Chapter 1793 - Atrophy (2/2)

Why were they afraid when they had such a huge advantage in numbers? Where was their integrity? Was that seriously all they had as rocks? He had only killed a bunch of their superiors. How were they intimidated so easily? Shouldn’t they be revolting against the tyrant that was killing their own people?

“They aren’t that intelligent to begin with, so they will naturally submit to whoever is the strongest among them,” Apas sniffed.

In Apas’ eyes, the Rock Monsters were just a bunch of simple-minded soldiers. They never had a strong grudge against human, they were merely following their instincts to acquire more energy. If the city had not been emitting a strong energy when it was being upgraded to an Elemental Capital, these elemental creatures hiding deep in the caves would not have bothered invading the city.

Mo Fan looked at the Rock Monsters and Rock Generals, and shook his head helplessly. It was meaningless to attack the creatures any further, since he would merely be attacking a bunch of rocks!

“Didn’t you notice something?” Apas pointed out.

“Notice what?” Mo Fan was confused.

“They need energy to maintain their forms. Look at the Rock Generals that stopped attacking,” Apas said.

Mo Fan looked down and fixed his eyes on the Rock Generals Apas was referring to.

The Rock Generals were scattered across the land. They were standing there like soldiers, especially when Mo Fan’s gaze was directed at them.

A moment later, the Rock Generals began to feel uneasy. They were even sweating!

The ‘sweat’ eventually melted the outer layer of the Rock Generals’ body, like someone had just poured a bucket of water over a clay figurine!

The mud increased in volume and flowed off the Rock Generals. In less than a minute, the Rock Generals shrank to half their size and reverted to Rock Monsters around four meters tall, the first form the Mud Morphing Monsters evolved into!

“Atrophying?” Mo Fan guessed curiously.

“Yeah, they will degenerate if they don’t absorb more energy within a certain period, and will no longer be able to maintain their form. In simpler words, if we can stop them from acquiring energy by capturing Mages, they will turn back into the Mud Morphing Monsters after expending all the energy they gained,” Apas said.

“I see, that means…” Mo Fan was just about to say something when he noticed his golden armor turning muddy, too.

“Holy crap!” Mo Fan cursed when he saw the golden armor degenerating and reverting to its previous color.

He was degrading into a Black-Silver Armored Rock Demon!

“They are pretty dumb, so you should order them to transform into the Mud Morphing Monsters and return to their caves while you still have the authority. Otherwise, you will have to absorb other Mages to retain your form!” Apas said.

“So that means they aren’t as terrifying as we thought. We just weren’t familiar with their ability,” Mo Fan muttered.

“If these creatures didn’t have a weakness, they would have conquered the world by now. Why do you think they were hiding in the deepest, darkest caves?” Apas scoffed at him.