251. Chapter 251: There’s no devil to follow.
Chapter 251 – No Demon in the Successor
The history of the Molten Steel Fortress could be traced back to several centuries ago, this Dwarven Fortress situated on the Rift Valley’s absolute wall was once a symbol of the Dwarves’ craftsmanship and power, but now, it had long since been reduced to a grimy lair in which Spirit Sucking Monsters were entrenched.
The exterior of the fortress still retains the typical features of dwarven architecture, with its solid stone walls, intricate carvings, and massive iron gates.
However, the walls are now cracked with age, some of the carvings of the dwarven ancestors are no longer recognizable, the slime left behind by the Spirit Suckers that have been traveling through the city for years is twisted and blasphemous, and the gates have been torn apart by powerful psychic forces.
But the main city of the Spirit Suckers has no need for such a thing as a gate to guard it.
Because there are not many normal guys who would choose to run to the land of the Spirit Suckers to secretly mess up, purely because the old elf hanged himself too long.
At the same time, almost every creature enslaved by the Spirit Suckers can be said to be the eyes of the Spirit Suckers used to monitor the city, like a steel cage filled with cameras.
In terms of the level of security, I’m afraid that not many other races’ city-states can be better than this one.
The Spirit Sucking Monster Abydra, who ruled the Molten Steel Fortress, was a standard Spirit Sucking Monster consul:
He is cunning, treacherous, knowledgeable, tough, proud, cruel and ruthless.
But nerdy.
Yes, that’s a common problem with almost every Spirit Sucker ruler.
They preach about fighting to rebuild the Il’Asriel Empire before carving out an area of the Spirit Suckers’ lair that is large enough to live in peace, but after ‘turtling up’ a lair they often choose to stay hidden and hibernate for long periods of time and focus on their own intellect and research for a long period of time.
It was as if the other creatures in the nest, and even the lower level Spirit Suckers, were just tools to continue their lives.
Such a direct and desperate solidification of class, naturally will attract the dissatisfaction of other spirit suckers, which also led to the spirit suckers all kinds of ‘underneath the top’ and even conspire to unrest initiative endless.
But unlike the Zhuoer who is also accustomed to the ‘downward spiral’, all the behavioral patterns of the Zhuoer are basically for the purpose of seizing more power, thus struggling towards becoming the main mother or even the spokesperson of Ross.
The Spirit Suckers are more, on the other hand, for the purpose of breaking away from the restraints from the Consuls, and getting rid of the brand of thinking from the Mastermind, in order to obtain more opportunities for reproduction and the power to explore knowledge.
After all, a Spirit Sucker has only two chances to produce an egg sac in its lifetime, and must make outstanding contributions to the pack before it is eligible to dip its egg sac in the Mastermind Pool.
Because of this, any Spirit Sucking Monster consul who has been around for a few years, although the main city under his rule is ‘chaotic’, he can always present a weird order of ‘rule in chaos’, and at the same time, he will always be able to control all kinds of ‘riots’ that break out around the main city. At the same time, for the various ”riots” that erupted around the main city, there was a set of familiarized response plan and the confidence to deal with them perfectly without leaving any hidden dangers.
At least until today, Abydra was so confident.
On this day, he was standing in front of the huge brain pool in the main city as usual, checking whether the tadpoles inside were fully developed, eliminating those that were obviously deformed or had a tendency to mutate.
He also helped those Spirit Sucking Monster tadpoles that had lasted for more than ten years and had managed to escape from the day and night hunting by the autonomous brain nerve tentacles to finally mature to select a body suitable for taking over, in order to help them smoothly step into the adult stage.
This is a sacred act.
At least for the Spirit Suckers.
Every tadpole that ‘successfully parasitizes and grows up’ through their hands can be considered as his child.
Even if the egg sacs that gave birth to these tadpoles came from different members of the pack, they were all individuals who had contributed to the pack.
However, being able to undergo the Mastermind’s ten-year long, almost one-in-a-thousand brutal screening process was enough to prove their health and excellence.
As for selecting a body for them to take over, it was also a technical job that required a great deal of knowledge and experience.
They had to assess each tadpole’s vigor and food intake to match the corresponding brain capacity of the creature, no matter if it was too small or too big it was a problem that would be a disaster for the offspring.
For example, there was a time when a Heart Raider Elder tried to breed a genius by stuffing a member of his clan into the cranial cavity of a young half-wind Elemental Giant for his own selfish purposes.
As a result, the tadpole fused with the brainstem before it could consume all of the host’s brain, and at the moment of awakening, the newborn spirit-absorbing monster and the residual consciousness of the young giant were intertwined in his mind, causing the poor little guy to almost die of insanity.
Even if he survived, he had to endure severe mental pain day and night, until his four tentacles spasmed, and thus became a rare adult who had just earned the name – Spasmodic Pain.
But undeniably, time has proven that that Spasmodic Dramatic Pain is indeed a rare genius in every sense.
And so the Spirit Suckers since then have suffered, as a number of Spirit Sucker ‘parents’ began to fall in love with this ‘pushing the limits’ mode of betting on dogs:
A thousand mediocre Spirit Suckers are just a thousand ordinary Spirit Suckers anyway.
