Cursed Immortality

"Hehehe, actually, the Brain Hunter would never have used the puppet poison on you, no matter how many guts it has!" Immortika revealed.

Jacob's squinted his eyes in astonishment, "Why is that?"

"You should already have a general idea of why the Fantastic Insects are so terrifying, but the limitation emplaced are equally terrifying. Despite their fabled status, they have many weaknesses, or this place had already been ruled by the Fantastic Insect Race long ago.

"The Eclipse Alipes Imhoff is no different. A common rank Brain Hunter has no intelligence as it only follows its instincts. But the chances of it entering the rare rank and then even awakening its unique magic core is almost zero.

"Because to achieve this rank, it needed to absorb an Epic Rank Being's brain as well as its magic core. But the chance that it was to happen is even less than zero because an Epic Rank Being will sense it coming from miles away. Now, you can easily imagine what kind of limitation I'm talking about."

Jacob was really shocked when he heard this ridiculous limitation emplaced on it just to enter rare rank.

It was just as Immortika said, even though he had no magic, he could easily sense danger incoming, and his epic-rank senses were ten times higher than those of an extraordinary-rank being.

Now, he finally understood why these insects were mostly only myths. The universe was really fair.

Immortika continued, "But the Titan Tears can ignore this limitation as to why. I'll leave it to you to find it out. I can't spoil my fun too much."

Jacob's expression darkened when he read at this moment.

Immortika naturally didn't care about his feeling and continued, "Anyhow, the Eclipse Alipes Imhoff has another limitation when it reaches the Rare Rank and achieves a 1-Star Rank, it will awaken its basic intelligence and some of its inheritance memories. This topic is also for you to research.

"As for what that limitation is, it is actually related to its first use of Puppet Poison. It's like this, a 1-Star Brain Hunter with never use its puppet poison on any being higher than its rank.

"If there is even the tiniest bit of chance that the puppet poison will not take effect, it will never use it, even if this means death!

"Because if by some chance the puppet poison does not take effect, it will have to be the eternal slave to that person who hasn't gotten affected by the first puppet poison. In layman's terms, the very first puppet poison used by it can turn the Brain Hunter into an eternal puppet of the same person it used it on!"

Jacob felt like he was reading something ridiculous and exclaimed, "What kind of fucked up limitation is that? Is that even possible?"

"Hehehe… what do you think?" Immortika wrote a question jeeringly.

Realization dawned upon Jacob at this moment. He finally got what Immortika wanted him to do after Brain Hunter was nurtured to 1-Star Rank.

"So, if it had used that puppet poison on me, then it would turn into my slave indefinitely, right? When were you going to reveal it? It might've run away right away or, as you said, chose to die instead." Jacob questioned with uncertainty.

"Of course, I can't tell even if it ran away because you needed to complete two conditions at that time. First, you have to find a method to completely enslaved the Brain Hunter so it would use its First Puppet Poison on you.

"Because its natural instincts are too dominating that the moment it senses the existence of any slave item, it will instantly kill itself or any fantastic insect, as a matter of fact.

"Because no fantastic insects can endure being someone's eternal slave, and the universe will also never allow someone to control them so easily.

"The second condition was, of course, the fully condensed cursed heart. I was only giving you a chance because you have acquired the Brain Hunter, and if you failed to grasp it, then it was your loss.

"Besides, I know you would've got over it easily since you let already one escape, and you have no idea about the Brain Hunter's true background. Its death would have little impact on you."

Jacob didn't know how to react after understanding the true reason behind Immortika's suggestion at that time.

Simply put, Immortika was leaving everything a chance, and no matter how it had played out, he would never get harmed, and the entire matter would've ended with Brain Hunter's mysterious death.

Until, of course, when Jacob found out about Fantastic Insects and Brain Hunter being part of them, and lastly, they can be controlled.

He would never have had this strong reaction at that time, he might regret its uncanny death, but he will never be able to guess that it was destined to happen.

There were simply too many variables and different scenarios, but each of these scenarios led to one final conclusion, Immortika's plan never involved harming him at all.

It was all depending on luck.

Everything was clear as day. Now, if Jacob still did not believe and thought it was just an excuse, then he was really approaching the level of paranoia.

"So, this ritual array can really make Brain Hunter go against its natural instincts?" Jacob was now calm, and no longer had any hint of anger in his eyes. He was still reflecting.

"Well, duh, why do you think I'm wasting time explaining all this?"

Jacob inhaled deeply before he nodded and seriously questioned, "What about the cylinder? How did it fit in all this?"

"Hehehe, I genuinely have no idea just where that Dark Ruins originated from, but it has a terrifying background. First, the information about so many fantastic insects. Then this ritual array can tame them for a very long time and even make them ignore their natural instincts.

"Lastly, the biggest surprise is that cylinder. You have Devil's luck. Do you know that cylinder is a sealed capsule, which holds the corpse of a Rank 6th Fantastic Insect!"