"So, Alaric, you can put a creature’s being in your shadow, right?" Dhruv asked while walking toward the hunting area.
"Yes, master. I can put living creatures in my shadow, but only for two hours before they need half an hour of sunlight," Alaric explained.
"Oh, so after putting anyone in your shadow, what will be their condition? I an, will they be able to wake or not?" Dhruv asked once again.
"If the creature is weaker than , then I can forcefully put them to sleep. But if they are stronger than , they would be awake but couldn’t do anything in my shadow," Alaric explained how his shadow storage works.
"Oh, so you can put those slis to sleep, right?" Dhruv asked.
"Yes," Alaric said.
After asking all the questions, they began to walk silently toward the train track once again. After walking for a minute, Dhruv suddenly rembered that he had forgotten one thing to ask. He looked at Alaric and asked a question once again,
"How many can you store?"
"Depends on the types of monsters I am storing," Alaric answered.
"Let’s say they are the slis we were killing but one or two tiers stronger," Dhruv said as he estimated.
Listening to the question, Alaric began to think for a second. After thinking for about half a minute, he replied, "If they are Tier 2, I can store up to three hundred of them. If they are Tier 3, then one hundred of them."
"Okay!" Finally getting the answer to all his questions, Dhruv began to walk toward his final destination silently.
...
After reaching the edge of the tracks, Dhruv looked forward and found out that where the slis were coming from before was blocked by sheets of tal. After looking at it closely he found that the sheets of tal looked as if they were cut off from the gates.
"So that’s how they are stopping slis. Does that an they aren’t capable of cutting through tals? Phew! That makes everything very easy." Dhruv whispers.
Dhruv was standing there and created a tal base below all those sheets and began to move them towards himself. When he was done doing that he looked at that part of track once again, hoping to see those slis.
But, even after removing the sheets, there weren’t any slis coming from the darkness. Without any second thought, he told Vexar to create a fire torch...
"Fire torches,"
Vexar whispered as a few blobs of torches began to materialize in front of them. Dhruv signaled, and Vexar began to move the torches toward the deeper side of the area where the slis were coming from.
With the light coming from the torches, Dhruv noticed that there weren’t any Tier 1 slis left in the holes. He observed and found out that there were at least thirty slis feasting on the corpses of monster bears.
These slis were different they were at least a quarter of a ter tall while being half a ter wide in length, it was obviously bigger than the slis he was hunting. Its body color was also a deeper shade of li and there was a core within its body. Strangely enough, the tier-one slis didn’t have these cores.
"So, they are feeding these slis these corpses to keep them calm, or is there another motive behind this feeding..." Dhruv thought as he looked at the slis that were feasting on those bears.
There were at least 80 bear corpses in front of those slis. Dhruv was astonished to find out that the gang was even able to hunt those monstrous bears, but then again, the corpses could also be transported in the sa way the guns were done, so Dhruv wasn’t exactly sure.
One thing that Dhruv noticed was that he couldn’t find any crack where the Slis were feasting. A few seconds later he realized that the crack could simply be deeper in the tunnel and didn’t think about this any longer.
Dhruv didn’t disturb the whole gang of slis yet and ordered Alaric to bring one of them here. Alaric listened to the order and did as he was told. He placed the picked-up sli by diving it in his shadow and then let it appear in front of Dhruv.
Noticing that its food was nowhere to be found, the sli began to advance in Dhruv’s direction, hoping to eat him. But before it could even crawl toward him, the corpse of a bear appeared out of nowhere. It stopped its advance and began to eat through the new al.
Looking at the sli, Dhruv thought, ’Let’s see how you were able to reproduce those little slis.’
At first, Dhruv had thought that he had to use the conventional trial and error thod to find out the reason behind their reproduction. But after finding the Inspect-or glasses, he was glad to skip all those trials and could directly look at the sli biology.
The thing he was looking for was the section on sli mutation. While summoning the glasses, he prayed to the heavens that his luck would be good. He put the glasses on and looked at the sli.
[Essence Points: 8]
Looking at the information it revealed, Dhruv didn’t get discouraged and looked at the sli once again. This ti he got luck...
[Mutation: Acid-layered sli skin 8, Efficient Stomach hole 13, Powerful Digestive Acid 5, Regenerative Skin 9, Essence Converter 12, Small Division Reproduction 14, Mind Connection 3]
Dhruv was impressed with the number of mutations this tiny creature had packed in its body. He was even more impressed that it was also upgrading them and not just leaving them aside.
After carefully reading the nas, Dhruv had a tiny bit of understanding of how this creature was reproducing. In the hope of getting further answers to his curiosity, he clicked on the na of the option to get a detailed explanation, but to his surprise, he couldn’t access it.
He tried the sa thing with other organs of the sli, but every ti the result was the sa. No matter how much he tried, he couldn’t access the exact details of the mutations. However, that didn’t stop him from making a guess.
So, through an Efficient Stomach, it can eat and store anything, and then there’s a Powerful Digestive to turn that thing into an essence point. After that, there’s this Essence Converter that lets it turn that essence into the thing it requires to create those Tier 1 slis by dividing itself. With the Mind Connection, it communicates with the little slis and tells them to collect food for their main body. I have to admit, this thing is genius in making itself a baby producer. Hehe hehe, better for .’
With a smirk, Dhruv looked at Alaric and said,
"Pack them up."
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