The next day, Astera.
Mother Chaleos, as if having discovered so new toy, directed several tightly wrapped dics to carry that hunter who was still in coma but whose complexion already looked much better into Her cave.
Mother Chaleos had never seen such a strange thing; the blood drawn from this hunter actually contained a very peculiar energy toxin.
Yes, energy virus, and it was even the contagious kind!
This virus would automatically react with energy inside living beings, thereby diluting it and precisely stripping the energy away from the living beings themselves.
In Mother Chaleos’s view, it seed as if so kind of creature had evolved specially for drawing out energy inside living beings.
This thing that went beyond conventional toxins interested Her even more than Frenzy Virus of past, especially after She completed Her own mutation and beca special individual among Chaleos, when She was for a ti still sowhat confused about future; appearance of this virus really gave Her so new ideas, and perhaps Her toxins could also be further developed to target energy.
Therefore, after helping stabilize vital signs of hunter and one dic, Mother Chaleos then put forward request to move them into Her cave for Her own research.
Of course, healing them in passing was still no problem.
As for whether this virus would have any effect on Her and little Chaleos, that was completely nothing to worry about.
If it were not that life energy inside human bodies in this world belonged to bottom tier, and that life energy, which was already not much, was stripped away by virus, causing bodily functions to rapidly fall to freezing point.
This kind of energy virus that could not even poison large monster would fundantally not be big problem.
Moreover, in solutions Mother Chaleos had obtained after using super brain for ti being, She had two counterasures.
First was, through dicinal mist, to continuously inject into hunter energy within range he could bear, thereby offsetting life energy loss caused by energy virus, and then relying on hunter’s own physical constitution to tabolize these toxins.
Second was most commonly used fighting poison with poison!
Toxins likewise were also one kind of energy; as long as toxicity was sufficient, after these viruses absorbed toxin, they would naturally die along with it, and because viruses were absorbing toxin and reducing toxin’s toxicity, as long as antidote was prepared, hunter also did not need to worry about dying under toxin.
After receiving Chaleos’s assurance, Commander also completely let out long sigh of relief; looking at Chaleos’s delighted appearance, he knew this plague probably would not be able to spread, and Astera could be considered to have successfully avoided one disaster that had not yet broken out.
“Then next is matter of investigation, Wildspire Waste, huh? It really is troubleso!”
It was also unknown whether this trouble in Commander’s mouth referred to that red bug, or that Elder Dragon nad Malzeno that chanic had ntioned.
Very soon, one investigation squad led by Huntsman, fully ard, rode wingdrakes and flew toward Wildspire Waste; on their waists, several Grimalkynes of Wasteland Protectors Tribe firmly grabbed their belts to guide them.
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On Ancient Tree, Logan rarely licked his own dragon egg; although he was sowhat annoyed that this little fellow not yet born had divided much of Aki’s attention, after all, being father for first ti, he was still very much looking forward to this little fellow’s birth.
At side, while eating, Aki watched Logan here; seeing peaceful appearance of Logan and dragon egg, she finally put down a bit of vigilance.
She had heard so Rathians say that so Rathalos, because they were fathers for first ti, would sotis act nervously, always feeling they had lost their mate’s attention, and thus would inexplicably develop so hostility toward dragon egg.
Therefore, before Rathalos completely adapted to family having new mber, Rathian would guard dragon egg very tightly.
In addition, this egg was sothing Aki had managed to conceive and lay only after many years, so she naturally did not wish even slightest problem to appear.
As for not trusting Logan, was it not because several nights Logan had always wanted to take egg out of nest? That jealous, jealous appearance truly made Aki unable to trust him.
To this, Logan also had nothing good to argue; anyway, he had already thought it through—at most five or six years, Aki’s attention would naturally return to him, and by then true love would still be true love, and child would beco one accident.
On Ancient Tree, Logan’s small days continued pleasantly.
Inside hollow of Ancient Tree, that Qurio larva had, with passage of ti, completely changed appearance, its body size had increased quite a bit, and it was no longer in that state of possibly dying at any mont.
In appearance, apart from enlarged body size, its body basically showed no trace of Qurio; overall color tone beca interwoven blue and silver, its ferocious mouthparts gradually beca flattened, evolving toward direction more convenient for sucking tree sap, and edges of one pair of ice-blue wings also revealed crystalline form resembling Terastal shoots.
