Chapter 43: The Milos Beetle
After listening to Keisha's 1510 report on the "good deeds" she had done today, Kane suddenly burst out laughing.
Girl, you're thinking too much about making a prophecy of doom, aren't you?
In his opinion, everything Keisha does is an everyday accident. What's the use of not causing panic and forgetting about it in the blink of an eye?
If Kane is replaced, then he will directly and violently demolish and relocate, knock down a few houses without people, and then leave some terrible marks with a warning meaning, which makes people suspicious.
Although Keisha didn't make any progress in the main quest, she didn't accomplish anything, at least she completed the side quest and brought Milos back.
Even though the bugs were already in front of him, Kane still felt a pang of wonder - such a big goal could be brought back? Won't it be discovered?
In any case, he could not refuse this kindness.
Milos had been nailed through his head with a bone spike and hung motionless from the rock wall.
Even if it is dead, it can still be seen from its hideous appearance.
The jaws of the Milos beetle are so large that they can directly clip a person's neck, and the two combined claws can catch a person into the sky with their claw and pliers, and the hard carapace cannot even be pierced by a bow and arrow...... Fire is commonly used to drive them away, but this method does not always work.
The hordes of Milos were the most fearsome predators in the desert and one of the last disasters that caravans would ever encounter.
If Keisha was just an ordinary twelve-year-old girl, she might have been taken away.
"It's big, black, and hard, and only the dragon turtle will feed on this bug." Kane muttered, pressed his palm against the giant beetle's sleek back, and began to devour.
In his opinion, Milos is strong, but even when he fights the weakest ethereals, he has no chance of winning - the best predators will be reduced to food in front of the Void.
In the process of devouring, he glanced at his own threaded bone spurs, which were sometimes troublesome not to slash.
For example, the time he broke off the head of the stitched troll, but the slightest cutting effect of the bone spurs would not make him so hard - burrow into his mouth and devour and separate the part that connected the skull, and then tear it off with strange force.
But even so, Kane doesn't think there is anything unreasonable about bone spurs.
In this confined underground, the sword may not be wielded, or it may be overturned by chopping a hard exoskeleton. On the contrary, the short, sharp bone spurs are very useful, and can pierce the hearts of void creatures more easily.
Devouring Milos, Kane doesn't want two jaws, no big hoots, just those pair of elytra.
His back suddenly arched, and the dark condensation armor split from the midline, and the armor bounced up to reveal a pair of membranous triangular wings, the translucent wings were covered with criss-crossing wing veins, and the roots were pulled by the well-developed muscles of the skin armor.
The sudden spread of wings and the elytra raised high set off air currents, making Kane suddenly much larger, and the fierce god was like a disaster star.
Keisha was taken aback, and immediately sincerely rejoiced for Kane, after all, she also had part of her credit for this.
"How about a quick try? No, I'll go catch you a few more desert locusts. She said excitedly, expecting more than Kane himself.
Keisha never thought there was anything wrong with her Void Armor devouring and not evolving, because Kane had long said that no two Void creatures were exactly the same, just as no two leaves in the world were exactly the same.
Besides, the shoulder pod structure, which she had never seen from any other void creature, was unique to her.
"Keisha, step back a bit."
Kane is going to take a test flight in the cave and ask Keisha to make room for him.
The strong air currents of the wings vibrating made the ground fly and rocks, and Kane immediately frowned.
As soon as he made his skin armor vibrate his wings, and his feet had not left the ground, he made a very loud noise.
The noise was unavoidable, as he had to flap his wings hundreds of times a second before the lift generated was enough to lift him off the ground.
When he flew, the noise became louder, like the propeller of a helicopter hovering in his ears, and the roar he could only dampen by the helmet under the cover.
Alas, don't care about the noise for now, the movement of the fly is the most important thing.
There is no problem with floating in the air, but you need to keep the flap frequency at a certain value to hover steadily in the air, and if you slow down, you will fall down and cannot glide.
I am not very skilled in moving in the air, but my sense of balance is too poor, and I need more practice to move freely.
There wasn't much space in the cave, and Kane flew crookedly around a few meters high, finding that there were no fatal problems and coming down.
A pair of membranous wings were directly discarded, the muscles contracted and the carapace was bridged, and it turned back into the original dark condensation armor.
"It's really taken off!" Keisha didn't have much pressure to see Kane flying, and thought that it shouldn't be a big problem to bring herself to double fly.
"It feels good, but the consumption is a bit big......"
In addition to the noise problem, Kane also found another big problem during the test flight.
In the Law of the Void, energy and matter can be converted into each other. Although it doesn't take much material to generate his wings, it consumes a lot of energy when he flapps his wings, which is completely opposite to the wings.
It vibrates hundreds of times a second, and it is no wonder that the consumption is not large. It's structural, and he can't change it.
"Then eat more and empty all the nearby monsters!"
Keisha is very touched by the fact that she has been stealthy for a long time lately, and her appetite has increased a lot, and the time she spends hunting has increased greatly.
However, the Void creatures killed as many as they wanted, and even though they doubled the frequency of hunting, there was no noticeable decrease in the nearby monsters.
Speaking of monsters, Kane remembered the giant beast he had killed, so he asked Keisha to help him carry the head to the surface with him, and by the way, he took her to familiarize herself with the newly dug tunnel.
Arriving at the edge of the abyss, Keisha found that it was a huge head, with its mouth wide open to hold the two and a half grown children.
"It's not easy to move...... Keisha struggled just to look at it, she didn't even know how Kane could hunt such a behemoth on his own.
"Devour the meat and lose weight, and you'll be able to move the skull left."
Looking at Kane's hippie smiling face, Keisha's expression suddenly collapsed.
If you don't look for me if you devour your heart, let me clean up the leftovers!
Hum!
Generally speaking, the two of them hunted only for the heart, and compared to the heart full of essence energy, the rest of the void creatures were a little chicken.
It takes too much time to swallow, the nutrients obtained are limited, and it is disgusting when handled.
In order to save time and avoid disgusting themselves, they will simply dispose of the body after the heart is removed.
There is no need to worry about waste, if other void creatures pass by, they will be responsible for devouring and recovering them, but the heart will lose energy if it is not absorbed immediately.
Despite her apparent disgust, Keisha and Kane worked together to get the head right. The flesh attached to the skull and the brains inside were all cleaned up. There is only one skeleton left, and the weight is much reduced.
Together, the two lifted the massive skull, Kane leading the way, and Keisha just had to follow.