Inside the stone tower, Grim was silently studying a black orb.

It was a strange item left behind with Mary's 'letters', and after studying it for a long time, Grim could not decipher what it was.

"Drop, Deep Scan has ended, stats report is being generated......"

Moments later, a stream of data flooded into Grim's mind, where a scanned image of the structure of a black sphere appeared. And looking at the familiar biological structure analysis diagram on the projection, Grim couldn't help but lose his voice and said: "Mother carrion!"

Yes, the black ball in front of me is not an object, but a living thing, a strange creature that once impressed Grim - the mother carrion!

The original talent of the evil insect Ntik was very ordinary, and with such an innate attribute, there was almost no possibility of advancing to a wizard. However, he was lucky enough to successfully fuse a carrion mother during his apprenticeship. And it was this unexpected gain that allowed him to break through the limitations of his talents, so as to successfully cross the threshold of wizards.

Seriously speaking, even in the ranks of official wizards, Ntik is at the top of the list.

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, and it is impossible to break through the dense swarm and behead him directly.

The combination of carrion swarms and undead insect bodies is really inexplicable at some point!

But now, the carrion insect mother fused by Entik has fallen into his own hands, so the fate of the evil insect can be imagined. In the knightly plane, without her own support, Mary actually killed the evil insect Ntik alone, and the hardships and dangers involved Grim felt afraid just thinking about it.

However, since Mary kept this worm mother, it was obvious that she was implying that Grim could dispose of it at will.

However, just as Grim stared at the black ball, and the killing intent in his heart was permeated, the black ball suddenly trembled and slowly cracked.

It wasn't a black ball in the first place, but a sphere formed by a mother worm curling up into a ball. The exposed black hard shell is nothing more than the hard carapace behind the worm mother!

Maybe it was aware of Grim's killing intentions against it, or maybe it was because she knew that she couldn't continue to hide it, so the mutant mother automatically stretched out her body and turned herself into a black beetle again.

It is a strange creature with a dark black carapace, and above the head of the insect is a pair of large colored eyes, and around the pupils, there are many small compound eyes densely surrounded. At the tip of the head is a lotus petal-shaped mouthpart, and a pair of strange blade-shaped jaws are clearly visible.

The back of the beetle is a deep black carapace that shines with a crystal luster, and in the perspective inspection of the chip, its hardness is no weaker than that of the magic iron alloy. With this kind of hardness, even if a berserk swordsman slashed with all his might, it would probably be difficult to damage it in the slightest. Only the ramming of those heavy weapons might have been able to injure the soft internal organs inside the carapace by a strong concussion, if it had any.

Although the sides of the beetle's body are densely packed with sickle-shaped arthropods, with its fist-sized size, it may be difficult to protect itself with them.

While Grim was silently looking at this strange worm mother, the mutant worm mother also raised her insect head and let out a sharp beep at Grim.

"Drop, the psychic power of the xenomorph creature has been detected...... Please indicate whether the connection will begin?"

"Plug it in!"

In the next second, Grim's mind was occupied by a large number of noisy strange insect hisses.

The tone of the worm's hiss couldn't help but change, adjust, and finally, a clear stream of consciousness gently touched Grim's mental consciousness, and simultaneously transmitted a set of mental maps that were difficult to understand.

"Protection...... Indenture...... Survival ......"

Mother worms are not humans, so the way they think and speak is very different from humans. However, through some special words, the two sides can barely communicate a thing or two.

"You want to use the exchange contract to seek my protection?" Grim could only guess what the other party was trying to say based on the individual words that the chip 'translated'.

This time, the insect mother nodded frequently.

"It's a pity that I care a lot about my human bloodline, and I won't try to fuse some strange bloodlines from outside......" Grimm felt a sense of disgust in his heart at the thought of the appearance of the evil insect Ntik itself.

As if frightened by Grim's uncaring mentality, the ugly lotus petal-like mouthparts of the mother worm squirmed faster, and the squeaking and piercing hiss was simply a noise. Although the worm mother hissed a lot like a storm, Grim only understood the words 'powerful' and 'obedient' through the chip.

"I'll only take in slaves who are useful to me, ...... like you," Grim tapped his hand on the table, his face full of disdain.

