Necromancer: Becoming a God from a Lord

These days, Harvey has been traveling frequently between Jackdaw Town and Grizzly Castle, buying all kinds of daily necessities needed for the territory.

Not long after he arrived at the main castle of the territory with the alchemical camel beast, Asdalen and Reiner hurriedly found him.

"I have been observing the underground insect nest, and it seems that it is time for the beetles to lay eggs again." Asdalen said as he led Harvey to the underground laboratory.

"I think we should be able to harvest another wave of beetle ore this time."

Harvey was surprised and happy. The beetle ore they collected from the ruins before, in addition to being used to maintain the energy gathering array of the second machine and equipped on the alchemical beast as a high-powered killing weapon.

There is not much left.

Harvey and Asdalen had entered the underground insect nest before and observed the life patterns of those beetles, but did not collect any beetle ore.

Harvey was a little discouraged and thought that the breeding cycle of this mysterious beetle might be very long.

Therefore, the idea of ​​relying on beetles to reproduce quickly and then harvesting the mineral products left after their death is probably going to be shattered.

After all, if this kind of beetle is killed directly, it will not produce the kind of naturally formed energy ore, but only a pile of useless beetle corpses.

Who knew that in just a few months, they would actually reproduce and mate again.

The three of them walked quickly to the underground laboratory excitedly, wanting to observe the reproduction of beetles in person.

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"It's amazing!" Reiner couldn't help but exclaimed as he looked at the densely packed glowing beetles in the insect nest.

The insect nest spontaneously excavated by the beetles was not large in itself. It was Harvey who took the initiative to let the alchemy beast expand the space of the insect nest during the construction of the underground laboratory, widening it to half the size of the underground laboratory.

Harvey found that the beetles were not good at digging, and they might just like the humid and warm environment underground, so they were forced to drill into the underground to live.

Under normal circumstances, these round insects with a faint metallic color on their shells do not emit light.

Therefore, Asdaren believes that this phenomenon will only occur after entering the reproductive cycle, which may be to attract a partner in the dark to meet the reproductive needs.

"I don't know how long their reproductive cycle will last, and how long it will take for the beetle ore to form so that we can harvest it."

Reiner gently pinched a beetle with his fingers, watching it slide its thin and short legs in his metal palm, struggling desperately and clumsily.

"What a magical little thing, it obviously stores such powerful energy in its body, but it is not aggressive at all."

Asdaren sneered, took out a primary magic stone from his waist, and threw it gently into the pile of insects.

"That's because the energy fluctuations in your body are sealed by the inscription, and they will not be detected by them, you see..."

The magic stone fell into the pile of insects, instantly causing a violent commotion, and countless beetles slid their legs desperately and quickly approached it.

For a time, a creepy rustling sound rang throughout the insect nest.

In less than ten seconds, the swarm of insects dispersed again, and the magic stone was left with only a pile of gray crystal residue.

"If your alchemical prosthesis is driven by energy release, when you come here, I'm afraid your fate will be similar to that magic stone."

Reiner was shocked, tightly covered the magic stone slot on his waist, and stepped back a few steps.

Harvey pulled him with a smile, "Don't scare Reiner, the inscriptions on the alchemical prosthesis are used to seal and guide energy. As long as the magic energy impact of beetle ore conversion is not released in the insect nest, there will be no accidents."

Asdalen nodded, "I will check the insect nest day and night, and try to collect the energy ore after the beetle reproduction as soon as possible."

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After returning to the underground laboratory, Asdalen and Reiner each dispersed and went about their own business.

Harvey kept thinking about Reiner's question in his mind.

"It obviously stores such powerful energy, but it is not aggressive at all..."

Perhaps for the beetles themselves, energy is just simple food and nutrients that help them reproduce and lay eggs.

These beetles don't have many ways to get energy on weekdays. After being attracted to the ancient wizard's ruins, the energy materials they can eat should have been exhausted long ago, so they fall into sleep most of the time, looking gray like pebbles.

Then if I regularly put a certain amount of magic stones into the insect nest and actively feed them, will it accelerate their growth and reproduction cycle?

Harvey immediately decided to divide an underground space to use magic stones to feed a group of beetles alone, and conduct a comparative experiment with the beetles in the original insect nest.

"This method may really have unexpected gains, but the consumption of this magic stone is a bit terrifying, which can be called the most wasteful research behavior in the spellcasting world."

Charging magic stones can be reused, while single-line magic stones such as elements and nature can only be guaranteed to be used once, so in terms of selling price, charging magic stones are often more expensive.

"At the next forum exchange meeting, we must find a way to find a member who has a large amount of magic stone stocks or has direct connections with the mines of the cave dwarves. Only by establishing this connection can we obtain sufficient and high-quality magic stones."

No mistakes in one post, one content, one 6, one 9, one book, one forum!

I can't always hope that a high-quality magic stone mining area will appear out of thin air in my wasteland territory in the north.

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In the next few days, Harvey stayed in the underground laboratory, closely observing the reproduction and egg-laying signs of the beetles.

In addition, he and Asdalen built an observation compartment with transparent glass in the corner of the laboratory and caught about a hundred beetles and threw them in.

Every day, ten low-level magic stones were put into the observation room, and the beetles' eating tendency and speed were strictly recorded.

"It seems that they cannot absorb energy unlimitedly. The daily eating limit of more than a hundred beetles is ten primary magic stones. Look at the beetles that have eaten enough. The light emitted by their bodies is brighter than others."

Asdalen took the experimental record manual and observed closely against the glass wall while describing it carefully.

Harvey still felt a little painful. He had a total of less than a hundred charging magic stones in stock, and nearly half of them had been consumed in a few days.

The only ten or so intermediate magic stones were reluctant to be used to feed the insects. They were important supplies that Reiner and Asdalen had to carry with them when they went out.

"I have a feeling that they will start to reproduce in a few days, and then transform after death..."

Death...

Transformation...

The dead beetle bodies can be transformed into energy ore, and the living beetles can actively absorb magic energy...

A thought suddenly flashed through Harvey's mind, and he couldn't help jumping up from the chair.

"Asdalen, what do you think...if I transform the beetle's soul and let it enter the alchemical body."

"Will it be possible to create an alchemical beetle that can actively release powerful energy?"