Hyperdimensional Warlock

Chapter 994 The Heart of the Swarm
What about "useless things"? !
It's nothing more than hatching, Angel actually said it was a suspected female insect!

Kanter only felt that the inner defense line was like a collapsed snow wall, peeling off a little bit, revealing a mottled and old heart.

"Female worm? How is this possible! The female worm became extinct earlier than the deformed mollusk, so it is impossible for any fish to slip through the net." Kanter said dryly.

"But, if it's not a female insect, why can it lay eggs and hatch?" Angel wondered.

Spawn and hatch? !

Kanter only felt the corners of his mouth start to twitch, "You admit it wrong, maybe it's not a soft bug."

Angel was even more puzzled: "But, didn't the adults give me this egg?"

Kanter was speechless. Although he was extremely resistant to the fact that he might have sent a "mother's egg", he still couldn't help but look into the nest.

Seeing this, he was completely dumbfounded.

He hasn't looked into the deepest part yet, just seeing the layers of soft worm corpses outside, he has already confirmed a fact in his heart.

Back then, the eggs he gave Angel were only a few, but looking at the corpse of this soft bug, there were at least dozens of them!

There is no mother to reproduce new eggs, which cannot be explained at all!

When he saw clearly the hall containing the "snot monster" in the depths of the worm's nest, he immediately closed his eyes, and at the same time, he began to curse himself at the time when he mistook the pearl for a fish.

This is the mother worm of the mollusk!
It was exactly the same as what was recorded in the information he had seen before!
"Master Kantor, isn't this really a female worm?" Angel asked again, as if fate had opened a bow, and shot another arrow, which hit Kantor's chest.

Kanter resisted the urge to vomit blood, and said with difficulty: "This... this is indeed... the female worm."

"Really?!" Angel's eyes lit up.

"Really." Kanter felt extremely uncomfortable in his heart, but he still had to maintain the demeanor of an elder on his face, and even praised against his will: "You raised... very good."

Seeing Angor holding the worm nest with surprise on his face, Kanter felt that his wandering heart was blown by the rain and wind again, and at the same time, he was crushed with his feet over and over again.

He was really blind at the beginning!Kanter couldn't help but blame himself.

However, after the drama in his heart was over, Kanter returned to reality.Is he really blind?Carefully recalling the situation when he got the eggs, he actually checked them carefully.

It was even taken to other wizards for identification, and the final result was that it was an ordinary soft bug egg, and its vitality was not too vigorous.The only thing worth mentioning is that the worm nest is very good, and there is even the breath of the mother worm in it.

Could it be that it was because of the female worm's breath contained in the worm's nest that encouraged the hatching of the eggs, and even a female worm appeared?
Kante personally doesn't believe it.

He took over the worm nest from Angel and prepared to observe it carefully.

When he got serious, many previously neglected details came back to the case: "Why are there so many soft worm corpses on the periphery? Why do soft worms keep guarding an invisible border, as if there are natural enemies on the opposite side ?”

Regarding these two questions, Angel said with some embarrassment: "Actually, it's because I raised a dream weaver ant that likes doves to occupy magpie nests."

Angel's eloquence gave Kanter a general idea.But this is the first time he heard that dream weaving ants can eat molluscs?

"Although the dream weaver ant is not a precious thing, it has been extinct for many years. I didn't expect that you still have one." After Kanter said this, he continued to look inside the nest.

Looking at it, he found another important clue.

The inside of the worm nest was filled with the smell of energy essence and blood. After searching carefully, he finally saw Axo's blood essence storage hall on the side of the hall.

"This is the blood essence of a wizard-level monster?"

"Yes, Dreamweaver Ants and Molluscs both like the blood essence of monsters. Before that, Dreamweaver Ants put the blood essence under the eggs of Molluscs, which made the eggs of Mollusks hatch. Happening."

This time, Kanter was even more confused.Dream weaver ants not only eat molluscs, but also raise eggs?

Moreover, Kanter also knew at the beginning that some Warcraft blood essences are full of energy, suitable for raising magic insects.Therefore, he also used the blood essence of monsters to raise these eggs, but he had never absorbed a single egg. Therefore, some of his friends judged that the vitality of the eggs was not high.

He didn't make the soft eggs appear abnormal when he used the blood essence of the monster, so why did Angel do it?

Is it because of the dream weaving ants, or because of the essence and blood?
Kanter cheekily begged for a drop of blood essence from Angel. Looking at the blood crystals exuding strong vitality in his hand, Kanter hesitated for a moment, and took it into his mouth.

In an instant, a powerful force of life flowed out from the blood essence.

After this kind of life force gushed out, it immediately formed a hedge against Kanter's own vitality.Although Kanter successfully repelled this kind of life force in the end, but in the initial stage of defense, the explosive power of that kind of life almost broke his defense line.It can be seen how powerful the energy contained in the essence and blood is!

What's more, it's just a drop of blood.

A strange look flashed in Kanter's eyes, and he carefully examined the information revealed in the essence and blood.After a long while, Kanter's face was stunned.

