From Skaven to God of War

Chapter 96: The Truth about the Black Blood Mushroom
But the status of that craftsman's heart is still much higher than Xiaochun's.

And even though Xiaochun is much smarter, he is just a smart little animal.

He only dared to secretly attach his own pattern to the Craftsman's Heart and climb within it, which frightened the Craftsman's Heart so much that it beat faster and faster recently.

But it did not scare away Xiaochun who wanted to devour it. The fine green lines spread along the dark blue metal shell like climbing vines.

The target is the beating, deformed flesh at the core of the Craftsman's Heart.

This mass of deformed flesh and blood was originally created by mixing with Xiaochun's power, although in fact the things in the black blood mushroom are more like waste left over from eating for Xiaochun.

All kinds of indigestible and strange energies were mixed with some of Xiaochun's own power and were discarded by Xiaochun.

If you want to make an analogy.

Those blood mushrooms derived from Xiaochun are actually more like snow, but the brighter the red blood mushrooms are, the more useful things are left inside them.

It's something that Xiaochun regurgitated due to indigestion.

Although the reason why blood mushrooms can spread and grow in the blood pool is indeed related to the cave mushroom fungi spreading in it, the cave mushroom fungi are actually the least important link in the birth process of blood mushrooms.

Essentially, the blood mushroom came into being after Du Yuan took away the power of faith generated by the sacrifice.

It was just a byproduct of Xiaochun's instinct to absorb the life force that had not yet completely dissipated from the sacrifices thrown into the pool of blood.

The black blood mushroom is quite peculiar.

Maybe it’s the snow of higher purity.

Among them, the pure black blood mushroom is of the highest purity.

So in the past, even though there was a huge mountain of meat mixed with various factors of Xiaochun piled up in the abyss of this underground rat city, and this accumulated factor was enough to establish a connection with Xiaochun, Xiaochun had never shown any interest in this abyss.

After all, who would be interested in something of high purity?

Until recently, until recently, a piece of gold emerged from the snow.

Or to be more precise, it is a piece of gold wrapped in a pile of snow. Even though it is wrapped in snow, gold is still gold.

Xiaochun was attracted by the core of the craftsman's heart.

During this period, under the threat of Xiaochun, the core of the craftsmen was very active.

But this is not a bad thing, at least not for the long claws.

After receiving the report from the slave rat, Long Claw, who had just finished the meeting, hurried back to the underground abyss.

The wooden staff in his hand, representing his priestly identity, was thrown down casually.

He hurriedly held the sharp dagger in his hand and waited in front of the craftsman's heart.

During this period, along with the changes in the craftsman's heart, Long Claws harvested a very strange thing. The thing born from the craftsman's heart made Long Claws' experiment successful for the first time.

A giant rat that can be replicated in large quantities and retains simple wisdom was born in the dark abyss.

This is the confidence that Long Claws has in dealing with the coming war.

The complex energy discarded by Xiaochun, although it was all impurities and something that Xiaochun disliked, but that was for Xiaochun.

In essence, these things are also the essence of life, but they are mutated life essences that have been contaminated by all kinds of strange things.

This impurity still has the ability to nourish the flesh and blood, but it is no longer gentle. After the nature of the energy is changed, everything becomes violent and unrestrained.

Therefore, the biggest characteristic of the black blood mushroom when eaten by living things is the deformed flesh and blood that continues to grow and expand.

It's like a kind of pollution.

The originally gentle life energy turned into violent pollution.

This kind of power is naturally difficult to use in detail. It is very easy to use it directly as a weapon. The violent life pollution is difficult for most lives to bear. As long as you accumulate enough black blood mushrooms and stimulate the life pollution inside, it will be fine.

This is what the rat-man priests who attacked the Lizardman hatching pool did.

Although he didn't have black blood mushrooms, each blood mushroom contained more or less some contamination that was difficult to remove.

It's just that there is too little, not enough to cause anything.

Otherwise, do you think Xiaochun, who was exploited by Du Yuan, is willing to give up the life essence that he had accumulated with great difficulty?

But what Long Claws wanted was not this simple and crude method of exploitation.

This crazy rat was deeply attracted by the deformed flesh and blood. He wanted to control the power of the deformed life.

This is obviously difficult to do.

Or, just like the white rats, they could continuously reduce the dosage of blood mushrooms, and then reduce the life pollution in them to a negligible level, and use them as catalysts.

This would create some short-lived, mentally retarded giant ratmen.

But one of the problems is that the production of black blood mushrooms is limited.

After all, Xiaochun doesn't always pull out mushrooms of such high purity.

Second, the giant ratmen that were created were not very powerful in combat and their IQ was questionable.

This road was naturally abandoned by the white rat.

Afterwards, he was picked up by Long Claws. After the White Rat gave him the black blood mushroom and demonstrated the effect, Long Claws was deeply attracted by the power of the deformed flesh and blood.

Can you imagine!

After a tiny slave rat eats a black blood mushroom, it can expand to a huge size in an instant. The twisted and proliferated flesh and even metal can be easily twisted and broken by it.

Such a simple and direct display completely captured the heart of Long Claws.

Long Claws agreed to all of White Rat's conditions just for a few dark blood mushrooms. He wanted to control this terrifying power.

But it was obviously not easy, and there was no doubt that we hit a wall.

It’s not that White Rat hasn’t coveted this power.

And compared to the long claws that hide at the bottom of the abyss and can only use slave rats for experiments.

The white rats played more tricks. Slave rats, young ratmen, pregnant female rats, ratmen warriors, ratmen priests, ratmen warlords, lizardmen, all these messy things were experimented on by the white rats using black blood mushrooms.

But in the end, the white mouse gave up on continuing the research and instead threw the black blood mushroom to the long claws as a bait.

It can be seen that the current conditions of the rat people are simply not sufficient to make further use of the life pollution in the black blood mushroom.

This is true for white mice and long claws.

Even though this crazy guy wasn't going to give up easily, sometimes, it just couldn't be done.

It was not until that turning point appeared that this crazy rat man saw a little chance.

After Du Yuan enlightened the broken craftsman's heart, which was supposed to be born with spirituality like Xiaochun, the process of spiritual birth was stuck due to his own imperfections.

Logically speaking, the entire process would fail at this point, as the broken craftsman's heart is not in a state capable of giving birth to spirituality.

But Du Yuan's talent is too abnormal.

Even though it was stuck, the power that promoted the birth of spirituality never dissipated, until the craftsman's heart, in its broken state, forcibly sprouted a little spirituality.

And began to desire to complete myself.

(End of this chapter)