Chapter 474
Chapter 474 Mystical Bug
Greem was busy working in his lab when an insignificant commotion broke out in the Black Forest once again.
His mental space would experience a small-scale collapse every time he completed the tempering of his Spirit. During this period, he would have to gorge on energy substances to sustain the energy being exhausted while his body and mind tried to regenerate rapidly.
Greem couldn’t help but feel lucky for his current situation.
Magical resources would never be insufficient now that he was in the Black Forest.
There was such a saying spread throughout the ranks of combat adepts– only the adept who best knows how to feast can become the adept who best knows how to fight!
One could understand the attitude of adepts towards food and drink from this saying.
Adepts didn’t feast because they were gluttons that enjoyed the debaucherous pleasures of eating and drinking. It because of the frailty of the human body.
However, Greem was simultaneously tempering his Spirit while using herbs to refine his body. Consequently, the two layers of weakness tortured him to no end at times.
It was important to note that, as an adept, Greem was able to know everything happening within the tower through his powerful spiritual senses without ever lifting a finger. In fact, when necessary, he could even manipulate and change the situation around the Black Forest as if it was part of his body.
However, as his body and Spirit were at their worst state, his Spirit couldn’t be projected, and his body was unbearably frail at this moment. This feeling of weakness that resembled being a mortal gave him the illusion of being knocked back to his powerless days!
As the leader of a faction, he naturally couldn’t allow his enemies or his subordinates to see this weak state of his. Otherwise, unpredictable events were likely to be triggered. That was why Greem hadn’t left the fifth floor of the tower over the past few days. Even Gargamel, who personally prepared the herb baths for him, never saw Greem with his own eyes.
Since his body and Spirit were so weak that he couldn’t display them in front of others, Greem decided just to shut the doors and carefully start research on some projects he had set aside for a long time.
The project that Greem had been keeping up with for the past two days was the strange bug that he had obtained from Spider Cave!
Unlike the mutated Bug Queen, this live bug still evidently possessed its survival abilities.
If the Queen Bug were said to be pursuing parasitic and mutual success with its host, this strange bug would be purely attempting to rob and strip everything of its host.
Greem had removed this strange bug from Medusa’s body. The old spider Tula was the one who had personally implanted it. The spider had hoped that this bug would break out of Medusa’s body and become one of his strongest aides. The most powerful part of this bug was its capability to take the host’s innate ability for its own and convert it into the nutrition it needed to grow.
This robbing of innate abilities could not possibly allow the bug to reconstruct the host’s talents with a 100% accuracy, but it still genuinely shocked and surprised Greem.
A person’s innate talent had always been decided the day they were born; this was true since ancient times. One might be able to improve these talents at later stages with copious amounts of rare and unique resources, but trying to change one’s innate skills entirely was something that was unimaginable.
Greem had flipped through multiple books and historical records after obtaining the strange bug, but he had not managed to find anything on this insect. At least, all of the tomes and documents that Greem had read never mentioned any related incident.
It increasingly demonstrated the value of this strange bug’s ability to rob other creature’s of their abilities!
That was why Greem had set up an independent lab for this bug alone the moment he got it. He gave the Chip full authority to examine and cultivate this bug. Greem gained both good news and bad news after a series of magical experiments.
The good news was that this strange bug could indeed rob a host creature of their innate abilities.
The bad news was that the talents it robbed were shattered and non-sequential. There was absolutely no way of putting the talent back together in its complete form through any experimental methods they could think of.
Even Tula didn’t know what kind of ability the strange adolescent bug would obtain once it broke out of Medusa. Gaining Medusa’s complete petrification abilities was impossible. However, there was a decent chance that a weakened version, in the form of a Paralyzing Gaze, could form.
There probably wasn’t an adept in this world who could clearly explain how a strange magical ability like this one had come into existence.
That was perhaps the main reason why the World of Adepts had always been enveloped in a potent, mysterious force!