Inside the stone tower, Greem was silently studying a black ball.
This is a strange item left along with Mary's 'letter'. After studying it for a long time, Greem couldn't figure out what it was.
"Drip, the deep scan has ended, and the statistical report is being generated..."
A moment later, a stream of data flooded into Greem's mind, where a scanned image of the black sphere's structure appeared. Looking at the dissection diagram of the familiar biological structure on the projection, Greem couldn't help saying: "Carrion insect mother!"
Yes, the black ball in front of him is not an item, but a living thing, a strange guy who once left a deep impression on Greem—the Carrion Worm Mother!
The evil bug Entik's original talent was very ordinary. With such innate attributes, it is almost impossible to advance to the rank of wizard. But he was lucky, and he successfully merged with a carrion insect mother during his apprenticeship. And it was this unexpected harvest that allowed him to break through the limitation of talent, thus successfully crossing the threshold of a wizard.
Seriously speaking, even among the ranks of formal wizards, Entik is one of the top existences.
As long as he pulls up an army of carrion beetles, even those veteran wizards will run away when they encounter him. After all, not every wizard could pull up a team of thousands of people to fight against him like Mary did, and it was impossible to break through the dense swarm of insects and behead him directly.
The combination of carrion swarm and undead body is really unsolvable at certain times!
But now, the carrion worm mother that Entik fused into fell into his hands, so the fate of the evil worms can be imagined. On the knight plane, without her own support, Mary killed the evil insect Entik independently. Greem felt terrified just thinking about the hardships and dangers involved.
But since Mary kept the worm mother, it was obviously implying that Greem could dispose of it at will.
However, just as Greem was staring at the black ball with killing intent in his heart, the black ball suddenly trembled and slowly split open.
It wasn't a black ball in the first place, but a sphere formed by a worm mother curling her body into a ball. The exposed black hard shell is just the hard carapace behind the insect mother!
Maybe it sensed Greem's murderous intentions towards it, or maybe it knew that it couldn't hide it any longer, so the mutated worm mother stretched her body automatically, turning herself into a black beetle again.
This is a strange creature with a deep black carapace. On the head of the insect is a pair of huge colored pupils, and around the pupils are densely surrounded by many small compound eyes. At the very front of the worm's head is a lotus petal-shaped mouthpart, and a pair of weird blade-shaped jaws are clearly visible.
The back of the beetle is a layer of deep black carapace shining with crystal luster. According to the perspective inspection of the chip, its hardness is not weaker than that of magic iron alloy. This kind of hardness, even if a violent swordsman slashes with all his strength, it may be difficult to damage it. Only the ramming of those heavy weapons may be able to injure the soft internal organs inside the carapace through strong concussion, 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 was silently looking at this strange worm mother, the mutated worm mother also raised her head and let out a sharp insect hiss at Greem.
"Hey, I detected a request for a connection with the spiritual power of a heterogeneous creature... Please tell the subject whether to start the connection?"
"Come on!"
In the next second, Greem's mind was occupied by a large number of noisy strange insects hissing.
Chongsi'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 difficult-to-understand mental reflections.
"Protect... Covenant... Survive..."
The worm mother is not human, so its way of thinking and speaking is very different from that of humans. However, through some special vocabulary, the two sides can barely communicate a thing or two.
"You want to obtain my protection by exchanging contracts?" Greem could only guess what the other party wanted to express based on the individual words 'translated' by the chip.
This time the worm mother was nodding frequently.
"Unfortunately, I am very concerned about my human blood, and I will not try to integrate some strange blood from outside..." Thinking of the appearance of the evil insect Entik's body, Greem felt disgusted from his heart.
As if frightened by Greem's indifferent attitude, the ugly lotus petal-shaped mouthparts of the insect mother squirmed faster, and the creaking and piercing insect hissing was simply a kind of noise. Although the worm mother neighed a lot like a storm, Greem only understood the words 'powerful' and 'obedient' through the chip.
"I will only take in servants who are useful to me here, like you..." Greem tapped the table with his hands, his face full of disdain for the other party's intentions.
The mature carrion beetle is also a gregarious wizard-level monster. Its armor is thick and its skin is super durable. More importantly, it can fly. It is also a good servant of wizards after transformation. But their biggest disadvantage is their slow flying speed and extreme lack of medium and long-range skills.
