A monstrous creature, one of these days.

As the now brittle edges of the shell receded, they were then consumed by a remarkably small worm, soon after Lorelai fearfully shouted her insight, “Dear, that’s a Frost Worm, a fearsome creature known for their destructive habits. What do you plan to do?” She was inquisitive, fully trusting his decision, despite her immense fear of the creature.

But that told Damon that it’d be a great pet. And also, with Assured Loyalty, it should be quite loyal.

And as he reached his hand towards the Worm, the snake-like creature slithered its way onto his arm. Its size, after eating its shell, had increased significantly, where before it was roughly the size of a large caterpillar, it was now the size of an adult Anaconda, though still was struggling to traverse his body.

As its slithering continued, Damon brought it to his right hand, and began to think about the future.

And after a moment of contemplation, Damon grinned, casting Bestow Greater Blessing upon the Frost Worm.

He chose to bless the Worm with Limitless Levitation and Expeditious Improvement, costing a grand total of ninety million mana.

And with that expenditure, and his intentions, the Frost Worm ascended from his hand, taking a few moments to familiarize itself with what was essentially flight to the usually grounded creature. It was similar to Dirpe’s flight, where she didn’t need to actually flap her wings.

And with the second, the Worm began to grow, in every attribute he’d affected with the spell, which was most of them, including its size.

And so, the around ten foot Frost Worm began to expand, reaching twenty feet, and being large enough to have eaten Lorelai in a single bite, even less, realistically.

Though compared to Damon, it was still the size of a moderately sized snake, though now it was flying around him affectionately, completing many circles around his form, like a little moon revolving around him.

It was quite cute, despite what the creature would be capable of in the not too distant future, luckily it would be on his side, Damon grinned.

As he began to laugh, he teleported to his throne room, bringing Lorelai and his new pet with him.

As Damon sat upon his throne, he found a familiar duo sleeping on its arms, but his sudden plomping upon his cushion roused them from their slumber, where their gazes met the unfamiliar woman and worm.

As the pair jumped on Damon, they were quick to ask him questions about his journey, but they were quick to correctly assume Lorelai’s situation, “So this is your new wife, dear?” Ember was asking, though she was already confident of the fact.

When it was confirmed, they resumed their inquisition, and after around ten minutes of conversation between them, the topic eventually came to the Frost Worm floating arcs around Damon, which in the time spent answering questions, had grown to thirty feet long.

“He’s my new pet, a friend for Elgy or for Terranis, when he gets big enough, but for now he’s just a lil guy.” Damon spoke casually, though the monstrous growth was noticed. And welcomed greatly.

Though Damon realized that the Worm must be quite hungry from it, so with Omnikinesis, he took many sections of various monster corpses he’d obtained, from his inventory, and floating it before the Worm’s toothy maw, and with quick success, the corpse were rendered to bones in a matter of seconds.

So Damon continued, pulling slightly from the conversation as his wives continued, giving more and more sustenance to the starving Frost Worm.

And after an exciting ten minutes, the Worm had grown forty more feet, reaching an absurd seventy feet within the first day of its life, largely due to his spells intervention, but still in part to the genetics of its menacing progenitor.

As the Worm increased in size, Damon subsequently followed, bringing his form to an immense two hundred feet tall, finally fitting the grand throne beneath him, fully.

Damon had the Worm land on his hand, and looking upon the frosty scales covering the form of the Worm, he spoke, “I, Damon Steel, christen thee Glacius, the Frostmaw Leviathan. The newest addition to my family.” As soon as Damon finished speaking, Glacius began affectionately nuzzling into him, quite happy for a newborn Wormling.

Damon then remembered the Belts, bringing one out, and fixing it to Glacius.

And to even Damon’s surprise, he grew to an absurd degree, the Belt growing to fit him.

Glacius, his newest pet, was now his second largest, as his over three hundred feet long form began wriggling around the grand chamber.

As Damon was quite happy with its growth, he paused the growth function of Expeditious Improvement, fully focusing the Blessing on increasing strength, alone. As Glacius was still, Damon began scritching what would be his scalp.