The swarm came faster than Byron had expected.

It was just noon, and a large black cloud with a violent humming sound flew from the depths of the sea in the east.

Before landing, a sour smell of insects permeated the camp built in the river valley.

Byron looked at the bombed squid that had just been carefully grilled by the eight fingers in front of him, and his favorite squid, and suddenly lost his appetite.

I had no choice but to put down the food, and quickly got up to meet it.

Stroke your chest and salute:

"Teacher, you're coming so fast. I thought I'd be here as soon as tomorrow when you organized your staff. ”

Thousands of iron-colored pitch-black locusts landed and regrouped into a mysterious figure of the third-order great wizard [insect swarm] who was always wearing black robes.

"Hehe, it's urgent.

The grotesque [Pig God] you described in Nautilus is very valuable to our Giant Insect Book School, which specializes in studying and cultivating all kinds of insects.

This time, I will give you a credit.

If you encounter any questions when practicing black magic, I can take the opportunity of this operation to answer them for you. ”

He smiled and nodded at Byron, a new disciple who had made great achievements several times, and pulled out a strange-looking pocket from under his robe.

It looks like the stomach pouch of some kind of creature, with flesh-colored flesh and lymphatic and blood vessels on the surface that have not been cleaned.

Jumping in the palm of the swarm's hands, as if it had just been dug out of the body of a creature and was still alive.

In fact, this is a precious second-level strange artifact that many Wilderness Sequence Beast Tamers will dream of: [Flesh and Blood].

With a slight shake, the flesh swaddling clothes were like vomiting, and more than a dozen figures covered in mucus were violently "vomited".

Among them, the chief disciple of the insect swarm, the second-order beast tamer [Thousand Feet] Diggory awakens on its own like a hibernating centipede (Chapter 123).

Raising his hand, he lifted the slimy gray hood on his head, revealing the pale face of a young man.

It's just that his face is stiff, his skin has a strange luster of chitin, as if he has a false mask, and there are two centipede-like red tentacles on his forehead.

It is said that he resembles a human, more like a large upright centipede.

An arm with a chitin carapace poked out of the cuff, stretching out like a centipede's body, stretching out into dense, blade-like, blood-red tentacles.

Bolts of lightning popped out, biting each of the necks of a dozen people on the ground whose eyes were closed as if they were in a dormant state.

"Ahem"

After just a few breaths, the rest of the people all opened their eyes and got up from the ground one after another, coughing up the mucus in their mouths and gasping for air.

[Level 2 Strange Things: Flesh and Blood]:

"A very magical space prop that can not only load dead things, but also live things.

It allows the animal trainer to move flexibly with his own large or large number of beasts, and there is no problem in using them to pretend to be alive.

It's just that when they are swaddling in flesh and blood, they will be affected by a liquid secreted by them and forcibly fall into a dormant state.

It is difficult to go into battle immediately. ”

These men brought by the swarm were burly in size, but their faces were expressionless, and their eyes were more numb than those of the oppressed sailors at the beginning.

Not a word was said from beginning to end.

"Open your mouth."

Diggory poured a mouthful of unknown blood brewed with the blood of transmutation for each of them.

The swarm shook the meat bag in his hand again, and a group of strange-looking black and red giant bugs crawled out of it, each wrapped around a man's body.

Wrapped tightly around their bodies with their own carapaces, dense tentacles desperately burrowing into their flesh.

Gradually, a black-and-red knight's armor wrapped around the whole body was formed.

The carapace on his arm was transformed into a glittering heavy sword and an axe.

The bodies of the dozen or so people twitched violently, and it was obvious that the process was very painful, but none of them screamed.

Byron only discovered through their open mouths that the gang had all had their tongues cut out and seemed to be a specially bred group of slaves.

Eventually, the worms inserted a tubular mouthpart into the slaves' mouths.

His head hugged their faces, as if they were wearing a strange helmet mask.

A dozen burly men suddenly turned into a dozen even burlier hoplites.

They all exude the ferocious aura of a large predator.

