Epic of Caterpillar Chapter 23: Evolution Galore

Fallen Kingdom of Ollathir, now known as the Dark Nation: King's Castle.

Countless undead servants wondered the castle, taking care of different task.

These undead servants resembled the humans that once inhabited this Kingdom, once glorious royalty with high social status and riches. But now, no more than servants to serve the mage.

A small undead girl, with deep crimson eyes and silver hair, dressed with a gothic black dress, came reporting her information to the mage.

"My Master, reporting in"

"Oh? What did you find?"

"Reporting in, the being called Kireina, the one who has slayed 8 Emperors and the first Troll army, according to our intel and information gathering, possess countless advanced spells that does not fit with its race at all."

"Yes, I have figured out so much, anything else?"

"Yes, reporting in, the being called Kireina, possess advanced fusion spells that only a few Human Champion possess, the reason behind this is still yet unknown."

"W-What? Which spells?"

"Yes, reporting in, the being called Kireina, possess the ultimate spell "Overpowering Sun", which before it obtained it, it was the unique spell of Shining Sun Hero, Sol"

"H-How is it possible? I know that this being is a reincarnated demon, but to think that it's able to cheat the system obtaining advanced spells that were once unique to the blessed Heroes…"

"Yes, reporting in, the being called Kireina, also possess a myriad of variations of the spell "Gate of Bjarmia", although the spell itself is recognized by the System as an unique spell only for Kireina, it resemblance with the Wild Sea Hero unique spell "Sea Judgment" is notorious. Even more, this being has been able to create countless variations of this spell, combining different elements on it, something that a novice mage would never know before hundreds of years of training"

"I knew that he could obtain skills and spells easily… but to think that it can fuse magic elements to create countless variations of the same spell, is it blessed by a god? That's impossible! It is nothing more than a bug! How could it be blessed by a god?!"

The undead girl closed her mouth and listened the mage's rambling.

"Haaahh… No matter how many strong spells you possess, I have been living in this world much more than you have, Kireina…"

"Master, do you have any more orders?"

The mage smiled maniacally.

"Hmmm… Yes… Now that I know what spells it has, it will be easy to deal with, bring me all the Goblin and Undead mages, I will personally engrave on their souls countless sealing spells"

"That demon won't be able to abuse its cheat spells like this, how much can it fight without them? Will it rely on its servants? Will it fight at close combat? Your road from now on won't be as easy, Kireina"

"Yes, my Master. I will be on my way"

The undead girl slowly walked outside the throne room.

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| DAY 25 |

A pair of Spider Maids who brought Nesiphae armor and weapon waked me up early this morning; I completely forgot to tell them that Nesiphae changed her room.

"It does not matter, Master"

"Don't worry, Master. We will be on our way"

"Thanks"

I slowly woke Nesiphae up, and showed her its new armor.

"M-Master…! This armor is perfect for me! I love the color and aesthetic, too! And this axe is so beautiful! I will be able to slay more enemies like this!"

Nesiphae quickly put her full suit armor immediately, refusing to take it out even on the dining room.

"I am a dark knight now!"

"I'm glad you like your armor this much, Nesiphae, but I don't recommend you to use it in the training grounds, and the heat is too much"

"What are you talking about, Master? A knight never wears its armor off! It's the pride of a knight!"

"Sigh…"

While we were enjoying a quick breakfast with my servants, the Troll group came out of their rooms with their new armors and clothes.

"Ah! Their clothes are ready?"

Truhan had a new silver armor on its entire body, it had beautiful details and decorations painted in blue, giving the impression of a royal knight armor, it included a majestic and massive silver shield strongly reinforced with magic. He also had a new black colored great sword, of around 3 meters long, fitting its massive body. Truhan strength is indeed recognizable, as he is able to wear such a long and heavy long sword with only one arm, while holding a massive shield on the other.

Celica small body was not fitted for heavy armor, so we made her a reinforced chest plate, shoulder pads, gloves and greaves; of course, we also kept the beautiful skirt and stockings that were now reinforced with Flaming Adamantine coat. The armor was sturdy yet light, letting Celica move swiftly in battle, fitting her small size. The black colored reinforced stockings seemed too tight for her plump and smooth legs, which made them look cutter.

