Chapter 191: Biology Lesson (2/2)

Looking at the intact mass, I roughly had an idea of what was going on here. However, just to be sure, I had No.3 continue the experiments. No.3 fetched the last surviving worm from Big 4 and then I had them bifurcate it before bleeding it dry.

Upon dying, the worm produced two souls. Unlike the first soul, they were slightly smaller in size and significantly weaker. Judging by their faintness, any further damage to them would most likely result in dissipation.

‘So that’s how it worked, their soul split along with their body and that soul can only support one splitting before dissipating because of its weakness.’

With that, the worm experiments came to an end and all that was left was that fish. Being an offensive oriented creature, what was most likely a Two-stars Fire Devouring Fish, immediately started off by baring its teeth at me as if it was threatening me.

“Big 4, I want you to see how hard are its outer scales.”

“Mhm…help me hold this.”Big 4 handed over the salamander who had never once given up on struggling before grabbing the Fire Devouring Fish’s tail with his left hand. Using his right, he clawed its scales directly. Immediately, the sparkling scales shattered under his razor sharp claws, revealing a pinkish layer of meat along with crimson-red blood.

With its scales broken, the Fire Devouring Fish started wiggling about violently in a desperate bid to bite the devil who injured it. Unfortunately for it, that was all for naught. It didn’t even take the Four-stars Big 4 much effort to dodge all its clumsy attacks.

“Master, the strength of its scales are about the same as your shields.” Big 4 answered as he fingered some of the torn off scales.

The results of that hardness test was shocking, to say the least. ‘Its strength was actually comparable to my exquisitely crafted shields?!’

“Place that piece of scale you got in your hand into its mouth and see if it bites.”

Acknowledging the order, Big 4 did just that and the brainless fish bit down as I had expected, without any hesitation whatsoever.

Upon contact, the first bite left a serious scratch on the scale. After a few more bites, it actually broke the scale in half!

‘These fishes truly had a strong set of choppers! Those scales of theirs aren’t too shabby either.’

In conclusion, my experiments had shown that Demon Fire Worms had regenerative abilities and were able to split themselves. Their attack power wasn’t high but they were great at running away. The Fire Devouring Fish possessed an astonishing bite strength and sturdy set of scales, making them the perfect nemesis for the Demon Fire Worms.

The worm’s splitting and regenerative abilities were most likely a result of the Fire Devouring Fishes hunting them down. One bite from those deadly teeth would most likely kill them. Thus, in order to survive, they adapted those two defensive abilities where one half would stay behind to distract the enemy while the other half ran away and recovered.

Truly, this was a case of survival of the fittest: unless one adapted, one died.

“Kill that fish.”

Big 4 immediately stabbed his right hand into the fish’s belly and ripped out its innards. However, even after such a grievous wound, the fish refused to die and instead it bit down viciously on Big 4’s hand. Unfortunately for that struggling fish, there was no way it could ever win in the first place.

Five seconds later, the fish was officially dead and its soul popped out in response.

“Mo Na, you can have these souls.” Rubbing the little scamp’s noggin, I smiled at her gently and continued: “That’s if you still have room for them of course.”

“Mo Na still can eat some more!” With a free meal placed right in front of her, it would be remiss of her to reject it and thus she happily gulped down the souls with a grin on her face. Having finished the meal, her eyes closed slightly, a look of pure satisfaction written all over her face. “Mama, those things were really tasty.”

“As long as you like them, there will be more to come.”

“Then can I eat this as well?” Asked the ever curious little scamp as she pointed at the corpse of the fish discarded by Big 4. “That looks tasty.”

“You’ll have to pass on the meat, the souls are meant for us.” ‘Raw fish? My baby girl, aren’t you disgusted by it at all?’

“Kay.”

We came to this foreign land known as Purgatory by accident instead of our true destination, Abaddon. Till now, we still weren’t familiar with this new environment; it wouldn’t be a stretch to call us blind at all. Furthermore, there were no signs of devils nearby and the harvesting rate of Red Lotuses weren’t ideal either. That meant that in the long term we would have to establish relations with the local powers in this place. Thus, this day of experimentation came about. Knowledge was the key to victories after all.

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