It took almost a day for Ellie to figure out what was the nature of what had been separated from her.

Indeed, this thing has no intelligence, only the most basic conditioned reflexes: it will devour whatever it wants except the mother, and then inject a part of its body into the living body, and from that living body a new individual will be born.

At the junction of the flesh produced by the rabbit and the flesh implied by Devouring Septin, each grows a row of teeth-like bones, preventing the devouring of each other's flesh; Each individual exhibited a different state, and the signs of fluff did not appear in the first flesh creature, and Ellie then got an eagle to see what would happen.

The third flesh creature grew numerous thin sarcomas, all of which were coagulated with fleshy skeletal beaks and surrounded by a ring of flesh-colored feathers, and Ellie tried, and the beak was completely free to move; And it cooperated with the previous two to completely divide the cave into three parts.

Another eagle was stuffed, but this time it was directly wrapped in countless tentacles, and mucus and pus secreted from their surfaces, instantly turning the eagle into a strange jelly-like object, encased in a pustule. You can still see the shape of the eagle, but if you look closely, you can see that it is slowly melting away with the pus.

“……

… It could be the type to lure enemies closer and then infect, or it could just be used as a means to expand the number of offspring. ”

Her dagger was still on the ground, and Erri was shifting from one chasm to another, but the three fleshy creatures didn't try to touch it, just used their tentacles to surround it.

The first and second are easy to say, but the third is a little more interesting.

“… The product of the split somehow inherits the experience of the subject, but the organisms themselves have no intelligence, and how they remember it still needs to be experimented.

Note: The effect on human sanity cannot be judged and testing is still required. ”

Rolling up the parchment, attaching the magic, and putting it back into the space, Ellie sat down in her chair and stretched.

The mother's will and actions forcibly gave birth to the first piece of flesh into a sofa-soft tissue, of course, there was still pus and mucus inside, but with a little more muscle, it would not break so easily.

“…… That's it. ”

"Well, but what are they going to do after that?"

Judging from the pustules and bloated flesh, this kind of thing is not very easy to destroy, and Ellie has done simple experiments, this kind of thing will not be destroyed by any force, at most it can inhibit growth, but it can definitely not be eradicated.

They don't need to hunt and rest, or even communicate and think, and instinctive reproduction is enough to support all their actions.

Unless it is erased into another dimension, the piece of flesh is an extremely dangerous tumor that cannot be removed in one world, and if the controller is not careful, this kind of thing will quickly spread explosively.

"You're the mother, so attaching your magic to the vicinity of this ice should stop their growth.

There is a thing called a soul stone in this world, of course, you don't need your soul, just inject magic into it, and then disperse it. ”

"I hope there aren't any so-called 'explorers' or 'investigators' to pry the ice open, or I'll probably have to spend another lot of time experimenting."

It's very close to Winterhold, so the problem with the Soul Stone isn't that serious, and it's not particularly difficult to inject mana.

After a while of hard work, the magic barrier composed of large and small soul stones wrapped the ice cave, and as insurance, Erli also took out the only remaining demon stone as a second layer of barrier, in case the meat leaked out, and could barely pollute the entire sea area.

“R'luhofy.”

“… The Hidden One...? ”

Lying on the "sofa", Erli spit out such a word for no reason, Xiaobai thought for a while, and then learned the meaning of the two.

"Well... Whatever you call it.

It's better to have a name than nothing. ”

The dark black pus was used as a resting pad to support Erlie's legs and feet, and it tried to simulate the behavior that might cause the mother to relax, but at the moment, it seemed to have some effect.

The mother is not as aggressive as it used to be.

"But... We'll have to look at this big box. ”

The hexahedron still lay where it should be, but the pieces of flesh that had been renamed the Hidden One continued to attack the dwarven artifact.

However, it seems that the dwarves are doing very well in their workmanship, and after gnawing, tearing, corroding, and hitting for a whole day, this strange block structure shows no signs of bending.

The reason why Elle didn't open it right away was because it happened to be used to test the intelligence and aggression of the Covert, and now that she had come to the conclusion that the lump of meat had no intelligence but only instinct, it had lost its purpose as an experiment.

Sensing the mother's approach to the square, all the attacking bodies stretched out by the Hidden One shrank back, and the first Hidden One, with all its eyes and all its gaze, focused on Erli's body.

But the mother didn't care so much about herself, she just tapped the dwarven cube with her hand, and then carefully stroked the surface of the cube to determine what kind of thing it was.

"It's very hard, it feels like glass, but it's not hard like glass."

"The material of another world may be something like fiberglass.

Do you think it can be opened? ”

"Probably a few more chops, and there's a chance that you'll ruin what's inside."

Ellie tapped on the square, waited a little longer, put her ear to the cube again, and tapped carefully again, trying to judge what was inside.

"It's very empty, but there may be only one real content."

"Why is Mora interested in what's inside?"

“… Who knows..."

Elle took her weapon and took a few steps back.

"You should know how long it is."

Xiaobai didn't have any objection to this, anyway, she suspected that with Mora's method, Mora might be able to reappear in this plane, and even have a way to defeat Erli.

"Anyway, I just won't destroy the contents inside."

As she spoke, Ellie kicked the hard skeleton and leapt into the air, then drew her knife with her left hand, aimed at the right half of the dwarven block, and sliced it hard.

The magic was not fully released, but was mostly wrapped around the sword, making it just enough to take care of the block; But even so, the Jingyue knife was only half gone.

Seeing this, she exerted another force on her feet, moving the knife outward along the crack, but before she was halfway there, Elle herself suddenly grasped the handle of the knife with both hands, and suddenly released her magic power inward again.

In an instant, the purple magic entangled the blade, and the hard dwarven material could no longer resist, and was split straight by the sharp blade, sliding down the perfect section.

Despite the splinters puncturing the sarcoma and pus, and then scattering mucus and pus, Elle jumped onto the cut open and looked inside.

There was only a rudimentary book lying inside, but its darkness seeped out just from its cover.

It was a book of knowledge sewn into the skins of at least six humanoid races, and infinite wails and groans overflowed through the hollows of the dwarves.