But if a genius is born, or a ‘Soul Eater’ that is said to have six tentacles from birth, there is a chance that the whole group will be able to rise to another level.
The specific operation is also ‘traceable’, that is, to break the traditional pattern of taking over ordinary humanoid creatures, try to find that kind of ‘gifted’ existence, such as high-level professionals, or transcendent creatures, young and old.
Another example is transcendent creatures, young frost giants, or the kind of fledgling dragons that have just broken out of their shells before they have eaten their first meal.
Of course, the latter two were not easy to get.
Especially the hatchlings that hadn’t even broken out of their shells yet. The eggs themselves were hard to come by, and the hatching conditions for the hatchlings had to be met, but the ones that did meet the requirements were like lollipops to a weirdo, overweight in the time it took to eat and sleep.
When Abydra first became Consul, she had her hands full with hatchlings, or rather, with young Drow descendants.
Unfortunately, before he could turn that idea into action and organize a plan to ‘get a shipment’ from Spider’s Nest City, the Drell captive breeding dragon led his own ethnic group in a great rebellion and fled without a trace.
It was rumored that he came back with his people to kill again more than thirty years ago, only to become a legend, much to the good regret of Abydra.
After all, a red dragon that has become a legend is just like a porcupine, so as long as you don’t have a sick mind, you shouldn’t easily mess with it.
Even if he himself can afford it, the mastermind that is extremely sensitive to the environment may not be able to afford it.
However, just as Abydra was discussing and evaluating the development of a Spirit Sucker tadpole from the brain pool with the thought of ‘not contending with the world and concentrating on development’.
A terrifying sound like the eruption of an underground volcano instantly shook the entire Molten Steel Fortress.
Abdera didn’t drop the fragile Spirit Sucker tadpole directly onto the wall, but as soon as she looked back, she saw the entire huge main brain pool rippling because of this huge ‘shock’.
At the same time, I don’t know if it was not too many ‘tentacles’ lost connection at the same time that made the mastermind tissue wriggle crazily as if it was frightened, and for a time, I don’t know how many tadpoles were captured and devoured by the mastermind out of survival instincts, and were turned into its ‘platinum brain’.
Naturally, this also included many mature individuals that were particularly favored by Abydra and even had already prepared bodies for them.
“No!!!” Aibaidra’s expression at this moment would have been particularly resonant if it had been captured by David, who was on his way here – The Scream. If it was a normal loss, Abdera naturally would not even blink, after all, that was considered the normal survival of the spirit sucker, but right now it was purely a disaster that had been inflicted on the fish.
“What the hell is going on! Report back to me!” Abydra’s majestic psychic whine immediately spread through the medium of the mastermind throughout half of the Molten Steel Fortress’s urban area.
Even the Spirit Sucking Monsters had their brains shaken by this shrill whistle full of resentment, and those Spirit Slaves who were doing hard labor in the urban area even instantly ‘lay’ on the ground, most fainted, and a small number of them who were close to the core of the main city died on the spot with blood spewing out of their seven orifices, in a state of shock and horror.
“. Lord Consul, two legendary red dragons, no! Three Red Dragons are in the middle of the melee, looking at their pursuit trajectory may inevitably affect our main city, just now one of the Red Dragon’s ‘Dragon Breath Bomb’ crashed in our main city, although it has been intercepted by us at the first time, but the aftermath of the explosion still destroyed half of the neighborhood.”
“.” Abydra was instantly speechless.
Disputes between the five-colored dragons were a common occurrence, especially when they were fighting over the ownership of a certain lair, and when this kind of calamity crashed into them, one could usually only admit to their own bad luck, after all, the giant dragons, especially the red dragons, didn’t care how many innocents would be affected if they fought.
However, he could understand the red dragons fighting, but what the hell is a three-dragon melee?
Seemingly sensing the doubts from the Lord Consul on a psychic level as well, that witness added his own findings:
“Listening to the roars from between them, they seem to have a similar blood relationship, the cause of the fight is suspected to be a one-sided family challenge, as for the third red dragon, it seems to be the one who persuaded the fight from the sidelines, and just now that ‘Dragon Breath Bomb’ was spat out by him.”
“.” Hearing this ‘unimaginable’ way of persuading a fight, Abydra’s face instantly turned as twisted as if she had seen which idiot had gotten his own excrement on his ovaries when he discharged them next to the sacred mastermind’s brain pool.
Is this how you Red Dragons talk your way out of a fight?
“All Consuls, Elders of the Spirit Suckers, come with me and make sure that this group of Red Dragons is stopped outside of the Fortress city limits.”
He had to fend off this mobile plague outside of his turf at the first opportunity, or else the continued ‘shocking and disturbing’ environment would cause the mastermind to spasm and instinctively eat more Spirit Sucker tadpoles for sustenance.
But he also didn’t have a choice of who to have temporarily watch over the mastermind.
