Epic of Caterpillar

Chapter 2344: Seeing Yerze After So Long

"Please your signature!"

"Oh my goodness its queen Kireina?!"

"I thought she didn\'t step into the city anymore!"

"She\'s so stunning!"

The people of my realm were quite the noisy bunch, all kinds of people swarmed me, asking for my attention. A wink, a smile, a photo, a signature, they were very cocky, huh? I am star- eating entity yet they\'re very relaxed despite that!

...Well, to be honest, that\'s fine to me. I like my people to be free and cool, if they are just always afraid of me that wouldn\'t sit well with me.

"Anyways, even if I like my people that doesn\'t mean you have to get all close, give me some space, okay? I am your queen, so step out. Enough with this."

"A-Ah, yes..."

"Sorry!"

"Maybe we got a bit carried away?"

The people quickly stepped away as I entered the hospital, finding an enormous and expansive interior with many rooms and gardens where all sorts of divine medicinal herbs and treasures were grown.

Thousands of nurses and doctors moved from one place to another, attending all kinds of people, healing, treating them, and more. I saw a couple of adventurers with missing limbs, someone carrying a person with their soul shattered, and more.

Well, glad I made this place now that I think about it...

The Labyrinth Continent is a very treacherous and dangerous place, so people constantly risk their lives over there, but well at the very least they can come here and heal completely for no fee at all!

Yeah, although most other things cost money here, healing and stuff has no price, its totally free and maintained by the state (me).

"Aaah! You\'re here, Kireina-sama! It is an honor to meet you again!"

Suddenly, a cute lizardman girl with gold and purple scales greeted me, her draconic wings, and her faint, suppressed divine aura of thunder quickly told me who she was.

"Yerze Hazass, right? The Priestess of Goghesdum former church!" I said. "Been a while since I last saw you. So you\'re working here, huh? Fits your magic."

She was one of the many lizardmen people that lived in Nyzzet\'s dungeon before we conquered and absorbed it, she obeyed Goghesdum and was part of her church or whatever it

was.

Goghesdum was the reincarnation of an adventurer magician that became a dragon monster and evolved over time into a powerful Divine Dragon within Nyzzet\'s dungeon, raising her adoptive dragon daughters, Odanth, Yvnei, and Nannet, who had recently become Luminous

mates.

I don\'t know if Goghesdum was included or not... But I think she was? Despite having been a man in her previous life, I think she still mated with Luminous.

Heh, I suppose she couldn\'t fight off her instincts, huh?

"Y-yeah! It doesn\'t mean that I disliked working in your castle, it was such an honor to be your maid! H-However, well... I like helping people," she said. "After my tribe was assimilated by your kingdom and everyone had been living so peacefully for years, they no longer needed my help, so I dedicated myself to work in here to heal people in need! There are thousands of people constantly coming here every day, so its busy and the pay is very good too!"

"Well, I\'m glad for you then," I gave her a head pat, her long purple hair waved a bit. "How is Goghesdum lately? And her kids?"

"Oh! Right, they\'ve been busy with their new mate. Even Goghesdum-sama said she had gotten pregnant... they have already laid eggs!" Yerze celebrated.

"Woah, that fast?!" I gasped. "Huh, that Luminous bastard, acting like he\'s a monk, and when he\'s finally surrounded by cute dragon girls, he just ended getting them pregnant so quickly! Hahaha!"

"Luminous seems that he\'ll be a good father, so I am looking forward to the babies!" Yerze smiled. "A-Ah! Right, we\'re going too off-topic now! Right! Please come with me, the chimeras and the wolves have been recovering quite fine. Flora-sama didn\'t need any recovery, she was fine right away, even though we ran some checks to see if there was any miasma left in her body or something."

"And did you find something bad inside of her?" I wondered.

"Well, usually miasma inside a body doesn\'t completely mean it\'s a bad thing, most of us can absorb miasma and it is not hurtful to us," Yerze explained. "However, it was as if Flora- sama had absorbed the powers she gained from her corrupted state."

"Oho, I see... So she\'s no longer just about Life, huh?" I wondered.

"She said she awakened another, completely opposite power," Yerze said. "A-Apparently, she also just ascended into a World Devourer Realm on her own too!"

"Ah right, just like Lucifer and Aura then, I guess Supreme Gods that have so much power only need to have their limiters broken to ascend... that transformation must have imbued a lot of corrupted cosmic power inside of her so that did the trick," I nodded. "Maybe she absorbed a realm or two in the past as well, I think that\'s what it for Aura and Lucifer did even when they didn\'t absorbed anything right now, it could have been before."

"R-Right! Anyways, so Flora-sama left a few minutes ago, unfortunately, but she seemed fine, if not a bit... Well, how do I say this? Perhaps a bit strange," said Yerze.

"Strange?" I wondered.

"She seemed very thoughtful and was considering many things," said Yerze. "She said she went to talk with Aura and Lucifer... if you want to talk with her, I would really be grateful! As a doctor here, I always worry about my patients, even if they\'re mighty supreme gods..." "Huh... Okay, got it, I\'ll go check other later then," I nodded. "What about the chimeras and the wolves?"

"Right! About them, the chimeras are now resting and sleeping, they were very exhausted. Thanks to your help their souls were healed too, so what we had to do is maintain the healing through magic and other techniques. And now they have fully stabilized. Fusing their powers into a corrupted beast was very draining, but as we ran some checks on them, we\'ve noticed leftover powers within them, especially Spiritual and of Outer categories, things we couldn\'t extract ourselves yet, our medicine technology hasn\'t advanced to this level..." Yerze

explained.

"Understood, let me check on them," I said. "Let\'s teleport."

"A-Alright!"

FLASH!