What's wrong with me, a mage, loving to farm?

Chapter 201. The Power of the Mother Nest

"Hoo~ Hoo~"

Finally back to reality, Kroya took a few deep breaths to calm down.

He looked at the exploding mosquito, which had turned to ashes, with some apprehension. This was the first time he had been so disheveled since his transmigration; its terrifying power was simply impossible to resist.

Fortunately, the angels helped, otherwise there would have been no way to get out.

"Thank you... uh?"

He was about to thank the angel when he found the angel slumped limply on the comfortable sofa, its wings drooping listlessly.

"What's wrong with you?"

This was the first time Kroa had ever seen an angel so weak. Could it be that she had used too much power inside?

Yes, that's the Abyss Lord!

Kroya quickly stepped forward, took out her gopher wood harp, and began to play. Three-colored light surrounded the angel, gradually drawing in more white clouds.

The angel's body was like a bottomless pit, drawing upon this power.

"Sigh, get well soon." Chloe played the harp earnestly, completely unaware of the angel's twitching expression and the barely concealed smile on his face.

About half an hour later, He finally sat up slowly, sighed and said, "Lucky friend, I can now confirm that it was the creation that Zul'gamoy wanted to give to the Ring."

Creations from the vast and boundless astral plane.

His condition was extremely weak, and he could barely maintain the light emanating from his body, which made Kroya feel very guilty.

"I'm sorry, I was too reckless."

He truly hadn't expected that there would be something so terrifying inside, something that could even summon the consciousness of an Abyss Lord.

"It's nothing." The angel shook his head and pointed to his robes. "The Mother Nest seems to have given you something. Don't you want to take a look?"

Kroya then remembered that the Mother Nest had stuffed a small insect into his robe earlier. He quickly took it out and saw that there really was one.

"Huh? Wasn't I just in the world of soul consciousness? How can the things it gave me come into reality?"

"...Perhaps it's its power," the angel replied calmly.

"That's possible." Kroya also thought so. After all, it was a special creation that no one had ever encountered before, and it was quite normal for an Abyss Lord to value it so much. It must have special abilities.

He quickly put the matter aside and began to examine the insect in his hand.

It was a plump, white caterpillar, about the size of a palm, with long antennae like a centipede, and it was trying to arch its body to meet Kroya's gaze.

Its small eyes held a pure color, unlike the savagery of the cockroaches, mosquitoes, and monsters beside it; they were very pure.

Simply put, it looks a bit like a baby's eyes.

Hmm... thinking about it this way suddenly makes it even scarier.

Kroya quickly dismissed the strange thoughts and tried to communicate with it, but all she got was an endless thirsty consciousness.

Its hunger was more terrifying and primal than the desire of the Mammon flower, like a wild beast howling for food.

"Are you that hungry?"

After examining it thoroughly, Kroya discovered that the network within its body had completely broken down, and now it was just a small network centered on itself.

It's completely incomparable to the unfathomable network of consciousness within that mosquito from before.

This also means that it cannot be controlled; the only thing that can control it now is itself.

Its name is very simple: "larva".

"Can you grow up?"

"Since you want to eat, I'll let you have a taste."

"Get the food..."

Just as Kroya was about to call for food, the angel reminded her, "I remember it needs magic crystals to eat."

"..."

"Bring me the magic crystal."

Since he intended to feed it, Kroya was not stingy with magic crystals and generously had the Woody Vine King bring a hundred magic crystals, which he then piled up next to the larva.

The angel blinked without saying anything, only a slight smile playing on his lips, waiting to see what would happen.

The larvae used their sharp mouthparts to gnaw and tear apart the magic crystal, eating it piece by piece like starving ghosts.

"Snap, snap!"

With the sound of chewing magic crystals, it quickly finished eating the magic crystals around it, and then laboriously wriggled its body to start gnawing on the magic crystals in the distance.

Kroya's expression went from calm to surprise to numbness.

In the end, he was completely speechless.

Do you... do you have some kind of extradimensional stomach?

These hundred magic crystals were dozens of times larger than its body, and it actually ate them all, even though they were this size?

"Waaah~"

After the larva finished eating the magic crystal, it gave a pitiful cry to Chloe, whose lips twitched slightly.

"I want more..."

"Then continue!"

At his command, the Woody Vine King transported more magic crystals, feeding them to the larvae one after another.

One hundred yuan, two hundred yuan, three hundred yuan, five hundred yuan...

As it ate more and more, Kroya's expression gradually changed from numbness to curiosity. How could this thing eat so much? What was it going to become?

It ate until it had consumed a thousand magic crystals before finally stopping. Suddenly, countless grayish-brown mucus appeared around its body, gradually spreading outwards.

Its body seemed to melt in the mucus.

"It's about to build a nest..." the angel exclaimed in surprise. "It's a complete larva! Quickly, move it to an open area!"

"It's going to become the mother nest!"

With the angel's reminder, Kroa dared not delay and quickly removed the floorboards, taking it into the small world before its slime could overflow.

They also built a structure on the ground that looked like a swimming pool for it to live in.

After throwing it in, Kroya finally breathed a sigh of relief and sat down to wait and see what would happen.

Inside this pool, which is about 100 meters long, wide, and high, the larvae have completely melted into the grayish-brown mucus. Their bodies have become enormous, and they swim within the thin film formed by the mucus.

About half an hour later, the mucous membrane shattered with a "bang," revealing a nest that was extremely similar to the mother nest seen in the abyss of the consciousness network.

It must have been formed from some strange keratin, like a crouching monster, still trembling slightly and constantly spitting out some mucus.

However, its size is much smaller than that of the mother nest.

"Splash~~~"

Centered on it, the grayish-brown slime gradually intertwined to form a fungal carpet that was extremely similar to that of the Yavana Holy Mine, eventually covering the entire pool.