This makes them have a huge number, but it is easy for the opponent to kill them, and they can't catch up with the enemy's embarrassing situation.
The worm mother began to hiss even more frantically, as if eager to sell herself.
Greem listened for a while, closed his eyes and thought for a while, and then opened his mouth.
"I don't like Entik's inferior undead body, so I won't consider fusing with you. But I can provide you with a few references. If you can fuse with one of my subordinates, Then I can continue to allow you to survive. Otherwise, I must erase the last trace of Entik left in this world... "
The worm mother squeaked and neighed for a long time, and finally bowed her head helplessly.
"Since you agree, let go of the spiritual protection and let me leave you a soul contract..." Greem immediately struck while the iron was hot, striving to get this 'potential stock' in the shortest possible time.
Although the worm mother can be regarded as a kind of intelligent monster, in this case, she can only let the mermaid go, crawling on the table, and slowly let go of the spiritual protection.
Under the control of the chip, Greem's mental power pierced fiercely into the core of the worm mother's consciousness like a red-hot spike, where he branded his own soul.
In this way, the worm mother could be regarded as Greem's witchcraft servant. Even if it merges with any person or creature in the future, this soul imprint will always exist 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 worm mother, and projected the basic data of the worm mother in Greem's mind.
Insect mother, a fusion mutant monster, does not have the ability to attack itself, but it can endow the host with a special ability to hatch war insects. The characteristics of the hatched beetles are determined by the talent of the host, but the basic form is still the beetle type...
Basic physical data: strength
The number of hatching war bugs: determined by the spirit, the number of war bugs that can be controlled by each point of spirit is 20, and the current control limit is 40.
The speed of hatching battle insects: Under the nourishment of sufficient flesh and blood, 5 insect eggs will be hatched every day, and the adult growth time will be 12 days.
Greem slowly analyzed the worm mother's own characteristics, silently estimating its basic combat power.
The insect mother has no fighting ability by itself, and can only rely on the hatched war insects to protect herself. With its hatching speed, as long as it is provided with enough flesh and blood (the flesh and blood of a stronger creature, the better), after 12 days, Greem can obtain 5 wizard-level special beetles every day, and then treat them as some kind of consumables. Continuously put into the battlefield.
So in some respects, if this insect mother is used well, it can be regarded as a mobile biological beetle nest, which can continuously provide the Greem camp with low-level soldiers.
However, the worm mother alone cannot do this, and it needs to be fused with a certain person or creature to have that magical ability. So after subduing the insect mother, how to choose a suitable host for it becomes a key.
After Greem's test, although the worm mother was severely injured by Entik's death, it still retained the basic ability of a wizard. This also means that after any apprentice wizard is fused with him, as long as he is trained properly, he will become a new 'evil bug' in a very short period of time!
And because of the branding in the worm mother's soul, Greem still has a considerable degree of control over the new 'evil worm'.
Therefore, Greem let go of the authority of the stone tower, allowing the worm mother to covertly contact all the wizard apprentices in the stone tower, and screened out a list of individuals who could fuse with them.
To be honest, before seeing the list, Greem thought that all the apprentices would be on the list, but when the list selected by the worm mother came out, even he was a little surprised.
This list is too short!
You must know that there are more than 20 wizard apprentices, large and small, in the stone tower at this moment, including quasi-shaman apprentices like Sabrina and Moss. But there were only 3 short names in the list selected by the worm mother, none of the quasi-witches, and Greem's 4 apprentices were also not on the list.
Among the 3 names, Greem only knew one.
billis!
Junior Apprentice Billis!
Such a result made Greem puzzled, and he only understood a thing or two after communicating with the worm mother.
It turns out that the worm mother's choice of host body is not entirely based on the opponent's strength, but more on the opponent's talent.
The worm mother is born as a dark attribute monster, so she especially favors those creatures with talents similar to her own. Although Billis is the weakest in strength, on the contrary, in terms of talent attributes, he is very compatible with the worm mother.
In some respects, his soul compatibility with the worm mother is even far greater than that of the former evil worm Entik!
billis...
Greem repeated the name repeatedly, and couldn't help but narrow his eyes.
This thing is really worth trying!