Synthetic Wizard-Chapter 193 - 136: Divine Beings, Surrender and Rivals
Kasham, rather than being a city-state, is more like a pockmarked and craggy stone pillar.
The towering stone pillar, nearly three hundred meters high, is chiseled with numerous hollows, resembling a giant anthill, with its internal passages even more labyrinthine.
Other than insects that can communicate through pheromones, creatures of other races easily lose their way in this maze-like insect nest.
Overall, it’s a battlefield very suitable for Zerg combat.
It is precisely due to this home-field advantage that Kasham has remained undefeated over the years.
"Ugo certainly chose a good place."
Sunan examined the stone pillar in front of him.
Unfortunately, this place is only suitable for insects to inhabit, and being dug into this shape makes it difficult to repurpose, its utility after capture is limited, it would likely just sit abandoned. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝔀𝓮𝒃𝙣𝓸𝒗𝒆𝒍.𝙘𝒐𝒎
Unless he, like Ugo, breeds a swarm of insects.
Gathering his thoughts, Sunan flew forward, entering the stone pillar.
After Ugo’s death, the remaining insect swarm broke free of control, but still instinctively returned to Kasham, and upon seeing an unexpected guest breaking in, they immediately shrieked and charged at him.
The narrow tunnels were not suitable for golem combat, so Sunan released nearly a hundred Dual-bladed Spiders, dispersing them along the tunnels to start clearing out the remaining insects.
Meanwhile, he was searching for Ugo’s laboratory.
A place as important as a laboratory would undoubtedly be in the deepest part of Kasham.
Sunan didn’t take long to find his target.
At the very center of the stone pillar, a large cavern had been segmented and transformed into a laboratory, Meditation Room, magic training area, and a series of other zones.
Sunan meticulously searched all around, and apart from finding numerous Wizard’s Scriptures in the study, there was hardly any valuable gain in other places.
The last spot was the laboratory.
Among all the areas, the laboratory had the largest size.
In the center stood several large worktables, one of which still had fragments of exoskeletons and dried mucus.
In one corner was a pile of insect eggs, stacked like a hill.
The phosphorescent light from the ceiling illuminated through the pale eggshells, revealing some kind of creature inside, slightly quivering.
Sunan glanced at the insect eggs, then strode over to the worktable, and after searching for a while, indeed found a laboratory notebook.
He immediately opened the notebook and began to read through it carefully on the spot.
As expected, the notebook was mostly about the cultivation and modification of various Insect Beasts.
Sunan skimmed through this content quickly until he came across information about the Funeral Beetle, where he slowed down to read carefully.
As time passed, a look of delight slowly appeared on Sunan’s face.
According to the notebook’s description, the ancient bloodline source within the Bell ringer was not just a powerful ancient Exotic Beast but also a rare divine creature.
There are generally three ways for a divine creature to be born.
The first way is for the Divine Spirit to personally separate a thread of divinity, infusing it into some creature, transforming it into a divine creature.
Many Divine Spirit Church’s Divine Beasts came about this way.
The second way is through totem worship.
In certain planes, some primitive tribes regard totems, or objects like trees and rocks, as spiritual symbols, worshipping and praying to them over many millennia, accumulating enough to birth a strand of divine energy within, awakening sentience, transforming into a divine creature with self-awareness.
In fact, many Divine Spirits started off as this type of divine creature.
The third method is relatively special, a naturally born divine creature with a thread of divinity from birth.
Moreover, this thread of divinity will pass down through the bloodline; once the bloodline concentration reaches a certain level, it can awaken divinity.
However, such divine creatures are extremely rare, and due to the lack of methods like faith to grow the divinity, their divine strength doesn’t change significantly throughout their life.
Nevertheless, even so, these divine creatures are among the most formidable among ancient Exotic Beasts.
The bloodline source of the Bell Ringer is the third type of divine creature.
"This guy’s really lucky to find such a rare descendant of an ancient bloodline."
Sunan clicked his tongue in admiration.
But now this treasure belongs to him.
After reading the notebook, Sunan also figured out why Ugo was controlling the swarms to hunt everywhere.
The reason is still related to the Bell Ringer’s bloodline.
After fusing with the Bell Ringer’s bloodline, Ugo’s lifespan received a substantial increase, estimated to be no less than three hundred years.
The only issue is the need to regularly consume the essence of the Bell Ringer’s flesh and blood.
However, with only one Bell Ringer, it could not meet his dietary needs.
Thus, Ugo came up with a method to substitute quality with quantity, extracting the Bell Ringer’s bloodline and incorporating it into other insects, and after multiple rounds of genetic modifications and screening, gave birth to the Funeral Beetle of the insect tribe.
The Funeral Beetle shares a similarity with the Bell Ringer in its flesh essence, which, after being refined and concentrated, can replace the Bell Ringer’s flesh essence.
By relying on this method, Ugo was able to sustain himself until now.
And cultivating a large number of Funeral Beetles naturally requires a massive amount of food, so every once in a while, Ugo would send out swarms to hunt until a sufficient amount of food was amassed before temporarily stopping.
"Using bloodline fusion to extend lifespan, more or less has its drawbacks in various ways."
