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Chapter 169: Alliance Request for help
Chapter 169: Alliance Request for help
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"This little parasite has been feeding on my Life energy and spiritual power for quite some time now," Ram muttered, as he focused on the Mind Shadow Parasite attached to his heart. With the Consume & Evolve skill saved, he was ready to enhance its abilities.
Through constantly absorbing his Life energy, blood Qi, and spiritual power every day, it had managed to evolve to One Star General quality three days back, a rare achievement at the Black Iron level.
Reaching General Quality, even its shape has also evolved from its initial fragile-like insect body with hairlike tentacles to a more solid form.
It looked more like a large Bio mechanical nanite with sharp legs and multiple wire-like tails that can be inserted into the heart to absorb life energy and Blood Qi.
[Name:
Mind Shadow Parasite
]
[Level:
Black Iron (99%)
]
[Quality:
One Star General
]
[Physique:
2.3
]
[Spirit:
9
]
[Description:
The Mind Shadow Parasite is a unique entity that thrives on absorbing and manipulating the vital energy (Qi, life energy) and blood of its host. Higher-quality parasites can easily control lower-quality parasites in their genetic group.
]
[Skill:
[Qi Drain]:
The Mind Shadow Parasite has the ability to siphon and absorb the vital energy (Blood Qi, life energy) from the host's body, enabling it to increase its own strength and vitality.
]
Over the past few days, under his careful instructions the parasite had slowly detached most of its tails from his heart, leaving only a few connected.
According to his knowledge, there were multiple levels on how the parasite takes control of its host.
First Level - When first injected into the host, the parasite would begin to absorb the host's life energy, quietly growing stronger. This phase usually lasted two weeks to three months.
This period can be considered a safe period for the host before the Shadow Society notices anything unusual or the parasite inside the host body finds something wrong and issues a warning to other members of the society.
Like his current situation, he was still under a two-week period of observation, but even after the parasite evolved twice, without any warning from it, the shadow society never bothered to check on him.
Second Level - Once the parasite advanced to Tier 2 or Tier 3 and evolved to 'Rare' quality, it could start accessing its host's thoughts and memories. This allowed it to gradually influence the host's mind and behavior.
Ram recalled the "distorted" state he'd seen in Sid's status, at this stage the parasite's control could advance quickly or slowly depending on the host's mental strength.
Third Level - At this stage, once the host was fully distorted (with a distorted state above 70%), the parasite could take over completely, merging with the host's soul and evolving towards General quality.
Once the distortion is complete, there will be no host, but the parasite the body and mind its own.
From then on, it could fully control the host's body, retaining any talents and skills the host possessed, becoming the soldier of the Society.
The parasite could even awaken new abilities when it became fully integrated with its host.
If not for the fact that his spiritual power has such a miraculous evolutionary effect on other creatures, allowing him to accelerate the parasite's evolution to One Star General quality far earlier than usual.
It's almost impossible to reach General quality at the Black Iron level by fulfilling the above requirements.
Not only for the Mind Shadow parasite but for any creature, evolving into General Quality is a miracle unless they are inherently born with it.
"Sid's distorted state... it must be at this Level 2," Ram thought. "Once that stage passes, there's no turning back, but somehow Mai was able to slow the distortion progression in them."
Even after knowing this, Ram never bothered to ask them, just because he never had any need for it.
The parasite that's inside his body, even after evolving to General quality, a state where it can completely replace the consciousness of its host, didn't harm him in the slightest nor did the parasite warn the Society about its own changes.
In fact, as he had discovered, the Shadow Society would usually harvest these parasites once they reached 'Rare' quality, then implant them into new hosts, using them to control talented young professionals before they grew too powerful.
To them, Ram was merely a blood bag to nurture this parasite until it was ready to be used on someone more valuable.
If they knew it had already reached General quality, without their supervision on a low potential vessel like him, he could only imagine the expressions they make at that time.
