Epic of Caterpillar
chapter-564

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[Day 256]

[Kireina] gained +480 Skill Points and Subclass Skill Points due to the prayers of your believers!] (Added!)

[Kireina] gained 10.226.755.200.324 EXP due to the prayers of your believers!]

[LEVEL 104/250] [EXP 52.598.723.817.068/105.000.000.000.000] (Added!)

After yesterday's battles, feast, and more, we decided to sleep in the large, castle-stylized church of the High Lizardmen City, which was actually named after the Elder Dragon Goghesdum… quite original.

The room was very spacious and there were several beds, but my wives didn't like to sleep separately as we were all like a big pack. So, I used my Golem Creation Skill to transform all the beds into golems and merge them together into a giant bed, where everyone fits quite nicely. The giant girls such as Nesiphae or Nixephine were able to shrink their bodies to three meters now, so there were not many issues.

Through yesterday's battle, a lot of Experience Points have gathered the fight, and some of my wives managed to evolve overnight… but my children did not seem to evolve yet. Amiphossia and Ryo evolved various months ago, but even after having gathered many Experience Points, they have not managed to evolve yet.

As I inspected my eldest children's status, I discovered the exorbitant amounts of Experience Points that they needed to evolve… and it was the same for all the newborn children as well.

It seems that they were born at incredibly high stages of evolution, so aside from changing Classes, they have reached a seemingly 'pinnacle' in mortal hood similar to me, or at least close.

It should be possible for them to evolve once and then most likely their next evolution would end up being a Living Deity.

And due to the Experience Points and Mortal Ranks that the eldest children had, they would most likely become Living Deities when their evolution finally comes… for now, they seem to be acquiring Experience Points and Skill Points passively by being worshiped similarly to me by the various churches and statues that my Slime Clones raised in the Empire, so they can change Classes around faster than before.

My children were obviously different than my wives, as they were born already incredibly strong by inheriting my bloodlines, powers, and even a part of my divine powers which they made their own pseudo demi divinities. Although such pseudo demi divinities had not shown yet, they are latent as they can produce Divine Energy already the more, they are worshiped. However, none of them had a Divine Realm, as they lacked a Divine Core, according to the gods of my pantheon.

Meanwhile, in the case of my wives, although they had acquired great strength and powers through my blessings, evolutions, and more, they are still mortals and can evolve more, but this just means that they are significantly weaker compared to my children for the need to evolve to be there.

The three girls that evolved this time were some I have been waiting for, it was Adelle, Nixephine, Nefertiti, and Nephiana.

As we woke up, these four girls realized their new changes.

"Uh? I feel quite strange... Have my skin always been this shiny?" asked Adelle, moving away from the blankets of the bed and glancing at her fish tail.

"UWAH?! My tail got so long! So that weird dream was an evolution?! And I ended up choosing that in a heartbeat because I thought it sounded great… but I really did become a Dragon Fish?!"

"Dragon Fish?" I asked.

"My wife… Yeah, last night while sleeping, I was in a strange dream where two creatures appeared before me! There was a giant golden-colored fish and then a golden dragon… they asked me which path I should choose… and because the dragon looked stronger, I chose that…" muttered Adelle while caressing her new fishtail, which was long like that of a snake, and covered in strong and gold dragon scales.

Aside from her fishtail, which had become similar to that of a Wyrm with fish-like features like her fins remaining, her hands became 'shiny' because they were covered in gold scales and long gold nails, they looked fierce yet beautiful. Her shoulders also had scales alongside around her neck… her ears became pointy and she gained two small horns on her forehead, which were also gold in color.

Adelle's hair became longer and wild, so she needed to make it into drills again, and her eyes turned completely gold, radiantly illuminating whatever she set on sight.

Her existence exuded a golden and radiant atmosphere, almost holy and heavenly… it was as if she had ascended from a koi fish to a dragon, like the Chinese Tale.

"Your evolution reminds me of that tale from my original world. You were a Koi Fish Mermaid, right? There is a tale about a Koi Fish that goes against a waterfall, and after much perseverance and effort, it manages to get into the top of the mountain, ascending to heavens and becoming a Dragon" I said.

"That's… explains it a bit, I suppose… I never knew that I had such potential!" said Adelle.

Belle had woken up from sleeping at Adelle's side and became surprised after seeing her mother changes.

"Mommy, you got so big! Your tail is very long!" said Belle.

"Ah, Belle, my dear… Yes, I seem to have evolved and become stronger… I will make sure to use this power to protect you" said Adelle, caressing our daughter.

I decided to check Adelle's stats to see her changes in more detail.

[Name: Adelle Floria Aquaria.

[Class: Spiritual Holy Rapier Queen Knightess.

