Epic of Caterpillar
chapter-548

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[Day 253]

[Kireina] gained +420 Skill Points and Subclass Skill Points due to the prayers of your believers!] (Added!)

[Kireina] gained 9.350.500.000.000 EXP due to the prayers of your believers!]

[LEVEL 099/250] [EXP 16.413.205.717.877/36.500.000.000.000] (Added!)

Today in the morning I decided to try out a new summoning skill I acquired after eating the Mole Boss, which gave me the ability to summon a new kind of monster named 'Mole Miner'.

As everyone was waking up inside the portable mansion, my Slime Clones, Rimuru, Adelle, Mady and Gaby began to prepare breakfast. I decided to walk out of the mansion to stretch out and try out this summoning skill.

The magic circle typical of summoning appeared ahead of my sight, as a medium-sized creature reaching almost two meters appeared before me.

It was a smaller version of the mole boss, but it lacked the blue-colored nose and it appeared holding a mining pickaxe while wearing a mining helmet.

"Bugo," it said, standing there motionlessly.

"So, you're a Mole Miner? This kind of monster has not appeared in this dungeon at all… and I also do not remember the boss summoning any… Well, that might be because I killed it too fast"

"Bugo"

"Let's summon a bunch of your kind so we can eat them," I said as I began to summon dozens of Mole Miners.

"Bugo?!"

It seemed that the Mole Miner was aware of what awaited of it.

Before eating them, I tested a few of their powers, they had many skills that increased their proficiency in mining, and their pickaxe and miner helmet seemed to be Organic Equipment made from their bodies.

I ended up summoning over fifty of them, and as they worked together to mine and create underground caves, they showed their great talent in this… perhaps I should be able to summon a bunch in my Empire and make them help me expand my Empire underground.

For now, I swiftly made them sleep and then butchered them to be cooked. Breakfast today included a lot of mole meat.

I even decided to eat the pickaxes and helmets they brought by extending an arm into a slimy substance and digesting them all right there.

"Hm, this meat is similar to the mole from yesterday!" said Vudia.

"Yeah, it is so tender… it is almost unbelievable for red meat such as that of moles," said Brontes at Vudia's side, eating a mole burger.

"I like the legs, they're so good when roasted~!" said Valentia happily devouring the grilled legs coated in sweet sauce, similar in flavor to barbeque sauce.

"Was this summoned by Kireina?" asked Nesiphae.

"Indeed, I acquired a summoning skill from it that let me summon Mole Miners, they're like smaller versions of it… their meat is indeed tender and rich in flavor," I said.

The Mole Miners were cut into a variety of preparations, from large and thick steaks, minced meat hamburgers and meatballs, fried chunks of meat, and more.

Because I ate so many and I have not eaten many moles in my life, it seems that I acquired a few skills from it despite its weakness.

[Kireina] learned the following Skills]

[Mining; Level 1]

[Great Mining Pickaxe; Level 1]

[Natural Underground Orientation; Level 1]

And it seems that I acquired the ability of mining…

Was it needed to get a skill to do such a thing?

I also acquired the skill capable of letting me summon the Great Mining Pickaxe after eating over fifty of the ones the Moles held. It seemed to have been enhanced by becoming one of my skills and it has more durability while being dark-colored and decorated with crimson jewels.

I do not have any use for it as of now, but maybe I could distribute it for the mining team that will be getting a lot of new members soon.

It seems that it can also level up, if it reaches level 10, will it evolve into a legendary pickaxe?

The last skill seemed to give me a greater insight while being underground, giving me the ability to naturally orientate myself without the need for maps or anything.

I often orientate myself anywhere by using my Automatic Mental Mapping skill, but this might also work well with it.

After a fulfilling breakfast, we fought the boss that had spawned again on floor 60, which was the giant worm.

The younglings swiftly killed it to do some warmup, then we butchered it, and saved the pieces in our Item Boxes to eat later.

We quickly moved towards the large stairs as we descended to floor 61, where the scenery had changed, as the bricks had become purple-colored and were covered in moss and different types of vines and plants, there were large palm-like trees as well, but their leaves were yellow-colored, which released lightning shocks when someone approached them.

These palm trees were cataloged as 'Dangerous' in the guidebook, and were named as 'Lightning Shock Palm Trees', it is said that the fruit their beer is delicious, but it is too dangerous to approach them, as these lightning shocks can easily kill an adventurer without any resistance to thunder attribute attacks.

However, I was immune to the thunder attribute, at least the one not produced by gods, so I easily grabbed the fruits, which resembled stars, and tasted them together with my family.

The fruits were yellow-colored and were sweet and juicy inside, which released little sparks inside one's mouth as you munched on the fruit's flesh.

It also had black-colored seeds inside which were incredibly bitter, though I just ate them anyway.

Although their flavor could not compare to the Ambrosia fruit, they were as addictive, and I ate hundreds of them, to the point that we cleaned the fruits of every floor we went through.

[Kireina] learned the following Skill]

[Sweet Starlight Lightning Fruit Production; Level 1] (Assimilated by Superior Skill!)

It seems that eating so many gave me the ability to replicate them. Although the skill was assimilated by the Ambrosia skill, I was still capable of producing the fruit, but it was even richer than the original, good for drinks and desserts.

Amongst the many jungles made with the thundering palms existed a large ecosystem of Thunder-Attribute monsters that were almost immune to these palm attacks and ate the fruits to survive. Some bigger predators ate those that survived with fruits.

