Chapter 263: Should We Continue Eating? (1/2)
We had probably earned the ire of the Black Blood Ants. They were basically throwing the entire hive at us right now, having just climbed out of the entrance hole just moments ago and now already charging at us without a care for their lives at all.
Still, no matter how imposing a horde chittering giant ants might have looked, they weren’t that much of a threat to us at all.
The reason I hesitated about attacking not too long ago was because these ants were simply too disgusting…and I didn’t want to touch them for even a second.
In a sense, it was kind of like how humans treated cockroaches. Some might play with, some might step on them and some find a tool of some sort that allows them to squish the cockroach without getting their hands dirty. Then there were those that screamed and jumped back in fright…because cockroaches were just that dirty.
Sometimes, being ugly and dirty was actually a weapon.
It just so happened that I despised these ants for being both ugly and dirty. If it was possible, I wouldn’t even want to eat their souls…
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But of course, reality always loved to play a trick on me…
Going back to the swarm of ants, I merely snorted disdainfully at them before grabbing Mo Na and Cinderel and running to hide behind Nola.
“Don’t worry, no matter how many that come, it won’t change their fate as weaklings to be controlled by the strong.” Nola confidently declared. With an absolute advantage in strength over them, she knew that she had the guns to back up that claim.
“I’ll leave it up to you then.” I stated simply.
Pulling out that same trick as before, Nola sprayed her flames all over the ants with a sway of her head. No matter what it was, general or soldier, they were all helpless before the roaring wall of flames rushing right at them.
Just like that, in just the span of a couple minutes, all the ants were wiped out.
As expected, the soldiers and generals all produced a complete soul upon death. Without a body to protect them however, their souls were already starting to show signs of decay and we had to harvest them right away.
“Mama, leave the gathering to me.” Mo Na admirably offered her services for this mission.
Ever since Mo Na fused with the Grimoire of the Dead, her talents, at least when it came to the field of Undead magicks, were unrivalled.
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Because of her impressive talents in this branch of magicks, not to mention that she had a beautiful big sister teaching her in her dreams, her progress in Undead magicks improved by leaps and bounds with no sign of ever having a bottleneck.
For Necromancers, harvesting souls in an expedient fashion was the most basic of the basics. All they needed to do was pull a few parlor tricks and the souls would practically come flying to them.
Mo Na started to draw circles in the air with her finger neither too slowly nor too quickly. As each circle was completed, mana continued to flow into the circle until a tiny mana vortex was formed. Having taken a stable form, countless ant souls began to slowly drift towards the vortex and accumulate within its mystical swirls.
The massive collection of souls floated beside me like a filled up balloon and soon threatened to engulf me because of its sheer size. Faced with tens of thousands of souls left to harvest, Mo Na had on a rather troubled look as she said: “Mama, there’s too many of them, should Mo Na refine some of these souls?”
“Refine them?” That was the first time I had heard of this term being used in such a manner but I roughly understood what it meant right away.
“The black dress big sister just taught me a few days ago how to refine multiple souls into one. That way it will be easier to eat them.”
“Then let’s give it a try then.” I answered eagerly, clearly more than happy to see my little daughter show off her skills.
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Mo Na was just as eager as well while she carefully channelled a tenth of the souls right into the vortex. Upon being sucked in by the vortex, these souls would rapidly break apart and disappear into the vortex.
Soon, the vortex began to show a strange reaction. At times, it would expand and at times, it would suddenly shrink in on itself. This process continued for at least ten seconds before finally, like ice that had frozen over, the entire soul mass and vortex coalesced into a Soul Pearl!
A Soul Pearl, roughly three cm wide hovered in the air before me, radiating with a strange light that made it seem more like an exquisite black pearl of some sort.
“It’s done, Mama come have a look, this is a refined soul.” Having been refined, the Soul Pearl slowly descended into the palm of Mo Na and she gingerly handed the black pearl over to me like she was offering up a treasure to me.
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‘Why does this remind me of that black pearl I found when after killing that vengeful apparition?’