[Class History: Apprentice Sword User, Rapier Princess, Sacred Rapier Princess, Sacred Queen of the Dazzling Waters, Sacred Rapier Queen Knightess, Holy Attribute Mage, Holy Queen Magician, Divine Queen of the Blinding Lights, Holy Spirit User, Chaos Bringer Children Mother.

[Subclass: Intermediate Chef.

[Subclass History: Princess, Apprentice Chef, Librarian, Tabletop Game Master.

[Rank: 13/20 of The Mortal Realm

[Race: Holy Spiritual Golden Koi Dragon Mermaid Queen (Unique Species)

[Level: 001/400

[Status: Filled with vigor.

[HP: 934/934

[MP: 1115/1115

[Stamina: 350/350

[Strength: 975

[Defense: 872

[Magic: 744

[Resistance: 810

[Speed: 1248

[Charisma: 1000

[Luck: 35

[Skills]

[Blessing of Kireina, The Divine Chimera Holy Mother of Lustful and Venomous Light and Nightmares]

[Blessing of the Demi-Goddess of Sacred Spirits Quemella]

[Blessing of the Goddess of Governance Alphine]

[Awakened Ancient Lineage of Koi Dragons: Bloodline of the Transcendental Koi Fish]

[Sacred Spiritual Golden Koi Dragon Scales: Level 1]

[Exorcizing Sacred Dragon Breath of Golden Light; Level 1]

[Heavenly Physique of the Golden Koi Dragon Queen: Level 1]

[Holy Radiant Psyche of the Spiritual Queen of Dazzling Lights: Level 1]

[Great Draconic Strength; Level 1]

[Status Effect Resistance; Level 4]

[Physical Damage Resistance; Level 4]

[Magic Damage Resistance; Level 8]

[Holy Spiritual Queen Magic; Level 4]

[Divine Spiritual Queen Summoning Magic; Level 2]

[Water Attribute Magic; Level 7]

[Sacred Charming Dignity and Domination of the Spiritual Queen of Holy Light; Level 6]

[Flashing Thought Processing Speed of the Queen of Light; Level 2]

[Golden Dragon Eyes of Transcendental Holy Light; Level 1]

[High-Speed Light Flight; Level 1]

[Evil-Slaying Holy Rapier Queen Arts; Level 4]

[Governing Magic Shield of Everlasting Presence Arts; Level 6]

[Sacred Armor of Spiritual Holy Dazzle Arts; Level 5]

[Sacred Governor of Spiritual Light Arts; Level 4]

[Heavenly Spiritual Light Aura of Governance; Level 3]

[Self-Enhancement; Concubine (Kireina); Level 4]

[Self-Enhancement; Enlightenment (Kireina); Level 4]

[Super Self-Enhancement: Governing (Aquaria Kingdom Vassal Nation): Level 5]

[Self-Enhancement: Chaos Bringer Children (Belle): Level 4]

[Butcher; Level 2]

[Cooking; Level 5]

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[Titles]

[Crowned Queen of the Aquaria Kingdom Vassal Nation]

[Sin of Lust Concubine]

[Chaos Bringer Children Mother]

[…]

Adelle's stats had increased exponentially with this new evolution, raising to the Mortal Realm of Rank 13… her next evolution will most likely be the last before becoming a Living Deity, or she might even become a Living Deity straight away? It depends… but it is not something that I can easily determine.

I remember asking the gods about how this was determined, and they said that 'the Heavens will determine if she shall be worthy of the Divine Trial or not'… so I guess it is random unless the System itself announces that your next evolution will happen alongside a Divine Trial as it happened with me.

"Chupiii! I evolved! I got four… no, six wings now! This is way too confusing!" shouted Nephiana, jumping off the bed while inspecting her whole body.

"You've become so beautiful, Nephiana-chan!" said Rimuru at Nephiana's side.

"I-I have?!" said Nephiana flustered.

"Indeed, your plumage seems to have become even more colorful and vibrant, and your beauty was already great, but now it is almost overwhelming," I said, it seemed like Nephiana had developed some kind of charm skill by the atmosphere that she created, which drew the attention of people.

Nephiana's size and appearance did not change that much, as she remained almost the same in her height and weight, just gaining a few more centimeters as her legs grew longer, slimmer, and more beautiful.

Her beautiful emerald eyes remained but gained a few aquamarine colors, and when she became too flustered, the eyes would become bright red for some reason…

Her plumage had grown exponentially, making her look very fluffy, as if she were wearing a coat of colorful azure, green, emerald, yellow, red, and aquamarine-colored feathers.

The big changes were in her wings, in which she gained two new limbs, similar to her front limbs which are wings, right below the original ones.

The plumage in her talons also changed, covering them almost completely while creating what seemed to be proto wings just above her claws, giving her essentially six wings, this might make her even faster while flying, like a rocket.

