Chapter 68: Insect Shed
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Chapter 68: Insect Shed
The final part of Sages training plan fell to his Insect Horde. At least that was how he liked to think of it. When he gained ownership of his home and it stopped being a dormitory for four and his own personal residence, it was full license for him to expand his Insect Shed. What started as a small storage shed had become the size of a bedroom after a few years, and now that he owned the house it was nearly half the size of the main building and had taken over the majority of the training area in the rear yard.
Within, Sage was raising dozens of different types of insects. He had three species that he used as his main source of income, with another half-dozen he was attempting to breed into a useful commodity. The rest of the many species were the ones hed collected during his time in the Holy Flame Sect, as well as the many cross-breeds and mutants hed already created for experimentation. With time he started to discover the limits of the Insect Immortal Index. While the people here didnt know what genes were, Sages guess was that the bloodlines which were so highly regarded among Tamers had something to do with it. For Demonic Beasts and Spirit Animals, the most highly sought after beasts were those that carried the bloodlines of powerful Demonic Beasts. Every so often the traits of an ancestor would flare up and a normal seeming Spirit Animal would grow so rapidly it evolved into a Demonic Beast. Demonic Beasts with powerful bloodlines would transform and take on traits from their Ancestor. If they then became strong enough on their own, their own descendants would be reinvigorated with a new bloodline.
Sage found something similar happening with the Spirit Insects. When using Mature he could age them rapidly and improve their rank, and he could also forcibly upgrade their quality level. What he found was that using Mature in this manner was essentially like drawing out the Spirit Insects full potential. Those who were expert Insect Tamers were few and far between, Sage never visited the Chong Clan, and he was far too weak back when he was in the Lang Clan. He never got to meet any high rank Insect Tamers, so he wasnt sure whether there was ways to determine the bloodlines of a Spirit Insect. The other two Tamers in the Holy Flame Sect didnt have any such method as most bloodlines were merely dormant. On the other hand, he hadnt heard of any special detection methods for Demonic Beasts and Spirit Animals either, but Tamers merely looked for special traits, abilities, or oddities in their appearance. Ñøv€lRapture marked the initial hosting of this chapter on Ñôv€lß¡n.
His guess was that Spirit Insects were far too similar looking and bred in such large quantities that picking out specific individuals to find the exceptional ones was too much trouble. Just like how Insect Tamers were much more rare than normal Tamers, the shorter lifespans and low intelligence made them less desirable. Sage was also limited on time and energy, he couldnt normally spend all day raising and maturing every insect that he owned. Inside the Shed he had easily thousands of them in one cage or another.
The final insect he used for revenue was the Thorn Cloud Hornet, something hed created by accident when mutating a very generic Spirit Insect Hornet. The strain was so simple he couldnt even identify it as a unique species, and one hed first found back when he fell into that ravine and lost his hand. Hed combined it with a dozen different insects while experimenting with the Insect Immortal Index for the first time. By the time the Thorn Cloud Hornet appeared, Sage had already lost track of just how many splices and mutations the Hornet had been through, so he had no idea how to replicate the combination. Nevertheless, he still bred quite a few of them and they were something he sold as essentially a grenade. The Thorn Cloud Hornet was the size of a baseball and looked like a hornet that was covered in thorn-like spines. The reason for its name was not due to its appearance, but actually because it had somehow developed the ability to launch off the majority of those spikes on its body as a weapon. Each of the spines carried a small amount of its venom, but the downside was that these spikes took days to regrow. A normal hornet could sting over and over again till it ran out of venom while the Thorn Cloud Hornet would launch off its spines rapidly and would then be left unarmed for a few days till it recovered.
Sage would package then a dozen or so at a time into a very fragile Insect Cage. When the Cultivator wanted to use it, they just had to throw it a hard surface and the cage would shatter releasing a pissed off swarm of hornets. If the Thorn Cloud Hornets were thrown into the center of a group they could cause quite some destruction as each hornet shot out a small cloud of poisonous spikes. Sage also had a special scent to attract the Thorn Cloud Hornets to be recovered, but they were usually pretty suicidal in practice. Most people would immediately attack and kill the hornets as soon as they released all their poison spines, which left very few of them alive afterwards to recover. Most people didnt bother to buy the recovery scent bottle from him and just treated them as living grenades.
These few species were useful so far as products to sell, but they were far from adequate in regards to increasing his combat power. Without the bloodline of a powerful Spirit Insect, Sages plan was to instead focus on versatility. He was going to give up on trying to create one ultimate companion insect and instead create a bunch of different insects, each with a different use. Linking to a different insect took him up to an hour or two given his rank, but if he used Mature to breed a new one he could link to an unhatched egg in a couple minutes. As long as it wasnt an ambush he could have a new pet ready to match the situation.
Mmm, I need to figure out how to switch between them even faster. Alarm Cricket, I choose you!
