely lost in the conversation long ago.

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After I realized that I was causing a discussion for something so stupid, I apologized to Zehe and let her do as she pleased. Her adopting Yiksu was nothing bad at all, and I was just overreacting after realizing that I will have to take care of a spoiled little girl that it's not my daughter.

Yiksu was then welcomed with open arms by my family, most of the girls found her appearance incredibly cute and adorable as well… Does she have a charming skill? It would explain a lot.

It was very late for most of my family, so we moved through the teleportation traps inside of every safe zone and we reached Nefertiti's city in no time. Nefertiti was resting on her golden temple and she welcomed us happily while moving her dog tail, she hugged me tightly as well, and licked my face like a dog as well…

Yiksukesh ended up sleeping with my children in a different room, they treated her as if she were already a new little sister… Yiksu seemed flustered, but not angered for some reason, I could even notice a slight smile on her expressionless face.

Before sleeping, I contacted the Rin Sisters about the completion of the conquest and everything else, they were rather happy and wanted to celebrate tomorrow, but I told them that I would take some days down here exploring the Lower Realm, they comprehended what it meant and decided to prepare the celebration for the next days.

In the middle of the night, after having fun nigh with my wives, I couldn't get myself to sleep, as my soul was just filled with energy, and it didn't even need to rest anymore. Due to this, I decided to visit my Kingdom sneakily. Using the teleportation traps, I reached the first floor and flew to my castle, there I found Nephiana sleeping on my bed accompanied by Smilkas, Ocypete, and Nereid. Her father was also in an adjacent room, so the old mand has been properly taking care of her necessities.

The eggs were also in the bed… and all of them were incredibly big, they have tripled their sizes since the last time I saw them, each one was of around fifty centimeters. And each one shined in a different light. I touched their eggshells with my hands, feeling the warmness inside of them.

Suddenly, small hands moved inside as they touched the area were my hands were… Aww, they recognize me?

Aah, this is too precious… Should I stay the night? But I told the Rin Sisters that I would stay down there a little bit longer!

Ugh…

I decided to stay the night here and then quickly rush back down tomorrow in the morning. Embraced by the warmness of my children's eggshells, I rested and slowly fell asleep.

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[Day 177]

I woke up very early in the morning and saw Nephiana at my side. She had a very happy expression and her emerald eyes shined brightly as she saw my own eyes open.

After hugging and kissing each other, we had a small breakfast, while Smilkas and Ocypete were still sleeping… How heavy is their sleep? Also, why are these sleeping in my bed?! Well, I summoned them, and they are Nephiana's friends, so I suppose it's fine. They are also beautiful, and Smilkas is sleeping completely nude for some reason.

Anyways, after leaving some presents with Nephiana in the form of monster meat and equipment dropped in the dungeon, I swiftly went back to the dungeon and used a teleportation trap to go back to Nefertiti's city.

Ah right, last night, Jormungandr contacted me through my dreams. Just like that time, he talked all high and mighty with me, but after I told her that Yiksukesh was rescued from her imprisonment in the dungeon, he lost his cool and became a doting grandfather, almost tearing up in happiness.

Afterward, he ordered me to take good care of his beloved granddaughter, and explained to me some of her unique abilities… And I was right, Yiksukesh does indeed have a hidden Charm Skill that I wasn't able to see in her Appraised status. She only gains it after going back to her human form. She also has strong Poison Magic, Petrifying Gazes, Demon Eyes, Superhuman Strength, and all of that.

An interesting thing to note about Jormungandr descendants is that all of them have a severe Thunder Weakness, which probably is related to the snake battle against Thor in Norse Mythology… But this is obviously not Earth, so its strange how various gods have the names of the gods on Earth's mythology and religions, what connection do they have to them? They even share some of their weaknesses and such…

Well, Genesis is just "another world", probably in a completely different dimension or universe, so everything could be possible, things in Earth could be here but completely changed, and Gods names seem to be prevalently related to Earth's ones.

Even some Realms are the same as those in Norse Mythology or Greek Mythology, like a mix and match of everything… I wonder if Alfheimr is filled the fairies and light elves as well? It would be interesting to meet my species relatives. Oh, and the Fairy King and all of that… Damn, now I'm excited about meeting the realms that only the humans on Earth could only dream or imagine.

