Richard glanced at Io and Nayu, and the three of them left one after another, leaving Zonghu alone in the room.

They followed Richard to a silent clearing. Richard stopped, turned to look at Io and Nayu, groaned for a moment, and said, "You are not ordinary Dragon Hall priests, are you?"

Io and Nayu glanced at each other, and Io shrugged his shoulders and said, "Look, I'll just say he'll know! ”

Nayu said in an unchanging voice, "It's just a matter of time or time." Why hide it, it doesn't make sense at all. ”

"But where did we come from, and can we sue him?" said I-Oh sarcastically.

"Even if we can't name the place at all, we can explain it as much as we can. Nayou said.

"Do you think explanations will be useful?" Io sneered.

"Io, it's because you're so smart that you stopped at level sixteen. Nayu's words made Io stunned and began to think deeply.

Nayu looked at Richard and said, "It doesn't matter where we come from, but I can guarantee that we will all be absolutely loyal to Lord Quicksand." ”

Richard heard the extra meaning of this sentence and nodded, "That means you won't necessarily be loyal to me?"

"Yes. Naiyou said calmly.

"It's not unacceptable. However, you are not going to do something detrimental to me in the name of being loyal to the quicksand, are you?" asked Richard with a faint smile.

Nai thought for a moment and said seriously, "It's really possible. When the fundamental interests of Lord Quicksand conflict with you, we will definitely side with Lord Quicksand. But other than that, if someone tries to create an antagonism between you and Quicksand-sama, then either they have real wisdom to see what the future holds, or they think they are smart but are actually stupid. Personally, I think the latter is the majority. ”

The face of Io next to him turned blue and pale.

Richard thought for a moment and said, "That's an acceptable reason. However, since you have the possibility to do your own thing, then I will not be able to provide you with the same treatment as my followers, and will be lowered by one level. This reduction mainly refers to the construction. ”

"Fair enough. Nayou said.

Richard nodded, and disappeared into the night.

After Richard left, Yi said indignantly: "Who cares about your little benefit!"

"You actually care. And now it cares. Nayou said.

"Impossible!" Io was about to jump, but he looked at Nayu and wanted to say something, but in the end he just sighed, shook his head and left.

Richard returned to his room, found a comfortable position to sit down, and began to communicate with the brood. But this time, Richard's consciousness was first connected to the split brain, and then to the brood. It seems that the brood is moving deeper into the turbulent lands, and the distance between it and Richard is already quite far away.

Because it was a relay, the information of the brood was transmitted after a while.

To Richard's surprise and delight, the brood has basically completed the eighth-order evolution, and is now in the stage of comprehensively digesting and sorting out the known information. Only when this stage is over can the brood open the door to the ninth order.

However, the key to opening this door is now Zonghu.

The image of the Eighth-Order Brood had returned to it, and its form had become even larger than before, and now this behemoth with a length of more than seventy meters, a height of ten meters, and a width of twelve meters, was much larger than an ordinary dragon. On the ventral side of the brood, golden patterns appeared, and there were many pores on it, constantly opening and closing, looking like respiratory organs.

However, when Richard examined the structure of the brood's body, he found that the golden patterns seemed to be weak areas, but in fact, the high-strength fibrous tissue of the subcutaneous defense was much thicker than the rest of the place, and the real effect of the pores was to spray a lethal acid mist. And the real respiratory organs of the brood are hidden in the dorsal carapace and breastplate. Another deceptive death trap.

The brood seems to be very careful about its own defenses, and the newly added volume is almost always used for beetles and fiber belts. The insect armor on its chest and back was nearly two meters thick, and its strength was no worse than that of a human's high-precision full-body plate armor.

According to Richard's estimates, humans don't have any weapons capable of breaking through the worm beetles of the brood in one fell swoop. Not even a siege crossbow. On the other hand, Lina's red dragon Carlo is also very difficult to get the current brood, at least its minions can't break through the brood's defenses at one time, and whether the brood can resist under the long-term dragon flame burning is still debatable. However, the same red dragon Carlo may not be able to resist the strong acid spit of the brood.

