Epic of Caterpillar Chapter 12: The Realm of Vida

After making sure that, the training was going smoothly, I checked on Milim.

I saw her fighting her fellow Dark Beings without fear or sadness, but seemed desperate.

"I am so sorry brothers! However, do not worry! Your power won't be wasted! Hiyaah!"

"Hmm, very good then, she seems to have understood"

The named servants swiftly killed many Dark Elemental Beings, even weaker monkeys had they chances to gain EXP because my servants would only let themselves be killed.

"With such an efficient plan, even weak monkeys will be able to gain strength easily leveling up, even if they won't get any combat experience, they can be instructed by other members in basic combat, if in the next days some become strong enough I might name some more."

I went inside the cave with Wagyu and Rimuru and packed up loads of food on my Item Box, I knew that the journey to the Snowy Mountain Wall would be long, and probably would take us more than a day to get in there and then come back.

I decided that even if I summoned more than 200 dark beings for my servants to farm, If I am outside for too long they might run out, so I summoned 300 more servants, almost draining every bit of MP from all my named servants, luckily we had stocked loads of MP Potions.

"We wish you good luck Master!"

"Senior Wagyu and Senior Rimuru, please take good care to Master Kireina!"

"Wagyu, I am counting on you!"

"Take care little Rimuru!"

All my servants said their respective goodbyes.

"Alright, you guys better take good care of this place while I am outside, also please expand the cave a little more, I will be back with some big boys!"

While I disappeared from their sight, my servants relaxed a little and started to talk.

"I hope those Wyverns don't give our Master a hard time"

"Well, Master already got the Wyvern Overlord blessing; it shouldn't be so hard…"

"Let's just hope for the best! All right rookies! Keep killing these blobs, we got loads of EXP to win!"

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According to Wagyu the shortest road to the Great Snowy Mountain Wall was through a series of mountains to the north, they were named the Ancient Dragon Spikes, as they resembled the bones a gigantic dragon.

"Was this actually a dragon on the past? Such gigantic beings exist in this world?"

"According to my grandfather, there is a legend about a legendary dragon able to split heaven itself that was slain long ago by the strongest Demon, after this, the ground itself absorbed his corpse nutrients and formed this Forest, but it's no more than an old tale…"

"Hmmm, hey… but how are we going to cross all these spiky mountains? You guys can't fly like"

"Ah! I didn't thought about that…"

"Geehhhh…"

"Sigh… Hmm?"

The Minds inside my head reminded me of something.

"Remember that Levitate skill from the Flame Salamander Empress? It's a temporal buff that you can be granted to others too"

"Main Mind… You never read the skills descriptions in detail… You just always assume what they do…"

"Ah! Is that so? Alright!"

I quickly casted | LEVITATE | on both Wagyu and Rimuru, they were quite awkward about floating but they got used to it surprisingly fast.

FLASH FLASH FLASH

As we passed through the spiky mountains, we saw a big group of weird looking bats, they were pink colored and had horrible faces that resembled demons, sprouting big fangs from thy lower jaws.

"What are these bats…?"

"Hmm, they seem quite weak I dou-"

"SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!"

"Geeeehh…! They are coming!"

FLASH FLASH FLASH

"SQUEEEEEEE!"

"Mastaaa!"

"Do not worry, such weak monster cannot pose a threat for us now, at most they will be a interesting dinner…"

Suddenly, two massive Pink Bats came outside of the cave!

"Ah! This is bad, Master, these are young Emperor Pink Bats!"

"Emperors…? I don't feel so much power from them…"

The two big Pink Bats called all the other bats to get together, and started to be stuck together on a big group!

"Why are all they stuck together like this?"

"Probably some kind of command skill…"

Out of nowhere, a strong voice resounded inside my head.

"Intruders…! Go away! I am the Pink Bat Emperor, and this is the Pink Bat Empress, leave this place if you don't want to die!"

"Buwahahaha! Who do you think I am? Why don't you just killed us already if you have the strength?"

"I-I… You insolent! If you want to die this badly, then death awaits you! Activate Skill; TANDEM SPELL: DARK SHADOW BALL!"

FLASH!

Both Pink Bat Emperors casted a strong combination skill that formed a massive Dark Shadow Ball!

BOOOOOOM!

"Guwahaha! That's what you get!"

"Wa-wait, look!"

"Eh?!"

