Chapter 8 Seeds below
After absorbing a small fragment of Richard's soul, the baby life in the seed actually established a soul connection with Richard, like a splash of water. And it still hasn't broken its shell, but it's already crying out for blood from Richard.
Its call was very faint, and it seemed to disappear completely in the next moment, but the thirst for blood was unusually clear. Richard was stunned for a moment, and before he could react, he suddenly felt that his face was warm, and he reached out to wipe it, only to find that his palm was full of blood. At this time, Richard felt that his mouth was also full of blood, which should be caused by the vibration of his internal organs when he resisted the pain of soul tearing just now. As for the blood on the face, it came from the middle of the nose and the corners of the eyes.
The "Blood ......" seed is still calling. It was not any known language, but rather, it was a fluctuation of consciousness that struck Richard's soul so strongly that it reflected that meaning.
Richard simply wiped the blood from his hand into the cyan eggshell of the seed. The strange thing is that the smooth eggshell without the slightest hole suddenly seems to have many gaps, and all the blood is swallowed in an instant. In Richard's consciousness, he felt that the life in the seed began to grow rapidly and change, and the breath of life became stronger and stronger, and even so strong that Richard trembled a little!
The seed didn't ask for blood anymore, all it needed was Richard's blood like a spark, and this blood completely ignited its life.
With a soft sound, a visible crack appeared on the surface of the eggshell, and then there were more and more cracks, and when a jet-black sharp blade suddenly stretched out, it meant that the seed had sprouted.
The eggshells around the blade began to crack and shatter, and then the whole piece fell off, and a strange creature like a dark bug crawled out of it. It has six knuckles, an unusually large belly, and two sharp blades near its head. The whole shape is even a little funny, like a round ball with a few blades stuck in it.
As soon as it burst out, it pounced on the broken eggshell and chewed it, and in the blink of an eye, the eggshell was eaten clean, not even a single fragment remained, so clean that it didn't look like it had been eaten, but as if the whole ground had been sucked up. And wherever it passed, the blood stains dripping from Richard disappeared, and I don't know how it absorbed them.
It propped up its body hard, and suddenly its whole body began to shake rapidly, and after a while, the mucus on the surface of the body was sucked into the body at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the originally soft carapace gradually hardened and began to shine with a layer of crystal luster, and in the process, the body also expanded significantly. After cleaning the eggshell fragments on the floor, its small half of its body struggled to rise, and its first six pairs of compound eyes looked at Richard, and its complex mouthparts began to move rapidly.
Richard's sea of consciousness resounded a large number of fast, noisy, unclear syllables, and repeated several times before a clear and strange sound was formed. This is the voice of the newborn little life, which was just looking for a way to communicate with Richard, and now it has finally found it, and it is actually the Norland lingua franca, and it is no longer a violent soul shock mapping.
"Need ...... High Energy ...... Food. "It seems difficult to express.
"Are you a seed?" asked Richard tentatively.
"Seeds...... Be...... We travel...... Dormant form. "I still can't form sentences, jump out of one word at a time.
"Who are you?" asked Richard.
This time it was another cacophony of noise, and it was finally clear again: "We...... I...... I don't know. I don't know what we are, my memory is only ...... When you wake up. The front, the front are all blank...... I...... It's the brood, and my save zร i is to destroy miรจ enemies. โ
"And who is your enemy?" Richard warned. The little life was born with an aura that made him tremble, and its enemies must be even more difficult to deal with.
"Your enemy is my enemy, my master. This time, it replied with great fluidity and clarity.
"You call me master?"
"Yes, you activated me, only I booked it...... The master was able to activate me. I will obey...... Command. โ
Richard squatted down, looked at the strange insect-like life, groaned for a moment, and asked, "Mother-hive, what is your food?"
"Bloody Life...... The energy crystal ......" It replied with difficulty, but it was obviously difficult to list all the contents with its current language skills, so it changed its approach: "I am currently in the first stage of infancy, so I can ...... Forage for food on your own. I also need to learn the master's language, which will take a day. โ
Richard was a little speechless, even with the help of language magic, it would take about half a month for the archmages to completely master a language. If you can only understand and speak clearly, it will take about three days. And this newborn little thing only takes a day!
"I'll get you something to eat, there's some food in the base. You have just been born and there will be danger outside. Richard said.
"No, I can feel it, here...... There are no predators of mine. โ
So in front of Richard, it opened its carapace on its back, revealing its small wings, flapped it vigorously, and with a buzzing sound, its body rose straight up to Richard's eye level, and then flew clumsily and slowly into the depths of the forest.
Richard was stunned, and his talent for precision made him realize that this newborn brood was actually nearly half the size of the newborn brood. The growth in size is just the volume of the eggshell it swallows. It seems a little scary to be so close to the way food is absorbed.
For the newborn little brood, Richard always subconsciously had some indescribable fear. It was a creature he had never heard of, and it was not mentioned in any magical texts. Its current appearance is very similar to that of a crustacean insect, and the smooth and shiny luster is actually very beautiful, but for some reason, it always gives people a chill from the bottom of their hearts.
In Richard's memory, many creatures were much stranger than the brood, such as the Spirit Suckers of the Norland Underworld, the Arachnid Elves, and the Roto in the depths of the ocean. But no matter how hideous and terrifying these races are, no matter how strange and destructive their abilities are, there is always a lot of information to be found. The known is not scary, only the unknown is fearful.
Through the connection of the soul, Richard was able to roughly know the location of the seed, just like the splash of water. And from the soul link, he can also touch the will of the brood. It was a cold, dead world, without any emotional fluctuations. And that's not the most terrible thing, it's so simple that it doesn't have any impurities, and that's eating, and now there's only one word in its entire consciousness. Eat to quickly complete the juvenile stage and then grow.
As for the function of the brood, Richard got such a piece of information, and when he completed the juvenile stage, he would naturally show it.
At this time, quicksand ran over, and took two foot knights with him. Seeing that Richard was fine from a distance, she breathed a sigh of relief and asked tentatively, "What's wrong, it doesn't matter?"
Richard said uneasily, "I just managed to stimulate the seed, and then I got a brood, and now it has gone to forage for its own food." Do you know anything about the brood?"
Richard described the shape of the brood in detail, but Quicksand said that he had never seen or even heard of a similar creature. However, it is not the first time that something of unknown purpose has appeared in the bounty of the dragon of eternity and time, and the pedigree of legendary items has also been enriched little by little. Since the brood has established a soul connection with Richard and obeys orders, there is nothing to worry about from the perspective of magical contracts, especially the god-given contract creatures, and there will be no exceptions.