Chapter 1606 – Go With The Flow

You might think there’s nothing to do when you’re wrapped up in a cocoon of slime and being rolled around the Dungeon, heading toward a slime-pool of doom created by a god-monster several thousand years old, and you’d be right!

At least I had people to talk to.

[Crinis, for the last time, I am not letting you live inside me. Stop asking, it’s never going to happen.]

[I wouldn’t ask if you stopped getting in trouble like this,] she told me primly. [You make all of us worry, and how can we help you if you won’t let us close to you?]

Ugh, this again. Everyone wants to babysit me, the Colony, my own pets. I didn’t have to worry about anything like this when I was a human! In fact, nobody paid much attention to me at all.

[There’s a difference between being ‘close to me’, and ‘inside my body’. My carapace is not a house!]

[Maybe it should be.]

[Not happening.]

Crinis goes back to sulking and I can’t help but sigh. I don’t want to make her upset, but at the same time I don’t want to have a ball of endless darkness and horror living inside me. My carapace is for me, it’s not such an outrageous demand! I am going to have to make some sort of concession eventually. The fact that I do keep ending up in these situations is true, after all. Well, it’s not that bad.

I’m surrounded by the mana equivalent of deadly toxin, sure, but it isn’t getting through to me right now. On top of that, I’m starting to win the war against the poisonous mana that already seeped within me, which is also a plus. My wounds are healing, I’m reducing the amount of toxin inside me, this is all a win!

Well, it would be if I weren’t being steadily moved further and further away from the fortress. I’m still easily in range of the Vestibule, but I won’t be forever. Once I lose contact with the fortress, things are going to get pretty dangerous. Out here, I’m fairly helpless. If I break the slime cocoon, I’ll be bombarded with a lethal dose of toxic mana in minutes. Once the wave subsides and the concentration of energy falls, I can jump out of here and kick slug backside, no problems. Until then, I kind of have to stay put.

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[Hey, Solant, how are things going over there?]

I reach out to the little general using my Nave, just to avoid having to keep arguing with Crinis. Also because I’m bored.

[Busy,] she says curtly.

[Would you… care to elaborate?]

[No.]

How rude! Why does she think I’m out here in the first place? I fell off that platform, fighting to the last, to keep my siblings safe! I mean really.