The Pink Bats could not believe what they own eyes were seeing, a gigantic sphere made of lava successfully blocked they strongest combined attack!

"This! How is it possible? Such strong magic! Impossible! What kind of beings are you?!"

"Gaaah! Such pressure… w-we must run!"

"Because you two are Emperors I have to go all out too!"

I moved the Overpowering Sun to the Bats Cave at max speed! Clashing with the Mountain Peak and overflowing the entire cave with hot lava! Mostly all of the Pink Bats died on the spot completely calcined!

BOOOOOM!

| YOU GAINED 7865 EXP | | THE REST OF YOUR PARTY GAINED 3932 EXP |

| YOU GAINED THREE LEVELS! | | LEVEL 19/30 EXP 0118/3000 |

| THE REST OF YOUR PARTY GAINED TWO LEVELS! |

| WAGYU LEVEL 16/25 EXP 1289/3000 |

| RIMURU LEVEL 16/20 EXP 0345/2800 |

| YOU OBTAINED A NEW TITLE: PINK BAT EMPEROR |

| YOU OBTAINED A NEW TITLE: PINK BAT EMPRESS |

| YOU HAVE RECEIVED AN ITEM ON YOUR ITEM BOX: PINK VAMPIRE SOUL CRYSTAL BALL (B) |

"Gaah! I messed up again, if I just make them all dust, what do I eat? Well, I got some titles and this new Soul Crystal Ball that does nothing for now…"

I went to the Bats cave but only found lava everywhere, all of the bat corpses turned into dust.

"Sigh, next time I won't get too carried away…"

After flying some more we passed through countless spiky mountains, this was the first time I have traveled so much outside the Forest, but for some reason, I couldn't see what was laying ahead of the forest, the spiky mountains was indeed a massive section of this geographical zone.

"This place is too vast… Ah!"

"There it is, Master! The Great Snowy Mountain Wall! We can see it now!"

"Gaah! It's really a wall!"

"Guuuu!"

Very far away, we could finally see the legendary Great Snowy Mountain, it looked like an actual gigantic wall that naturally formed from the massive snow covered mountains, it went so far adove that it sometimes blocked the light of the sun!

"This World… is really something else… This is completely insane; I would never be able to see such a huge natural formation in Earth!"

"I wonder how high are the Wyvern families, I hope not so high, as we travel higher, the temperatures will go down dramatically, and we don't really have any ice resistance skills to protect us!"

"Hmm, maybe | FLAME BODY |?"

"Oh! Good idea Master!"

"Guuuu! | FLAME BODY |!"

FLASH! FLASH! FLASH!

We quickly activated | FLAME BODY | which immediately made our bodies covered on fire, being able to ignore the very low temperatures of the Mountains.

"Eh? It's already getting pretty late, the sun is already going to the other side of the horizon"

"Indeed Master, this trip took us very long, but we are finally here"

"Mastaa… How do us… Find the Wyverns?"

"I… don't know… let's just keep looking around… while traveling higher and higher…"

In our travels to the peak of the Snowy Mountain Wall, we found a series of bizarre monster unique to this region.

"These look interesting; we should go grab some for the skills…"

"Yes!"

"Guu!"

Our first preys were some elephant sized white rabbits; they had a beautiful white fur and big horns that seemed to be made of ice.

"Hmmm, I'll name you guys, Big Horned Snow Rabbits!"

They were indeed quite weak so we quickly disposed of more than ten, they meat was tender and delicious, even raw, even their blood was sweet and warm, ideal for such travels.

| YOU GAINED 3122 EXP | | THE REST OF YOUR PARTY GAINED 1728 EXP |

| YOU GAINED ONE LEVEL! | | LEVEL 19/30 EXP 0240/3100 |

| WAGYU GAINED ONE LEVEL! | | WAGYU LEVEL 17/25 EXP 0017/3100 |

| RIMURU LEVEL 16/20 EXP 2074/2800 |

We roasted around five rabbits and ate them entirely, even the bones were a delicacy and easy to chew.

| YOU OBTAINED A NEW TITLE: BIG HORNED SNOW RABBIT KING |

| YOU OBTAINED A NEW TITLE: MERCILESS RABBIT KILLER |

| YOU AND THE REST OF YOUR PARTY LEARNED THE FOLLOWING SKILLS: |

| ICE HORN FORMATION |

| BASIC ICE RESISTANCE |

| HIGH ICE ELEMENT AFFINITY |

| BIG HORNED SNOW RABBIT FUR CREATION |

| ADVANCED ICE MAGIC MANIPULATION |

"Oh! Ice Resistance! There it is! Let's deactivate | FLAME BODY | then, its drains too much Stamina and MP"

After we finished eating, we packed some more rabbit meat we continued our journey.

