Butterfly In Distress

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.