Grave summoned his notes and started taking notes of the different development levels of the snake in the combination round.
He continued to touch one snake after another and from that; he found that not all of them were the same.
Some eggs had snakes in them. It was just that they had so weak physics that they could not break the egg and come out of it, while there were few that had half-developed embryos in them.
The good thing in all this was snake's eggs were soft shells. This saved him from the hassle of breaking the eggs to know about their condition. Just a squeeze was enough to tell him all that he wanted to know.
After examining all the eggs and dead snakes' bodies, he found some interesting patterns in them.
"mm, this is interesting and different from the last life."
All the dungeon masters knew that the selection of the main path of evolution increase the success rate of that path. But there was always a question that how much the increase was and was there was any side effect in that.
After seeing the pattern, Grave was sure that if he dig deeper and compared the result with some of the results he remember from his past life, he could solve this mystery.
Grave knew that all this may not help him anyway, but… he looked outside the Artificial room toward the main hall with 6 gates.
Could there be a connection between evolution and those 6 gates? He was obsessed with solving the mystery behind the gate. Even when his dungeon core got destroyed, the most barring regret and hope to him was the 6 gates.
'Would any of that gate will open to help me in that situation?' This was his last hope before it ultimately got crushed. There was no last-minute power-up.
'no point thinking all that,' Grave thought to himself. He just noted down this possibility in his note to check upon in the future.
After noting down all, he looked at Yunyun and said, "Yunyun, now you take the other 10 Snakey types and do the same study on them."
"Aye aye, master."
"One more thing. When the number of the new snakes reached 10, then placed them in the forest in the same manner that I taught you."
"Okay master," Yunyun said to him, then she rushed out of the Artificial room.
Grave shook his head at her enthusiasm. Not wasting any time, he walked to the small hall to the gene machine.
As he entered, there was a red shine coming from one corner of the hall. He turned to it and found there was 400+ plant essence piled in the corner.
He needed to deal with these now. Not wasting any time he opened the space village status.
"Mmm, there were 7000 snakes in the village that an appreciable increase in the number." Around 1500+ plus snake increases from the time to Dream fight. These were some good increments.
Grave teleported to the forest and then teleported 950 snakes just outside of the gene lab on the farm around the lab. 50 from each type except the snake with poison that directly affects the life essence.
The better approach would be waiting for the brave fangs to populate, but that would take time and he was in a hurry to find a concrete way to proceed in the world tree experiment.
Grave picked 100 snakes and placed them in a huge glass container and took them to the gene lab.
He used god speech on the 100 snakes to make them do as less moment as possible.
All the 100 snakes were silently staring at him. There was this eerie silence in the hall.
Grave grabbed one snake from the glass container and placed it under the gene machine.
The snake's large slit eyes were staring straight at his face. Grave avoided those eyes and started the machine.
The blue mana pulse moved around the gene machine, and the mysterious liquid started vibrating in the large cavity present in the machine.
The glass panels moved around and hold the snake in it its place. The red tip of the gene machine lowered onto the snake's body and a dull green gene essence came out of the snake's body.
During the process snaked was staring at him. As the process end the glass panels moved back and freed the snakes. Snake moved his head up for a last time and the whole head snake went limed on the platform.
Grave moved to the machine. He took out the round glass with dull green gene essence present in the socket of the gene machine and then he grabbed the stiff body of the snake and moved to one side of the hall and place it there.
Moving to the corner with plant essence, he placed the new snake's essence there and then walked to the glass container and grabbed 2nd snake, and repeat this process.
One after another, the snake went under the gene machine, then one essence and a stiff body were all that was left out of them. This process went on for hours. When there was no snake left in the glass container, Garve went out and came in with the next bath.
An enormous pile of stiff dead bodies formed in the other half of the hall.
The cruel process continued for hours and in those times there were 600 snake dead bodies that joined the dead pile.
Grave was in terrible condition. His entire body was shaking. The hour-long killing had placed a troll in his consciousness.
He looked down at his hands which were shaking with such intensity that he dread that they might pop out of his socket.
This was the killing of all the side effects of killing intent. In his past life, Grave had experienced this many times.
All this was because he killed so many creatures within so little time. The eyes of snakes looking at him till their last breath. He knew that its a game but the advanced sense of this game had confused the emotional part of his brain a little.
For a normal human like him, killing so much created a killer instinct. In his past life, he was able to handle the massacre of millions, but at present, it was too much.
Grave fell to the ground and started at the pile of dead bodies. He could sense all the eyes still creepily staring at him.
"huh huh," he started, taking deep, long breaths. He closed his eyes and mumbled to himself, "Get up and move or you will die. Get up. MOVED MOTHERFCKER.." He started shouting loudly and then he opened his eye looking at the ceiling.
His eyes were back to the old cold, emotionless ones, and his body stopped shaking altogether.
"Sigh, it was closed this time." Grave never expected to encounter this situation only after killing 600 snakes. He rubbed his eyes.
He was really close to getting an emotional shock in the game. The emotional shock was a very dangerous phenomenon for the pro gamer.
It all started because of the hyper-realism of Liberty online. Sometimes when the player killed many monsters or other creatures within a small time using no special method like magic, their brain got confused and they could get this emotional shock that left them incapable of concentrating for a few days.
This was the same thing when someone killed a person for the first time. The logical part of the brain and the emotional part of the brain started coming in each other way and this left them incapable of concentrating until they resolved the interference.
Now, this was not much of a concern as killing in a game only affects you with emotional shock for a few days, unlike when you kill in real life.
A Dungeon master was quite prone to this kind of shock as they need to kill and experiment with many creatures all the time.
In the last life, Grave came under a category that easily got affected by emotional shook. That was all because of his lonely life with no one to support him.
"Hehe," he laughed as he remembered how one time he stopped entering his dungeon for an entire month as he was in shock.
"Well, at least the tough environment helped me train this self-hypnotizing method," Grave mumbled to himself and stood up.
The situation of his last life, when he was in emotional shock but he could not rest or take therapy. Placed in a forced situation where he needed to get in the game and earned the Damn money at all costs for his survival which led to the development of this method. That could prevent the emotional shock when it was in the initial phases and ended it before it could affect him completely.
Grave cracked his neck and then use the god strength and moved all the dead snakes' bodies to the dumping ground that had 5000 bodies from the dream fight.
"So many died in such a little time," Grave said to himself and then went back to the gene lab.
He entered the small hall the corner that had 400 plant essence which now had 600 snakes essence next to them.
The Snakes' essence was in 19 different small groups. Next to essence was the pile of resources that the guild had sent to him.
"Look like I can go all out this time," Grave mumbled to himself and then grabbed 2 plant essence and 2 different snake essence to the gene machine.
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