The memories of the Moonlight Rat Leader are unusually barren compared to the world as a whole. Unbeknownst to Ron, the decaying figure busy at the oak table was a lich. Still, he hid quietly, trying not to be discovered by anyone or creature.

Then, after waiting for a short time, a beetle poked its head out of the small hole, tilted its head slightly, swayed its tentacles, and crawled down the gap in the corner towards the iron cage on the right side of the hall shrouded in blue and white magical aura.

"Squeak!"

Looks like the Mother Queen of the Swarm is there!

The shadow of the oak table also shrouded the corner of the wall, looking at the fast-crawling beetle, Ron immediately tiptoed to follow, far higher than the ordinary moonlight rat's [stealth] skill and the bonus of the moonlight rat's own small body, making him appear in the shadow of the oak table.

Naturally, the beetle didn't notice Ron's figure, and it quickly ran between the first row of the iron cage on the right and the gap between the wall, and waited patiently there.

Then, following Ron, who followed behind, clearly saw that the fat worm in the iron cage, which looked like a worm but was covered with white carapace and a skull head, stretched a thin tube through the gap between the iron cage and the corner of the wall, laying a round egg.

"Squeak!"

This is the mother worm?!

It's ugly!

Watching the beetle step forward and pick up the egg, which still had a little slime, Ron finally determined that the ugly fat worm in front of him was the mother of the swarm.

"Squeak!"

Go back first!

Let Iron Fang and Shadow lead a team of moonlight rats to wipe out the swarm outside!

As for the mother, maybe I don't need to do it yet!

Removing the small crossbow from his back, Ron hid in the shadows, tilted his head to aim at the mother worm in the cage for a moment, then glanced up at the busy lich at the oak table, and finally chose to follow the beetle with the eggs in it.

Judging by the layout and equipment of the room, it is clear that this room is a laboratory, and the mother worm is clearly a captive and test subject of some more powerful creature.

Now isn't the best time to shoot the motherworm, as the owner of the lab is also present, and there's a good chance that the next time Ron is here, the mother worm will disappear.

Even if you take a step back, the mother worm of the swarm is locked in an iron cage, and there is no way to escape at all, as long as you choose a suitable opportunity, such as the time when the master of the laboratory is resting, Ron can take advantage of the closed nature of the iron cage and shoot the mother worm effortlessly.

So, at this moment, Ron decided to lead the rat colony to clear the insect castle outside before considering the matter of the mother worm.

............

"Hey, hey, it's as perfect as I envisioned!"

The lich drifting at the long oak table paused slowly, his palm raised in front of his eyes, shaking a slender tube of potion.

The multicolored luster ripples, mixes, dissolves in the glass test tube, and finally turns into a piece of black powder that precipitates at the bottom of the test tube, leaving only the transparent solution to flash a demonic luster from time to time under the blue phosphorescence.

As an alternate sigil master who has been immersed in pharmacy for hundreds of years, Lother has no interest in fighting for power or controlling a country, and his only hobby is inventing all kinds of strange potions.

And what is in Lother's hands at this moment is the latest work he has just completed, the high-grade mutation potion!

"Hey, hey, it's time to find an experiment. ”

Lother's gaze turned to the iron cage stacked in the corner, and under his cold gaze, the creatures in the cage trembled, and they cowered in the corner of the cage, hoping that Lother could not see him.

Apparently Lother didn't look down on these experiments either, and his eyes wandered back and forth several times without picking out a suitable subject, which made him a little agitated, and a cold breath swept out of his body, filling the entire laboratory.

Then, Lother paused abruptly as he shifted his gaze to the corner of the lab.

"Mage's Hand!"

With a slight chant, Lother's finger tapped lightly to the corner, and immediately a moonlight rat with a small crossbow on his back flew into the air and landed on the long oak table in front of Lother.

"Hey, hey, I didn't expect any creature to dare to enter my lab!"

"Then it's up to you to decide this experiment!"

Caught by the mage's hand, it was Ron, who was about to return from the small cave to the underground cavern, and following behind the beetle, he could have immediately entered the cave and left Lother's laboratory.

But the goddess of fate obviously didn't pay attention to Ron today, and only one last step was missing, when the cold aura of the lich filled the entire laboratory, and Ron was immediately spotted.

"Activate the rope!"

Looking at Ron who was struggling hard in the invisible [Mage's Hand], Lother's hand pointed to the other side of the table, and immediately from the pile of debris, a rope raised its head like a snake, and snaked forward to Ron's side, flexibly climbed up Ron's body, tied Ron's limbs behind him, and could no longer move.

Then, the lich's withered hand bones pinched Ron's mouth open and roughly shoved the mouth of the test tube in.

"Gollum~"

A small swallowing sound sounded in a row, without the slightest ability to resist, Ron was forced to swallow the entire tube of mutant potion into his abdomen, the small belly immediately bulged high, and Ron's gaze immediately became dull!

"The next thing is to wait!"

There was still a little time for the potion to take effect, so Lother put the empty test tube in his hand into the wooden shelf on the long oak table, and then placed Ron on the freest left side of the long oak table, waiting for the potion to take effect.

In fact, Lothel also saw the small crossbow behind Ron, and the beasts also have intelligence close to that of humans, and a moonlight rat that can use a crossbow is just a moonlight rat.

In Lother's eyes, they were just experiments.

............

Time passed little by little, but under Lother's gaze, the moonlight rat, which was bound like a tortoiseshell, did not change in shape, which made Lother's dark blue eyes fluctuate.

"This time the test was perfect, and the medicine produced was perfect. ”

"But why doesn't it work?"

The onset time of the potion had already been known by Lother, but now several times had passed, and there was still no change in the experiment, which made Lother quite puzzled.

"Mage's Hand!"

The effect of the mage's hand had not yet dissipated, and immediately with Lother's thoughts, Ron's glazed body flew into the air and landed again in front of the lich, who took a glittering silver-white knife from the shelf of the oak table, ready to be dissected!