Al was stunned. Indeed, not [everything] was blown away. Some things were still left: him, Bedivere, Merlin and Hall, as well as more than a hundred people in the underground "captive" room.
White Bear Man.
Merlin used powerful shield magic to protect them from the explosion, and the basement was safe.
"Dark, dark..." White Bear Elaine trembled, "The darkness is still there... I can feel it. It is echoing in my mind."
"How did you feel it?" Albert asked in a low voice, suppressing his mood.
"Really, experiment. It hurts so much. You just forced the darkness into my stomach. Everyone died, but I survived." Elaine was trembling more and more, sobbing softly as she spoke.
It seems like a very bad memory.
Albert saw with his own eyes that the white bears in captivity were naked and imprisoned in a small single room. Their bodies could not move freely. Only their heads protruded from the small holes in the single room and ate pig food from the food trough.
thing.
He had seen the white bears being treated like this, and he knew that the foxes were capable of any cruel thing.
What inhumane things did they do to the white bear boy in front of El? Only Elaine knows all this.
"That meow..." the tiger boy gulped, "Are all the white bears infected by [darkness]? Or is there more [darkness] hidden in the basement?"
Elaine shook her head, noncommittal.
"Damn it!" Albert almost jumped up from the ground and shouted to Knight Kador: "The ship transporting the White Bear slaves is still on its way to Pantorakon... maybe it has arrived!
You need to send people for quarantine!"
If there are dark sub-infected people among those white bears, these time bombs that can explode at any time will cause huge harm as soon as the ship reaches Pantorakon!
Kador, on the other hand, had a calm look on his face. A look of disdain flashed across his thin face with slightly high cheekbones: "We have already reported the quarantine matter, and the ship will be quarantined as soon as it arrives in Pantolaken. Don't worry."
"No, you don't understand at all!" Albert exclaimed, "The White Bears are very scary monsters! If they go crazy together, you can't stop them even if you mobilize the entire country's knights! ------Quarantine
If this is to be done at sea, they must not be allowed to land!"
"I know. I will report this matter to Grand Duke Hall immediately." Cador said, but he sat motionless on the bench.
"Then you go and report it quickly!?"
"The leader is not in the castle now, so I can't go to the battlefield to find him for the time being." Kador shrugged, "Besides, I can't leave you here, right?"
"but!---"
"I'm going to find Grandpa." Constantine interjected.
"Constantine, are you going to the battlefield?" Cador expressed dissatisfaction with his son's volunteering, "There will be a war with the Hungarians at any time, and it is very dangerous."
"Someone has to report this matter, right?" The young man shrugged like his adoptive father, "I just want this matter to settle as soon as possible. Elaine is trembling every day, thinking about this matter even when eating and sleeping.
It’s really annoying.”
"Yes, I'm sorry..." The white bear man huddled behind the boy and kept apologizing.
At the same time, the physicist Merlin was in a temporary research laboratory set up in Rome.
Ivan brought the research samples to this weird room, which was filled with machines and chemicals of unknown purpose. It was no less impressive than Merlin's research room in the Master's Tower.
Snap, hiss, hiss, hiss. There was a weird sound. Ivan followed the sound and found that Merlin was playing with a mechanical arm. The five fingers of the arm were moving, and they looked as dexterous as human hands.
The strange noise was caused by the hydraulic device in the arm.
"Oh, you're here." Merlin put down what he was doing, "Quickly, give me the research sample."
Ivan took out a small glass bottle from his pocket.
That thing was the gelatinous substance that peeled off from the black mucous membrane on the surface of the black killer whale golem when they faced off at sea.
Merlin looked at the gray-black glue with horror in his eyes: "Sure enough, someone has successfully done it."
"Uh, what did you do?"
"See for yourself." Master ** carefully took out the gray-black colloid from the glass bottle, put it under the microscope and played with it a few times, and motioned to the half-dragon boy to take a look.
Ivan leaned over doubtfully and put his eyes in front of the microscope to observe.
Under the microscope, this gelatinous substance has countless filamentous structures. These coral-like structures are interconnected to form a huge network. The network is also covered with various small tumors, although under Tristan's attack this
The creature was completely dead, and all the small tumors had burst, but it was still terrifying to look at. This creature was really disgusting under the microscope.
"What the hell is this?!" Ivan screamed in surprise, his voice slightly changed.
