novelraw Chapter 332: Shriveled Replica Umbilical Cord
Chapter 332: Shriveled Replica Umbilical Cord
The Crawler Broodmother was without a doubt the BOSS with the thickest HP bar Lin Xun had ever seen.
His several summoned beast babies bombarded it continuously. Snow Woman was the first to run out of stamina and collapse on the ground, then the Valkyrie’s arrows were exhausted and she also lost the ability to fight in turn.
In fact, the Valkyrie could have kept fighting with a melee weapon, but getting close to the Crawler Broodmother meant entering the reach of its tentacles, and one careless move would easily result in instant death.
The one who held out the longest and stayed the toughest was still the Nine-Tailed Fox.
The Nine-Tailed Fox’s lightning spells were originally quite mana-intensive, but under the coverage of the Divine Thunder Tribulation Cloud, she could cast without any cost, practically an inexhaustible firepower turret.
After both the Greedy Wolf Star Lord and the Direct Vision President were exhausted and collapsed, Lin Xun could only switch to the little dragonkin’s shell, transforming into the Hermit Dragon and breathing dragonfire from afar.
After the little dragonkin shell’s quality and skill levels were upgraded, its transformation output once again became extremely ferocious.
The original transformation ability of Hermit Descent was indeed powerful, but the constant HP drain while transformed had always been criticized.
The core reason was that in the transformed state, the little dragonkin consumed HP instead of mana when using any skill.
Now that he had the shell of Saio Chisoku-hime, he could, when the little dragonkin’s HP bar was in danger, switch to her and use healing skills to raise his HP, allowing the dragon form to persist longer.As long as the healer had enough mana, the little dragonkin could remain in dragon form indefinitely.
It was just that he often had to land, switch to the healer shell, and cast healing skills, which was somewhat cumbersome and inconvenient.
[…]
[Divine thunder of resplendent purple lightning falls from the tribulation cloud!]
[You beat your massive dragon wings once more and breathe poisonous dragon flame down onto the glacier below, the pitch-black blazing dragon breath cascading downward!]
[…]
[The Crawler Broodmother lets out a shrill scream, making the sea surface heave and roll. The light in its massive compound eyes gradually goes out.]
[In its final moments of life, it casts a vicious curse upon you…]
[Damnable heretic, do you think you can kill it just like this?]
[No. No one can kill the Wet Nurse’s child!]
[Its body will become nourishment for the land of the divine kingdom, and its soul will return to the Wet Nurse’s embrace.]
[When the next cycle of life begins, it will be reborn, and then… that will be the day you die!]
[You have defeated the Ascended Crawler Broodmother. Your experience increases massively!]
[Power inside the shell begins to boil. The level of the shell Fire-Worshipping Palace Master of Iya Palace has increased. Current shell level: 70 (+2)]
[You have obtained the Crawler Broodmother’s Dark Spirit Essence (Special Spirit Essence item)]
[You have obtained the Broodmother’s Tip Tentacle (Material)]
[You have obtained the Shriveled Replica Umbilical Cord (Legendary item)]
[With the death of the Ascended Crawler Broodmother, the surrounding scenery suddenly reverts to the dark, oppressive underground space.]
[Nurarihyon wipes the sweat from his brow and collapses on the ground in exhaustion. Maintaining the illusion for so long is no small drain on him.]
[You look toward the Broodmother’s corpse in the distance, vast as a mountain range…]
[Shell of the Ascended Crawler Broodmother: The Broodmother of the Crawler Tribe, one of the earliest tribe broodmothers created by the Wet Nurse, providing a continuous supply of Crawlers for the front-line war until more advanced Ascended lifeforms were born. When the Broodmother lost its value, it was forgotten deep underground. Compatibility 58% (+55%)]
The Broodmother shell’s compatibility was abysmally low, which Lin Xun had already anticipated.
He tried switching to the Parasite shell to use the parasitism skill.
Unsurprisingly, he received the prompt, “This shell is excessively enormous, with too many ganglia. You cannot parasitize this shell.”
[Your special attribute Hive Consciousness +2 has increased. Current state: Hive Consciousness +4!]
[In the unseen depths, you once again see that enormous web of consciousness that encompasses all things in the world.]
[You climb a great step up from the bottom of the consciousness web, treading upon many consciousnesses under your feet…]
[You gradually understand part of the true meaning of Hive Consciousness.]
[Most low-level Ascended and aberrated beings have no self-awareness, or only extremely limited basic consciousness.]
[Without external guidance, they only act according to instinct, either feeding, reproducing, or slaughtering…]
[At such a time, if there is a powerful controlling consciousness to guide them, it can manipulate them and thereby control the behavior of the living beings at the bottom of the consciousness web…]
[…]
“What does that mean?”
“If I increase my Hive Consciousness level, I can control other insect-people?”
Lin Xun did not really understand. For the moment he had not seen any mental control skill suddenly appear just because his Hive Consciousness had gone up.
He pondered for a while but found no clues, so he simply opened the inventory to check the spoils of war.
The Broodmother BOSS had not dropped a huge pile of items as he had imagined.
Killing this BOSS that was not meant to be slain within the normal game flow had yielded only three items.
[Crawler Broodmother’s Dark Spirit Essence (Special Spirit Essence item): Use this item to gain 800,000 Spirit Essence. You may also add this Spirit Essence when forging shell equipment. There is a certain probability of triggering an Awakening effect, generating related extra attributes.]
[Broodmother’s Tip Tentacle (Material): The tentacle tip possesses extremely high strength and is an excellent material for crafting weapons.]
The Broodmother had dropped a rare Special Spirit Essence. Using it directly would grant eight hundred thousand Spirit Essence, and it had also dropped a forging material that paired with Spirit Essence.
But the value of just these two items did not quite match the difficulty of killing the Broodmother BOSS.
Lin Xun turned to the final item.
[Shriveled Replica Umbilical Cord (Legendary item): The umbilical cord is the Wet Nurse’s most precious gift and the child’s source of life. The replica umbilical cord has long since weathered and shriveled, but it contains a certain peculiar life factor.]
[Using this item on an insect-person shell will allow you to increase the quality of a low-level insect-person shell by one tier. The upgrade cannot exceed the grade of this item.]
[If you use this item directly, you will have a chance to gain the location of the Wet Nurse’s Umbilical Cord.]
Lin Xun furrowed his brows.
The truly valuable drop from the Broodmother BOSS should be this Replica Umbilical Cord. Any item that can increase shell quality is without a doubt extremely valuable.
Yet he vaguely felt that the second usage method was the real expression of this item’s worth.
Although he did not know exactly what the item named Wet Nurse’s Umbilical Cord could do,
He could infer that, on one side, you had a guaranteed quality upgrade for a shell, while on the other, you only had a chance, if lucky, to obtain the location of some object. If these two methods were put on the same level, then by any measure the Wet Nurse’s Umbilical Cord had to be much more valuable.
“Wet Nurse’s Umbilical Cord… anything that can be tied to the main deity has to be something remarkable.”
“Tsk, why didn’t I ask Flanda about it?”
After searching the underground space once to make sure he had missed nothing, Lin Xun called the Courier Mole Cricket to go look for Flanda.