Chapter 143: Chapter 43 Divine Chosen Attack
Underground Insect Nest Upper Level, in a narrow and secluded earth cave, a cloaked figure crossed the corridor and entered.
After entering the cave, the cloak suddenly softened and piled on the ground, from which a black crow flew out and landed on the fungi on the wall of the cave.
Inside the cave, a figure clad in a Wizard Robe was heating a test tube in his hands. As the temperature rose, the liquid in the tube began to boil, its blood-red color fading away, gradually turning into a clear pale blue liquid.
Once the test tube had cooled, the wizard opened it and drank it in one gulp.
“Did you encounter any trouble?” Richard asked.
“Caw, what trouble could I encounter?” Ulysses boasted arrogantly, “A bunch of little worms, they wouldn’t even qualify to be on my dinner table in the past.”
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“That’s good.”
Having said that, Richard closed his eyes and began using his magic power to help his body digest the pale blue liquid.
The main ingredient of this pale blue liquid was the incubation liquid from the hatching pool, which, after being detoxified, was very beneficial for a wizard’s body.
If taken at a dose of 50 milliliters every 24 hours for 30 times, a One Ring Wizard could enhance his Physique by one point (excluding the extreme physique of 99.9).
Of course, such an enhancement was not endless.
After enhancing his Physique ten times, a One Ring Wizard wouldn’t find any increase in Physique from this liquid, but it could still be used as a medicinal remedy.
“Caw, what’s the yield?” Ulysses curiously looked at the test tube in Richard’s hand.
He could sense the life-active material contained in that liquid, which was tempting for every fleshly being, making them involuntarily crave devouring it.
“Not bad, ten kilograms of incubation liquid, plus two eggs, enough for us to lie low for a while.”
“Caw, lie low?” Ulysses asked amazed, “What’s the issue with this method?”
Richard shook his head: “No problem, it’s just that acting too frequently will easily get us caught.”
Through probability, we know that the more actions we take, the greater the chance of being discovered. He had a clear understanding of his own strength; a One Ring Wizard could not dominate within this Insect Nest, so minimizing action was preferable.
Moreover, with the incubation liquid at hand enough to enhance his strength considerably, there was no need to act too frequently.
“Caw, alright then.” Ulysses said helplessly, “You’re the boss, you decide.”
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Bang!
A Priest Worm dressed in moon white silk furiously slammed a clay tablet document onto the ground.
Before him, several Warrior Insects clad in golden metal armor bowed their heads, their antennae drooping as well.
The Priest Worm looked at a group of insects, emitting a sharp screech from its mouthparts:
“For five years! Those Wizard Monsters have infiltrated our rear for five years! In these five years, over a thousand of our grain stores have been burned, more than two hundred small hatching pools destroyed, thirty medium hatching pools, and even the large hatching pool in Aisen settlement was attacked a week ago!
Now you tell me, searching the entire Insect Nest, you found just a handful of One-star Wizard Monsters!”
Bang!
The Priest Worm stomped fiercely on the shattered clay tablet.
“Are you really telling me! Those warehouses, those hatching pools, were all the doing of a bunch of One-star Wizard Monsters!? The Wizard Monsters who escaped from the hands of the High Priest were a bunch of One-star Wizard Monsters!?”
Facing the reprimand of the Priest Worm, these Golden Armored Warrior Insects remained silent.
Outside, they were prestigious Three-star Warrior Insects, but in this room, they were all subordinates who had mishandled things, criminals of the Black Mushroom Worm Country.
The large hatching pool attack a week ago, had the High Priest not been present at the time, along with several Three-star Priests and Three-star Warriors, those Wizard Monsters might have actually succeeded.
The entire Insect Country only had ten large hatching pools; if this hatching pool were destroyed, the entire population of the Insect Country would have decreased.
Now, at this critical moment in the war, a population decrease meant a decrease in war power!
Given this situation, as Warrior Insects charged to search for Wizard Monsters, they were greatly at fault.
“Sigh, forget it.”
After a moment of silence, the Priest Worm let out a harsh cry, emitting a psychic wave through the black crystal.
Soon after, a young Priest Worm wearing silk garments entered the room.
“Let me introduce, this is Inhardt, the Divine Chosen of the great Mother Worm God.”
Upon hearing this, the Golden Armored Warrior Insects were stunned, their antennae perking up.
Divine Chosen, such beings hadn’t appeared in a long while.
The last time a Divine Chosen appeared was during the war with the Earth Cave Demon Spiders.
Inhardt bowed slightly to the several Golden Armored Warrior Insects, showing none of the arrogance typical of a Divine Chosen.
“During this period, Inhardt and some low-level priests will assist you in searching for the Warrior Worms. Incidents like the large-scale Hatchery assaults cannot happen again in Black Mushroom Worm Country!”
The voice of the Priest Worm was firm—should such events occur again, not only would these Warrior Worms be sent to their doom, but even it, the Priest, would be sacrificed to the Mother Worm God.
