Inside the stone tower, Greem was silently studying a black ball.
This was a strange item left behind with Mary's 'letter'. After studying it for a long time, Greem could not figure out what it was.
"Hey, the deep scan has ended and the statistical report is being generated..."
After a moment, a stream of data poured into Greem's mind, where a scanned image of the structure of a black sphere appeared. Looking at the familiar anatomy of the biological structure on the projection, Greem couldn't help but lost his voice and said: "Carrion Insects"
mother!"
Yes, the black ball in front of you is not an object, but a living creature, a strange creature that once left a deep impression on Greem - the Carrion Insect Mother!
Evil Insect Entik's original talents and talents were very average. With such innate attributes, there was almost no possibility of being promoted to a wizard. But he was lucky enough to successfully fuse a Carrion Insect Mother during his apprenticeship. And it was this
The unexpected gain allowed him to break through the limitations of his talent and successfully cross the threshold of a wizard.
Seriously speaking, even among the ranks of official wizards, Entik is among the best.
As long as he is allowed to pull up an army of carrion beetles, even those veteran wizards will flee when they encounter him. After all, not every wizard can pull up a team of thousands of people to fight against him like Mary.
It was impossible to break through the dense swarm of insects and behead him directly.
The combination of carrion insect swarms and undead insect bodies is really unsolvable sometimes!
But now, the carrion insect mother that Entik fused fell into his hands, so the fate of the evil insect can be imagined. In the knight plane, without her own support, Mary actually killed her alone
Greem was afraid of the hardships and dangers involved in fighting the evil insect Entik just thinking about it.
However, since Mary kept this insect mother, it was obviously a hint that Greem could dispose of it as he pleased.
However, just as Greem was staring at the black ball, with murderous intent filling his heart, the black ball suddenly trembled and slowly cracked.
It is not originally a black ball, but a sphere formed by the insect mother curling her body into a ball. The exposed black hard shell is just the hard carapace on the back of the insect mother!
Perhaps it sensed Greem's murderous intention towards it, or perhaps knew that it could no longer hide it, so the mutated insect mother automatically stretched its body and transformed itself into a black beetle again.
This is a strange creature with a deep black carapace. Above the insect head is a pair of huge colorful pupils, and around the pupils are densely packed with numerous small compound eyes. The front end of the insect head is shaped like a lotus petal.
The layered mouthparts and a pair of strange blade-shaped giant jaws are clearly visible.
The back of the beetle is a layer of deep black carapace shining with crystal luster. According to the chip's perspective test, its hardness is no weaker than that of magic iron alloy. With this kind of hardness, even if a violent swordsman chops with all his strength, it will probably be very hard.
It is difficult to damage it at all. Only those heavy weapons may be able to damage the soft internal organs inside the carapace through strong shock, if it has any.
Although there are many sickle-shaped joints densely arranged on both sides of the beetle's body, with its fist-sized body, it may be difficult to rely on them to protect itself.
While Greem silently looked at this strange insect mother, the mutated insect mother also raised its insect head and let out a sharp insect hiss at Greem.
"Hey, a mental connection request from a foreign creature has been detected...please give instructions from the subject whether to start the connection?"
"Put it through!"
The next second, Greem's mind was occupied by a large number of noisy strange insects.
Zhong Xi's tone kept changing and adjusting, and finally, a clear stream of consciousness gently touched Greem's spiritual consciousness, and simultaneously transmitted a set of unclear mental mappings.
"Protection...contract...survival..."
The insect mother is not a human being, so its way of thinking and language are also very different from humans. However, through some special vocabulary, the two parties can barely communicate.
"You want to seek my protection by exchanging contracts?" Greem could only guess what the other party wanted to express based on individual words 'translated' by the chip.
This time the insect mother was nodding her head frequently.
"It's a pity that I care very much about my human bloodline and will not try to fuse some strange foreign bloodline..." When he thought of the appearance of the evil insect Entik, Grim felt a sense of disgust in his heart.
As if frightened by Greem's indifferent attitude, the ugly lotus petal-shaped mouthparts of the insect mother wriggled faster, and the squeaking and harsh insect hiss was simply a kind of noise. Although the insect mother neighed a lot like a storm.
, but Greem only 'understood' the words 'powerful' and 'obedient' through the chip.
"I will only take in slaves who are useful to me, like you..." Greem tapped the table with his hand, looking down on the other person's intentions.
