Chapter 2216 - Cleaning Job (1/2)
Right after Han Sen’s team arrived with the Ice Blue Knights, they were given a priority task to exterminate the xenogeneics that could be found around the base.
The base had been established there for some time, but xenogeneics emerged constantly from the mountains. Those xenogeneic hordes frequently caused trouble for the base.
Han Sen’s mission was to venture into those mountains and clear the creatures out. There were many bird xenogeneics there, and they bred quickly. Han Sen had to wipe out their homes and destroy whatever eggs he could find. If he didn’t, it’d only be a matter of time before they returned.
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In the midst of those mountains, Han Sen was shelling a few boiled bird eggs. He ate them and frowned.
His group had been in those mountains for half a month, and they killed birds and destroyed or ate bird eggs each and every day. In the beginning, they thought the eggs were delicious, but after half a month with the eggs as their only food, they were growing tired of the taste.
The Ice Blue Knights had already killed the most powerful xenogeneics, so there were no Kings around. There weren’t even any Dukes. They were mostly finding low-level xenogeneics whose only skill was reproducing quickly, so none of the kills helped Han Sen.
But the cleaning job did have some benefits. It would earn them points, and those points could be used to redeem items from the vendors in the base. There were geno arts and xenogeneic genes available for redemption.
Of course, to Han Sen, the potential rewards weren’t worth the trouble. The things that he wanted would require a hefty load of points, and it would take a long time doing menial cleaning tasks to amass the necessary amount.
Still, it wasn’t entirely pointless. There were many bird xenogeneics of a variety of different elements on that mountain, and that factoid gave Han Sen an idea.
Han Sen couldn’t use his Sun Raven Gem beast soul, and he needed a fire element bird beast soul as a base. There were many birds there, so if he was able to find a high-class fire bird beast soul, he could combine it with the gold bird beast soul. That might allow him to earn a deified beast soul.
King class beast souls could survive the merging process with a high success rate, but it would be difficult for Han Sen to kill a King class xenogeneic at his current level of strength. And since it would be hard to find one, too, he’d settle for locating a Duke.
After days of constant research, Han Sen found a fire bird xenogeneic that he deemed to be a suitable catch.
The Ice Blue Knights had a map that marked territories that were known to be particularly dangerous. Lava Valley was one of those locations.
The valley was one hundred thousand miles long. There was a lava river that flowed through its length, and the walls of the valley held many caves. Fire xenogeneics frequently inhabited such spots.
The most popular xenogeneics there were the Fire Crows. Fire Crows were pure fire element creatures. They could spit streams of fire at their enemies, and they dined on the fire bugs that lived within the lava river.
They were small, though. Their bodies were only the length of a man’s finger, and no bigger than a bee. But there were many of them; a small murder of Fire Crows could contain ten thousand of the fiends.
Murders of Fire Crows like that were everywhere across the lava river. A large murder of Fire Crows could contain a whole million of them.
Normal Fire Crows were Barons and Viscounts. They would rarely become Earls, but a few Fire Crow kings could even become Marquises.
Because there were so many of them, only the kings of large murders could become Dukes.
The stories said that when the Ice Blue Knights first came, they cleared a large Fire Crow murder that contained over one billion of the feathery creatures. The Fire Crow king of that murder was a genuine King class xenogeneic.