Chapter 1463 – The Royal We in Wuffer

Bella and Ellie looked at each other, then back to their creation, antennae waggling with concern.

“Were we successful?” Bella said.

“I’m… not sure,” Ellie replied.

In front of them, the wuffer continued to wobble, and wiffle, happily, chuffing away as it consumed the toxic mana being pumped directly below it.

“The core has fused correctly?”

“It appears so….”

“Did you check the core yet?”

“I thought you were going to do it?”

“Gah!”

They both rushed forward, antennae extended to touch the large monster, but before they could get there, the creature became suffused with soft, blue light.

“It’s going to blow, run for it!’ Bella cried, prompting her and her sister to scramble around and dive for cover.

“What went wrong?” Ellie wailed. “I thought it went perfectly!”

“Don’t look at me, I thought it was flawless,” Bella gasped as they crouched together behind some rocks.

Yet, the detonation they were expecting didn’t arrive. After a few long moments of awkward waiting, they climbed out from behind their cover, just a little, to see what was happening. What they saw left them shocked and amazed.

The wuffer had swollen up to twice its previous size, the light spreading to encompass its entire body and filling the chamber in which they were working. At the same time, the creature seemed to be pulling in the ambient mana around them, along with drawing in a huge volume of toxin through the pipes.

“Wait a second…” Ellie whispered. “I think…”

All at once, the wuffer gave a cheerful ‘wuffwuffuwuff!’ and split, straight down the middle, creating two equally sized wuffers, each puffing happily away on the platform.

The two core shapers stared at it for a moment, then at each other.

“Success!” Ellie cried.

“It actually worked!” Bella cheered.

Excited, the two ants rushed out of their cover and up to the two wuffers, checking both with their antennae and core inspection Skills.

They had indeed succeeded. The test subject had changed to become the first of the wuffer queens, able to collect mana within itself and then split to create a new wuffer. The ‘copy’ or ‘offspring’ of the queen wasn’t the same as it was, a queen, but rather a regular wuffer, albeit at tier five.