Looking at the writhing parasite, Ram smirked. "If the Shadow Society thinks they can just use me as a blood bag to grow their parasite, they're in for a huge surprise."
He now had the Consume & Evolve skill, and he intended to turn this parasite into a tool for himself, one that could consume other parasites to grow stronger and stronger.
"A natural enemy born among their own species, well it might be a little bit overboard to consume all other Mind Shadow parasites, but disrupting the plans of the shadow society should not be a problem."
Ram thought as he finally instructed the parasite to upgrade to Tier 2, in the process he also used the skill he saved earlier on the parasite, just like when Thorny upgraded.
As soon as he infused the skill, the parasite that was very energetic to upgrade, fell into a deep sleep as it continued to absorb more life energy and Blood Qi from his heart.
Ram allowed the absorption of his Life energy, drawing on his experience from enhancing Thorny, he understood that the Ming Shadow parasite was in a dormant state, yet its body was undergoing a genetic transformation.
"With the continuous influx of my Life energy, the transformation should finish faster than Thorny," As he thought, he transferred the Swarm Spittle Flys, that were flying around him into his space, where they could move freely.
Even though they are Tier 2, they are all gentle in nature and won't cause much trouble living with cavemen.
However, unlike the Swarm Spittle Fly, he carefully stored the Bone Scarab Queen, which was still sleeping inside his housing plant, just one bite from the Bone bites it produces can easily kill an ordinary or Tier 1 caveman.
He didn't want either cavemen or the Bone Scarab Queen to be dead before he could save the skill, according to his estimations, the 'Reconstruction' skill should be another A-level skill similar to the 'Consume & Evolve'.
"Hey, I've been cooped up here for way too long," Ram muttered to himself. "Time to check on the others, see how they're all doing."
But just as he turned to leave, a sudden system prompt flashed in front of his eyes:
[ System Alert:
Lord Bae' Lor of the Dark Riverrun Legion is under attack by an unknown alien Lord.]
[Assistance requested:
Send reinforcements to aid in defense.
]
"Who would be in trouble right now?" Ram's expression shifted to alertness, as he wondered, mentally pulling up the alliance member list.
Just then a secondary prompt detailed the transfer requirements:
[ System Alert:
Do you wish to send your troops to assist?
]
[ System Alert:
Lord can transfer directly without any cost.
]
[ System Alert:
Cost: 10 point source power for a single Tier 3 creature, 100 points for Tier 4 creature, 1000 points for a single Tier 5 creature…
]
[ System Note:
The creatures transferred cannot be withdrawn for at least one hour...
]
Ram quickly checked his available points.
[Source power:
371
]
"Leaving two hundred points for Korrin's daily summoning... that still gives me 171 points to spare," he calculated, there were still more than three hundred points, and all of this was just one-day income from selling the vitality mushrooms and other spiritual plants he'd been cultivating.
While he wasn't particularly close with any of the alliance members, Ram's frequent transactions over the last few days had allowed him to get to know most of them.
Though Lord Bae' Lor wasn't one of them, this request intrigued him. Besides, if things went sideways, he could always escape. "And, watching a fight between Lords might teach me a thing or two about their tactics and powers."
With a smirk, he accepted the request, quickly deciding on which creatures to send.
There weren't many to choose from, but Ram carefully selected a small, powerful team: Korrin, Groot, Linger, Thorny, Nyra, and five recently revived Rare-quality Half-Drows.
Korrin and the other Half-Drows hadn't originally been considered as wood spirits, but thanks to the Sylvan Spirit Rebirth, gaining Wood Spirit Body, he'd managed to recruit them just like other wood spirits.
As Ram finalized his selection, a brief glow surrounded him and the others who were still inside his space. In an instant, they disappeared from their positions and reappeared at the edge of the battlefield.
Ram reappeared moments later on the battlefield, standing next to five other Lords who accepted the Alliance's request to help.
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