Chapter 995 Heart of the Swarm

Where is the "useless thing" you promised? !

Hatching is fine, but Angel actually said it was a suspected mother insect!

Kant felt that the defense line in his heart was like a collapsed snow wall, peeling off bit by bit, revealing a mottled and old heart.

"Mother insect? How is that possible! The mother insect died earlier than the deformed soft insect, so there is no way there is a fish that has escaped the net." Kant said dryly.

"But if it is not a mother insect, why can it lay eggs and hatch?" Angel asked in confusion.

Laying eggs and hatching? !

Kant felt the corners of his mouth twitching, "You made a mistake, maybe it is not a soft insect."

Angel was even more confused: "But, didn't the adults give me this egg?"

Kant was speechless. Although he was extremely resistant to the fact that he might have given away a "mother insect egg", he still couldn't help but look into the insect nest.

He was completely stunned after seeing it.

Before he looked into the deepest part, just by seeing the layers of soft worm corpses outside, he had already determined a fact in his heart.

At the beginning, he only gave Angel a few eggs, but looking at the corpses of these soft worms, there are at least dozens of them!

There is no mother worm to reproduce new eggs, which is simply inexplicable!

When he saw the hall with the "snot monster" deep in the insect nest, he immediately closed his eyes, and at the same time, he began to curse himself in his heart for mistaking pearls for fish eyes.

This is the mother worm of the soft worm!

It is exactly the same as what he had seen in the information before!

"Lord Kant, is this really not a mother worm?" Angel asked again, as if fate had opened a bow and shot another arrow, hitting Kant's chest.

Kant resisted the urge to vomit blood and said with difficulty: "This... this is indeed... a mother worm."

"Really?!" Angel's eyes lit up.

"Really." Kant felt extremely uncomfortable in his heart, but he had to maintain the demeanor of an elder on his face, and even praised against his will: "You raise...very good."

Looking at Angel holding the insect nest with a look of surprise, Kant felt that his drifting heart was once again hit by the rain and wind, and was also trampled by people's feet again and again.

He was really blind at the time! Kant couldn't help but blame himself.

However, after the drama in his heart, Kant returned to reality. Was he really blind? Carefully recalling the situation when he got the insect eggs, he actually checked them carefully.

He even gave them to other wizards for identification, and the final result was that these were ordinary soft insect eggs, and the vitality was not too strong. The only thing worth mentioning is that the insect nest is very good, and there is even the breath of the mother insect in it.

Could it be that it was because of the breath of the mother insect contained in the insect nest that promoted the hatching of the eggs, and even a mother insect appeared?

Kant personally didn't believe it.

He took the insect nest from Angel again and prepared to observe it carefully.

When he got serious, many details that he had overlooked before were brought up again: "Why are there so many soft-state insect corpses outside? Why do soft-state insects always stay in front of an invisible border, as if there is a natural enemy on the other side?"

For these two questions, Angell said somewhat embarrassedly: "Actually, it's because I raised a dream-weaving ant that likes to occupy the magpie's nest."

Angel's story gave Kant a general understanding. But it was the first time he heard that dream-weaving ants would eat soft-state insects?

"Although dream-weaving ants are not precious, they have been extinct for many years. I didn't expect that you still have one." After saying this, Kant continued to explore the inside of the insect nest.

This time, he found another important clue.

The inside of the insect nest was full of the smell of energy essence and blood. He searched carefully, and finally saw the reserve hall of Akso's essence and blood on the side of the hall.

"Is this, wizard-level Warcraft blood?"

"Yes, both dreamweaver ants and soft-bodied worms like the blood of Warcraft. Before, dreamweaver ants put the blood under the eggs of soft-bodied worms, which made the eggs of soft-bodied worms hatch."

Now, Kant was even more confused. Dreamweaver ants not only eat soft-bodied worms, but they also raise eggs?

Moreover, Kant knew that some Warcraft blood essences have abundant energy and are suitable for raising magic worms. Therefore, he also used the blood of Warcraft essence to raise these eggs, but no eggs have ever absorbed it. Therefore, some of his friends identified that the eggs were not very alive.

He did not make the soft-bodied worm eggs abnormal when he used the blood of Warcraft essence, so why did Angel work?

Was it because of the dreamweaver ants, or was it because of the blood essence?

Kant shamelessly asked Angel for a drop of blood essence. Looking at the blood crystal in his hand that exuded a strong vitality, Kant hesitated for a moment and put it in his mouth.

In an instant, a strong life force flowed out from the blood essence.

After this life force came out, it immediately formed a counterattack with Kant's own vitality. Although Kant successfully repelled this life force in the end, at the beginning of the defense, the explosive power of life almost broke through his defense line. It can be seen how powerful the energy contained in the blood essence is!

What's more, this is just a drop of blood essence.