The mature form of the Carrion Beetle is also a gregarious wizard-level monster. It has thick armor and is super durable. More importantly, it can fly. If modified, it can also be a good wizard servant. But their biggest disadvantage is that their flying speed is slow, and
Extremely lacking in mid-range and long-range skills.
This leaves them with a huge number, but it is easy for the enemy to be unable to kill them, and they cannot catch up with the enemy.
The mother insect began to scream even more crazily, looking like she was eager to sell herself.
Greem listened for a while, closed his eyes and thought for a while, and then spoke.
"I don't like Entik's inferior undead insect body, so I won't consider merging with you. However, I can provide you with some references. If you can fuse with one of my subordinates,
Then I can continue to allow you to survive. Otherwise, I will definitely erase the last trace that Entik left in this world..."
The mother insect squeaked and hissed for a long time, and finally bowed her head helplessly.
"Since you agree, let go of your psychic protection and let me leave you a soul contract..." Greem immediately struck while the iron was hot, trying to get this 'potential stock' in the shortest possible time.
Although the insect mother can be regarded as an intelligent monster, in this case, it can only let the mermaid crawl on the table and slowly let go of its psychic protection.
Under the control of the chip, Greem's mental power was like a red-hot thorn that pierced the core of the insect mother's consciousness, leaving its own soul imprint there.
In this way, this insect mother can be regarded as Greem's witchcraft slave. Even if it merges with any person or creature in the future, this soul mark will exist forever and become a necessary means to control its life and death.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, the chip also deeply scanned the spiritual consciousness and soul form of the Insect Mother, and projected the basic data of the Insect Mother in Greem's mind.
The insect mother, a fusion mutant monster, does not have the ability to attack itself, but it can give the host the special ability to hatch war insects. The characteristics of the hatched beetle are determined by the host's talent, but the basic form is still the beetle type...
The number of hatched war bugs: determined by spirit. The number of war bugs that can be controlled by each point of spirit is 20. The current control limit is 40.
Hatching speed of war bugs: With sufficient nourishment of flesh and blood, 5 bug eggs will hatch every day, and the adult bugs will take 12 days to grow.
Greem slowly analyzed the characteristics of the insect mother and silently estimated its basic combat power.
The insect mother itself has no fighting ability and can only rely on the hatched war insects to protect itself. Based on its hatching speed, as long as it is provided with enough flesh and blood (the more powerful the creature's flesh and blood, the better), after 12 days, Greem will be able to
Obtain 5 wizard-level special beetles, and then treat them as some kind of consumables and put them into the battlefield continuously.
So from some aspects, if this insect mother is used well, it can be regarded as a mobile biological beetle nest, which can continuously provide primary combatants to the Grimm camp.
However, the insect mother alone cannot do this. It needs to be fused with someone or a creature to have that magical ability. Therefore, after conquering the insect mother, how to choose a suitable host for it becomes a key.
After Greem's examination, it was found that although the insect mother was seriously injured due to Entik's death, it still retained the basic basic abilities of a wizard. This also means that after any wizard apprentice is fused with it, as long as it is cultivated properly,
They will all become a new 'evil insect' in a very short period of time!
And due to the existence of the brand in the insect mother's soul, Greem still has a considerable degree of control over the new 'evil insects'.
Therefore, Greem released the authority of the stone tower, allowing the Insect Mother to secretly contact all the wizard apprentices in the stone tower, and select a list of individuals who could be integrated with them.
To be honest, before seeing the list, Greem thought that all the apprentices would be on the list, but when the list chosen by the Insect Mother came out, even he was a little surprised.
This list is too short!
You know, there are more than twenty wizard apprentices of all sizes staying in the stone tower at this moment, including quasi-witch apprentices like Sabrina and Moss. However, there are only a short list of 3 selected by the insect mother.
There were no names, not even one of them was a quasi-witch, and none of Greem's four apprentices were on the list.
Among the three names, Greem only recognized one.
Billis!
Junior Apprentice Billis!
This result left Greem puzzled, and he only understood it after communicating with the insect mother.
It turns out that the insect mother's choice of host does not entirely depend on the opponent's strength, but more on the opponent's talent.
The Insect Mother is naturally a dark attribute monster, so it particularly favors those creatures with talents similar to its own. Although Bliss is the weakest, on the contrary, in terms of talent attributes, it is extremely consistent with the Insect Mother.
In some aspects, his soul compatibility with the insect mother is even far greater than that of the former evil insect Entik!
Billis...
Grim muttered the name repeatedly and couldn't help but narrow his eyes.