1:493 Fierce Battle at the Pole of Heaven (10)

Al froze. It's true that not [everything] was blown up. Some remained: him, Bediwell, Merlin and Hall, as well as more than a hundred White Bear people in the underground "captivity" room.

Merlin used a powerful shield magic to protect them from the explosion, and the basement was unharmed.

"Black, darkness," Elaine the White Bear man shuddered, "I can still feel the darkness." It rings in my head. "How do you feel meow?" Albert asked, holding his heart and whispering.

"Real, experimental. It hurts. It poured darkness into my stomach. Everyone died, and I survived. Elaine trembled more and more, sobbing under her breath as she spoke.

It seems to be very unhaode recalled.

Albert saw the white bears in captivity bare, confined in small cells, unable to move freely, except for their heads sticking out of the small holes in the chambers and eating what looked like pigs in the food troughs.

He had seen the white bears being treated like this, and he knew that the foxes would do all kinds of cruel things.

What inhumane things had they done to the white bear boy in front of El?

"Meow," the tiger boy swallowed, "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 at the knight Kador, "The ship transporting the White Bear slaves is still on its way to Pantoraken, maybe it's already there!

Kador looked calm, and a burst of disdain crossed his thin and slightly high cheekbones: "We have already reported the quarantine, and the quarantine will be carried out as soon as the ship arrives in Pantorakan, don't worry." "No, you don't understand it at all!" exclaimed Albert, "the White Bears are terrible monsters! If they go crazy together, you will not be able to mobilize the knights of the whole country!--the quarantine must be carried out at sea, and they must not be allowed to go ashore!" I'll report this to Grand Duke Hall right away. Cador spoke, but sat motionless on the bench.

"Then you're going to report it!?" "The captain is not in the castle now, and I can't go to the battlefield to find him for the time being. Kador shrugged, "And I can't leave you here, can I?" "But!-" "I'll go find Grandpa." Constantine chimed in.

"Constantine, you want to go to the battlefield?" said Kador unhappy at his son's volunteer, "there will be a war with the Hungarians at any time, and it will be dangerous." "Somebody has to tell the story, right?" the boy shrugged as his adoptive father did, "I just want this to settle down as soon as possible." Elaine was trembling every day, even eating and sleeping about it, and she was really annoyed. "Yes, I'm sorry," the white bear man shrank behind the teenager and kept daoqian.

At the same time, the ** division Merlin was in a makeshift research room set up in Rome.

Evan arrives in this strange room with the research samples, which is littered with machinery and chemicals of unknown purpose, not inferior to Merlin's research room in the Tower of the Masters.

Smack, smack, An eerie voice rang out, and Evan followed the sound to find Merlin fiddling with a mechanical arm. The five fingers of the arm moved, and it looked as dexterous as a human hand, and the strange sounds were made by the hydraulic device in the arm.

"Oh, you're here. Merlin put down what he was doing, "Quick, give me the research sample." Ivan pulled a small glass bottle out of his coat pocket.

It was the gelatinous substance that had peeled off the black mucous membrane on the golem's surface during their previous battle with the Black Killer Whale Golem at sea.

Merlin looked at the gray-black viscose, and couldn't help but have horror in his eyes: "Sure enough, someone succeeded in doing it." "Uh, what have you done?" "See for yourself. The master carefully took out the gray-black colloidal from the glass bottle, put it under the microscope and fiddled with it a few times, and motioned for the half-dragon boy to take a look.

Ignorantly, Evan leaned over and put his eyes in front of the microscope to observe.

In the microscope, this gelatinous mass of material has a myriad of filamentous structures, and these coral-like structures are intertwined to form a vast network. The network is also full of all kinds of small tumors, although the creature is completely dead under Tristan's attack, and all those small nodules have ruptured, but it is still creepy to watch, and this creature is really disgusting under the microscope.

"What the hell is this?!" Ivan screamed in surprise, his voice changing slightly.

