Full-Time Magister: The Strongest Summoned Beast is Actually Myself

Chapter 163, Mission Complete

Soon, Lingling applied a special tracking magic mark to the jellyfish maggot and carefully threw it into the bay not far away.

In the dark blue sea, it resembled a transparent spore, gently rising and falling in the surging tides, gradually disappearing from sight.

“We need to protect it before it grows up.” Lingling’s expression was more serious than ever before. “If it is hunted or devoured by other creatures during its evolutionary process, this experiment will be a complete failure.”

"Then why not confine it to one area and feed it at designated locations?" Chen Hao asked, puzzled. "That way, we can control the environment and prevent accidents."

Lingling shook her head: "The evolutionary mechanism of the maggot is not controllable by humans. It must hunt on its own and choose its own objects to imitate. Only by going through the real food chain elimination and natural evolution can it generate the kind of vaccine antigen structure we need."

"If there is human intervention, it will not be able to complete the key stage of imitation—to put it bluntly, it will grow crooked."

"But wouldn't that be like releasing a tiger back into the mountains?" Mu Ningxue said softly. "You just said it might eventually imitate a monarch-level creature... How much risk are we taking?"

“I understand your concerns,” Lingling said, her tone softening slightly. “But we have already used tracking marks to pinpoint its activity range in the sea. As soon as it begins to show signs of a third form, we will be able to detect it immediately and prevent it from growing to the monarch level.”

……

From that day on, Chen Hao, Mo Fan, Mu Ningxue, and others began their mission of closely monitoring the maggots.

Working day and night in shifts, it sometimes sinks into the depths and sometimes floats on the surface, like a strange embryo adrift on the edge of the world, quietly devouring the microscopic floating objects in the water and occasionally catching one or two young demon fish.

If he encounters a warrior-level sea monster, he'll have bodyguards to deal with it, and he can have a feast. Unfortunately, this guy's ambitions are too high; he hasn't yet decided on a role model to imitate.

Several days later, it finally took action.

"It's approaching its target." Lingling stared intently at the tracking water mirror, and with a gentle tap of her finger, a mental waveform diagram unfolded in the water mirror.

Looking over, Chen Hao saw that the maggots had quietly approached the remains of a commander-level sea fish with broken fin bones—it was a gray-lipped fin lizard that had been electrocuted by the thunderstorm squid a few days ago, and its uncleaned corpse was floating on the seabed.

"Is it going to imitate this guy?" Mu Ningxue asked softly.

“No—it only uses this as nourishment.” Lingling’s tone was suppressed. “Its real target should be something far more terrifying.”

As Lingling spoke those words, the mental fluctuation in the sea mirror surged at an astonishing frequency, suddenly rising from a slow, floating motion similar to that of a mid-level demon to an immeasurable peak.

"It...is sinking." Chen Hao frowned, watching the location marker on the water mirror sink deeper and deeper, swimming rapidly towards a deep-sea fault rift valley in the southwest direction.

"That's... the Wuhai Ridge!" Mu Ningxue's expression changed drastically. "The Class A no-sea zone marked on the nautical charts of Spain and Portugal!"

“I should have thought of that sooner.” Lingling’s voice trembled. “That place… is where a pseudo-dragon from the Black Sea dwells.”

"It wants to parasitize that Wuhai pseudo-dragon?" Mo Fan gasped in shock. What an ambitious scoundrel!

"What should we do? Should we stop it?" Mu Ningxue asked in a low voice.

"It's too late. It... has already invaded the body of the Wuhai Pseudo-Dragon." Lingling's face turned deathly pale.

"Is the maggot still alive?" Chen Hao asked in a low voice.

“It’s not dead.” Lingling observed for a moment before slowly saying, “It’s trying to parasitize, disguising itself as part of the pseudo-dragon’s body. It’s a microscopic battle. If it wins, it will successfully seize some of the pseudo-dragon’s functions—but if it fails… all our efforts over this period of time will be in vain.”