Zehe black robe was once again like her older one, but made tighter around her hips and chest, increasing her erotic look. The robe also leaves almost her entire pale blue back nude; this also was applied on her chest, leaving the top and middle line of her breast to everyone's sight. Her dress extended with a sexy loincloth down her legs, leaving the hips around her thick legs exposed. Her feet were no longer bae as long black hells were included on the equipment set. On the top of her head, a big black Witch cap decorated her beautiful silver hair. Luckily, the monsters here didn't had any attraction to different species with the exception of me. She was holding a long and black staff, with the top decorated with countless magic gems, enhancing her element affinity.

Even though this whole dress seemed to have less fabric than the previous one, the stats were way higher.

Celica and Truhan quickly approached me, while Zehe slowly walked behind them.

"M-Master, this light armor is very sturdy, it's perfectly fitted for my small size… but these stockings are very tight… is it fine?"

"E-Eh? Of course its fine! Stockings are the perfect pair for a beautiful young girl like you!"

Celica quickly blushed over me praising her beauty.

"A-Ah, if Master says so…"

Truhan nodded, he also seemed excited about Celica thick thigs.

"See, Celica? Master agrees with me too! Stockings are the perfect combination for a beautiful young girl like you!"

"T-Truhan…"

Zehe slowly approached me.

"Master, thank you very much about this new outfit set, with this heat it will be very refreshing, I also love the new pair of heels and the staff"

"Aah! I see… I am glad you liked them, Kusuri and Kajiya worked very hard with these sets, now not only the monkey Leaders have unique armor sets but you three too"

When the Trolls went to eat breakfast, I saw the slime group cheering over Luminous, it seems that she finally got her evolution too.

"M-Master! I've finally evolved! I feel very strong now!"

Luminous evolved to a new variant only for her, named "High Winged Angelic Slime", which specializes in light and holy magic, both in healing and in attacking. She also was granted a pair of angelic feathered wings, which let her fly. This unique evolution also grants her the ability to gain one point of Luck stat every five levels! That's cheat!

| NAME: LUMINOUS CLASS: NONE RACE: HIGH WINGED ANGELIC SLIME

| LEVEL 1/35 EXP 0000/3000 STATUS: OK

| HP: 54/54 MP: 78/78 STAMINA: 98/130

| STRENGTH: 27

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| DEFENCE: 36

| MAGIC: 81

| RESISTANCE: 85

| SPEED: 64

| CHARISMA: 20

| LUCK: 1

| NEW SKILLS |

| ANGELIC HOLY ARTS: HEAVEN ARROWS |

| ANGELIC HOLY ARTS: SAINT'S SHIELD |

| ANGELIC HOLY ARTS: STATUS HEAL |

| ANGELIC HOLY ARTS: SHINING HEALING LIGHT |

| NEW TITLES |

| LITTLE HOLY ANGEL | | ANGELIC HOLY MAIDEN |

Afterwards, the six Slimes decided to stick around with me today, because they felt as if I was letting them aside lately. They don't understand that I have too many things to take care of, sigh.

While I was chatting with my Slimes, suddenly, a strong voice resounded on the whole place!

"KIREINAAAAAAAAAAA!"

"GUAAAAHH!!! W-WHAT IS THAT? ARE WE GETTING ATTACKED?!"

Suddenly, countless laughs greeted me, these voices seemed familiar to me.

"Eh? The Wyve-"

"Ahhh! You guys evolved!"

Right before me, five enormous Wyverns greeted my sight!

The biggest one, a red colored wyvern with a big crown made of horns on his forehead talked to me.

"Fellow Kireina! We have evolved! We have never felt this strong before in our lives! So this is evolution! At last!"

To Abellona's side, Aine and Adena had almost his same stature and color, but Aine had its face decorated with black markings and only one big black horn on his forehead, while Adena had golden markings and two golden horns on the back of her head.