We kept checking around every cave that we found, but in such a vast Mountain, it was quite hard, as we keep going up, the ice storm got worse and it was already night time so we decided to pick some cave to pass the night.

When we found a big enough cave, a big family of some kind of Ice Wolves welcomed us.

Because they were Wolves I didn't want to kill me thinking on Wagyu, he tried to calm them down but they insisted on attacking us so we had to take down every aggressive one.

| YOU GAINED 2457 EXP | | THE REST OF YOUR PARTY GAINED 1228 EXP |

| PARTY MEMBER: SERVANT RIMURU GAINED ONE LEVEL! || LEVEL 17/20 EXP 0502/2850 |

| KIREINA LEVEL 19/30 EXP 2697/3100 |

| WAGYU LEVEL 17/25 EXP 1245/3100 |

After taking three Ice Wolves, the other ones fell down in morale and give up, becoming my new servants. They were nine left, including three pups and two mothers.

Wagyu tried to comfort the quivering wolves but they were too scared to speak so using | PUPPET MASTER | I made them sleep for now while we ate the strong Wolves we killed.

| YOU OBTAINED A NEW TITLE: SNOWY MOUNTAINS WOLF KING |

| YOU AND YOUR PARTY LEARNED THE FOLLOWING SKILLS: |

| SNOWY MOUNTAINS WOLF SHARP ICE FANGS |

| SNOWY MOUNTAINS WOLF COLD BLOOD |

| ICE MAGIC SHOT |

| HIGH ICE RESISTANCE |

They meat was bitter and cold, unlike the fatty and delicious meat of the Ice Rabbits, the Ice Wolf had barely any fat on it.

"Now that I look at them, they all seem quite thin, even the pups… Probably hunting is very hard up here; those rabbits were indeed quite fast"

"Perhaps they wouldn't had lasted this year…"

"Guuu… doomed to extinction… are the weak…"

"Rimuru…?"

"Guuu! Let's save them…! Let's add them to our… family!"

"Oh, yeah I had already decided it, they would be a good addition to our army, they seem to have unknown potential"

"I will give them some food that I have saved including the rabbit meat, and we will come to pick them up when we find the Wyverns"

"Guuuu!"

"Thank you very much Master Kireina!"

After finishing eating every part of the Wolves we killed, I made improvised beds made of thread and we slept for the rest of the night.

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| DAY 17 |

After waking up we calmed down the Ice Wolves and we bought their trust with loads of food, it seems that all of them were starving, after such a huge feast; I decided to name the strongest one to make a better connection with the family.

I named her Yuki-onna (snow woman in Japanese) she was the mother of the pups and the strongest left after the three males were killed, with her command and the trust that the others wolves has on her, they will easily obey me without much trouble.

"Very well then Yuki, I'll leave the rest of the wolves on your care until we come back from what we are looking for, there is a lot of food so there's no need to risk your lives hunting"

"Th-thank you so much Master Kireina! We don't deserve such benevolence!"

"Take care"

"Guuu!"

Before taking our leave, I used some magic and made a simple illusion outside the cave, to look like a big boulder from the outside closes it.

As we flew even higher we checked mot caves we came across but there was almost no signs.

"It been already several hours, are these Wyverns even real? How few are they?"

"There is no point in complaining Master, we must keep up"

"Guuu!"

"I guess you two are right…"

As we slowly approached the peak of the Mountain, we came across a strange white bird. It had ice wings, and showed electric powers, it was a big flock but it only had around three Kings.