"What level is that pseudo-dragon from Wuhai?" Mo Fan asked, frowning.

"It's probably one of the best among the commanders." Lingling gritted her teeth. "We have to do something now, or it will definitely wipe out the evil maggots!"

"You mean...interfere with it?"

Lingling nodded: "We need to distract it, but someone has to lure it up here and create a strong external threat."

"Simple, we'll just have a fight at the bottom of the sea," Mo Fan grinned.

……

In the dark depths of the sea, thousands of meters below, Chen Hao was the first to sense the suffocating pressure.

A colossal shadow, like a mountain ridge in the sea, snaked in, its fins stirring the currents, its scales like metallic night. A pair of cracked vertical pupils quietly opened, staring intently at the intruder.

The pseudo-dragon of Wuhai sensed the unease in the outside world.

The next instant, it roared, and a devastating turbulence erupted from the seabed!

Not to be outdone, Chen Hao unleashed a dazzling holy light in front of him, like a sacred shield that forcefully blocked the turbulent power stirred up by the pseudo-dragon of the Black Sea. Those undercurrents contained fragments of rock and deep-sea toxins; if it were an ordinary mage, they would have already been pulverized by this impact.

"Come on, sea lizard!" Chen Hao smirked, suddenly raised his hand, and several golden rays of light burst forth from his fingertips, like arrows of faith, striking the gaps in the scales near the head of the Wuhai pseudo-dragon!

The Wuhai pseudo-dragon roared furiously, its body twisting and turning, directly blasting away the seabed rocks, causing sand and gravel to churn, as if an underwater volcano had erupted.

Chen Hao, however, had already transformed into a swift gust of wind, instantly swimming upwards at a speed like an arrow released from a bow. As he darted forward, he released one dazzling guiding light blast after another backward, creating blinding beams of light in the deep sea.

The pseudo-dragon of Wuhai roared like thunder, utterly enraged. Its mental concentration, which had been merely a microscopic internal vision, was abruptly interrupted, and its sensory system was fully activated, locking onto the provocateur who had left a light mark on its body.

It caught up with us!
As if an entire underwater mountain range were moving, the massive body of the Wuhai pseudo-dragon stirred up a thousand-meter-long ocean current, causing the entire Wuhai Ridge Rift Valley to begin to tremble and collapse!
Not long after, Chen Hao's figure broke through the sea and soared into the sky.

Almost at the same moment—

Boom! ! !

The entire sea surface suddenly trembled, and a deep blue whirlpool hundreds of meters high suddenly rose up on the calm sea surface, like the tide rushing back before a tsunami!

A surge of black energy, obscuring the sky, shot straight up from the seabed fault, like a rift in an abyss suddenly opening!

The figure of the Wuhai pseudo-dragon finally tore through the sea surface, its enormous body rising like a mythical beast breaking through the water.

"We've lured it out!" Lingling exclaimed excitedly.

"Let's make our move too!" Mu Ningxue's voice was clear and decisive. Before she finished speaking, she was already suspended in mid-air with her arms outstretched, and a white constellation suddenly appeared behind her!
Star trails, star charts, and constellations shimmer in layers, converging to form a vast, frigid galaxy stretching for kilometers!

In an instant, a terrifying icy current spread from beneath her feet, and the temperature plummeted to its limit, as if the entire ocean surface had been frozen by her will!

"Frozen Everything!!"

Mu Ningxue gave a sharp rebuke and swung her hands down fiercely!

boom! ! !
In an instant, the entire Ulanqab sea area froze into ice tens of meters thick, with a radius of nearly one kilometer. The surface of the ice crystals shone with a sharp and holy blue-white radiance, like a mirror battlefield stretching between the sea and the sky!

The waves froze, the black energy vortex was frozen, and the lower half of the Wuhai pseudo-dragon was also trapped by a sudden cold wave, causing its movements to pause!
"Roar!!!"