There is a strong vitality in the blood essence, and its vitality is the most rare among the blood essence of monsters he has seen.

Although for a wizard-level life form like him, this drop of blood is like poison.But for mortals, or elementary lives, the vitality in it is enough to keep people alive forever.

In other words, relying on this drop of essence and blood is enough to give the eggs continuous and long-lasting vitality.

In this way, it is quite possible to revive the eggs and hatch them.

Moreover, Kanter also felt an extremely secret and strange smell in this drop of blood essence. This smell is very obscure, a bit like the smell that Kanter smelled in some medical schools when he was a mortal.

Kanter couldn't help asking: "What kind of monster blood is this?"

"I don't know either, but it's said to be the essence and blood of a snake."

Looking at Angor's vacillating eyes, how could Kanter not know that Angor was lying.However, the essence and blood of the snake should be real.

Kanter didn't force him to ask, after all, he was an apprentice of his old friend, and he also valued Angor's potential.

"This Warcraft blood essence has a very good effect on elementary life, and can even keep people alive forever." Kanter sighed with emotion.

After Angel heard this, he remembered that Axo's blood essence had maintained Dodoro's lifespan for thousands of years, and even his functions remained youthful.

Thinking of this, Angel couldn't help thinking of Jon.

Is Axo's blood essence useful to Jon?Perhaps, after Sanders comes back, he can ask about it.

"The vitality in the blood essence of this monster may indeed make the eggs hatch, but I think it is not enough to let the eggs hatch into female insects." Kanter looked at the corpses outside the nest, but his heart was moved. : "Perhaps, the dream weaver ants have some effect on the eggs of the mollusks."

Do dream weaver ants still have a promoting effect on eggs?Angel looked at Kanter suspiciously.

"According to some records I have seen, although the female worm is responsible for the reproduction of the entire swarm, its fertility rate is actually affected by the outside world. Generally speaking, the female worm will not produce in large quantities, which will consume a lot of energy. energy."

While Kanter was explaining, he was also thinking on the side.Moreover, with the rapid rotation of thinking, many things that cannot be figured out become more and more logical.

"However, because of the appearance of the 'natural enemy' of the dream weaver ants, the female worms reproduce in large numbers, and use a war of attrition to avoid threats to themselves."

When Kanter said this, Angel also understood instantly.

Like a link in the ecological chain, they are hostile, but from a certain level, they also promote each other.

Perhaps, the birth of the female worm was also the result of the dream-weaving ants "feeding eggs".Because the insect swarm understood from the very beginning that the soft insects cannot deal with the dream-weaving ants, and their birth will only become the nourishment of the dream-weaving ants.

In the case of unwillingness to die at birth.

Therefore, under the stimulation of some kind of hormone or pheromone, one of the eggs may mutate.

And this mutated egg is the later female insect.

This can also explain everything that happened later. When the female worm knew that she was an "egg", the dream weaving ants would not touch it, but nurtured it, so they refused to hatch for a long time.He has been absorbing Axo's blood essence to accumulate strength.

Once it hatched, it immediately confronted the Dream Weaver Ant.

It has been maintained until now.

There are actually two major prerequisites for the establishment of the entire relationship. The first is the degree of vitality.

The whole coffin of Axo's blood essence that Angor had obtained at the beginning solved the problem of vitality.It also allows the female insects to have no worries when laying a large number of eggs.

The second premise is the number of natural enemies.

If there are a lot of dream weaving ants, then the swarm knows that they have no hope of winning the battle, so no female ants will be born at all.Even if we take a step back, if the female worms really hatch, they won't lay a large number of eggs, because there is no hope of victory at all.

These two prerequisites eventually led to the hatching of eggs and the smooth birth of female insects.

After realizing the truth, Kanter didn't feel sorry for himself anymore, because even if the eggs stayed with him, it was impossible to hatch them like Angel did, or even hatch the female insects.

After all, it was Angel's luck that led to this result.

"I once accidentally learned the name of a legendary great wizard of the summoning department. Its name is 'Heart of the Swarm'. I used to scoff at it, how could the Swarm have a heart. Now that I think about it, maybe this is the Heart of the Swarm. As long as there is a glimmer of hope for survival, his heart will never die."

After Kanter sighed, he looked at Angel with a gentler look.

Although he is also very jealous of Angel's good luck, it can be seen from this that his original vision was not wrong. Not only is Angel's potential extremely high, but also his luck lies in it.

"Ahem, Angel."

Angel looked over suspiciously.

Kanter said with a smile: "Speaking of which, you people of the phantom lineage, you have never been to Lilith's House, wait for things here, after you return to the wizarding world, why don't you come to Lilith's House to live for a while? It just so happens that you and Qi Li can also develop a relationship."

Angor shuddered, why would Qi Li get involved every now and then when talking to Kanter?

"Well, let's see it later." Angel said vaguely, and then quickly changed the subject: "Master Kantor, since this is a female insect, can it give birth to a deformed softworm?"

(End of this chapter)