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Chapter 68: Insect Shed
The final part of Sages training plan fell to his Insect Horde. At least that was how he liked to think of it. When he gained ownership of his home and it stopped being a dormitory for four and his own personal residence, it was full license for him to expand his Insect Shed. What started as a small storage shed had become the size of a bedroom after a few years, and now that he owned the house it was nearly half the size of the main building and had taken over the majority of the training area in the rear yard.
Within, Sage was raising dozens of different types of insects. He had three species that he used as his main source of income, with another half-dozen he was attempting to breed into a useful commodity. The rest of the many species were the ones hed collected during his time in the Holy Flame Sect, as well as the many cross-breeds and mutants hed already created for experimentation. With time he started to discover the limits of the Insect Immortal Index. While the people here didnt know what genes were, Sages guess was that the bloodlines which were so highly regarded among Tamers had something to do with it. For Demonic Beasts and Spirit Animals, the most highly sought after beasts were those that carried the bloodlines of powerful Demonic Beasts. Every so often the traits of an ancestor would flare up and a normal seeming Spirit Animal would grow so rapidly it evolved into a Demonic Beast. Demonic Beasts with powerful bloodlines would transform and take on traits from their Ancestor. If they then became strong enough on their own, their own descendants would be reinvigorated with a new bloodline.
Sage found something similar happening with the Spirit Insects. When using Mature he could age them rapidly and improve their rank, and he could also forcibly upgrade their quality level. What he found was that using Mature in this manner was essentially like drawing out the Spirit Insects full potential. Those who were expert Insect Tamers were few and far between, Sage never visited the Chong Clan, and he was far too weak back when he was in the Lang Clan. He never got to meet any high rank Insect Tamers, so he wasnt sure whether there was ways to determine the bloodlines of a Spirit Insect. The other two Tamers in the Holy Flame Sect didnt have any such method as most bloodlines were merely dormant. On the other hand, he hadnt heard of any special detection methods for Demonic Beasts and Spirit Animals either, but Tamers merely looked for special traits, abilities, or oddities in their appearance. Ñøv€lRapture marked the initial hosting of this chapter on Ñôv€lß¡n.
His guess was that Spirit Insects were far too similar looking and bred in such large quantities that picking out specific individuals to find the exceptional ones was too much trouble. Just like how Insect Tamers were much more rare than normal Tamers, the shorter lifespans and low intelligence made them less desirable. Sage was also limited on time and energy, he couldnt normally spend all day raising and maturing every insect that he owned. Inside the Shed he had easily thousands of them in one cage or another.
The final insect he used for revenue was the Thorn Cloud Hornet, something hed created by accident when mutating a very generic Spirit Insect Hornet. The strain was so simple he couldnt even identify it as a unique species, and one hed first found back when he fell into that ravine and lost his hand. Hed combined it with a dozen different insects while experimenting with the Insect Immortal Index for the first time. By the time the Thorn Cloud Hornet appeared, Sage had already lost track of just how many splices and mutations the Hornet had been through, so he had no idea how to replicate the combination. Nevertheless, he still bred quite a few of them and they were something he sold as essentially a grenade. The Thorn Cloud Hornet was the size of a baseball and looked like a hornet that was covered in thorn-like spines. The reason for its name was not due to its appearance, but actually because it had somehow developed the ability to launch off the majority of those spikes on its body as a weapon. Each of the spines carried a small amount of its venom, but the downside was that these spikes took days to regrow. A normal hornet could sting over and over again till it ran out of venom while the Thorn Cloud Hornet would launch off its spines rapidly and would then be left unarmed for a few days till it recovered.
Sage would package then a dozen or so at a time into a very fragile Insect Cage. When the Cultivator wanted to use it, they just had to throw it a hard surface and the cage would shatter releasing a pissed off swarm of hornets. If the Thorn Cloud Hornets were thrown into the center of a group they could cause quite some destruction as each hornet shot out a small cloud of poisonous spikes. Sage also had a special scent to attract the Thorn Cloud Hornets to be recovered, but they were usually pretty suicidal in practice. Most people would immediately attack and kill the hornets as soon as they released all their poison spines, which left very few of them alive afterwards to recover. Most people didnt bother to buy the recovery scent bottle from him and just treated them as living grenades.
These few species were useful so far as products to sell, but they were far from adequate in regards to increasing his combat power. Without the bloodline of a powerful Spirit Insect, Sages plan was to instead focus on versatility. He was going to give up on trying to create one ultimate companion insect and instead create a bunch of different insects, each with a different use. Linking to a different insect took him up to an hour or two given his rank, but if he used Mature to breed a new one he could link to an unhatched egg in a couple minutes. As long as it wasnt an ambush he could have a new pet ready to match the situation.