Although returning to the embrace of the Mother Worm God was something all priests desired, it did not wish to go back so soon.
Several Golden Armored Warrior Insects perked up their antennae:
“Yes!”
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Leaving the room of the Priest Worm, several Warrior Worms looked at each other, and finally, the oldest among them spoke up:
“Divine Chosen Sir, pardon my boldness, but may I ask what star level you are now?”
Although Divine Chosen insects were much stronger than regular insects, if their star level was too low, they would face certain death in the face of absolute data differences.
Although hunting Wizard Monsters was urgent, if the Divine Chosen insect were to die, they would still be sent to their doom.
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“No need to worry about that,” Inhardt waved his antennae. “I had already advanced to Two Stars some time ago and had also received armaments bestowed by the Mother Worm God.
No matter how powerful those Wizard Monsters are, I am confident I can escape.”
Upon hearing this, several Golden Armored Warrior Worms sighed with relief.
Two Stars was sufficient; even a Two Stars Warrior Worm could deal with the majority of Wizard Monsters, not to mention a Divine Chosen Priest Worm.
“If that’s the case, then we will not assign guards to you. Insects are needed everywhere in the Insect Nest now, so please understand.”
Inhardt smiled, “That’s alright, I don’t need bodyguards.”
“If you are not busy now, I would like to show you the methods of those Wizard Monsters first, so you can get some understanding of these creatures,” a Golden Armored Warrior Worm stepped forward and said.
“Of course, I’m free,” Inhardt responded. “I have been practicing in the Temple for a long time and am indeed curious to see the tactics of those Wizard Monsters.”
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Within the settlement, a Golden Armored Warrior Worm led Inhardt to stand beside a small Hatchery that had been destroyed.
Unlike a warehouse, Hatcheries could not just be built anytime. Each Hatchery’s location was carefully selected, situated on the Earth Veins nodes within the Insect Nest World, and once they were destroyed, it would disrupt the energy of the Earth Veins node, making it unsuitable for use as a Hatchery again.
This disruption of energy, though not permanent, would last for at least a decade, and for the Black Crystal Worms at this critical juncture, it was almost as bad as complete destruction.
“This is a trace left by one of the Wizard Monsters we have been searching for over the years,” the Golden Armored Warrior Worm explained. “This Wizard Monster is very cunning. Over the years, he has struck four times, each time destroying a Hatchery without anyone noticing.
Fortunately, he’s very cunning, so he targets only the small Hatcheries. Our losses are still within acceptable limits.”
Inhardt bent down, his forehead’s Black Crystal emitting a soft light. Under this light, a breeze suddenly stirred in the entire Earth Cave.
“This is…” The Golden Armored Warrior Worm sensed changes in the surroundings and tensed up, but soon relaxed.
The source of the change felt very familiar, like the Mother Worm.
Before long, Inhardt stood up.
“Forgive my abruptness, I was just trying to communicate with the Earth Spirit to gather information about that Wizard Monster.”
“No no no, you don’t need to explain so much to me,” the Golden Armored Warrior Worm said respectfully.
The Golden Armored Warrior Worm was also an experienced insect, having only seen such communication with the Earth Spirit performed by the High Priest, and now seeing Inhardt employ the same method left him utterly astounded.
If nothing went wrong, this Inhardt Worm would be Black Mushroom Worm Country’s next High Priest.
“Did you communicate anything?” the Golden Armored Warrior Worm asked cautiously.
A flash crossed Inhardt’s forehead Black Crystal, and a myriad of images zipped through his mental organ, too vast and fast, many indistinct and disjointed.
This was a common phenomenon in communicating with the Earth Spirit.
Although the Earth Spirit could record everything that happened on this land, the information was massive, filled with a lot of disordered data. Every insect attempting to gather information from the Earth Spirit had to learn to filter and forget.
From these images, Inhardt saw a robed Wizard squeezing into the settlement through tunnels, then leaving something behind, after which the Hatchery was destroyed.
He also saw that after leaving the settlement, the Wizard Monster went along the tunnels to a secluded Earth Cave and met another Wizard Monster… no, that wasn’t a Wizard Monster, that was a bird disguised as a Wizard Monster!
And that Earth Cave was… was…
Inhardt’s mental organ felt dizzy, overwhelmed by the voluminous information; he now needed to forget this memory, otherwise his mental organ would burn into mush.
In the last second of discarding extraneous memories, Inhardt spotted something special in the images—a very rare mushroom.
“Divine Chosen Sir, Divine Chosen Sir…”
The Golden Armored Warrior Worm’s call awakened Inhardt; without time to say much, he quickly flashed the outline of a mushroom using starlight.
Inhardt, with eyes closed, uttered intermittent chirps from his mouth:
“Big Blue Worm Mushroom… find the Earth Cave with this mushroom! That Wizard Monster is hiding there!”