Chapter Seventy-One: The Ritual
After solving the problem of the Spiny Spine Naga for the Shatterfinned Fishman, Mochi and his party lingered in the village for a while. Anvina has been through Sephilis's affair and has not been in great shape.
As we all know, Azeroth is a simple place, and the player character will be cursed by mobs and bosses before they die from time to time. After Moqi crossed, he would often recall the farewell words that were not beaten - "If there will be no time in the future, then I wish you a well-deserved death". So Mochi really couldn't figure out why Avena cared so much about what Naga said before she died.
Mochi tried to convince Avena in every possible way, but to no avail. Although she was in a gloomy mood, there was no delay in training the villagers to raise them, and on the third day after the battle, the first batch of spiders hatched.
According to the notes, cave spiders will eat their own egg shells to replenish their nutrients after they emerge from their shells. Because the breath on the egg shell is the first breath that the cave spider is remembered after birth, the newborn spider will regard the spider with this breath as its mother.
In addition, cave spiders have a social structure similar to ants and bees, with normal spiders obeying their respective mothers, and all mothers obeying the queens of the group. (In addition, in the cave spider colony, only eggs laid by the queen can produce females, while normal females can only lay males.) )
Based on this trait, Moqi had all the fishmen touch their eggs every day, so that the mucus on the surface of the fishmen's skin would adhere to them, so that the young spiders would perceive their respective fish-people owners as their mothers after swallowing the egg shells.
Of course, this is only the first step, and there is still a lot of work to be done to tame the cruel and cold-blooded spider fish.
Around the third day of life, the chelica teeth of the young spiders begin to harden and they can eat food such as insects and fish fry. Mochi instructed the fishmen to make finer nets to catch insects and fry.
At the end of seven days, the young spiders will molt for the first time, during which they must not be disturbed or get water droplets. On this day, more than a dozen cleaved mud fishmen, because they were worried about their spider partners, touched the cave spiders that did not eat or drink with their fingers stained with seawater, causing the young spiders to fail to molt. Mochi and Mudscale can only recollect the eggs for these villagers.
On the fifteenth day, the young spiders will molt for the second time, and the first instar spiders are not too afraid of external interference, so this molt basically did not cause a decrease in the number of young spiders. But the key step is after the second molt. After the second molt, the young spider will grow much larger and more aggressive. While Mine Spiders do not attack Mother Arachnids, that does not mean that they do not attack other Fishmen.
In order to further let these spiders understand that fish-people are not food, Moqi also specially picked some [Spider Grass]. The spiders hated the smell of the grass, so Mochi smeared the abrasive of the spider grass on the tadpoles and adult fish-people for the young spiders to bite. At this time, the young spider's teeth were still very small, and they could not bite through the scales of the fishman, and they could only taste the taste of spider grass when they bit into the fishman. After one or two such trainings, the spider will only associate the taste of arachnid with the fish-people, thus understanding that the fish-people are not food.
And that's not all, training spiders to pounce forward, backward, and weave webs is also a test of patience. Fortunately, the fish-man is more playful by nature, and soon regarded the interactive training with the young spider as a game, and the step of training the spider basically did not bother Moqi and Anvina.
After spending more than half a month in the Shatterfinned Fishman's village, Moqi's experience level was also increased to Lv11 and 1156/7600.
After the upgrade, something happened that made Mo Qi very concerned, that is, the growth of attributes increased. In the past, due to the influence of the player's thinking, Moqi always believed that the increase in the value of the character's attributes was fixed after each level of the character was promoted (only related to the class). But after completing the hard training that Mud Scale had assigned to him, Mochi found that his stat value had increased significantly.
There is only one explanation for this, Moqi - the training results achieved in the leveling stage can be reflected after the level.
This may explain why at level 22, Sephilis can be so much stronger than monsters of the same level.
Moqi also came up with a bolder guess - "If a character's stats increase by more than a certain level at each level, then he is likely to grow from a normal template to an elite template." "In layman's terms, it is to transform from an ordinary fishman to an elite fishman.
Thinking of this, Moqi has a new goal.
Seeing that the spider domestication work of the Shatterfinfish people was progressing more and more smoothly under the teachings of the "Shagarn Teachings", Mochi knew that it was time for him to leave again.
The night before leaving, Mud Scale personally presided over the Muramom ceremony for Mochi.
The so-called muramom is the rite of passage of the fish-man. Only fishmen who pass the Muramom Trial will receive the corresponding title.
"I said, can we skip the process? Some red tape is completely unnecessary, and you know that I'm not a formality-oriented person. Mochi said to Mudscale.
Mud Scale shook his head.
Mo Qi continued to persuade: "Actually, you really don't have to be so troublesome...... Why don't I tell you my date of birth? ”
Ignoring Moqi's words, the mud scales poured out a full load of wild fish blood from a sea conch (a common living container for fishmen), and Moqi smelled of fish from head to toe.
It is one of the traditions of Muramom to wash the body with the blood of its prey.
After doing this, all the fishmen cheered towards Moqi, shouting out the ancient blessing - "Ahhhh
Then there is the awarding of the necklace link.
A necklace made of scallops and rabid fish teeth. The owners of these teeth have died under Mochi's trident, and it was Mochi who had done the hunt alone.
It is also the tradition of the fish-people to wear the teeth of the prey they obtained during their first hunt, so that they can be considered an adult fish-people.
Mochi looked at the properties of the necklace -
【Symbol of the Adult Fishman】
Jewelry
neck
+3 Intelligence
+3 stamina
"A blessing from the Shatterfinned Mud Fishman."
……
"Starting today, you are awarded the title of Beach Walker."
Mud Scale placed his palm on Mo Qi's forehead and said very solemnly.
At the same time, Moqi also received a prompt from the system -
The title system is on.
Congratulations on earning your new title, Breaker Walker.
You have completed the quest [Fishman's Rite of Passage, Mulamom] and gained 2500 experience, 4 silver, and 10 bronze.
Your reputation in the Shatterfinned Mud Fishman has been increased to Worship, currently having 3/999 reputation.