And such changes had not completely stopped; under influence of miraculous life energy and that domineering Terastal energy, its way of survival would still further complete its tamorphosis until it thoroughly adapted to and relied on Ancient Tree environnt.
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As days passed, inside Ancient Tree, cat carrying dicine basket on back followed behind young ancient Wyverian and, according to thod it had learned for picking Terastal sprouts, picked one Terastal sprout that looked very plump and moist and put it into dicine basket on its back.
In these years, ever since first Terastal sprout was discovered by ancient Wyverian prophet, large numbers of Terastal sprouts had gradually begun to appear on Ancient Tree. The closer it was to top of Ancient Tree, the more of these things there were, and there were even faint signs of them spreading toward canopy layer outside tree hollow.
Later, as research on Terastal sprouts deepened, it was discovered that this thing not only very much matched material requirents of ancient Wyverian alchemy but also possessed excellent heat resistance and softness, and thus was also widely used in construction of Fire Wyvern nests.
“Eh? What is this, ow? A bug I have never seen before, ow.”
After cat used small knife to assist in snapping off that top part of one Terastal sprout, it discovered, hidden under leaves, insect eggs each as long as two centiters, and a bug whose whole body was silver, with shell almost crystal-like transparent and blue patterns on its body, was lying quietly beside these insect eggs.
Its short proboscis was at this mont pierced into leaf, continuously sucking sap.
The cat could even clearly see, through its body, sap in leaf flowing along proboscis into bug’s body.
“Aaaah! It is a pest, ow!!”
Almost in next second, this cat classified this bug, directly putting it into pest category.
Terastal sprouts had already appeared for several years, and cats had once tried to use residue left after alchemy to cultivate bugs, to see whether they could increase output of bugs or cultivate new varieties.
As result, after series of experints, they found that they simply had never seen any bug that would be interested in this thing; even the least picky Bitterbug would not take a single bite.
This result made cats both fall silent and breathe sigh of relief.
Although they did not obtain expected result, it also ant that in future they did not need to send manpower to carry out pest-protection work on Terastal sprouts, this kind of “strategic resource” in mouth of ancient Wyverian prophet.
But now, what was it seeing!!
A “pest” had actually appeared without them knowing!!
It could not tolerate this, ow!
Cat raised small knife in hand, just about to bring it down and smack this hateful pest to death, when voice of ancient Wyverian youth leading team ca from above its head.
“Wait!”
Ancient Wyverian youth stopped cat’s movent and, under cat’s puzzled gaze, carefully squatted down beside this bug, afraid that if his movents were too big, he would startle this bug.
Ancient Wyverian youth pushed up glasses on bridge of his nose, carefully sensing energy flow of bug in front of him.
As assistant of ancient Wyverian prophet, he likewise possessed extrely high alchemy talent, and thus deeply understood special nature of Terastal sprouts.
As special product that Terastal sprout, produced by Ancient Tree mutating under influence of Boss Fire Wyvern’s mighty power in order to adapt to existence of Boss Fire Wyvern, this thing could be said to be one brand-new species.
This kind of brand-new species, logically speaking, should not so quickly have insects appear that live by sucking its sap.
Moreover, in his perception, energy inside this bug was actually exactly sa as Terastal sprout, perfectly accommodating mixed life energy inside Terastal sprout.
Research value of this bug seed a bit high, ah.
Thinking of this, ancient Wyverian youth quietly stretched out hand, attempting to grab this bug from back.
Suddenly, bug that was happily feeding sensed movent of ancient Wyverian youth, and sucking behavior instantly stopped.
In next second, crystallized part along edge of wings swept across one streak of energy sheen.
“Careful, ow!”
Cat made flying pounce, grabbed ancient Wyverian youth’s arm, gave strong pull, and then saw palm of ancient Wyverian youth brush past edge of folded wings that bug had suddenly opened.
“Sss! So hot!”
Slow-to-react ancient Wyverian youth sharply drew in breath of cold air and looked at that one small bright-red mark on withdrawn palm; this had only just brushed past and had not completely co into contact with bug’s wings.
Otherwise, he feared it would not just be one red streak but would have been directly burned!
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