Chapter 255 - Swarm.

"I think you might have a lot of questions about the magical beast you guys killed? Don't worry I have no reason to lie to you Ulric, despite not being your mistress's friend I am far from being your enemy and this time we were both on the same side."

"The magical beast is called sxest the devourer of all that is alive, well, at least that was the title this species gained from being created by a god of chaos and a demon god."

More gods than cool.

"That title doesn't seem to fit a magical beast that died in that hole, even if it were a cub it was too weak to have the title 'devourer'. As far as I know, this is a title only given to creatures responsible for the death of billions of living beings or more in polka time."

"You're not wrong, what you faced was a sxest, but comparing it to first generations of sxest and ridicule for different reasons and like comparing a silver core warrior to you, both are warriors of the same species, but no one will think that you are remotely similar or of the same potential and power."

"The sxest are divided into three major levels or forms, mother of the nest, mother of the swarm and queen of the swarm. I guess it goes without saying that each of these levels has very different power and characteristics, the first level can barely have the power of a level three beast as the last level starts when sxest is at level six, only becoming a queen from the swarm she can release the power the gods wanted to give to this magical beast."

"A fully developed sxest and a catastrophe of the divine level, few creatures as dangerous as her and obviously the good and neutral gods were not at all happy when the first sxest became a swarm queen and after a terrible war the species of sxest was almost extinct, but this is a species with an incredibly strong adaptive power."

Now he's going to tell me how the sxest was reduced to nothing, but the part of the story that's really interesting he didn't tell me. As far as I know a demon god is not a god who is interested in creating life even though that life is only for the purpose of consuming any other living thing, but it's not like I'm an expert on demons.

"The sxest you killed can't even be considered a nest mother in my opinion, it doesn't have the greatest characteristic of a sxest that is the adaptability."

"But because she doesn't have the adaptive capabilities a sxest should have, so I can extrapolate sxest devour what's around them to strengthen their descendants, right?"

"Very observant on your part, the adaptation of a sxest is not only in its body but in its offspring, a sxest usually only has two elements in its first phase, the life and death elements, but when it progresses to a swarm mother a good chance of getting a new element and when she becomes a queen the chance of one more element being added to her body."

This is scary, but a four-element creature should be anything but common plus the information it tried to hide or just didn't focus on and that a sxest can have more than four elements which would be a real show in my opinion.

"But before you think sxest has a lot of combat power I have to tell you that the death and life elements in her body are slightly different, she has a very unique way of using her initial two elements which are usually the only ways that a sxest uses its initial elements."

"The life element is used to heal and modify its offspring and the death element to drain its victims and absorb the dead bodies and their offspring, but the latter is generally only used by the most nest and very few swarm mothers. The ancient scholars came to the conclusion that the more complicated sxest's offspring the more energy it has to expend to absorb them with its death element and make them reborn with its life element, so only when sxest's offspring are simple this type event happens, a good example was what happened with your team, several waves of magical beasts and a great system and defense."

"I'm not so sure about that, because with your explanation and how a sxest acts I'm sure now that the sxest we faced didn't die directly from the heat or the smoke. She must have died because her vitality was all used to raising her offspring as a defense mechanism to survive the onslaught she was under, she literally dried to the bone to keep creating the little magical beasts that strengthened a little every time they were reborn, in the end this characteristic doomed the sxest to die."

"I have the same opinion as you, but the reason it happened is because that sxest wasn't one hundred percent natural, as I said before this was an experiment. The idiot kingdom researchers think they can seal off some of the sxest's ability to devour and adapt to use them as a weapon during the next war, small nests in strategic locations would damage the enemy kingdom's logistics and be a great distraction for the troops from the attacked realm concentrate on clearing their realm of the terrible magic beast and as a bonus, the realm's civilians will be scared and panic will spread throughout the attacked realm."

This is a very risky plan in my opinion and from the mage's tone he obviously thinks this plan sucks, but by the result of our confrontation with sxest the chances of this plan being implemented decrease it by a large margin.