Because these floors have been almost unexplored by humans, there was very little information about the monsters in this place, but the quantity and diversity were outstanding, and thorough appraisal, I managed to know many of these monsters' names.

Their strength might have been formidable for the majority of the adventurers by this point, but for us, they were mere fleas, and the younglings enjoyed hunting them and eating them to nourish themselves and gain more skills.

Especially Vudia and my yellow-feathered harpy daughter Solyth, both of them had a great affinity with Thunder Attribute, and eating these monsters let them develop their powers quickly by acquiring many skills and also increasing the power of their physique and psyche.

Some of the monsters that caught my attention were giant Spiders covered in yellow fur that held deadly poison on their fangs, Venomous Thunder Demon Spiders. These spiders walked in large groups and attack enemies by unifying their electrical power and throwing it at their foe. If we were simple adventurers, meeting a group of these spiders would be sure death, especially in how fast they were, chasing down humans would be as easy as breathing.

Some yellow-colored Lightning Slimes reminded Gubo of her kind, but these slimes were wild and unintelligent so she could not make friends with them, Gaby had to comfort her by saying that she was a very unique girl.

Gubo might end up joining the Slime Family if what she really wants are many of her kind, though the Slime Family has been completing dungeons after dungeons in Ollathir territory, and have not come back in a while...

Of course, I can communicate with them at any time through Slime Clones, and I can also see what they're doing right now, but I am not worried about them, as they had grown too strong already for anything to be a threat to them aside from a dungeon boss being a small challenge… when they're fused their strength can easily match those such as Wagyu and Truhan, or even surpass them.

Anyways, continuing our monster descriptions, we also found many of the monster races from above, but adapted to these new conditions, such as Ice Fairies who had become Ice and Thunder Fairies, with control over Ice and Thunder, they had become fearful monsters that could easily freeze and then shock to death a human adventurer with ease. Much like the spiders, these fairies worked together when going against a foe… but against Vudia and Solyth, no matter how much they worked together, they would only end up as snacks to be eaten alive.

The many types of flying fishes also appeared down here. Their scales were more extravagant, with neon colors, such as bright yellows and purples, and many of them moved in large groups across the air, resembling flashing lights of different colors. Their speed was rather outstanding, to say the least, and many of them were of the Swordfish-type, having long, pointy, and sharp sword-like horns atop their heads. By enhancing themselves with their lightning, their speed greatly surpassed that of wind, and by working together they could easily leave adventurers converted into swiss cheese.

Amongst these monsters, there were also many mammals and birds, who seemed to be in constant competence of territory, amongst the mammals, large, cats above three meters tall resembling Cheetahs named Thunderstorm Cheetahs were present in large numbers and usually hunted down the smaller monsters like the ones mentioned above.

Meanwhile, the bird side had above four meters tall Giant Lightning Eagles, their wings could expand widely for almost seven meters, and they were able to release powerful shocks of electric energy through their wings, or just use their potent beaks and claws as methods of attacking to easily rip to shreds most of their prey.

These two had delicious meat that I tasted while walking around this interesting pseudo biome. I casually caught them by using my hair, entangling them, and trying them out on the spot.

Certainly, the Giant Lightning Eagles reminded me of Thunderstorm Phoenixes, but the Phoenix is more delicious and seems to inherit a strong bloodline from the phoenix, making it stronger as well.

As we explored the last floors, we reached the boss door. About this boss, there wasn't any information whatsoever, as it seems that no adventure has ever explored this place.

The presence inside seemed a bit greater than the previous bosses.

I opened the door as I took a peek at what awaited us now…

The boss room was a large room filled with a jungle made out of Thunder Palms, alongside purple-colored bricks. The creature resting inside was a bird-like dragon monster.

It had a long body resembling that of a snake, covered in purple scales and yellow feathers. Its wings extended over twenty meters wide, which were covered in colorful feathers of the yellow and purple spectrum, its head resembled that of a bird with a long and sharp golden beak. It lacked any other limbs, resembling a winged serpent, but it had many draconic features as well.

Checking on its status through Appraisal gave me its name as 'Giant Feather-Winged Wyrm Amphithere Tyrant', which seems to be a hybrid between Wyrm, snake-like dragons lacking any type of limb and Amphithere, snake-like dragons that had feathered wings, lacked legs, and had the beaks of birds.

It was certainly an interesting creature, but the rewards that I could get made me want to quickly dispose of it.

"Well, let's see if you can take a normal punch as well," I said, as I flew towards the creature who confronted me by extending its wings in the air while roaring savagely.

"Roooaarr!"

My left arm began to bulge into countless tumors as the red flesh expanded widely, mutations appeared all over the grotesque extension of my limb, monstrous jaws filled with sharp teeth and sticky, poison-secreting tongues, many sharp claws, horns, spikes, armor-like scales, and skin, eyes of all colors and sizes and many other things.

The Creature roared as it opened its beak, revealing countless sharp beaks that are used to try and ravage my arm.

"Roar?!"

However, its fangs broke out the moment it tried to munch on my very flesh, as I formed a fist with my arm and crushed the monster without any technique towards the ground. Its body was crushed in a similar way to the mole, but this time I tried to be gentler, resulting in it not being completely crushed into a pancake.

Boom!

It seems that it could not take my punch either… will I go like this for the rest of the dungeon?

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