"Little guy, you hid it well enough! I didn't even notice a trace of activity before, and you have matured and broken out of your shell without knowing it."
After completing the final steps of soul fusion, Hero wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and walked under the moonlight.
The movement just now really scared him. If there was an accident, his soul would be swallowed up by the octopus instinctively.
And where his apprentice robe was open, there was a complex mark under the exposed collarbone.
Multiple black tentacles linger around a shrinking galaxy.
That appearance is simply a replica of the octopus's soul.
But at this moment, it was too tired due to the soul fusion, so it was curled up and sleeping in Holo's soul.
In fact, there is a reason why Holo is so anxious to integrate it into his soul.
The cultivation of soul beasts usually starts with soul fusion with the magician. The smaller it is, the stronger the plasticity. In the subsequent growth process, the ability direction that is focused on can be grown according to the magician's plan.
The natural growth before this, on the one hand, has a long growth cycle, just like in the egg stage, it takes a long time to mature naturally by itself.
On the other hand, there is no way to form a good tacit understanding with the magician.
Only when we grow together can we understand our thoughts.
Instead of becoming a puppet forced to be controlled by a magician.
Another thing that Holo was worried about was that the octopus cubs grew faster than he expected after being cultivated in black water.
This forced him to hurry.
Black water can cultivate it to be more excellent and increase its activity so that it can be transformed into powerful soul power in the future.
It is impossible to shelve this kind of cultivation method for Hero, which will delay its growth.
Under this situation, if the souls were not fused as soon as possible, Hero could not guarantee that in a while, he would still be able to suppress the octopus with the strength of his soul.
When he was just born, he was evenly matched with Hero, pulling and pulling.
It would be better if it were stronger.
Even if he has plug-ins, they can't match the speed of its growth.
But the little queen ant in front of me...
Holo squatted in front of the iron ant. Anyone with a discerning eye could tell at a glance that this iron ant was the queen. She was different from the big-headed iron ants in the burrow before.
She is much thinner than the big-headed soldier ant, with slender forelimbs and a beautiful head. The biggest difference is in the abdomen.
The abdomen is large, far exceeding the proportion of the body.
Compared with the quill-like body of the front body, the abdomen at the back is a whole fist.
The color of her whole body tends to be metallic white with a hint of grayish blue, making her very elegant.
The compound eyes as beautiful as rubies do not give people a bloody and terrifying feeling, but a simple, clean, yet indifferent emotion.
Looking at these eyes, Hero didn't think that this was something a newborn soul beast could possess, as it was different from the eyes of an octopus cub.
Although they were all clean, he felt like an old man who had seen the harshness of the world.
Too indifferent.
Including her behavior just after breaking out of her shell, she was neither noisy nor fussy, and was so well-behaved that it made people feel distressed.
When Hero looked at the place where the eggshell was originally placed, she had already eaten the eggshell. This behavior was the same as that of the octopus, except that she had no other food.
I can only crawl under the moonlight and wait quietly.
After seeing Hero finish his work and approach, she turned her head and knelt in front of her.
"The activity is good, but it doesn't show anything. Is it because of the iron ant's nature? It really knows how to hide itself."
Hero took out a piece of leftover material left over from making a grenade from the [Flea Skin Pouch].
In the wild, the food of iron ants is mostly iron-rich soil or ores, so the group also settles down around the mines.
The scraps in Helo's hands are a kind of metal material produced by soul beasts. Compared with natural ores, they are more nutritious for iron ants.
Taking the little ant queen into his hand and comforting her to eat the scraps, Hero began to think.
The soul of a magician can only be fused with one soul beast. This is a truth summarized by the destruction of countless magicians' souls.
nobody!
Even the Grand Duke who transcends rules cannot overcome this truth.
Not to mention anything else, soul beasts often have a strong sense of territory. Even if it is the soul of a fusion magician, when he takes possession of it first, he will not allow a second soul beast to come in.
No matter how good the relationship with the magician is, he will fight to the death, and in the end it is the magician himself whose soul is damaged.
Under this premise, no one can fuse the second soul beast.
Hero also felt that he had no choice.
So the queen ant in front of me is in some trouble.
I originally selected this queen ant egg so that I could collect it myself and sell it for a big price.
But feel the soul of the little ant queen in your hands...
"Even if I touch the soul, won't you feel any resistance? With this feeling of longing, do you know that you bear the fate of the rise of the ethnic group?"
Hero was shocked.
Regardless of the strength or weakness of the soul beast group itself, or the differences between individuals.
There is no soul beast that he knows that does not resist resistance.
This is so strange, I remember the emotion I felt in its eyes before.
Is it possible that this little queen ant became conscious at that time?
In retrospect, the abdomen of the queen ant in the burrow swelled to the point where it nearly filled half of the burrow. It definitely could not have occurred in a few days.
Is it possible that when the ant queen was targeted by the magician, she planted hope for the continuation of the group?
"Squeak, squeak, squeak!"
Soon, the little scrap was eaten up by the little queen ant gracefully.
When he looked up at Hero, he let out a heart-wrenching cry.
It seemed to be responding to Holo's question.
A plan came to mind.
He cannot soul-fuse with the little ant queen, but he can try to control her by other means.
In the tower, there are many soul beast groups, which are raised as material supplies and are in a semi-free state. Each soul beast group has different control methods, and there is a hard requirement. The soul beasts themselves are not too resistant and
The strength of the ethnic soul is not high.
This requirement happens to be at the stage where one can semi-control the spirit beast.
It was this method that Holo wanted to try.
It happens to be present in chaotic systems.
"I can help you fulfill your wish, your mother's wish to revive the tribe, but you have to surrender to me."
Iron ants are good at building nests and processing metals, and once they reach a large scale, their mopping ability is not weak. A slightly weaker group of spirit beasts will also be able to temporarily avoid the sharp attack.
This is exactly the advantage he values, as for the resources to raise and cultivate an entire ethnic group.
He is not worried. The queen ant can automatically adjust the size of the colony according to different resources.
Besides, even if he can't afford it, he can still be thrown to Youphiel, which means he has found a playmate for her and can be used as a helper in expanding the swamp.
Anyway, raising a group of tree spirits is also raising a group of iron ants.
After he has his own territory, it would be good to transfer these iron ants there and use them as infrastructure workers.
The most important thing is that the [Tesla grenade] assembly line he wanted to create before has some features.
They just form the most critical link.
"are you willing?"
Holo asked softly. The soul-raising beast was more interested in their wishes. If they were not willing...he would not be willing to spend resources on her.
"Squeak!"
Affirmation from the soul.
The humble soul knows her current predicament.
Alone, with no food, no environment, and the only one he can trust is the human in front of him.
In order to revive the tribe and fulfill the long-cherished wish of the previous ant queen.
She opened her mind.
Holo tapped her head with his hand.
As the twisted characteristics poured into her soul, a black light appeared in her ruby-like compound eyes.
A twisted vortex-like pattern also appeared on the abdomen.