The entire island started shaking, and the tree lost all its shine.
The moment one of the gene essences got removed from the tree, it became desperate for nutrients. The tree started absorbing dense snake genes and poison from the root and though successful, the thin roots started bursting after the desperate attempt.
From his mana zone, he sense that genetically rich material got sucked into the mystic egg before the tree could produce any food from it. Deep in the ground, empty snake eggs just got crushed from the soil weight.
The empty snake eggs with no genetic material just got crushed from the soil weight. This started the destruction process, causing the first 3 layers of the egg to disintegrate in a few seconds.
At this time, more red symbols appeared on the screen. Mystic egg absorbed the second gene essence from the tree.
Creek!
He heard a creaking sound. Looking up, he found the massive green plain started falling. All the branches and leaves of the tree lost all their color and became grey color. They turned to ashes before reaching the ground, and then the wind blew those ashes into the ocean.
Small particles of ashes were falling like black snow, the ground had many cracks formed on it. For him, it looked like the world lost all colors.
He started at the last trace of the gigantic tree, a massive trunk with 100 s of crack on it. It was barely standing on the ground.
In this black world, Grave started at the screen in front of him. On 3 connected panels many red and green symbols appeared but unlike they were not clashing, unlike what normally happened, the 4th screen showed the reason to him.
The 4th screen was slowly turning purple from the bottom of the panel to the top. This panel showed him the amount of poison in the mystic egg.
In the panel, he saw the number of the red symbol increasing, 'fck,' he expected the tree to die after extraction of 2nd gene essence, but this tree had such a tremendous life force that it still did not die completely.
Looking at the increasing red symbol on the screen, he clicked his tongue. At this time, the speed of tree suction increased, and the number of green symbols covers the 3 screens and the 4th screen became full purple.
He glance at the pond and there was no poison left there. The island started having cracks on it. All this was out of the calculation. He feared the island might crumble into pieces.
The only way the island could survive was if the tree died. But fck there were still the last 2 layers of snake eggs left. If the tree died, it would not absorb those last in the mystic egg and everything would be over. He stared at the screen. That had many new symbols.
Appearing on it. "Just a few more seconds…" Finally, the 9th layer of eggs died and now it turned to the last layer of eggs.
"Shit," in front of him, the reaction started. Many dull green symbols rushed to the bright red symbol only to get destroyed. 'I can't wait.' he took out the last items from his inventory.
In this whole experiment, the major problem was the difference between the power of normal snake genes with world tree genes. The normal grade and legendary or maybe above grade had too much difference that he could not counter only with numbers.
He might have a chance if there were only one world tree essence, but he had no way of controlling the number while using the mystic egg. Now, to solve this thing, there was only one possible way.
He looked at the last final key item in his hand, an item he got as the A-rate quest reward.
[A drop of golden pure blood:
This item helps permanently strengthen a creature and even has the power to let the creature evolve to the next grade.
]
From the day he got this golden blood, he knew that this was his key to creating something extraordinary. This item had the property of strengthening the genes/ body of a creature. A very good item for the Creation path but an extraordinary item in the mutation path.
He placed the tube in the gene machine and stared at the screen. The red symbols were slowly destroying the green symbols. With every less green symbol, his chance of success was decreasing.
He wanted to launch pure blood into the mystic egg but control himself. "Come on fast," he screamed as he observed the tree sucking the material of the egg in the last layers. There were still 50 + eggs left out. If he released the pure blood now, then these 50 + snake genes would get left out.
Time passed slowly, 30 eggs left… 20 eggs left.. 10 eggs left.
At this moment, he saw the number of red symbols on the screen suddenly increasing. "Fck!" screaming, he released the pure blood in the mystic egg and the next moment, 3rd and last world tree essence appeared on the screen.
The entire trunk disintegrates, and the mystic egg fell to the ground. Ding! Ding!
A red warning error appeared on the gene machine and all the panels became blank.
'Few' he rubbed his forehead and sat on the ground left with no energy in him, staring at a pile of ash in front of him.
'What is the result?'
"Waaaa master what happen??" he looked up and saw a horror look on her face.
Tears formed in her eyes. The entire island was in a mess, with many gigantic cracks on the black ground. The base Grave was standing now became a little square pit. It looked like everything got destroyed. "Waaaa.." she tried to rush to him.
"No, don't come here!" he shouted to her. "It's not over. Yet"
She looked at him in confusion. He pointed to the pile of ashes in front of him and said, "See!"
A bright shine came out from the black ashes, and then the mystic egg floated above the ground. The egg started spinning in the air.
Grave moved back a few steps to let the mystic egg go through the ending process. He now had no control over the last stage. The only thing he could do now was to pray for stability.
In evolution, the mutation path required the most manual work compared to any other path. The path of creation was easiest and hardest at the same time. It was the easiest path, as all the dungeon master needed to do was mix random genes and hope for success.
There was a reason the path of creation attracted all the dungeon masters, as everyone understood that with great luck you could create something great with little effort, and yeah if you went with simple mixing 99.9% of the time you would fail.
Then this was also the hardest path as it was like a huge experiment where you start with a puzzle and then you did experiments with the purpose of failing the experiment to get the answer to missing pieces.
For this one experiment alone, Grave did over 700 + failed experiments. Even so, he did not know the fate of the ultimate experiment. He just stared at the rotating egg while thinking about the distinct possibilities. At least he knew no matter what he would get the snake after this, as he used a mystic egg.
In case the snake and world tree essence could successfully be combined, then it would be great and if that had not happened, then most probably the mystic egg would form the embryo from one of the snake genes.
The egg continued to rotate in the air, and Yunyun and Grave waited for it to stop rotating. Minutes passed and the egg continued to rotate. 'Fck, what going on now?'
In his past life, the mystic egg only rotated for a few seconds. He did not know if the egg rotating more was good or bad.
5 minutes passed, and the egg was still rotating.
Yunyun asked, "Master, is the egg rotating this much normally?"
He did not answer her and just stared at it. 10 mins passed egg continued to rotate and it even started blinking. Grave had a frown on his face. The more he looked at the egg more it looked like this egg was going to burst.
The blinking increased slowly, and he just stared at it as the egg was rotating faster and faster after every second. He still had a little hope, and then.
BOOOM!
In front of his eyes, the egg busted, and there were black ashes in the air. After the ashes settle down, he saw the half-intact egg. The upper side of the egg had no problem, but the bottom of the egg had a crack with a couple of thick tree grey roots coming out of it on the ground.
He stared at the egg in dead shock. There was no moment in the egg. He extended his mana zone to the half-intact egg, and he senses no mana from it. He failed miserably. All those works went to waste. He tried not to lose his reasoning and wondered what went wrong here.
While he got lost in thinking, he heard a loud shout.
"Master look egg is moving." this made him snap back to reality, and he saw the grey roots move in the ground and now the upper part of the egg started shining.
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