"Fellow Kireina, this is all thanks to you! Without you, we would never be able to evolve this much"

"Indeed, evolving feels incredible, as if we have become completely different beings, our old bodies felt so rusty, it really feels good to change skin from time to time!"

According to Wyverns, when they evolve they change their skin, which feels extremely refreshing to them, as if taking out very old and nasty clothing's out of your body. I remembered that some types of reptiles also change their skin in Earth.

On the left side, Titus and Eshne looked very cheerful, as if Titus size wasn't big enough, his size doubled, becoming almost the same size as Nesiphae, meanwhile, the small Eshne didn't lost to his brothers and almost tripled in size, leaving completely aside its tiny size who he was very recognizes by the community. Titus body color and structure almost remained the same; however, he gained countless spikes on its back. Eshne obtained three shining golden horns on his forehead, while its wings were covered in green feathers, having an angelic looking to him.

"Titus you are massive now! And look at Eshne! He's no longer a little boy!"

Titus grabbed Eshne's shoulder and laughed.

"Hahahahaha! I never expected my little brother to grow so big now! Evolution really bring wonders to us Wyverns!"

"Hmm! I feel so refreshed, Brother Titus. I can't thank Master Kireina enough for what he has given to us"

"Ah! Hahaha! It's nothing, really! I am glad you guys finally realized one of your goals"

According to the Wyverns, after evolution, their power almost doubled, and also their races become more defined, and not everyone was just called "High Wyvern", Abellona for example, became a "High Flaming Emperor Wyvern".

Aine and Adena, and because they were twin brothers evolved to the same race "High Elemental Emperor Wyvern", they told me that Aine had a strong affinity with dark elements like Shadow, Darkness and Illusion, while Adena had high affinity over light elements, like Light, Holy and Fire.

Titus, whom the Wyvern God of Strength blessed, evolved into a "High Adamantine Strong Emperor Wyvern", he obtained several physical and defense boosting buffs, with a myriad of new physical attacks. It wouldn't be crazy to think that he could destroy me on a physical fight, especially if you count the countless skills he had gotten while eating other monsters.

Eshne, because the Wyvern God of Nature blessed him, evolved into a "High Nature Spirit Emperor Wyvern", a Wyvern focused on controlling the rare Element of Nature, which lets him control and create plant life at will. With this evolution he also obtained a boost in almost every of his stats, becoming a very strong version of a jack-of-all-trades.

"Eshne ability is indeed very unique, we would be able to shape the entire forest at our will, and he will indeed become very important when we expand our Kingdom, I wonder if he could convince the Dryad Queen to be friendlier with me"

However, evolution news did not stopped here, as the Monkey Squad Leaders and Wolves did not wanted to stay behind!

All of them evolved into stronger variants of their original races, adding a "High" to every race name, surprisingly, their size also doubled.

Kizuato and Yukan'na, who have become strong war partners and close friends, evolved into "High Lord of the Mountain", obtaining a high Strength and Defense stat, if these two joined forces versus Titus, I wouldn't be able to tell the outcome. They have become quite the titans; they are honorable members of my Royal Guards.

The evolution came with new skill evolutions, named | HIGH LORD OF THE MOUNTAIN ATTACK STANCE | and | HIGH LORD OF THE MOUNTAIN DEFENSE STANCE |. They also got new classes named "Formidable Titan Warrior" a strong warrior class that can use heavy weapons and even dual wield.

Meiji became a "High Mythical Sage of the Mountain" becoming even more connected with the 9 spirits, and obtaining a special skill named | 9 MYTHICAL SPIRITS SUMMON | which let him summon a total of nine different spirits to aid him in battle! He had become such a strong Summoner; it really reminded me of those in F#### Fantasy!

These nine spirits were the same as the ones I have, being able to level up and evolve on their own, the downside is that he summoned them on their baby stages, and there is a long road until they catch up with the rest of us. Nevertheless, because these nine spirits will stay outside from now on, our population increased by nine unexpectedly.

The nine Spirits were named:

The Water Spirit: Nymph, she looked like a younger Nereid, it had a timid personality, short blue hair and silver eyes.

The Wind Spirit: Sylph, it was another fairy, she was blonde and energetic.

