Chapter 2330 - Oil Lamp Fireflies (1/2)

Chapter 2330: Oil Lamp Fireflies

Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales

Translated by XephiZ

Edited by Aelryinth

The Mushroom Ticks immediately lunged at two other soldiers, as if they were able to smell their infected skin.

They were the size of little scorpions, but every soldier they targeted died quickly!

After their deaths, a few more poisonous mushrooms would grow on their corpses. Some of the bodies even blew up after falling to the ground, allowing more mushrooms to grow out of the ground covered by their blood.

Either way, each poisonous mushroom would explode like a grenade and give birth to a Mushroom Tick, which immediately looked for its next target!

“What’s going on here? Those things are like black-legged ticks carrying Lyme Disease, and every infected has two more ticks coming out of their corpses!” Mo Fan was utterly shocked.

Mo Fan was a high-ranked Hunter who had seen many parasitic demon species, yet most of their eggs would only hatch after some time.

In contrast to them, the eggs of the Mushroom Ticks were hatching so fast it was like they had no incubation period. They could take out a soldier and give birth to a few more Mushroom Ticks in just a few seconds. The Mushroom Ticks that were hatched would then attack new targets and give birth to more Mushroom Ticks!

What a terrifying species!

If these Mushroom Ticks were attacking ordinary people in a city, the whole city would be crawling with them in less than a day!

“Are those bastards planning to destroy mankind and make us livestock for the demon creatures by creating such a vicious species!” Professor Xylan cursed.

“Professor, what species are those? Their rate of infection, fission, and attack is insane!” Su Xi exclaimed, her face pale.

It was tricky to deal with the Mushroom Ticks, since they would look for new targets as soon as they hatched. The students only had a short amount of time to kill them. They had no way of killing the Mushroom Ticks once they dug into a soldier’s body without killing the soldier too!

“Let’s just name the species Mushroom Tick,” Professor Xylan said calmly.

“Huh? Name the species?” Mo Fan was dumbfounded. Wasn’t the Professor supposed to be the expert among them? Shouldn’t she be figuring out a plan to deal with the Venomous Insect Shamans’ evil sorcery? “Should we catch a few of them so you can conduct experiments on them?” he sneered.

“That won’t be necessary. It’s just a little trick the Venomous Insect Shamans are using. It’s not that scary once you learn its secret,” Professor Xylan said. She looked at the Russian student and asked, “Julya, do you know what trick the enemy is using?”

Julya shook her head and said sternly, “Professor, I think you should tell us how we should deal with the insects first. Those things are reproducing rapidly. More people are going to die the longer we wait.”

Mo Fan’s face darkened. Was the Professor seriously still just testing her students at a time like this?

“If these insects are laying eggs and hatching so rapidly, it means they are soulless. As a matter of fact, they aren’t even a living species. They are just puppets granted temporary power to attack their prey. They are receiving energy from a source entity, most likely the Poison Mage who created them,” Professor Xylan informed them.

“So we can stop them by finding and killing the Poison Mage who is controlling them?” Julya asked for clarity.

“Exactly, it’s just a petty trick from a Poison Mage. It’s not worth enough for me to dirty my hands. I’ll let you all handle it.” Professor Xylan closed her eyes after she finished explaining. She could not care less about the soldiers who were dying horrible deaths around her.

“I’m not familiar with Poison and Plant Magic…” Julya turned to Mo Fan.