The rotting corpse beetle mature body is also a social wizard-level monster, the armor is thick and super durable, and more importantly, it can fly, and it is also a good wizard slave to transform. However, their biggest drawback is their slow flight speed and extreme lack of mid- to long-range skills.

This makes them empty in large numbers, but it is easy to have an embarrassing situation where the opponent can't kill them, and they can't catch up with the enemy.

Mother worm began to hiss even more frantically, looking eager to sell herself.

Grim listened for a moment, closed his eyes and thought for a moment, and then spoke.

"I don't like the inferior undead body of Ntik, so I won't consider merging with you. But I can give you a few references, and if you can merge with one of my men, then I can continue to keep you alive. Otherwise, I must erase the last trace of Entik in this world......"

The mother squeaked and hissed for a long time, and finally bowed her head helplessly.

"Since you agreed, then let go of the psychic protection and let me leave you a soul contract......" Grim immediately struck while the iron was hot, striving to get this 'potential stock' in the shortest possible time.

Although the insect mother is also a kind of intelligent monster, in this case, she can only let the mermaid meat, prostrate on the table, and slowly let go of the spiritual protection.

Under the control of the chip, Grim's spiritual power pierced into the core of the worm mother's consciousness like a red-hot spike, where it left its own soul brand.

In this way, this worm mother can also be regarded as Grim's witchcraft slave. Even if it becomes one with any person or living being, this soul imprint will always exist and become a necessary means of controlling its life and death.

And 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 Grim's mind.

The Mother Worm, a fusion mutant monster, does not have the ability to attack, but can give the host a special ability to hatch war insects. The characteristics of the hatched beetle are determined by the host talent, but the base form is still the beetle type......

Physical basic data: Strength < 1 agility < 1 Constitution 3 Spirit 2 ......

Number of Hatched War Bugs: Determined by spirit, the number of war bugs that can be controlled per point of spirit is 20, and the current upper limit of control is 40.

Hatching war insect speed: Under sufficient flesh and blood nourishment, 5 eggs are hatched every day, and the adult growth time is 12 days.

Grim slowly analyzed the characteristics of the insect mother, silently estimating its basic combat power.

The mother worm has no combat ability of its own, and can only rely on hatched war insects to protect itself. With its hatching rate, as long as it is fed enough flesh (the stronger the creature, the better), after 12 days, Grim will be able to obtain 5 wizard-level special beetles per day, and then use them as some kind of consumable to continuously throw into the battlefield.

So in some ways, if you make good use of this worm mother, you can see it as a mobile biological beetle nest, which can provide a steady stream of junior soldiers for the Grim camp.

However, the mother worm alone can't do this, and it needs to be fused with a person or creature to have that magical ability. Therefore, after receiving the worm mother, how to choose the right host for it has become a key.

After Grim's test, although the mother worm was greatly damaged by the death of Ntik, she still retained the basic ability of the wizard's primary. This also means that any wizard apprentice who fuses with it, as long as they are properly cultivated, will become a new 'evil worm' in a very short period of time!

And because of the existence of the imprint in the soul of the mother worm, Grim still has a considerable degree of control over the new 'evil worm'.

As a result, Grim let go of the Stone Tower's permissions, allowing the Mother of Worms to covertly access all the wizard apprentices in the Stone Tower, and screened out a list of individuals who could merge with them.

To be honest, before seeing the list, Grim thought that all the apprentices would be on the list, but when the list selected by the worm mother was released, even he was a little surprised.

That's too little!

You must know that in the stone tower at this moment, there are also more than 20 wizard apprentices, large and small, including quasi-wizard apprentices such as Sabrina and Morse. But there are only 3 names in the list selected by the worm mother, none of the quasi-witches, and the 4 apprentices of Grim are also on the list.

Of the three names, Grim is the only one he knows.

Bilis!

Junior Apprentice Billis!

This result made Grim puzzled, and he only learned a thing or two after communicating with the worm mother.

It turns out that the worm mother's choice of parasitic body is not entirely based on the strength of the other party, but more on the talent of the other party.

Mother Worm is a natural dark monster, so she is especially favored by creatures that have similar talents to herself. And although Biliss is the weakest, on the contrary, he is extremely compatible with the worm mother in terms of talent attributes.

In some ways, his soul fit with the worm mother is even far greater than that of the former evil worm Ntik!

Bilisi......

Grim repeated the name, narrowing his eyes.

It's worth trying!