"Well, ahem, sorry. Ivan's face flushed. The boy was in the period of voice change, and occasionally made such a strange sound like killing chickens, and even he himself felt embarrassed.

"It's [SlimeMold], a special species that sits somewhere between protozoa and fungi. Merlin smiled and replied, "I have a sample here." The ** master took out a glass bottle from the many containers in the research room, and there was a yellow-brown thing in the bottle, which looked like a mess of rotten meat, and it looked extremely disgusting, and it was still moving slowly in the glass bottle.

"It's, it's moving" Ivan looked at the thing, and his heart couldn't help but hairy.

Merlin smiled: "It's a protozoa, of course animals move." "But, moving fungi" "Didn't many ancient myths and epics have viscose monsters like [slimes]? slime molds are probably their original form. It is not excluded that slime molds have mutated under the influence of anomalous photons, but—" Merlin played with the slime molds in his hand as if he were playing with them, "they are mostly honest and peaceful little ones—and they are rare and endangered. The rotten flesh-like mass moved slowly in the hands of the ** master, and Evan almost vomited when he saw it. The half-dragon boy turned his face away and asked in a low voice, "So, what we fought against before was the improved form of this slime mold?" "The slime fungus that was infected by the shadows and turned violently, that's right. Merlin returned the slime mold in his hand to the bottle and sealed it, "It's amazing. I didn't expect the foxes to have this jishu.

Shadows generally only infect lower creatures such as animals, plants, and fungi, and because they don't have much ability to think, they eat very slowly, so they naturally ignore them. Evan suddenly remembered the Pure Land of Elison, which was ravaged by shadows, and the plants and trees there had never been infected.

However, the foxes seem to have modified the slime mold genes and transplanted more animal traits to the slime mold, making the dark son think that it was an animal and infect the improved slime mold as an animal. They really make terrible monsters. "Yes, is it that scary?" As far as Ivan was concerned, the slime was nothing more than a slow-moving mass of carrion, and it shouldn't be much of a threat even if it was fought face-to-face.

"The scary thing about slime molds is not their attack power, but their terrifying ability to reproduce (split). Merlin opened the slime bottle again, "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 mage pulled an apple out of his pocket.

Throw into a glass bottle.

The slime mold quickly completely enveloped the apple and began to "eat" it.

Within a quarter of an hour, the slime mold had eaten up the apple, or rather, [assimilated] it with the apple. It doubled in size with a small child, and the disgusting squirming became more intense.

"It's hard, it's unbelievable!" "This guy can only eat rotten objects and plants at the moment. If it's a slime fungus infected by a dark seed, it probably will be even more ferocious, right?" Merlin's face showed an unconcealed uneasiness, "If you encounter a dark slime fungus as big as a mountain on the battlefield, don't fight it, remember to run away." That thing could swallow an entire army in an instant, and become as huge as the army it devoured-

The foxes seem to have made a kind of dark sub-creatures that multiply quickly simply by [eating]. The rate at which it multiplies is terrifying, and without a higher consciousness, it will not perform [Shadow Burst*]. It is used as a biological weapon, powerful and controllable, and it is indeed a very successful example-" (*Note: The negative emotional outburst of intelligent beings will cause the dark children to multiply in an instant.) Ignoring Merlin's nagging, Evan's face changed dramatically, and he frowned and walked back, "I have to go." This matter must be reported to the army. Once this thing appears on the battlefield, the casualties will be very heavy. "Well, good luck. Merlin agreed coldly, and waved his hand casually as a farewell.

After Ivan left, the dragon golem Bols walked in through the back door of the research room.

"That's an exaggeration, Master Mage. "Just scare them. So that they know to be vigilant. Merlin sneered and took out the slime mold from the bottle.

It was just a magic illusion created by Merlin, and after removing the magic, the "slime fungus" disappeared without a trace.

"How's [that] preparing?" Merlin asked.

"So far, it's going well. It should be possible to launch in time for Jihua's day. Bols replied.

"Good. In this way, it can buy us more time. Merlin smiled indifferently, picked up the repair tool in his hand, and continued his work.