In his absence, the other Spirit Suckers were the biggest threat – they could try to take control of the Mastermind at any time or take the opportunity to eliminate some of the Spirit Suckers’ tadpoles in order to increase their own tadpole reproduction chances.
Just thinking about the two legends that made his brain groin numb, he still added:
“Be sure to exercise restraint and try not to clash with them head-on.”
“Yes, Lord Consul.” A response from the clansmen immediately came from the psychic thought webway.
In the next moment, along with a single step, Abydra had disappeared into the Mastermind Pool Room and appeared outside the Molten Steel Fortress.
[Higher Teleportation]
At the same time, the other two Consuls and the seven Spirit Sucker Elders also teleported beside him out of thin air one after another.
Seeing the three red dragons coming all the way in a ground-shaking tangle, Abydra could only feel his six tentacles trembling for it, and immediately raised one hand to stop it:
“Three Excellencies, ahead is where the lair of our Guido Heart Raider Clan is located, please stop.”
If this scene were to be seen by the bahoos on the surface of the earth, their jaws would definitely drop in shock:
After all, these monsters that fed on human brains in the eyes of ordinary people, once upon a time they would also show such a ‘civilized and polite’ scene, not only did they make a rare declaration of their home, but they even said the word ‘please’.
Christos saw a group of Spirit Sucker Monsters appearing in front of him, and the ones in the lead were actually three Legendary Spirit Sucker Monsters at the same time, so out of instinct, he was ready to go around.
After all, was suddenly killed out of a Seder Ponga juniors Brittany suddenly twisted on, but also ran into David Yutos such a way to follow the ‘watch the fun not to be suspected of the big deal’ but also from time to time cold to send a dragon’s breath to help the fun of the neurotic has already fallen eight lifetimes of blood bad luck.
If you provoke a nest of spirit sucking monsters at the same time, then today not dead how to have to take off layers of scales.
But before he could spread his wings and stop the dragon to turn, he was directly behind David in the air ‘tail’.
Two red dragons iterated together so straight toward the same because of this ‘air crash’ look dumbfounded spirit sucker array collided over.
The survival instincts of the Spirit Vampire monsters forced them to dodge their paths in unison, allowing the two to crash into their own territory, sending out an earthquake-like roar.
“Oops! ‘Lord Ancestor’ why have you suddenly stopped! The impact hurts my brain. Ancestor-sama you’re not hurt, right?” David shouted with a pompous expression as he lifted up his neck which was really a bit raw and painful.
“You get out of here!” Christos furiously lifted his tail, but failed to throw out this ‘ungrateful grandson’ of David.
Until this moment, if Christos, who had the hindsight, did not know that David, this guy, had the temporary intention to utilize to count on him, then he had also lived for nothing for so many years.
Just for this guy in the end what purpose is still not very clear, but in the way of a group of good at ‘reading the mind’ of the spirit sucker monster at the side, he is not good to ask directly, directly simply continue to accompany the play dumb, or else the trouble is even greater.
Farther away from the chase Brittany is old early to see David this kid ‘heart is not right’, until this moment only guessed that David hit the idea of more than half with the group of spirit sucker monster related, only feel stimulating fun, immediately as the battle to the sound of excitement low roar said:
“Don’t give me any show of grandparental love, David you kid give me out of the way, don’t think that you are Pavla’s son I don’t dare to even you a piece of the beat.”
Immediately like a flame meteor toward the head of Christos when the head stepped on.
The tacit understanding of the three succeeding Red Dragons allowed them to continue their battle, but they looked numb to a group of Spirit Absorbing Monsters.
Because just through the information of these few short sentences, they had gotten some information that was enough to make their scalps numb.
‘Pavla’s son’, the son of the Red Calamity, the reckless one that nearly leveled the Spider’s Nest City back then.
The Ancestor Lord that the Son of the Crimson Calamity spoke of, that was more than likely the Darkness Berserker Dragon Christos that killed through half of the Darkness Region back then.
The last red dragon hadn’t heard of a specific name, but, being able to chuck these two chasing and beating .
Strength, can be imagined.
“What to do? Lord Consul .” A group of Spirit Absorbing Monsters that were strong enough to make a surface city-state tremble with fear were also completely blindsided when they encountered this strange situation.
“You guys keep trying to stabilize them, I have to go back.” Abydra said with a bit of a headache.
Because whether the red dragons continued to fight chaotically, or they Spirit Suckers joined in, it would be an unavoidable disaster.
He had to make a trip back first and immediately go to the instinct release chamber to capture a batch of slaves in order to help the Spirit Sucker tadpoles that had already matured to take over their bodies, or else for at least ten years
Otherwise, in at least ten years, their Guido Heart Snatching Demon Clan would have to face the situation of having no succeeding demons!
Meanwhile, while David and the others had attracted the attention of the majority of the Spirit Suckers, the Dragonfather Atilicia and Rune Lord Belkin each played the role of a psychic slave who had been stunned by the previous psychic whine:
A female Drow and Gray Dwarf.
As they lay outside the city, they were moved into the city by psionic slaves who had received the message in a hurry, as if they were worker ants on patrol.
Cold cold cold!
(End of chapter)