"It seems that you evolved, Nephiana… I was just talking with Adelle and she said she had a strange dream; did you have something similar that you can remember?" I asked my wife.

"Err… Now that you ask about it, Kireina-sama, it comes to my mind that I remember dreaming about a big and colorful bird screeching at me like a crazy bird! It was incredibly annoying! All the time through the entire dream it was yelling: 'CACKOOOOOOO! CACKOOOOOOO!' I almost went crazy! I was asking it to shut up all the time until I finally woke up just now!" shouted Nephiana.

"W-What…? Okay… I suppose the dreams are different in each person… but it seems that my new divinity with Dreams and Nightmares and my blessing is making people have prophetic dreams when they acquire new skills or evolve… which is most likely the cause of your new evolutions" I said.

"So that is how it is! Kireina-sama can even strengthen us in our dreams!" said Nephiana.

I caressed Nephiana's fluffy feathers for a bit before my other wives were to wake up, and as I did I inspected her status to see any new changes.

[Name: Nephiana

[Class: Celestial Winds Talons Harpy Heroine.

[Class History: Apprentice Warrior, Warrior, Unarmed Fighter -> Slave (Forced Class Change), Sexual Slave, Kicking Warrioress, Harpy Princess Warrioress, Wind Talon Warrioress, Harpy Heroine of Raging Winds, Harpy Empress Warrioress of Celestial Winds, Wind Attribute Mage, Wind Harpy Empress Magician, Chaos Bringer Children Mother.

[Subclass: Neet Paladin.

[Subclass History: Gatherer, Apprentice Chef, Storm Paladin, Librarian, Light Novels Addict, Tabletop Game Master, Neet.

[Rank: 13/20 of The Mortal Realm

[Race: Sacred Celestial Six-Winged Emerald Harpy Empress.

[Level: 001/400

[Status: Excellent.

[HP: 862/862

[MP: 932/932

[Stamina: 350/350

[Strength: 1205

[Defense: 603

[Magic: 740

[Resistance: 680

[Speed: 1340

[Charisma: 700

[Luck: 30

[Skills]

[Blessing of Kireina, The Divine Chimera Holy Mother of Lustful and Venomous Light and Nightmares]

[Blessing of Qiemis, The God of Storms and Winds]

[Divine Protection of Qiemis, The God of Storms and Winds]

[Blessing of Huitzilopochtli, The Sacred Bird God of Victorious Wars]

[Lineage of Celestial Harpies: Emerald Winds Empresses Bloodline]

[Sacred Celestial Emerald Physique of the Harpy Empress; Level 1]

[Spiritual Green Jade Psyche of the Six-Winged Harpy Empress; Level 1]

[Divine Charm and Imposing Presence of the Supreme Harpy Empress of Emerald Winds; Level 1]

[Celestial Six-Winged Flight; Level 1]

[Magic Eyes of Emerald Windstorms: Level 3]

[Enhanced Super Five Senses; Level 4]

[Status Effect Resistance; Level 8]

[Physical Damage Resistance; Level 7]

[Magic Damage Resistance; Level 4]

[Superhuman Strength of the Emerald Harpy Empress; Level 7]

[Celestial Golden Talons of the Harpy Empress; Level 6]

[Celestial Multi-Colored Feather Armor: Level 5]

[Celestial Emerald Winds Harpy Empress Magic; Level 6]

[No-Attribute Magic: Level 4]

[Harpy Heroine Emerald Wind Arts: Level 4]

[Emerald Winds Kicking Empress Arts: Level 6]

[Emerald Winds Archery Empress Arts: Level 4]

[Multi-Colored Feather Armor Arts; Level 3]

[Bedroom Technique: Level 6]

[Butchery: Level 5]

[Cooking: Level 2]

[Increased Strength and Endurance: Feathers, Talons, Wings: Level 7]

[Fast Speed Thought Processing: Level 3]

[Self-Enhancement; Concubine (Kireina); Level 4]

[Self-Enhancement; Enlightenment (Kireina); Level 6]

[Self-Enhancement: Governing (Harpy Tribes): Level 4]

[Self-Enhancement: Chaos Bringer Children (Ocypyne, Caellaeno, Nyphenne, Solyth, Dereo, Nepharia, Uryphe): Level 5]

[Neet; Level 2]

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[Titles]

[Harpy Empress]

[Sin of Lust Concubine]

[Chaos Bringer Children Mother]

[The Empress Neet Wife]

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<Explanations>

[…] = This means there could be more Skills/Titles but were not important to list or too many to list, for example, all those smaller skills that the girls might gather by eating monsters, they are not listed, only their strongest and important skills. Skills acquired through eating are later on merged with their strongest skills.