The Earth Spirit: Pygmy, it looked like a small dragon, it had several brown horns on its forehead and adorable golden eyes, and it was very playful.

The Fire Spirit: Vulcanus, it looked like the Flame Salamanders but it was completely red colored, with a golden fire crest on its head, it was rather calm.

The Nature Spirit: Artio, she was a small bear cub with green markings over its body, with a small leaf growing on its head.

The Thunder Spirit: Brontes, it was a small cyclops girl with golden hair and several golden markings on her little body, although she looked like the most intelligent, she was very shy and didn't wanted to talk.

The Ice Spirit: Boreas, was a small bird, with light blue feathers and a blue tail, it liked to sing.

The Light Spirit: Aether, it was a small lump of light, it sometimes flew like a butterfly, but its real form didn't seemed defined, it can understand commands but cannot speak.

The Dark Spirit: Hypnos, it was a small ball made of complete darkness, it had an eye on its center of its body, which it uses to attack casting hypnosis and dark spells. Like Ather, it can't talk.

"So many Spirits! Gaah! Good luck raising them, Meiji! I will leave some assistants for you later"

"Y-Yes, thanks Master… I never expected I would become a babysitter now…"

All nine little spirits followed Meiji whenever he went. Nymph specially was very annoying, resembling Nereid even more.

"Master! Master! Where are we going? Are you going to eat? What are you eating? When are we going to train? I wanna train! Let's go train! Master! Master! Let's go! Master!"

The little bird Boreas was peeking on Meiji's head, Brontes sometimes got lost around the halls, while Aether and Hypnos started to fight due to their opposite elements.

"Stop fighting! Agh!"

Goruden and Jinsoku evolved to "High Mountain Shadows", they became even swift and slim, while obtaining even more shadow related skills, making their camouflage easy, I decided to use these two as inspectors and messengers that would bring me information about the forest, inspecting things like the Dryad Forest or the Dark Forest, etc.

"These two guys are very useful, and will become essential in information gathering when we become able to get outside the forest; they need to hone their camouflage skills even more by then"

Meanwhile, in the Crimson Wolves part, Kekensha evolved once again into a "High Golden Champion Wolf", its size tripled having the same massive size that Wagyu has, and he obtained new Light element skills and even some Holy element skills too. He reminds me of a Paladin class made into a Wolf, a very useful member to the whole community, using its experience to instruct rookies and being a formidable fighter on its own, now with its new power, in pair with Wagyu and Rimuru.

Even though Tsuchimizu has been working very hard with Shokunin to expand our cave/castle, he haven't slacked off at all in his training, everytime he finishes helping Shokunin, he would rush to the training grounds to level up with its brothers and catch up with them. Even to the point of going alone in the night to train on the forest by himself, he is a very hard working Wolf, and an irreplaceable member of this community. Tsuchimizu evolved into a "High Mythical Sacred Spring Wolf" increasing his power over the control of Water and Earth, and obtaining new and strong magic spells.

Lastly, Kurimo (Kurimuzonhōn), the energetic Crimson Horn Wolf haven't skipped a day of training, and even though his participation on the last war wasn't as big as Kekensha or Wagyu, he works very hard to catch up with these two, and won't give up. He evolved into "High Crimson Demonic Wolf", doubling his size and obtaining even more crimson horns on its head, his Strength and Speed stats are formidable, while also being quite good with Fire Magic.

The Ice Wolf Yuki already evolved some days ago, but she told me that her evolution was very close, and she told me that her evolution path would lead to a humanoid evolution, being able to choose a class. The rest of the weaker Ice Wolves also evolved to "High Ice Wolf Kings" and their power doubled, being very adept with ice magic.

"I wonder if Yuki will evolve into a Wolf girl or a Werewolf girl."

Indeed, a very important question, but both outcomes are welcomed!

After finally inspecting on everyone's new evolutions, we went to the training grounds and summoned around 800 Demonic Beings, this time a new Slime variant came out! This time it was a very weird one, because it didn't had the normal classic Slime form of the others, it was quite big and over its body, a living armo