"I think this is complete stupidity, sxest was something created by a god of chaos and a demon god to devour and assimilate is the strongest nature of sxest, if the realm decides to use them as a weapon and it's only a matter of time before they leave of control and bites the idiots who created them in the first place. What do you think of this Ulric? Are you for or against using this tactician uncle in the next war?"

"Contra, obviously this is doomed to go wrong. From what I can see modified sxest needs to be planted and fed to be able to develop and this must be a tricky and risky task to do inside enemy territory and even if you succeed in all that part you will still have to spend and risk the life of your troops to clear the sxest after taking the kingdom, i doubt they can completely control the actions of a sxest and her offspring so they will be tumors that the owner or new owner of the land will have to take care of and that's more a waste of resources, thinks using poisons in enemy territory is cheaper than creating a monster outbreak there."

"Your opinion is very similar to your teacher's, I don't care if I should be surprised by it or impressed since you haven't been influenced by her for a long time, but she probably chose you because you have a mind that works similar to Is it over there. One more big problem with using poison in this way, this is something done by evil god worshipers and doing this openly would be like putting a sign in my kingdom city saying we are hiring evil god worshipers and obviously the churches and temples of neutral and good gods are not going to be happy or put up with that kind of behavior."

"Although sweating a magical beast created to destroy all life is less taboo than using poison on a large scale, if you analyze the situation from a lie, it's ridiculous that sweating sxest fears the slightest chance of attracting divine problems to ours. Kingdom. That's because sxest as a weapon I've never been used before maybe after using them as a weapon of war for sure and it starts to get popular the gods will decide this is a new taboo and they'll have the same attitude as how to use poison in a big way. scale during a war."

I had already noticed that logic is not something that is used so well by certain people and that the gods have such a different mindset, but now I am sure that the many lunatics in positions of power in the realm, they deliberately know that using sxest will score. the realm as the creator of a new taboo just to gain a momentary advantage in warfare, anyone who is marked or associated with taboos and condemned by the good gods and avoided or destroyed by their followers.

If the kingdom is marked by being responsible for the intentional creation of a new taboo and condemning the kingdom to be destroyed in a very long process and which will cause the life of most of the population, but a part I don't understand and why temples are turning a blind eye to these experiments, shouldn't they be warning you that this is going to give shit to the royal family?"

"Well, now you know exactly what you faced Ulric, but you still don't know the reason I have to tell you about it. With your performance you made a lot of people angry, but before you think these family members and government officials are going to attack you or make your life difficult, I have to say you're not that important."

"You're not going to be the target of important people in the realm because of killing that sxest, but while testing a person who can target you and that person and Liam Vastri who one of this generation's so-called incomparable geniuses, I particularly mind I think only three people in that group can really hold the title of genius of their generation and Liam is not one of them."

"The Vastri family and obviously a family that supports the plan to use sxest as a weapon of war and Liam's aunt and one of the mages responsible for the sxest modifications, there is a good chance that Liam Vastri will get in trouble with you during the next few years. test phases if he has the opportunity then i advise you to avoid him because he may not be a real genius in my eyes but he is quite strong for his age and could end up breaking every bone in his body because you hampered the job of his aunt, he has some mental problems and a very close relationship with your aunt."

"So good luck and try not to get crippled during the test run and with that my debt to you is gone, and before I leave I want to make it clear that I'm not going to help you during the other tests or cover up any mess if you goal, I'm not your nanny or I have reason to be, but since I liked you I won't let any other examiner intentionally jeopardize your test so don't worry about them, focus your attention on the students because with your current power a many students who can defeat you without major difficulties."

"Thanks for the examiner help, I really appreciate you taking the time to tell me all this information."

"Not why you keep thanking me so much, like I said before I'm rewarding you for your actions, those are the rules of camp. But it seems you don't know who I am, I thought your mistress would have told you about me or made an insulting comment in front of you before you came here. My name is Medri Forceti I am your master's cousin."