When the Saint comes, she does not collect food

Chapter 640: Slime that eats ether?
"Are you sure you didn't catch the wrong person?" Horn stood in front of the glass-lined iron cage, pointed at the cat-sized creature in front of him, and asked René, "Is this a slime?"

René nodded firmly.

This was not Horn's random suspicion, but the creature in the iron cage was too strange.

In the open space outside the Ether Spire of the Mechanical Palace, there stands a half-human-high glass iron cage.

A translucent creature lay in the iron cage, its body constantly rising and falling, and a puff of light blue, sparkling smoke occasionally spurted out of its ears.

This little thing was hit several times by the factory guards with the holy gun and is now seriously injured, lying on the ground dying.

Horn previously suspected that he had caught the wrong animal because it did not look like a slime at all, but rather like a translucent fluorescent hairless rabbit.

The head of a rabbit, the body of a mouse, the claws of a lizard, and the "nose" of an elephant.

Its most prominent feature is its long and slender mouth, which is as long as its head. Horn squatted down and observed it carefully, and could see the round mouthparts and two rows of fine teeth.

What is very interesting is that its skin is still composed of translucent slime placenta, and you can clearly see the flowing liquid with light blue fluorescence and the crystallized slime core inside.

According to Horn's rough estimate, this tiny creature would be about 40 centimeters long with its long tail, but its actual torso was only about 20 centimeters, only slightly smaller than his boots.

"We've never seen a slime like this before." Schlingman from the Baldhead Club knocked on the glass cover and said with longing eyes, "Generally speaking, slimes don't have the ability to grow teeth, but this one actually has teeth... If you don't want it, can you give it to me?"

"No." Horn refused and asked Robert from the White Mountain Hermitage, "Have you performed divination on it?"

"We divined its origins." Robert shook his head, "but its origins are obviously quite complicated. We tried our best but couldn't come up with an accurate result. We only drew one tarot card out of three - the upright Tower."

Horn subconsciously turned his head and looked at the Ether Tower beside him: "...Are you referring to this tower?"

"Not necessarily. This is not based on the position of the stars, but a complex divination without clear boundaries. The tower could refer to the Ether Spire, or it could represent a drastic change or subversion."

"Can I continue divination?"

"It's difficult. If we continue, we will probably go crazy or become a vegetable before we finish the divination." Robert shook his head. "We in the White Mountain Hermitage are not like the Scales Hermitage. We will not use astrology without restraint."

In astrology, the clearer and smaller the conditions, the clearer and more accurate the results will be. The more complex, the higher the energy level, and the longer the time, the greater the cost and the vaguer the results will be.

Sometimes it's not just the mana that's drained, it's even life.

Therefore, most of the time, astrologers will use fuzzy divination with relatively low cost and low risk, and then judge whether to proceed to the next step of approximate divination based on the results.

So theoretically, astrology's infinitely vague divination can be used to approximate clear results.

According to the notes of Shilov's mother, they found this tower by constantly calculating with the help of vague divination and astrological instruments.

Just as Horn thought of Shilov, the door of the Aether Tower slowly opened, and Jeanna pushed Shilov out of the tower.

"Hiss-"

As if it sensed Jeanne's arrival, the strange creature suddenly stood up tremblingly, stared at Jeanne with its black pupils, and let out a threatening low and hoarse roar.

Horn raised his chin towards Jeanna: "Walk around twice and see how it reacts."

Jeanne rolled her eyes, but did as she was told. After walking around the glass, the strange creature turned around and faced Jeanne, even hitting the glass with its head.

Jeanna showed a look of disgust on her face: "I don't know why, but I always feel that this thing is so disgusting."

Shilov turned her wheelchair and came to Horn's side: "I have tested its body fluids, and it also has the magic-eating bacteria that can discharge electricity. Maybe it is the first generation of Jeanna's followers, just like Lana."

"But Lana gives me a sense of closeness, just like my own sister." Jeanna stared at the little thing in the glass cover, "I hated this thing the first time I saw it."

As a master of the Bald Club who specializes in monsters, Schlingman knows monsters better than the monsters themselves: "This is strange. Generally, monster followers are submissive to witches to a certain extent, and rarely take the initiative to attack witches or followers of other generations.

In this case, why don't you give it to me? I have alchemy potion, heart-warming bread, and red dragon fruit. I will feed it and train it, and I guarantee that it will be well trained."

"I can't give it to you." Among the many secret parties in the Mechanical Palace, Shilov hated the members of the Baldhead Society the most. "Its research value is very high."

As she spoke, Shilov looked at Horn and said, "There is a thin layer of ether in its body. Apart from the Starcast Gear, this is the first time I have seen a creature with ether."

As if he had thought of something, Horn reminded Shilov: "When we found it, he was hiding in the Holy Wheel Machine. It seems that he is dependent on the ether on the Star Forge Gear?"

"Not sure." Shilov shook her head. "But based on my careful observation and speculation, ether is not a condition to maintain its life, but the driving force for it to use spells. So it is not a strictly defined monster. Perhaps it is a new species of creature?"

"Oh?" Schlingman took a step forward instantly.

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Shilov turned her head suddenly, her ears and tail all stood up, her originally calm face almost formed a vicious expression, and a rare "woooo" growl came from her throat.

Schlingmann had no choice but to retreat within five steps of Shilov.

Looking at the "Lightning Slime" trapped in the iron cage and glass cover, Horn fell into deep thought. This special slime could not have fallen from the coconut tree. There must be a history and reason for its appearance.

Especially its ability to absorb and store ether makes it difficult to separate it from the Ether Spire.

Thinking about it carefully, this so-called "lightning wizard" attacked three times in total. The first time was against the disguised witcher. Horn suspected that the witcher discovered it while cleaning the sewer.

The second time was against Lana, but this time it was an active attack, and the target was its "kind".

The third time was the lightning explosion in the textile factory two days later, which was also triggered passively. Judging from the situation at the time, it should have been replenishing ether.

Although it is uncertain whether it has carried out similar attacks in the wild, judging from these three times, its behavior pattern is passive towards ordinary people, and active towards "its own kind".

It should have appeared after Horn and others arrived on the island, otherwise, with the means of Mother Shilov and the witcher, it would have been impossible for them to fail to discover it.

It first appeared in the summer of 1445, in other words, it appeared between the winter of 1444 and the summer of 1445...

Could it be that this thing drank the spring water from the Moon Pond with lightning and turned into a lightning slime?
This cannot explain where the lightning magic bacteria in its body came from. A slime that drank the lightning moon spring just happened to come into contact with Jeanna's feet?
"Keep it alive and give it food, but don't let it come into contact with the ether. Study it first to see what it is." Horn was confused for the moment and had to put it aside for the time being. "Study it first to see what it is."

Several Holy Gunners worked together to lift the heavy glass-covered iron cage and walked towards an independent research room.

Shilov was about to follow in her wheelchair, but Horn stopped her: "Shilov, wait a minute, I have something to ask you."

Shilov was stunned for a moment, then nodded: "That's right, I also have an idea to tell you."

(End of this chapter)