The Wuhai pseudo-dragon roared in fury, twisting its dragon body, which resembled a mountain ridge, and actually managed to break free from the frozen ice chains.

The dragon's mouth opened, a foul stench swept over us, and the next instant—BOOM!!!
A thunderous aura, as brilliant as stars, erupted from its mouth, seemingly tearing the entire sky apart!

A torrent of lightning, interwoven with pitch black and azure blue, crashed down like a pillar of destruction onto Mu Ningxue in mid-air. The pierced path in the air was ignited with blazing white electric streaks, dazzling to the extreme!
“Xuexue!!!”

Mo Fan roared, and lightning burst forth from his body. The next second, he was like a purple lightning bolt traversing space, crossing the sea and sky, and stood in front of Mu Ningxue!

boom! ! ! !

The breath of thunder crashed into Mo Fan, whose arms were already outstretched, and countless lightning star maps appeared around him. The high-level lightning magic, Silent Thunder Death Ray, intertwined in front of him.

Seven pillars of lightning pierced through the void behind him, intersecting to form an ancient lightning barrier, which blocked the thunderous breath of the Wuhai pseudo-dragon that was powerful enough to destroy mountains!

The lightning crackled, and the shockwave swept hundreds of meters away!
Mu Ningxue was blasted dozens of feet away, her chest trembling violently. She then spread her Wind Wings and stabilized herself in the air, looking at the figure in the center of the lightning!

Mo Fan was engulfed by the thunderstorm and slammed into the ice. When the dust settled, he was already wearing his armor and magic tools, indicating that he was not seriously injured.

"Hmph, you bastard, how dare you ignore me!"

High in the sky, Chen Hao stood at the very top of the battlefield where lightning and cold waves intertwined, with a star map appearing behind him like a holy ring, and seven enormous golden star maps spinning endlessly beneath his feet.

"Light rained down, covering an area of ​​ten feet!!"

He waved his hands down, and hundreds of golden rays of light burst forth around him at the same time, like the eyes of a god suddenly opening in the sky!
That was a three-layered domain of light comparable to the light of a soul, with golden rays of light aimed one by one at the struggling Wu Hai pseudo-dragon like a divine spear of judgment!
"Ten thousand arrows of heaven!!"

Chen Hao roared, and the entire sky seemed to tremble!

The light converged, and thousands of holy light arrows, as thin as silk threads yet incredibly sharp, poured down from the sky like a meteor shower!

The Wuhai pseudo-dragon had just broken free from Mu Ningxue's extreme cold and ice seal, and the aftereffects of its dragon breath attack were still lingering, making it its weakest moment!

"Roar!!!!"

It roared with its head raised, its back scales flaring up wildly as it tried to summon the power of the deep sea to resist, but the golden light arrows seemed to ignore its elemental barrier, piercing down from the sky and precisely penetrating every gap in its scales!
Boom—boom boom boom!!
The beam of light pierced through the body, and the giant beast's shell exploded with layers of energy ripples. Blood and broken scales shattered between the sea and the sky. The deep-sea pseudo-dragon roared mournfully, and dozens of huge blood holes were blasted out of its body!
Its once indestructible pectoral scales were pierced by a bundle of "divine spears," reaching deep into the dragon's heart!

It crashed down!

Its towering dragon body, like a collapsing underwater fortress, crashed into the center of Mu Ningxue's frozen battlefield, producing a deafening roar!
The sea surface exploded, large sections of ice shattered, and the Wuhai pseudo-dragon struggled for a long time, but it didn't even have the strength to roar again.

It stared at Chen Hao with its dragon eyes that had once dominated this sea area, filled with resentment and fear.

