Saving the World in an Apocalypse-Style Text Game-Chapter 633 - 319: War Incubation Field = Monster Spawning Sacred Ground?_2
[The energy called ’Qi’ surges rapidly within you, and you tightly grip the hilt of your sword...]
[A dazzling sword light flashes by!]
[The Lord suddenly stiffens, his writing abruptly halted.]
[Cracks appear at the center of his pale mask, seeping a trace of blood.]
[The Lord collapses onto the table, his limbs quaking convulsively for a while before ceasing to struggle...]
[You have defeated the ’Feathered Lord of the Hatching Ground’, gaining a slight increase in experience.]
[You obtained ’Enlightening Shard of Spirituality’ x1.]
[You look at the fallen dead body...]
[’Shell of the Feathered Lord of the Hatching Ground’: The Lord manages the hatching ground, with the primary duty of breeding soldiers according to the demand of the frontline war using the ’War Broodmother’. He died due to a fierce sword light that destroyed his neural brain. Compatibility: 83% (+55%).]
[Do you wish to possess this shell?]
"The compatibility is just three percent above the passing line..."
Normally, he can possess humanoid monsters as long as they are not too large, even if they look somewhat abstract.
But the monsters in this Chapter are indescribably strange; they only look slightly human when cloaked in grey robes. If they were to undress, even Picasso would declare them abstract.
Lin Xun realized that he must enhance his soul talent. Otherwise, he would not be able to possess larger bosses or thoroughly feathered monsters.
[You possess the ’Shell of the Feathered Lord of the Hatching Ground’!]
[The fragmentary memories remaining in the shell gradually revive...]
[...]
[You are one of the many Lords of the Hatching Grounds in the Divine Kingdom, overseeing a lower-rank hatching ground on the border.]
[Although the level of your hatching ground is not high, your responsibilities are incredibly important as every Lord of the Hatching Grounds carries out a vital role.]
[The frontline war with the demons is fierce and deadlocked. Every day, a large number of soldiers from all over the Divine Kingdom are deployed to join the brutal war against the demons.]
[The hatching ground you manage is a crucial site for producing lower-rank soldiers.]
[Rumor has it that the war against the demons has reached a fever pitch, and many ’Giant Termites’ transporting soldiers to the front lines have died from exhaustion...]
[The demons truly deserve to die!]
[Today, you received a document from the Holy Nest’s center...]
[The document clearly states that recently, the ’Scythe Soldier’s consciousness has been out of control, often resulting in soldiers killing each other on the frontline.]
[The Holy Nest’s center requests you to adapt the breeding target in your hatching ground to ’Shell Defenders’. The next time soldiers are transported, at least five hundred ’Shell Defenders’ are required...]
[...]
[The fragmented memories end here.]
"The war with the demons... So, on the Divine Kingdom’s front lines, feathered monsters are fighting with mutated monsters."
Lin Xun notes the term ’consciousness out of control’ in the memories. He can’t help but recall the mad guards he encountered in Tentacle City.
When he previously acquired the special attribute ’Hive Mind’, the description mentioned the devouring of black and white consciousness networks.
He suspects that ’consciousness out of control’ might be related to this.
He opens the panel to check the attributes of the ’Lord’.
The stats of the Lord’s shell is stronger than that of a guard, but to Lin Xun, it is still a crappy shell.
What catches his attention is a skill he had never seen before—’Primary Feathered Breeding’.
[’Primary Feathered Breeding’ (Rare Level Skill): An extremely profound breeding adjustment skill. With this skill, one can manipulate the corresponding level of ’War Broodmother’, resulting in mass reproduction of feathered creatures.]
[Note, there is a small chance of mutation during the breeding process.]
Lin Xun’s eyes light up.
"Sss... This place seems like a great spot to spawn monsters!"
The underworld game typically adheres to the ironclad rule that a monster will not respawn after being killed three times, but the War Incubation Field appears to break this rule.
The quality of his shell and equipment rank surpass those of Apostles of the same difficulty level, but his shell level falls far behind.
