Karl reached down and picked up the chrysalis. It was heavily damaged, but hard and smooth as steel.
He still couldn’t see it, but with it in his hand, he could feel the magic. Whatever was evolving must have cast invisibility on itself.
"What did you find?" Lotus asked.
"A crystal of some sort. I think it might be a cocoon. It’s definitely the distressed creature, though, and there are bite marks in the hard shell." Karl explained.
The creature was still in agony, but Karl didn’t know what to do.
Lotus had some ideas, though. First she cast a healing spell on it, then transferred it some mana.
That gave Karl an idea. He took out one of Remi’s mana and stamina potions and dropped the crystal in it.
The crystal became visible and began to glow with power as it absorbed the potion at a rate that defied everything Karl knew about how volume and physics worked.
Then the whole potion bottle vanished, and Karl felt a new presence in his mind.
A tiny, terrified presence.
[Did we get a new brother or a new sister?] Thor asked.
[I honestly have no idea. It’s not hatched yet.]
Everyone watched the newly occupied mental space as it began to transform. An entire stone city with an ethereal beauty began to form in the space, and the crystal in a bottle was lifted off the ground with a small stone altar.
Moments later, the bottle shattered as the crystal began to melt and then reform itself into a new form.
A butterfly with transparent wings a metre wide, and an impossibly blue body shaped like a crystal.
The creature was curious about where it found itself, and why there were others in spaces like the one it was in, staring at it.
The green one seemed friendly, so the butterfly made it a flower and sent it through the barrier between the spaces.
[Oh, it’s an illusion. A solid illusion. Beautiful, thank you.] Thor thanked the butterfly.
Karl examined the creature’s stats
{Glasswing Illusionary Butterfly}
{Evolved Stage} Newly hatched
{Rank} Overlord
{Innate Talent} Illusionary Domain
{Known Spells} [Invisibility]
[Illusionary Domain] Creates a solid illusion near the caster, or in a separate space no larger than 20 metres in diameter per Rank of the caster. Damage to the illusion destabilizes the effect.
Lotus was staring impatiently at Karl, waiting for an explanation.
"It moved itself to my mental space. Or perhaps I did it subconsciously? Either way, it’s there now. The System says that it’s a Glasswing Illusionary Butterfly." He explained.
Lotus stared at him for a moment. "You... now have a butterfly?"
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