Sticky, humid, warm...

At the same time, some eggs about half the height of a person emerged, with embryos pulsating inside, just like the embryos inside the celestial bodies of the Mosquitoes that Kroa had just seen.

Soon, a scorpion-like creature, about the size of a dog, hatched from the egg.

They left the fungal carpet and pool and ran around, using their sharp mouthparts to tear at the soil and plants, cutting them up and carrying them back to their nests on the fungal carpet.

The cycle repeats itself, just like a diligent worker.

In less than five minutes, the land within a hundred meters of the pool had become barren, and the lush vegetation that once grew there had been cut down by the insects and carried back to their nests.

Those things were all swallowed up by the nest.

Outside the nest, several large insect eggs, covered in slime and trembling, were also found, clearly indicating that something was hatching inside.

"Such terrifying destructive power."

Kroya frowned slightly as she watched the entire process from hatching to the moment when the insects called "worker bees" tore and cut the plant.

Because even now, the mother nest's hunger has not been satisfied; it still has an extremely terrifying and pure desire for food.

This desire grew stronger and stronger, to the point that throwing food in was like adding fuel to a fire; from Kroya's perspective, it was all orange.

These oranges were so unique and pure that they didn't evoke any malice, yet it was precisely because of this that Kroya felt very uncomfortable.

"You've eaten so much, it must have some effect by now."

Kroa walked up to the mother nest and asked it, "What abilities do you have?"

His tone wasn't very pleasant, because the damage this thing caused to the environment and its insatiable appetite were simply outrageous, plus he already had a bad impression of it.

If it weren't for the fact that it hadn't been unaware of anything unusual about its soul and consciousness... Kroya might have roasted the insect.

Perhaps sensing Kroya's displeasure, the Mother Nest immediately replied, "I... these are my inherited memories!"

It proactively extended its consciousness and conveyed some information to Kroya, who was initially somewhat dismissive, but became increasingly astonished as she read it.

These inherited memories actually contain complete structural diagrams of flesh and bones, and they even depict the small, cockroach-like creatures that are actually called springtails.

In other words, it can "produce" this kind of springtail.

Upon closer reflection, this is practically the creation of life!

Moreover, creating life as if it were a golem is unheard of. Can such a thing really exist?

Even Kroya was momentarily caught in a dilemma.

However, it only lasted for a moment. Kroa quickly came to her senses and immediately used the Celestial Spirit Imprint Technique to examine its Celestial Spirit Body and consciousness.

Similar to the previous mother nest, its body also contained countless tubes and chambers, with many larvae swimming in the mucus, devouring nutrients.

The larvae are both individual beings and part of the nest. They all have nodes of soul consciousness within their bodies and are part of the nest network.

"That's interesting."

Kroa continued to delve deeper, this time directly staring into the consciousness of the mother hive, searching for its actively opened consciousness, only to find that besides food, there were really only blueprints for "flying bugs".

Apart from that, it was a blank page.

Given how bizarre this thing was, Kroya decided to add a shackle and restraint to its celestial body.

"Your wish is to obey my orders forever!"

The mother hive immediately expressed this wish to Kroa.

The Astral Imprinting Technique was successfully activated, leaving a golden sun on the consciousness of the Mother Nest, forever illuminating its soul.

With this safety measure in place, Kroya nodded in satisfaction, stepped back, and ordered, "Then make one for me to see!"

"This... I need more nutrients," the mother nest said cautiously.

"I have a way."

"Come with me."

Kroya commanded the worker bees to follow him, then led them to the portal to the Gluttonous Demon Paradise, pointing inside and saying, "There's plenty of food in here, go in and try it."

"Chirp chirp!"

The worker bees made a sound, and then one by one they entered the gluttonous paradise, beginning to carry away all the magical plants and beasts growing there.

They didn't even spare the soil.

They are like the most diligent porters, cutting and chopping everything in sight into small pieces and carrying it to the mother nest.

"It really can't be affected by pollution," Kroya said in surprise.

Although the place is no longer inhabited, the wind, rich in demonic power, still exists and will corrupt any creature that enters it.

After Kevin was no longer there as an explorer, his exploration and development of this place came to a standstill. He never expected that these worker bees, which looked like they could be crushed with one hand, would not be afraid of the demon's aura.

Is this their incredibly terrifying ability to adapt?

Kroa began to observe their body structure, but their structure was unusually simple; if anything, there was something wrong with the outer layer of keratin.

There are some strange patterns and marks inside, unlike any magic patterns that Kroa currently knows, as if they were formed naturally.

It seems to have a refractive effect; the demonic winds were deflected when they collided with it.

He quickly wrote down all the magic runes, planning to draw them on the armor later to experiment with them.

While waiting for them to carry everything to the mother nest, sprinkle salt on it to make sure all the demonic magic inside is gone before sending it to the mother nest to eat.

After consuming half a ton of food, the mother nest's appetite finally waned, and she began to "produce" the species called springtails.

Of course, throughout this process, Kroa observed its changes using the Astral Imprint Technique, watching the larvae carrying the "blueprints" change within the eggs.

These larvae have a very special body structure, with almost unlimited extensibility and growth capacity, and both their skeletons and organs can quickly take shape.

It really looked like a golem "growing" out.

Finally, with a "pop," the egg burst open, and several jumping insects crawled out and obediently lay down next to Kroa.

They showed no signs of violence or pain; they were truly like blank sheets of paper, ready for anyone to paint on them.

Kroya, of course, didn't hesitate to start trying it out.

He wanted to test what level of magic these guys could withstand at most.

Furthermore, is their ability to adapt to the environment really solely derived from the magical patterns on their carapace?

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(End of this chapter)