As a result, the gigantic brood flies at a speed of 40 kilometers per hour, and the distance it can move per day decreases accordingly. And Richard noticed that the structure of the brood beetle had changed again, and it seemed that it had been optimizing its structure according to its surroundings.

Originally, there were many intricate hollow pores inside the beetle, which on the one hand reduced the weight, and on the other hand, it could also disperse and offset the power of the weapon that pierced the beetle, reducing the power of the attack. Now, the Brood's beetles have been arranged in a new way of arranging their pores, with more holes, but no reduction in defense. In addition, in many places that support the pores, there are a lot of extra metal components in the bones of the brood, which are like a uniquely shaped alloy strut, supporting the whole insect beetle and greatly enhancing the defense.

As soon as he saw the new beetle on the brood, Richard knew that it could be applied to new combat units.

He directly skipped the ontology information and jumped to the additional information that the combat unit could choose, and sure enough, in the defense system data, there was an option for the third-generation insect beetle.

The third-generation beetle is a bit inferior to the current worm beetle of the brood, and although it does not reach the level of the elite level of enchanted heavy armor, it has also reached the excellent level. And to achieve this defensive power, the thickness is only half that of ordinary plate armor, and the weight is only a quarter of that of plate armor.

Such a worm can be attached to a combat unit and become an inner armor, and an additional layer of enchanted armor can be added to the outside. In this way, the defense of the combat unit is surprisingly strong, and it has reached the level of a standard constructed knight.

However, adding a third-generation insect beetle to a combat unit also requires additional resources, and if you attach an insect beetle equivalent to a full-body heavy armor, then the combat unit that creates a zào per day will be reduced by one. However, if an insect beetle equivalent to a light armor is attached, although the number of combat units in the creation zào will not decrease, the corresponding resource consumption will also increase.

Now the brood has come up with the need for metal consumption. Fortunately, most of the current list for Richard is a large number of metals that can be mined in large quantities in Faro, and each of them can be found in the Dwarven Kingdom. But some rare metals can only be shipped from Norland.

Seeing this, Richard already had several ideas for the new arms.

He returned to the information on the brood and continued to examine it. The brood currently has more than fifty units of divinity reserves. After Richard fed the two Divinity Crystals he received from the sacrifice to the Mother Nest, each one was equivalent to fifty units of divinity. However, after deducting the divinity required for the brood to be promoted to the eighth order, Richard noticed that the total number of divinities was not right, and about a dozen units of divinity disappeared, and he didn't know where it was used by the brood.

Richard casually asked the question, and the brood seemed to be silent for a moment, as if there was a delay in transmitting information from the brain, and it only replied that it was because of the improvement of the structure of the ontology, so it led to the loss of divinity.

After a few moments, the brood sent another piece of information, which was some explanation of the use and consumption of divinity.

In this material, the brood discovers that the use of divinity can make instantaneous progress in certain projects that have been difficult to decipher, and that divinity is like a universal gem that produces miracles wherever it is placed. On the other hand, divinity can be fused into the soul, so that the soul is greatly enhanced, and even the pure divinity itself may be gathered and produce something similar to the soul, and if it is injected into the combat unit, the combat unit will have its own mind and wisdom.

Although there is a difference between the souls of the Divine Convergence and the true natural souls, in the eyes of the brood, their functions are very similar, both of which can make the combat unit more intelligent and intelligent, and can self-learn and strengthen combat skills, so as to be more suitable for the battlefield environment of the plane. So in the eyes of the brood, the two souls are the same.

Seeing this information, Richard's doubts were resolved, but he still felt that something seemed to be wrong. However, there was a question about what was going on, but it was not something that his current wisdom and talent could solve.

Richard looked at the conditions required for the brood to advance to the ninth order, and the first item was impressively listed as Zonghu. This was followed by fifty divinities, a vast collection of rare magical and metallic materials, and a thousand magic crystals. The latter two are priced at the current price of nearly 10 million. For today's Richard, this wealth is already gritted and buried in struggle for a period of time to create a zào.

Next, there is a huge amount of information on the resolution of various races.