How could a mere Commander-level creature withstand the light magic of a Level 5 High-Rank Great Soul Seed? Even a Grand Commander-level creature would likely be unable to withstand it. If it weren't for its dragon bloodline and tenacious vitality, it would already be dead beyond any doubt.

pity--

This dragon body will ultimately benefit the wicked maggots.

"The maggots are about to attack," Lingling said gravely.

Following her gaze, everyone saw that the dying Wuhai pseudo-dragon was suddenly undergoing strange changes on its body.

Its scales fell off one by one.

Immediately afterwards, the dragon flesh that had detached from its body rapidly rotted and decayed, as if something was incubating and surging within it...

"what is that!?"

“Ant maggots…” Lingling’s gaze darkened as she explained, “They are the mayfly form that precedes the Drowning Curse Maggot.”

The pseudo-dragon was extremely weak and had no ability to expel the alien insects from its body.

It instinctively rolled and struggled, but the white maggots were like barbs inserted into its flesh and blood, hatching and devouring it at the same time. Its whole body was bitten by thousands of vicious maggots, its flesh rolled, blood flowed everywhere, and even its dragon bones were faintly visible!
A peak-level demon was thus devoured, leaving only a blackened dragon skeleton.

For a long time, Mo Fan and Mu Ningxue were still in shock, and even Lingling, who had already guessed this outcome, was equally astonished as she watched this scene.

"What about the ants and maggots?" Mo Fan asked.

"They must have gone to provide nutrients to the jellyfish maggots," Chen Hao said calmly, gazing at the deep seabed.

"What do we do now?" Mu Ningxue turned to Lingling, her tone slightly urgent.

Lingling's eyes never left the computer in her hands, the screen constantly tracking the writhing red heat source signal. "We can only wait. The maggot has begun to transform. Once it completes the transformation, we can extract the vaccine core from its body."

"We still need to keep an eye on it. This thing is too cunning; even if it's on its last breath, it might struggle to escape. Anyway, we don't have anything more important to do right now, so we'll just keep an eye on it." Having reached this point, they had basically succeeded, and Chen Hao was too lazy to play any more bodyguard games.

The group quickly arrived at the deep sea area, where Lingling had already located the underwater cavity nest where the jellyfish maggots evolved.

It was a section of the earth's crust entangled with black algae, where maggots huddled, their bodies constantly breaking off white vesicles, gradually forming a kind of dragon-like cavity structure, which was the middle to late stage of transformation.

“It can’t stop now.” Lingling analyzed the data calmly. “If the transformation of the evil maggot pseudo-dragon is interrupted, it will disintegrate its body and explode into a spore swamp… It won’t take that risk.”

Three days later.

Suddenly, a strange biological glow appeared on the seabed, like a ghostly blue flame dancing in the dark depths, signifying that the transformation of the monstrous pseudo-dragon was about to be completed.

"Make your move." Chen Hao's voice was low and deep, without saying anything more.

Mu Ningxue was already waiting to the side. Suddenly, an extremely cold storm erupted around her, and her wings of wind and snow unfolded, instantly freezing the entire sea area!

boom! !

An entire sea area was frozen into a thick ice field. The evil maggot pseudo-dragon and its hatching nest were sealed off. Its huge body was suddenly dragged out of the water by the ice lock, like a dead monster rock, and crashed onto the sea!

Lingling quickly stepped forward and inserted the specially made sensor needle into the body of the maggot-like dragon. Moments later, a red warning symbol appeared on the screen, then turned green.

"It's...confirmed! Its demon gall contains a stabilizing vaccine factor!"

Chen Hao's eyes turned cold, and he raised his hand to strike down with a palm!
Boom boom boom! !

Five beams of blazing white light descended from the sky, blasting the pseudo-dragon maggot, which had not yet fully transformed, to pieces. Its wriggling joints, vesicles, and spores were all burned by the blazing holy light!

Only one demon gall, entirely azure and brimming with life force, rolled out.

The group exchanged glances and then smiled.

"Mission accomplished!!!"

(End of this chapter)