A strange look flashed in Kant's eyes, and then he carefully explored the information revealed in the blood essence. After a while, Kant's face suddenly understood.

There is a strong vitality in the blood essence, and its vitality is the rarest among the blood essences of monsters he has seen.

Although this drop of blood essence is as poisonous to a wizard-level life form like him. But for mortals or elementary life forms, the vitality in it is enough to keep people alive forever.

In other words, relying on this drop of blood essence, it is enough to give the insect eggs a continuous and long-lasting vitality.

In this way, there is a great possibility that the insect eggs will revive and hatch.

Moreover, Kant also felt an extremely secret and strange smell in this drop of blood essence. This smell is very obscure, a bit like the smell he smelled in some medical schools when Kant was still a mortal.

Kant couldn't help asking: "What kind of monster blood essence is this?"

"I don't know, but it is said to be the blood essence of a snake."

Looking at Angel's wandering eyes, how could Kant not know that Angel was lying. However, the blood essence of the snake should be real.

Kant didn't ask, after all, he was an apprentice of his old friend, and he also valued Angel's potential.

"This magic beast essence blood has a very good effect on primary life, and can even keep people alive forever." Kant sighed.

After hearing this, Angel remembered that Axo's essence blood maintained Dodolo's lifespan for a thousand years, and even his functions remained youthful.

Thinking of this, Angel couldn't help but think of Jon.

Is Axo's essence blood useful to Jon? Perhaps, after Sanders comes back, he can ask about it.

"The vitality in this magic beast essence blood may indeed allow the eggs to hatch, but I think it's still a step short of hatching the eggs into mother insects." Kant looked at the corpses outside the insect nest, and his heart moved: "Perhaps, the dream weaver ants have played some role in the eggs of the soft insects."

Dream weaver ants also have a promoting effect on the eggs? Angel looked at Kant in confusion.

"According to some records I have seen, although the queen is responsible for the reproduction of the entire insect swarm, its fertility rate is actually affected by the outside world. Generally speaking, the queen will not produce in large quantities, which will consume a lot of energy."

Kant was thinking while explaining. Moreover, as his mind turned quickly, many things that he couldn't figure out became more and more clear.

"However, because of the appearance of the 'natural enemy' of the dream-weaving ant, the queen will reproduce in large numbers, and avoid being threatened by the war of attrition."

Kant said this, and Angel understood it instantly.

Just like a link in the ecological chain, they are both hostile, but from a certain level, they also promote each other.

Perhaps, the birth of the queen was also the result of the dream-weaving ant "raising eggs". Because the insect swarm knew from the beginning that the soft-state worms could not deal with the dream-weaving ants, and their birth would only become the nutrients of the dream-weaving ants.

In the case of unwilling to die at birth.

Therefore, it may be stimulated by some hormones or pheromones that one of the eggs mutated.

And this mutated egg is the queen later.

This can also explain everything that happened later. When the queen insect knew that she was an "egg", the dream ants would not touch her, but nurture her, so she was reluctant to hatch. She kept absorbing the blood of Axo to accumulate strength.

Once hatched, she immediately confronted the dream ants.

It has been maintained until now.

In fact, there are two major prerequisites for the establishment of the entire relationship. The first is the abundance of vitality.

The whole coffin of Axo's blood that Angel got solved the problem of vitality. It also allowed the queen insect to lay eggs in large quantities without worries.

The second premise is the number of natural enemies.

If there are many dream ants, the insect swarm knows that there is no hope of winning the fight, so the queen insect will not be born at all. Even if the queen insect really hatches, it will not lay a large number of eggs because there is no hope of winning.

These two premises eventually led to the hatching of the eggs and the smooth birth of the queen insect.

After understanding the truth, Kant stopped complaining, because even if the eggs stayed with him, it would be impossible to hatch them like Angel, or even hatch a queen.

After all, it was Angel's luck that led to this result.

"I once accidentally learned the name of a legendary wizard of the summoning system, whose name was 'Heart of the Swarm'. I used to sneer at it. How could the swarm have a heart? Now I think, maybe this is the heart of the swarm. As long as there is a glimmer of hope for survival, its heart will not die."

After Kant sighed, his eyes looked at Angel with a little more tenderness.

Although he was also jealous of Angel's good luck, it can be seen from this that his vision was not wrong. Angel not only has great potential, but also has good luck.

"Ahem, Angel."

Angel looked over in confusion.

Kant said with a smile: "Speaking of which, you are the only one among you who has never been to Lilith's House. After you finish your work here and return to the wizarding world, why don't you stay at Lilith's House for a while? It's just right, you and Qili can also cultivate your relationship."

Angel shuddered. Why did he always talk about Qili when talking to Kant?

"We'll see about this later." Angel said vaguely, and then quickly changed the subject: "Master Kant, since this is a mother insect, can it give birth to a deformed soft insect?"