"This looks like a nematode?"

Byron was familiar with the scene in front of him.

When he fought Old Norwich of the York family on the battlefield of Iron Anchor Bay, the other party used a similar ability.

Using the forbidden knowledge of the Book of Giant Bugs, an ironbone dragon nematode was cultivated.

It can live in symbiosis with the human body, providing the owner with a layer of defense that is not inferior to the Iron Knight's armor, as well as super regeneration ability.

The side effect is photophobia, and the parasite armor should never be used in the sun, and if you use it too many times, you may completely turn into a big bug.

But these slaves clearly don't look like transcendents.

In this way, it is casually parasitized by the nematode of the iron bone dragon cultivated with black magic.

It may be able to burst out with a powerful power far beyond ordinary people for a while, but it won't be long before it will be eaten and wiped clean by this parasite.

The best ending is also that the beast is out of control, and it directly becomes some kind of ferocious grotesque half-human and half-worm.

In many cases, the line between the human and the grotesque is not so clear.

The turmoil of the unknown world is treacherous and unpredictable, and even more unpredictable is human nature.

The Swarm waved his hand at him casually:

"Don't worry, these are just necessary consumables to capture the target.

You can go into the cave with us yourself, and the guards won't have to follow.

According to the information you gave, eighty percent of those natives dug through the hot and humid underground caves, and in that environment, your subordinates will only be a burden to follow. ”

"Yes, Teacher."

Byron was as good as a stream.

Isn't the reason why you want to invite the other party over to find a free thug and meat shield? Naturally, I am happy to do so.

After arranging the defense affairs, he followed the group into the mine.

[Echoes of History] It is easy to read the past of each stone, this gold vein is very barren and has little mining value.

However, the quality and reserves of hematite and its associated chalcopyrite look very good.

It's a pity that the natives, who didn't even enter the Bronze Age, didn't know anything about it, and didn't realize that there was a key to their civilization that could take off.

Not long after they walked, they found a deep hole in the rock wall on one side of the tunnel.

Before I could get inside, a hot and humid breath came to my face.

[The Swarm] moved his nose:

"I was right, there is a huge underground cavern hidden here.

Diggory, Byron, open the spiritual barrier.

The Iron Knight leads the way. ”

The dozen or so heavily armed knights immediately rushed in without saying a word, carrying whale oil lamps first, and smashing the hole with the blades and axes in their hands enough to allow the two of them to go side by side.

Byron followed suit and found that the temperature of the cave was probably 40 degrees Celsius, and the humidity was over 80 percent.

In this hot and humid environment, the life of an ordinary human being in it for more than 20 minutes is in danger, and even if there is too much of it, it is indeed just a burden.

But it didn't have much of an impact on them.

When the group went deeper than 200 meters underground along a rugged tunnel, and the cave suddenly opened up, they were suddenly shocked by the scene that appeared in front of them.

"These are crystal pillars? It's huge! ”

It was an innumerable number of crystal clusters.

The cave in front of you is filled with giant crystal pillars more than ten meters long and weighing dozens of tons, which reflect the magnificent brilliance under the illumination of whale oil lamps.

The sound of running water in my ears proves that these crystal clusters, which have grown for an unknown number of thousands of years, are actually still growing in thousands of years.

After being stunned, several people shook their heads regretfully at the same time:

"It's a pity that these pillars are worthless."

Byron's [Logbook] is the clearest to see, and it also sees through the principle of crystal pillar formation.

Caves and geodes elsewhere are not uncommon.

Mainly due to the magma rising from under the earth's crust upwards, the earth's crust cracks.

Acidic volcanic fluids seeped into the cracks, slowly eroding the limestone from the earth's crust and forming caves.

Subsequently, under the continuous heating of underground magma, groundwater containing calcium sulfate began to penetrate the entire cave thousands of years ago, and then condensed in places with low temperatures, thus forming gypsum geodes.

That's right, it's just transparent calcium sulfate gypsum crystals here, not crystal clusters of silica.

Even crystal, like glass, is not valuable.

