Even if I can't find Spitting Thorny Flower, my trip was already worth it, as I entered into Lifeblood Geass Contract with Crom Cruach. The only thing I need is to provide him enemies, to fight, and he will aid me in my endeavors... which was a good deal for me.
Crom Cruach and this contract with him will become my trump card for upcoming events. It would be for the best if he reached Heavenly Dragon-Class soon enough, which was near him. Only If I was stronger could I take him as my subordinate, but that would require at least Super-Devil Class strength.
For now, I will be satisfied with what I have.
Thus I started searching for the Spitting Thorny Flower. And truth be told, searching for one plant-type familiar monster in a huge place like Familiar Forest was a nightmare. Thus I have decided on another kind of strategy.
I took out several corpses of Low-Class Fallen Angels I had killed during the skirmish, dropped them on the ground, and then concealed myself.
Spitting Thorny Flower would be lured here by the aroma of fresh corpses it could eat to strengthen itself, and at that moment, I may bind it.
After waiting for nearly one hour, I finally found what I was looking for.
A huge two-meter tall green plant that looked like an ordinary carnivorous plant, with just one exception, that it was huge.
I looked at the plant as it stared at the corpses of the Fallen Angels cautiously, looking around and checking if this was not a trap. Seeing this, I waited for a little and decided to reveal myself when it started eating them, as then, It couldn't escape quickly.
After several minutes, the Spitting Thorny Flower started slowly enveloping the corpses of the Fallen Angels in vines, absorbing them into its body; as I slowly canceled the stealth spells, I cast over myself and revealed my presence.
Spitting Thorny Flower looked surprised and alarmed, but I soon took out another corpse of Fallen Angel and threw it to the Spitting Thorny Flower as a sign that I was not an enemy but a friend.
The intelligence of the Spitting Thorny Flower was rather low; it increased with each evolution; from what I have heard that in higher evolutions, it could be far more intelligent than the average human and even gain a humanoid form.
Spitting Thorny Flower looked at me curiously before taking a step closer to me while still looking at the corpse of the Fallen Angel that I had thrown her.
Making a contract with Familiar wasn't that easy thing. The Familiar Monster needs to have some level of trust in the person who wishes for the contract. Some Familiars were hard to gain their trust, and fortunately, in the case of Spitting Thorny Flower, it was rather easy.
As long as I had food in the form of corpses, gaining the trust was just a matter of time.
After half an hour, just like I had thought, the Spitting Thorny Flower started being relaxed around my presence, so I used a binding magic spell. If the Spitting Thorny Flower accepted it, then I would gain a Familiar.
Suddenly, a faint light appeared, and I felt a bond being created between Spitting Thorny Flower and me.
"Excellent. Architect, scan the Familiar."
I said with satisfaction.
[As you wish.]
Answered Architect as he did the scan on my newly obtained Familiar.
[Race: Spitting Thorny Flower
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Level: Minion
Magical Power: 5
Strength: 15
Agility: 4
Vitality: 24]
While I looked at it, it was terribly slow; it had terrifying Vitality and even Pinnacle-Level Strength for the Minion Level.
Its Magical Power was pathetic, as was the Agility, but that Vitality... it has broken the limit. Apparently, the Vitality was the specialization of the Spitting Thorny Flower.
"How long before you reach the next level and Evolution?"
I asked the Spitting Thorny Flower. The next evolution would increase the limit to the Commander Level.
Spitting Thorny Flower released several incomprehensible sounds for a normal person, but I was a bonded master who was able to understand them perfectly.
"So around 2,000 to reach Pinnacle Warrior Level and to initiate next Evolution, the maximum you can digest?"
I said grimly. Damm, the consumption of corpses was too much. I just don't want to imagine how much it would increase in later evolutions; apparently, the higher evolution, the higher need for fertilizer.
Or I could feed it something like corpses of Dragons; I thought about that as a joke. If I find the dragon's corpse, maybe I will give it to the Spitting Thorny Flower.
"Okey... fortunately, the war is coming, so there is no need to worry about fertilizer. Come, you can let your roots in the Fuerig Castle, and I will bring all corpses you want there."
I just wonder how much rivers of blood and mountains of flesh must have Shiva invested into his familiar to evolve into Golden Crown Flower Queen or whatever that evolutionary stage is called.
Though Shiva is God of Destruction and his wife is God of Slaughter, for them to find and destroy some planes in the Dimensional Gap to feed that plant is ordinary matter.
The Spitting Thorny Flower nodded its two large flower heads, hearing my words, and started moving behind me as I opened the teleportation portal to Castle Fuerig. Now I can do the such spell, as I don't need to worry about Tiamat finding me for trouble, as she surely has her hands full with Crom Cruach making havoc there.
As I watched the Spitting Thorny Flower disappear into the teleportation. Then I looked into the distance, as I sensed huge fluctuations of the wild, magical power from there.
"So they started fighting. Maybe I could go observe... nah. I could be mistaken for the enemy."
I said to myself as I also entered the teleportation spell and disappeared from the Familiar Forest.