Mmm, I need to figure out how to switch between them even faster. Alarm Cricket, I choose you!
Chapter 68: Insect ShedThe final part of Sages training plan fell to his Insect Horde. At least that was how he liked to think of it. When he gained ownership of his home and it stopped being a dormitory for four and his own personal residence, it was full license for him to expand his Insect Shed. What started as a small storage shed had become the size of a bedroom after a few years, and now that he owned the house it was nearly half the size of the main building and had taken over the majority of the training area in the rear yard.Within, Sage was raising dozens of different types of insects. He had three species that he used as his main source of income, with another half-dozen he was attempting to breed into a useful commodity. The rest of the many species were the ones hed collected during his time in the Holy Flame Sect, as well as the many cross-breeds and mutants hed already created for experimentation. With time he started to discover the limits of the Insect Immortal Index. While the people here didnt know what genes were, Sages guess was that the bloodlines which were so highly regarded among Tamers had something to do with it. For Demonic Beasts and Spirit Animals, the most highly sought after beasts were those that carried the bloodlines of powerful Demonic Beasts. Every so often the traits of an ancestor would flare up and a normal seeming Spirit Animal would grow so rapidly it evolved into a Demonic Beast. Demonic Beasts with powerful bloodlines would transform and take on traits from their Ancestor. If they then became strong enough on their own, their own descendants would be reinvigorated with a new bloodline. Sage found something similar happening with the Spirit Insects. When using Mature he could age them rapidly and improve their rank, and he could also forcibly upgrade their quality level. What he found was that using Mature in this manner was essentially like drawing out the Spirit Insects full potential. Those who were expert Insect Tamers were few and far between, Sage never visited the Chong Clan, and he was far too weak back when he was in the Lang Clan. He never got to meet any high rank Insect Tamers, so he wasnt sure whether there was ways to determine the bloodlines of a Spirit Insect. The other two Tamers in the Holy Flame Sect didnt have any such method as most bloodlines were merely dormant. On the other hand, he hadnt heard of any special detection methods for Demonic Beasts and Spirit Animals either, but Tamers merely looked for special traits, abilities, or oddities in their appearance. NvlRapture marked the initial hosting of this chapter on Novln.His guess was that Spirit Insects were far too similar looking and bred in such large quantities that picking out specific individuals to find the exceptional ones was too much trouble. Just like how Insect Tamers were much more rare than normal Tamers, the shorter lifespans and low intelligence made them less desirable. Sage was also limited on time and energy, he couldnt normally spend all day raising and maturing every insect that he owned. Inside the Shed he had easily thousands of them in one cage or another. The final insect he used for revenue was the Thorn Cloud Hornet, something hed created by accident when mutating a very generic Spirit Insect Hornet. The strain was so simple he couldnt even identify it as a unique species, and one hed first found back when he fell into that ravine and lost his hand. Hed combined it with a dozen different insects while experimenting with the Insect Immortal Index for the first time. By the time the Thorn Cloud Hornet appeared, Sage had already lost track of just how many splices and mutations the Hornet had been through, so he had no idea how to replicate the combination. Nevertheless, he still bred quite a few of them and they were something he sold as essentially a grenade. The Thorn Cloud Hornet was the size of a baseball and looked like a hornet that was covered in thorn-like spines. The reason for its name was not due to its appearance, but actually because it had somehow developed the ability to launch off the majority of those spikes on its body as a weapon. Each of the spines carried a small amount of its venom, but the downside was that these spikes took days to regrow. A normal hornet could sting over and over again till it ran out of venom while the Thorn Cloud Hornet would launch off its spines rapidly and would then be left unarmed for a few days till it recovered. Sage would package then a dozen or so at a time into a very fragile Insect Cage. When the Cultivator wanted to use it, they just had to throw it a hard surface and the cage would shatter releasing a pissed off swarm of hornets. If the Thorn Cloud Hornets were thrown into the center of a group they could cause quite some destruction as each hornet shot out a small cloud of poisonous spikes. Sage also had a special scent to attract the Thorn Cloud Hornets to be recovered, but they were usually pretty suicidal in practice. Most people would immediately attack and kill the hornets as soon as they released all their poison spines, which left very few of them alive afterwards to recover. Most people didnt bother to buy the recovery scent bottle from him and just treated them as living grenades. These few species were useful so far as products to sell, but they were far from adequate in regards to increasing his combat power. Without the bloodline of a powerful Spirit Insect, Sages plan was to instead focus on versatility. He was going to give up on trying to create one ultimate companion insect and instead create a bunch of different insects, each with a different use. Linking to a different insect took him up to an hour or two given his rank, but if he used Mature to breed a new one he could link to an unhatched egg in a couple minutes. As long as it wasnt an ambush he could have a new pet ready to match the situation. Mmm, I need to figure out how to switch between them even faster. Alarm Cricket, I choose you!
