"Air bread made from omen petals."
Ethan didn't bother hiding it from Nostradamus. After all, Nostradamus had treated him pretty well, so Ethan just told it straight, taking it as a way to show some goodwill.
As for this air bread made from omen petals, it was actually a byproduct he made when he was bored and tried using all kinds of materials to make air bread.
Even though this thing couldn't be eaten, Ethan always felt it might come in handy someday, so he kept it.
After hearing this, Nostradamus scratched its smooth stone head and said, "What… what are omen petals? What are they even for?"
"Omen petal bread. After eating it, omen of death will come from home," Ethan didn't hide anything about it. There was no need to, so he just told the truth.
"How do you even have something like this from black magic?"
Nostradamus frowned tightly.
It had always been the particularly upright type of grand mage, strongly opposed to things from the dark world. To the entire Magic Guild, these things were even considered taboo.
So when it heard that its disciple was actually using something from black magic, it naturally became a bit worried.
"Master, don't worry. I just got it by accident," Ethan could hear the concern in Nostradamus's tone, so he explained, "Last time, a wilderness witch attacked me, but it got reflected by the werewolf's blessing. She ended up killing herself, so I got these things."
"I see…"
After thinking for a while, Nostradamus still spoke softly, "It's a good thing for you young people to have your own ideas and ways of handling things. But it's better if you stay away from these things. Black magic itself is a shortcut, and shortcuts are always addictive. I'm afraid it might influence you too deeply."
"Thank you for the reminder, Master. I understand."
Ethan naturally knew Nostradamus was saying this for his sake.
But he had no intention of going down the path of black magic anyway. With two orthodox mages around him, wasn't that already good enough?
Why bother walking some crooked, heretical path?
After a brief exchange, Ethan quickly moved toward the area where the carrion moles were gathered. Others might be driven mad by these elusive creatures.
But for Ethan, who could see the red exclamation marks, these carrion moles were at most just troublesome to kill. After all, they lived underground, so killing them wasn't easy, but with the red exclamation marks, finding them was very easy.
As for why Ethan deliberately came to the monsters' lair, it was because of the pile of mud slime eggs in his hand. These eggs were left over from the last battle with the mud slimes, but he hadn't collected them right away back then. It wasn't until later, when he tricked two grand magi on the way home, that he saw from the prompts that there were cursed dolls and mud slime eggs at the bottom of the pit, so he specifically went down to collect them.
As for why he hadn't used them until now, it was because the incubation conditions for these mud slime eggs were a bit special. Ethan hadn't found suitable conditions, so he kept them stored in his tail ring.
He didn't expect they would come in handy tonight.
[Mud Slime Egg: Each egg requires a fresh living life as a sacrifice to incubate. Dark creatures are the best.]
[PS: Cannot use creatures smaller than a fist, or the incubation will fail due to insufficient energy.]
And these carrion moles, not too big or too small, about the size of small dogs, and in such large numbers, weren't they perfect for these mud slime eggs?
Pop!
Perhaps sensing the presence of a human on the ground, at that moment, a carrion mole immediately popped its head out. Ethan had already noticed it from the movement of the red exclamation mark.
Naturally, he didn't hold back. He directly took out a dragon bone blade and pinned the carrion mole's head in place. Once caught, it immediately let out squeaking sounds.
And Ethan quickly tossed a mud slime egg into the carrion mole's mouth.
First, test the effect.
Squeak!
The carrion mole's squeaking stopped abruptly the moment it swallowed the mud slime egg.
Immediately after, the dry skin all over its body rapidly caved in, and even the mass of black energy inside its body was being quickly absorbed by something, until that black energy was completely drained.
Then the carrion mole began to scream miserably again, and its whole body started swelling up.
The dry skin on its body even bulged into several lumps of different sizes.
Until one of the lumps swelled to its limit.
Bang!
A sound like a balloon bursting rang out.
Ethan saw the carrion mole's dry skin and mouth both get stretched open, and from inside, long, sticky tentacles like earthworms extended out.
These tentacles looked like miniature versions of mud slimes.
Rustle~ Rustle~
Soon, the mud slime directly split open the carrion mole's corpse.
Then it wriggled out from inside. But as soon as it came out, its first reaction was to crawl to Ethan's feet and wrap its long, worm-like body around his ankle.
Although Ethan found it a bit disgusting, he didn't immediately shake it off.
Because for some reason, he actually had a strange mental connection with this mud slime larva. That connection wasn't like a pet contract, like with the queen bee where he could directly communicate, but something else, something like a father-son relationship, or some kind of odd bond.
'Could it be…'
At that moment, an ominous thought arose in Ethan's mind, 'Could it be that this kind of mud slime is like ducklings or other egg-born pets, where whoever they see first, they treat as their mother?'
Pop!
At that very moment, another red exclamation mark moved quickly beneath the ground. The carrion mole rushed all the way to Ethan's feet before suddenly bursting out of the soil. At the same time, it opened its mouth wide, revealing two long fangs as it bit toward Ethan.
"Slash!"
Before Ethan could strike with his blade, the newly hatched mud slime moved even faster than him. It quickly released Ethan's ankle, then pounced on the emerging carrion mole, wrapping around its neck. Then the other end of the mud slime extended straight into the carrion mole's body.
Ethan saw that the other end of the mud slime that extended inside actually had a head.
And that head could also open its mouth, then began sucking the black energy inside the carrion mole. The carrion mole struggled violently, but it was completely no match for this soft-bodied creature.
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