We quickly disposed of the Kings and around ten birds; the rest was able to fly away.

| YOU GAINED 3925 EXP | | THE REST OF YOUR PARTY GAINED 1962 EXP |

| YOU GAINED TWO LEVELS! || LEVEL 21/30 EXP 0322/3300 |

| PARTY MEMBER: SERVANT WAGYU GAINED ONE LEVEL! || LEVEL 18/25 EXP 0107/3200 |

| RIMURU LEVEL 17/20 EXP 2464/2850|

The meat was tender and juicy, with a hint of sweetness, but very cold, so we quickly descended to a little cave and roasted some birds. After roasting them, they were even juicier and tasted like a very high quality turkey.

| YOU OBTAINED A NEW TITLE: ICY STORM BIRD KING |

| YOU AND THE REST OF YOUR PARTY LEARNED THE FOLLOWING SKILLS: |

| ICE WINGS CREATION |

| HIGH ICE MAGIC AFFINITY |

| THUNDER ELEMENT AFFINITY |

| THUNDER MAGIC SHOCK |

| ICY STORM BIRD ICE AND THUNDER TACKLE |

"Ooh, Thunder Magic finally, strange that it didn't give more ice resistance…"

"Ah, these birds were on par with the Gale Bird Emperor meat, Master! Such a big delicacy!"

"Guuuuu!"

After eating every part of the birds, including the ice wings, we continued our journey to the peak of the Mountains.

Several hours as passed and we slowly approached the Mountain Peak, it seemed like the storm was getting even rose and the temperatures were freezing my wings, even with ice resistance.

We had no other choice than to use | FLAME BODY | for the time being.

As we went further and further up the Mountain started to become a complete vertical wall without any rocky textures around for any walking animal to live in.

"Impressive, the whole structure of the mountain started to become a vertical wall, barely any living beings are here, perhaps the occasional bird… Ah! There is the Peak!"

Excited about what is in the other side of this natural wall, we went to the Peak at max speed.

Then, when we finally reached the Peak, we found a little habitable zone, when looking down we could see the enormous dark colored clouds that formed the eternal ice storms.

Then there was it.

"What… is this place…"

"Master…"

"Guu…"

In the other side, there was nothing that I would had imagined, not plains, or another forest, or even humans towns or civilization.

The only thing that we were able to see a starry sky, the one that we would usually see in nights, but it not only composed the sky itself, even down there, were there was nothing more than a dark space and stars.

"Why? Why is there a starry sky in this place? Is this space?"

"Space? What is Space, Master?"

"Space is… what's outside our world… the outside of it, you know?"

"Guuu…"

"My grandfather has never told me of such thing, so this is… Space?"

"But it's wrong! Space is upside! Even higher on the sky! It cannot be just at our side! It does not even make sense! What is even the shape of this world then?"

"Master, please calm down"

As I tried to look even deeper on the starry sky, we were able to see shadows moving around, and after adjusting our eyes, a whole bunch of strange beings were wondering around this "Space".

"These, what are they?"

"Ah! Ma-master! Don't get closer to them! They smell… it's very strange!"

"What do you mean? They should be just another type of monsters…"

"Master Wait!"

After taking another step, Wagyu stopped me on place.

"Wh-whats wrong with you Wagyu, why are you freaking out so much?"

"I didn't believe it before, but this space, the smell, is like some type of poison… I do not smell the clear air of the forest, or even the scarce air of this Peak… If you go there, how will you breathe?"

"Breath…? So there is no air in there? Is it a vacuum then?"

Wagyu calmed down and started to talk very slowly.

"I… don't know… but it's just, something inside, something incrusted inside my very self, tells me to never step on such place…"

"Wagyu… Rimuru, what do you think?"

"Guuu…? This place… reeks… No fresh air…"

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"So it's really space then? That's freaky, this place is nothing like Earth then… Probably it has even different physical laws"

My three minds spoke inside my head.

"Don't get any closer, Main Mind, we will surely die"

"Don't go…"

"Alright, we should calm down for now, how about we look around for the Wyverns, eh?"

"Ah! The Wyverns, if they aren't in the Peak then they never existed in the first place…"

As we looked around the vast peak, we saw some kind of enormous bird nest made of countless weird looking bones.

"Is that, a Wyvern nest?"

"Yes, but there are no Wyverns around…"

"Guuu… strange bones…"

I quickly noticed the strange bones on the nest; they didn't looked like anything we have encountered in our entire lives.

"Are these bones, those weird things in the Starry Sky?"

"Is it even possible for Wyverns to hunt them?"

"That's… I don't think that could be possible…"

"Mastaaa…! Look!"

"Eh? Ah!"

Suddenly, a massive figure came at increasing speed from the Starry Sky!

BOOOM!

It landed directly on the nest