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This morning Yiksu was being spoiled by Zehe once again. I was expecting Ryo to be jealous or something, but he was rather happy for her mother to have found out a little girl to adopt, he was even treating Yiksukesh as his little sister already.

My son, what are you doing…?

Sigh… Anyways, Ailine and Vudia also liked Yiksu and liked to play around with her tail and long dark green hair. Although Yiksu talked very rudely with her expressionless face, she never did anything to harm my family and was leaving the girls to create all sorts of hairstyles with her hair, they even filled her tail with ribbons.

"How unsightly, I don't like pink color… Give me more cupcakes as well. I demand cupcakes"

"Alriiight~ Here!" (Zehe)

"Well done…"

"Hey Yiksu, do you like gold?" (Vudia)

"I don't"

"How about blue?" (Ailine)

"Blue is… fine"

"Blue it is, Vudia, let's make ore ribbons!" (Ailine)

"Aight!" (Vudia)

They were having fun, so I let them be for now…

Oh, Athos had already respawned. Should we kill him one more time? My family can't handle him… Oh right, but I am the Dungeon Master now! I can just make him stay still without doing anything and die!

After having breakfast, I left Nefertiti on her city, for now, telling her that we would move to the surface in the next days, for now, she said that she would rest and sew more clothes for the baby.

In a flash, we moved to the room where Athos spawned by using the natural teleportation of my skill [Dungeon Maintenance]. Athos seemed to be sleeping and suddenly woke up and jumped to the ceiling in fear after seeing me.

"Gyaaah! The demon! The demon! You already killed me once! Are you killing me again!? Let me alone! Please, I don't want to be eaten alive!"

A one hundred meters dragon was trembling in fear over my humble presence.

"Hello Athos, I have become the Dungeon Master in here, so obey me"

Suddenly, a powerful force pulled Athos to the ground.

Boom!

"Geeh…! W-What?! I can't believe that an Evil God became the Dungeon Master!"

"Evil god?"

"Yeah, you are an Evil God… Right?"

"No, I'm not… Now, please stay still, my family wants to gain some levels, and your EXP is very juicy"

"I can't move! It's true! You are the Dungeon Master! You bastard! How can you treat me like an EXP bag?! I am the great Dragon Ath- GYAAAAHH! My tail!"

"Stay still, I said…"

Using my authority as the Dungeon Master, I kept Athos completely still while sealing off all of his skills, he was then beaten to death by my family. His body was very big and sturdy, so it took an hour or so.

Afterward, we decided to go in a Boss rush and we killed each previous Boss that had already spawned, netting an amazing quantity of EXP! Today's lunch was Dungeon Bosses!

[Kireina] gained 9.772.239.844 EXP]

[Kireina] gained two levels!]

[LEVEL 055/250 EXP 0.171.153.293/9.850.000.000 EXP]

Now that Athos's main body wasn't destroyed, we were able to enjoy his entire body's flesh, the heart, internal organs, back, legs, and arms. Everything on this Dragon was delicious…

As I ate lunch, I wondered how was it possible for him to spawn again if I didn't have any Divine Energy to give to the dungeon? Shouldn't this dungeon stop function if I weren't a god?

I tried to ask this to the System, but I only got very vague responses. The most I could take from them was that somehow the dungeon was dragging Divine Energy from the environment itself.

No god is capable to drag energy from the environment, but I can because I've eaten Spirits and assimilated their powers. Because the Dungeon as connected to my Soul, and my Soul was connected to my Aura, and my Aura had the properties of an ethereal spirit, I was able to somehow make my Dungeon draw unlimited energy from the environment instead.

However, just giving Divine Energy in person is always a faster way to get some things done, as drawing energy from the environment was incredibly slow, but enough to keep all basic functions. After the feast of dungeon bosses, I went to the Yokai Village and dragged the Yokai King, Ashura, with me.

"Alright kid, time to take a visit to your nation…"

It was also time to meet Oga's family and also bring them with me to my Kingdom. Everything was going just as I wanted… But I couldn't help but have a strange feeling as if something ominous was lurking behind me.

Ding!

[A God has fallen!]

"Huh?"

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