328 Thoughts 2 (2/2)

These small moths soundlessly flew out from the window; under the control of Garen’s consciousness, they flew into the surrounding four directions.

As the days passed, Garen kept on increasing the number of moths; the numbers reached a hundred quickly.

The team has passed through a few empty villages, replenishing some of their basic resources. During this time, Garen’s moths slowly began to grow larger.

The only downside was, color changing butterfly’s offspring consumed silver pieces. It was a good thing Garen brought some silver pieces in preparation.

More than a hundred moths consumed 3 silver pieces in total.

But he had realized the advantage in having these moths.

There was no need for feeding, the only thing they fed on was the power of the totem light. Every time the color changing moths were let out, they could only be controlled up to 2 hours. A rest is needed after that.

These color changing moths were extremely covert. As they scattered around the surrounding areas, none of the monsters had ever managed to detect them.

Although finally, two of the parasitic beetles that were sleuthing from before disappeared. This cut off all contact with Garen’s deep swamp croc.

The group finally ceased their progress; Garen had given directions for them to stop. They will only move forward after he had investigated what had happened.

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At night, Garen stood at the edge of the carriage, looking into the faraway fortress of the hills above.

The fortress was built with stone bricks, a tall tower stood in the middle of it. There seemed to be minimal damage as the structures still looked as they should.

The fortress was accompanied with silence; no lights, no torches, nothing. Just pitch black.

Garen furrowed his brows.

”My sleuthing bugs disappeared in the area near this fortress.” He turned back and looked at Reylan, who was traveling next to him, speaking in a low voice.

Three carriages circled around a bonfire, waves of faint heat emanated from that area.

Besides a man from the hunting group who was standing guard for Lala, the rest crowded near Garen.

”If my memory serves me right, this fortress may be dangerous. Although the areas nearby are paths we will have to go through. Both sides are terrain and lakes that are way more complicated and difficult to cross. If we were to make a detour, we would need at least 5 days to close in the great distance.” Garen explained

”So we should try and see whether it is possible to go through here. If the monsters turn out to be too powerful, we will just leave immediately, correct?” Angel added on,

”Leila.”

”Watch me, miss.” A guy wearing a red cap nodded his head and lifted up his right arm. Immediately, a silver light shot out from the protective sleeve on his forearm.

The silver light landed on the ground in front and turned into a golden lioness right away.

Roarrrr…

The lioness growled and bent over to look at its owner. The tail was a living yellow snake. The head of the snake continuously hissed, coiling around and around while staring intently with its blood red eyes.

The guy with the red cap mounted the lioness and disappeared into the night, heading towards the direction of the fortress. Not a single sound was made.

Garen sensed the troops under his command: the deep swamp croc has already reached a number of 20, the beetles a number of 200. The dual headed salamander was just like a weapon generating war machine; it continuously produced a steady stream of deep swamp crocs, creating a massive army of second form totems. All she needed was time, and she’ll be able to produce large amounts of parasites.

Garen was confident; there was definitely not one third form totem in Obscuro Society that was as scary as this. Their evolutional direction only had a few definite types, which differed from his direction in relying on potential points for evolution; theirs was a controlled evolution with a clear direction.

Mostly importantly, till date, parasitic typed totems were unheard of. The most bizarre totem was the reproductive nest type totem, which was a specialty of the Obscuro society.

The legitimacy of this fact was confirmed by Rylan, who knew Obscuro Society best. Garen learned all this by prompting the answer out of her in an indirect way.

His evolution through potential points was seemingly different from Obscuro.

As he watched the guy in the red cap vanish into the darkness, he had an idea.

More than ten beetles followed Leila and crawled into the fortress.

The people from the hunting group knew that he was mysterious, and had at least 7 or 8 totems under his command. Private and secretive as he was, he always managed to do things none could imagine.

When they left Iron Tank City, everyone, including Angel, was rather anxious and insecure; it was the mysterious and unknown Garen that gave them the biggest sense of security and support. This was the reason why everyone unconsciously turned their eyes to Garen.

”Let’s wait a moment and see what happens. If Leila is able to return safely and verify the situation, I will give him a little reward.” He smiled and said calmly.

He already had a vague idea in mind.

At this moment the number of deep swamp crocs produced by the dual headed salamander was way too many; it was an impossible feat to manage all of them in a way that maximized the purpose of creating parasitic beetles. Just feeding and planning alone took up too much effort.

But if he were to distribute it to other people and allow a portion of the beetles to follow the orders of others, this would strengthen the rest and allow them to invest their energy into feeding these beetles, ultimately reaching the larger goal in greater speed.

Using these beetles as rewards for the underlings, as long as they don’t backstab him, he’d be able to achieve the goal of upgrading his abilities safely. The beetles’ abilities will be used at a greater rate; the situation will not be out of grasp either.

All of a sudden Garen thought of something – What if Obscuro’s initial thoughts were similar to his? To issue the derivators out in order to increase their own power and overall strength, at the same time keeping the situation within the palm of their hands?

The excitement that bubbled up shortly before suppressed down again.

”It seems like I have to solve the derivator’s control issue...”