"Well, cough...sorry." Ivan's face couldn't help but turn red. The boy was in the period of changing his voice, and would occasionally make such strange noises like killing chickens. Even he himself felt embarrassed.
"This is slime mold, a special species between protozoa and fungi." Merlin replied with a smile, "I have a sample here."
The chemist took out a glass bottle from the many containers in the research room. There was a yellow-brown thing in the bottle. The thing was like a ball of rotten meat. It looked extremely disgusting and was still moving at a slow speed in the glass bottle.
"It, it's moving..." Ivan looked at the thing and couldn't help but feel scared.
Merlin smiled: "It is a protozoa, of course animals can move."
"But, fungi that move..."
"Aren't there slime-like monsters like [slime] in many ancient myths and epics? Slime mold is probably their original form. It is not ruled out that there are slime molds that mutate under the influence of abnormal photons, but——
--＂
Merlin poured the slime mold out of the glass bottle and played with it in his hand, as if he were playing with a pet, "Most of them are honest and peaceful little guys------and they are very rare and on the verge of extinction."
"
The lump of rotten flesh-like substance moved slowly on the doctor's hand, which made Ivan almost vomit. The half-dragon boy turned away and asked in a low voice: "So, it was this kind of slime mold we fought against before.
An improved form?"
"It's a slime mold that became violent after being infected by the dark child, that's right." Merlin put the slime mold on his hand back into the bottle and sealed it.
"It's really surprising. I didn't expect the fox people to have this technology.
[Anzi] generally only infects lower organisms such as animals, plants and fungi. Since they do not have much thinking ability and eat very slowly, Anzi will naturally ignore them."
Ivan suddenly remembered the Elison Pure Land that was ravaged by dark particles, and the vegetation there had never been infected.
"However, the foxes seemed to have modified the genes of the slime mold and transplanted more animal characteristics into the slime mold, making Anzi think it was an animal and infecting the modified slime mold as an animal. They really made
A very scary monster."
"Yes, is it so scary?" From Ivan's point of view, this slime mold is just a slow-moving mass of carrion, and it shouldn't be much of a threat even in a face-to-face fight.
"The scary thing about slime mold is not its attack power...but its terrifying ability to reproduce (divide)."
Merlin opened the bottle of slime mold again, "If you give it something to eat------"
The Master casually picked up a bag on the table. It seemed to be a pocket connected to the subspace, and the Master took out an apple from his pocket.
Throw it into a glass bottle.
The slime mold quickly completely wrapped the apple and began to "eat" the apple.
In less than a quarter of an hour, the slime mold had eaten up the apple, or in other words, [assimilated] with the apple. Its size had doubled in size, and its disgusting squirming became more intense.
"It's hard to believe!"
"This guy can only eat rotten objects and plants at the moment. If it were a slime mold infected by Anzi, it would probably be even more ferocious, right?" Merlin's face showed uneasiness, "If you were on the battlefield,
When encountering a dark slime mold as big as a mountain, don't fight it, remember to run away. That thing can swallow up an entire army in an instant, and become as huge as the army it swallowed.
------The foxes seem to have created a dark creature that proliferates simply by [eating]. Its proliferating speed is terrifying, and without advanced consciousness, it cannot perform [Dark Burst*].
It is used as a biological and chemical weapon. It is powerful and controllable. It is indeed a very successful example -------
"
(*Note: The outburst of negative emotions from intelligent creatures will cause the number of dark particles to multiply instantly.)
Ignoring Merlin's nagging, Ivan's face changed drastically, and he frowned and walked back, "...I have to go. I have to report this matter to the army. Once this thing appears on the battlefield, there will be no casualties."
It will be very disastrous."
"Well, good luck." Merlin agreed coldly and waved his hand casually as a farewell.
After Ivan left, the dragon-man demon Bors walked in from the back door of the laboratory.
"That's a bit exaggerated, Master Mage."
"Just scare them. Then they will know to be wary." Merlin sneered and took out the slime mold from the bottle.
That thing was just an illusion created by Merlin's magic. After the magic was lifted, the "slime mold" disappeared without a trace.
"How's [that] preparation going?" Merlin asked.
"It's going pretty well so far. We should be able to launch it on the planned date," Boles replied.
"Very good. This way, we can buy more time." Merlin smiled lightly, picked up the repair tools in his hand, and continued the work at hand.