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Chapter 74: Demonic Plant

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Chapter 74: Demonic Plant

Sage stored the Emerald Dragonfly and took out an egg of the Steel Silk Centipede, starting to incubate it rapidly. Inside his beast bag there was three of each of his new creations. A breeding pair of rank 1 adults and a single rank 3, fully matured battler. It was far faster to link with an egg and accelerate the growth of a new insect. At the same time it was a large resource cost in energy. Linking to a fully grown and mature rank 3 was a process that would take weeks while raising one from an egg only took minutes, but he had to spend a few dozen spirit stones to accomplish it. The fully grown and matured insects were actually kept in his bag to be used along with more conventional Insect Tamer skills. While they could only perform basic commands they were still useful. Hed actually have many more if it wasnt for space concerns. The Beast Bag was much smaller than the Storage Ring and he only had about a dozen large Insect Cages. The only downside to this whole process of growing new Spirit Insects and linking to them was that hed end up with another unlinked fully grown insect. Ill just have to put them to good use.

He didnt feel any qualms about sacrificing the Spirit Insects, nor was he ever attached to them. Back in the Lang Clan hed learned that Spirit Insects were very much like organic robots. Their souls were very weak, and it was even harder for them to become Demonic Insects than it was for a Spirit Plant to become a Demonic Plant. A Spirit Plant required a few special conditions, but mostly it was a matter of long terms of accumulation. A Spirit Insect on the other hand had to be in the right place as the right time and undergo a fundamental transformation by absorbing just the right material. Their lifespans were usually too short to accumulate over time, they were mostly all formed by pure luck.

When Sage finished linking to and growing a Steel Silk Centipede he was ready to head in. This Devil Vine had a huge flowery bloom every dozen feet or so, but Sage had learned the regular flowers were only its weapons. While the Farmers Library had nothing on how to become a Gardener, there was a few lines about why they couldnt become one. The main reason was that the Demonic Plants seeds would not create new Demonic Plants. While a Demonic Beast could breed dozens of half-breed children, the Demonic Plant could only create pure descendants. The downside was that it took years of accumulation to create what was called a Demon Seed. Only with a Demon Seed could the Demonic Plant create a true offspring. It was much slower than Demonic Beast reproduction, but also true reproduction. The main downside of the Demonic Beast was finding a matching mate. They could mate with similar beasts, animals, or even humans when they take human form. Unfortunately all of these unions would result in different cross-breeds and they would only carry a portion of their progenitors power. It was truly quality versus quantity. Ñøv€lRapture marked the initial hosting of this chapter on Ñôv€lß¡n.

The clone plants acted as they did before, responding automatically to the threat and trying to fight it off. They were unsuccessful just as the others before, the webbing binding them up and preventing their twisting and winding vines from capturing the Centipede. Both sides were using the same tactics, binding and capturing. The Centipede was just acting many times faster and overwhelming the mindless plants. The other reason it worked so well was that the Centipede wasnt attacking them, just restricting their space.

Smooth steady progress carried them through the huge room, clearing out a short path before Sage realized he needed to gather more information. Choosing a new route, the Centipede backtracked a bit and forged a path towards the wall, extending its silk tunnel up the wall and climbing higher and higher. Soon enough they were near the damaged glass and metal dome, looking down at the Solarium and getting a bigger picture.

The clones of the Demonic Plant covered the whole place with thick and abundant green vines, and leaves, interspersed by snowy white blossoms that seemed to have climbed up above the dense foliage to get the spots with the best light. Looking around, Sage thought hed found his target. While the vines and leaves looked exactly the same as the other plants, one of the flower blossoms was nearly twice the size of the others and placed at a conspicuous location against one of the walls. The spot it was at was a place where the lenses above hadnt been damaged and the sunlight seemed to be magnified as it beamed down upon those blindingly bright white petals.

That should be the real core How can I deal with it?




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