Unless there is an extraordinary material infected by essentia tides, it is possible for them to make a fortune.

If you want to make a fortune from the crystal, you might as well go along these underground passages that extend in all directions, and maybe you can find the meteorite that fell from the ancient age in the deepest depths.

The group was extremely dexterous, and it flew through the criss-crossing crystal columns.

Ten minutes later, many strange-shaped huge glowing mushrooms suddenly appeared in front of them, each of which grew as tall as a tree.

When they came here, it was as if they had entered a giant mushroom forest.

If you listen closely, you can hear the sound of rustling, and it is clear that there are other creatures living here.

"It is supposed to be outside materials such as fallen leaves, animal carcasses, spores, fungi and other substances that enter the cave, and then digest by special fungi to feed other organisms.

The result is a large, closed, ecosystem.

That [Pig God] should be nearby. ”

At this moment, a sudden cry came from Byron's pocket.

Squeak squeak

The gold digger rat, who had been captured by him for spying on the forbidden area, slipped out of his waist bag, climbed onto Byron's shoulder, and jumped into the depths of the mushroom forest.

Like the man-eating sharks, the rat drank the blood of transmutation and became one of his contracts.

It's just that Byron's control over these contract items is far less than that of the animal tamer, and even the meaning is not very clear.

The swarm ordered the iron-boned knights to come forward and explore the way, and nodded approvingly to Byron:

"The Book of Giant Worms faction is the most suitable for part-time animal trainers, but this lighthouse sequence pirate, the sharks and gold diggers he has cultivated are not bad.

Even in the future, it is not impossible to take care of it. ”

As he spoke, he subconsciously took out the teacher's tone:

"Byron, the first step of the initiation ceremony of the two branches of the Blood Thirsty Order is the [Blood Grail].

However, the Bloody Mary faction focuses on using the [Transmutation Blood] to mix various blood brews, while our Giant Worm Book School focuses on using the transmutation blood to cultivate various insects.

It is not completely exclusive to the knowledge of the other party.

In the end, they all ended up in the same place.

The forbidden book "Bloody Mary's Gourmet Recipe" inherited by the Bloody Mary Pie is indeed closer to the origin of [Mother of Creation Lilith] than our "Book of Giant Bugs", and it is also more pure.

However, it takes a lot of time to build a strong fighting force.

And at the time of the low sequence, although the various blood brews made their means richer, they were far inferior to our Giant Worm Book Sect in terms of combat effectiveness. ”

Listening to [Swarm] talk about the "battle between insects and blood" between the two factions, Byron inexplicably had a familiar sense of déjà vu.

The same is true of a certain sword art sect. Is it the present or the future?

"Especially when we accidentally got an out-of-spec supernatural 'natural disaster', that incomplete 'Kraken's Touch'.

With the gourmets who have mastered the Holy Grail of Blood as the anchor element, it is even easier to destroy those Bloody Mary pies.

By choosing to join us, you have made the right decision in your life, and you are closer to eternal life than many kings of the Old World, and even to the saints of the Church.

It's a pity that such a useful strategic-level treasure was lost by the fools of the York family.

It was I who made the handover with Old Norwich of the York family."

The swarm shook his head and sighed, but he didn't notice a flash of cold light in the depths of Byron's eyes.

'Handover? You?

I already knew that Kraken's Touch had something to do with you bugs, but I didn't expect you to be the one who handled it. ’

[Hidden: The Shadow Behind the Red and White Rose War, Influence 31] solution density has also been increased from 60% to 63%.

Locking down the key culprits and accomplices, Byron not only did not attack, but his attitude became more and more respectful.

'Now is not the time, since the entire Blood Thirst Order is campaigning for the blood sacrifice [Mother of Creation Lilith] to obtain the final sacrifice [Crimson Grail] and the blood of eternal life.

Stabbing you at that critical moment is more painful than attacking now. ’

At this time, a suppressed snort suddenly came from the front.

"It's biting, chase it!"

The swarm was in high spirits, and immediately rushed out towards the mushroom forest.