Saving the World in an Apocalypse-Style Text Game-Chapter 667 - 334 Dried Replica Umbilical Cord_1

Without a doubt, the ’Crawler Empress’ was the boss with the thickest health bar Lin Xun had seen to date.

A flurry of attacks from several summoned baby beasts, with the Snow Woman being the first to succumb due to exhaustion, quickly followed by the Valkyrie running out of arrows, and thus, losing the ability to fight.

Actually, the Valkyrie could still fight with melee weapons, but closing in on the ’Crawler Empress’ would put her within range of the tentacles’ attacks, and any carelessness could result in instant death.

The Nine-tailed Fox lasted the longest.

The Nine-tailed Fox’s initial release of thunder magic was quite mana-consuming, but under the coverage of ’Divine Thunder Judgment Cloud’, it could launch attacks without consumption, being like a perpetual firepower.

After both Star Lord Canis and the guild leader had collapsed from exhaustion, Lin Xun could only change to the Little Dragon’s shell, transforming into a Hermit Dragon, and spewed dragon breath from a distance.

After his Little Dragon shell and skill quality had been upgraded, the output of his transformed body was formidable.

The original ’Hermit’s Arrival’ transformation, though powerful, was widely criticized due to its persistent burning health cost.

The reason being, in the Little Dragon form, the use of all skills doesn’t consume mana, but health instead.

Now that he has obtained the shell of ’Wet Nurse’, he could use healing skills to lift up his health when the Little Dragon health line is critical, resulting in the dragon form to last longer.

As long as the Wet Nurse’s mana was adequate, the Little Dragon could always be in dragon form.

But there was a bit of inconvenience in having to land from time to time, switching to the Wet Nurse shell and using healing skills...

[...]

[The divine thunderbolt fell from the Tribulation Cloud!]

[You flap your enormous dragon wings and once again spew deadly dragon flames at the glaciers below, with the jet-black scorching dragon breath pouring down!]

[...]

[The ’Crawler Empress’ lets out a spine-chilling shriek which causes the sea to tremble, the light in her huge eyes gradually fading away.]

[In her final moments of life, she casts a malicious curse on you...]

[Damn heretic, do you really think that can kill it?]

[No! No one can kill the child of the Wet Nurse!]

[Its body will become the nourishment for the land of the Divine Kingdom, its soul will return to the embrace of the Wet Nurse.]

[When the next life cycle begins, it will be reborn and when that time comes...It will be your death!]

[You have defeated the ’Feathered Crawler Empress’, with a massive increase in experience points!]

[The power within your shell begins to boil, ’Fire Worshiping Yiye Palace Lord’ shell level increases, current shell level: 70 (+2↑)]

[You have obtained ’Dark Spirituality of the Crawler Empress’ (special spirituality item)]

[You have obtained ’Queen’s Sharp Tentacle’ (material)]

[You have obtained ’Dried Replica Umbilical Cord’ (Legendary Grade item)]

[With the death of the ’Feathered Crawler Empress’, the surroundings suddenly change back into the depressive underground space.]

[The ’Sly Ghost’ wipes a bead of sweat off his forehead, collapsing on the ground from exhaustion. It seems that maintaining the illusion for a long time had a considerable toll on it.]

[You gaze towards the Empress’s body, which is as large as a mountain range in the distance...]

[The ’Feathered Crawler Empress’ shell: The Crawler Empress of the Crawlers Tribe, is one of the first tribal Empresses created by the Wet Nurse, providing an endless supply of ’Crawlers’ for frontline warfare until more advanced feathered life forms are born. The Empress loses value and is forgotten in the deep underground. Match rate 58% (+55%)]

The Empress shell’s compatibility was so low it’s infuriating, Lin Xun had already predicted this.

He tried to switch to the ’Parasite’ shell to use the parasitic skill.

As expected, he received the notification ’this shell is too large and has too many nerves, you cannot parasitize this shell’.

[Your special attribute ’Hive Mind+2’ has been increased, current state is ’Hive Mind+4’!]

[In the depths of your mind, you once again see the colossal consciousness net that encompasses everything.]

[You’ve made a big leap from the bottom of the consciousness web, stepping on numerous consciousnesses beneath your feet...]

[You gradually understand the partial mysteries of ’Hive Mind’.]

[Most lower-level feathered ones and mutated ones don’t have self-awareness or only have very limited basic consciousness.]

[Without an external guiding force, they can only act on instinct, whether to eat, reproduce, or kill...]

[At this point, if there’s a powerful guiding consciousness, they can be controlled, thus controlling the behavior of creatures at the bottom of the consciousness net...]

[...]

"What does that mean?"

"If I increase the level of Hive Mind, can I control other insect people?"

Lin Xun was a little confused, as he hadn’t yet seen any mental control skills that would come with the increase of the Hive Mind level.

He pondered for a while to no avail, so he simply opened his inventory to check his spoils of war.

The Empress boss didn’t drop a whole load of items as he had anticipated.

Defeating this non-game process-intended boss, only three items were dropped.

[’Dark Spirituality of the Crawler Empress’ (special spirituality item): Use this item to gain 800,000 spirituality points. It can also be included when forging shell equipment, with a chance of awakening an extra attribute.]

[’Queen’s Sharp Tentacle’ (material): The incredibly tough tip of the tentacle is an excellent material for making weapons.]

The Empress had dropped a rare special spirituality, which directly used could yield eight hundred thousand spirituality points, plus the forging material to match it.

But the value of just these two items doesn’t quite match the difficulty level of the Empress boss itself.

Lin Xun looked at the final item.

[’Dried Replica Umbilical Cord’ (Legendary Grade item): The umbilical cord is the most precious gift bestowed by the Wet Nurse, the source of the child’s life. The replica umbilical cord has long been weathered and shriveled but holds special life genes.]

[Using this item on an insect person’s shell, you will be able to upgrade a shell of a lower grade than the insect person’s, the upgrade level being one, but the upgrade limit cannot exceed the grade of this item.]

[Using this item directly, you will have a chance of obtaining the actual location of the ’Wet Nurse’s Umbilical Cord’.]

Lin Xun frowned.

The most valuable item the Empress boss dropped should be this ’Replica Umbilical Cord’. Any item that can increase the quality of a shell would undoubtedly be highly valuable.

But he vaguely felt that the second usage method was the real value of this item.

Although he didn’t know exactly what use the ’Wet Nurse’s Umbilical Cord’ had.

But it could be deduced that on one hand, it can consistently increase shell quality, while on the other hand, it could potentially locate an item only with good luck. Comparing the two, the value of the ’Wet Nurse’s Umbilical Cord’ would undoubtedly be higher.

"The Wet Nurse’s umbilical cord... anything connected with the Main God would surely be an extraordinary item."

"Shoot, why didn’t I ask Flandre about it?"

Lin Xun searched the underground space once over to make sure nothing was missed before calling ’Carriage Transport Cockroach’ to find Flandre.