There was nothing strange about this, ordinary Apostles would spend a lot of time at the same difficulty level, clearing Chapters several times or even dozens of times, hence accumulating far more experience points than Lin Xun.
However, a high-quality Shell had an extremely abnormal growth curve. Even if it was far behind in terms of levels, it could still surpass ordinary Apostles in actual combat power, not to mention his divine equipment and divine skills.
For Lin Xun, beating Apostles of the same difficulty level was commonplace.
Setting aside the experience rewards from killing monsters, his attention was on the spiritual essence they provided.
If he didn’t use the ’Coronet of the Star Lord’, based on past drop rates, he would have to kill a dozen or even dozens of mobs to get spiritual essence.
The second wave of mobs would only drop junk, and the third wouldn’t drop anything at all.
But after using the ’Coronet of the Star Lord’, the drop rate of spiritual essence was between one-third to half.
And even on the second wave of mobs, there was a small chance of dropping spiritual essence.
Lin Xun had previously killed a guard in ’Tentacle City’ and obtained ten thousand points of spiritual essence.
If the ’War Incubation Field’ yielded five hundred guards, even if only one-third dropped spiritual essences, the resulting total would be a substantial amount.
"I’m rich!"
After searching through the lord’s room and finding nothing, he began to implement his monster-farming plan...
Operating the lord’s shell, all the guards in the hatching ground obeyed him.
He spent a lot of time and finally explored every corner of the hatching ground.
There were a total of five ’Primary War Broodmothers’ in the hatching ground. As he approached, he could use the ’Primary Feathered Manipulation’ skill to control them.
Not only could this skill change the type of soldier the War Broodmother spawned, but it could also adjust their spawning speed.
However, the limitation was not the spawning speed of the War Broodmother, but the ’Hatching Pods’.
There were only a hundred hatching pods in the hatching ground, and it took about a week for a guard to grow from birth to maturity.
In other words, he could only farm monsters every seven days.
It didn’t seem efficient, but remember that ’Tentacle City’ was just a small town on the outskirts of the Divine Kingdom, and there must be other larger towns in the Divine Kingdom.
If every town had a ’War Incubation Field’, the benefits would be absolutely amazing. 𝐟𝗿𝐞𝚎𝚠𝐞𝚋𝕟𝐨𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝕔𝕠𝚖
"Phew, let’s first clear out all the monsters here!"
The hatching ground itself had more than thirty guards on duty who all wore shell masks, and looked like they weren’t just fodder for the front lines.
Using his identity as the ’Lord’, Lin Xun quickly disposed of all the guards in batches.
Just these guards resulted in tens of thousands of spiritual essence income.
Then he attempted to break open the flesh membrane and kill the immature guards in the ’Hatching Pods’.
Forcibly opening the pods triggered a large alarm in the hatching ground, but at this time, the only things left in the hatching ground were some immobile War Broodmothers, so naturally no one came to stop him.
Lin Xun killed several sleeping guards in the pods and got a tiny amount of experience value but without any spiritual essence.
So it seemed like he had to wait for the harvested crop to mature rather than reap them prematurely.
After manipulating the War Broodmother with the lord’s shell, he learned that these wave of guards would mature in less than a day.
The one referred to as ’Maggot Man’ was a result of a failed alteration from ’Primary Feathered Manipulation’.
There was a slight chance that successful alterations would result in spawns of elite monsters, but unfortunately, none of the guards in this batch were elites.
Lin Xun decided try breeding a different type of soldier after clearing out these guards tomorrow.
Amongst the options of low-level soldiers in the War Broodmother, besides the existing guards named ’Scythe Blade Soldiers’, there were several other types, perhaps the spiritual essence dropped by other monsters would be even higher.
After exploring the hatching ground, it was already late at night.
He logged off the game, deciding to log in again tomorrow morning.
By that time, the guards in the hatching field should be mature, and that unique ’Maggot Man’ would also have hatched.
He wondered if a special event would occur when facing a ’Maggot Man’ who was also human.
"Why do I feel like I’ve turned a monster-levelling game into a farming simulation?"
"Look at it from a different perspective. It’s rare for such a dark game to allow me to farm efficiently, I should seize this opportunity!"
