Chapter 3066

Su Xiao walked into the alchemy laboratory and stopped in front of a glass pillar nearly three meters thick. Viscous darkness surged within, and the inner walls of the glass pillar were stained with a substance resembling petroleum.

Su Xiao truly had not expected that after implanting the 'Dark Eye', the Devourer's aura would grow so much. Although it was stronger, this thing did not distinguish between friend and foe, so it must be used with caution.

Bang.

A muffled sound came from ahead. The Devourer, in the form of a black semi-fluid, surged and actually formed a humanoid shape similar to Su Xiao's physique. Its mouth area split open, rows of stark white fangs grew out, and it actually grinned.

Bang!

Another muffled sound. The Dark Eye on the Devourer's chest opened. In this single eye, there was only greed and hunger. Looking at that appearance, it wanted to swallow Su Xiao in one gulp.

Su Xiao pulled down an operating lever, and a mixture of inert gas and electric arcs appeared inside the glass pillar.

"Hiss!"

The Devourer let out a hiss and scattered inside the glass pillar. Seeing this, Su Xiao checked the Devourer's current data.

Name: Devourer

Type: Dark Matter Organism/Semi-Organism

Storage Duration: 175 natural days

Health: 100% (Semi-organism type health, no vital points)

Dark Attribute Energy: 12,700 points (Will increase rapidly after entering the growth stage.)

Strength: 175 points (Real attribute, will increase rapidly after entering the growth stage.)

Agility: 175 points (Real attribute, will increase rapidly after entering the growth stage.)

Stamina: 200 points (Real attribute, will increase rapidly after entering the growth stage; this is bolstered by the 'Dark Eye'.)

Intelligence: 1 point

Charisma: 0 points

Initial Form 1, Dark·Hunger (Passive): This individual possesses a powerful devouring ability. After devouring an enemy, it will grow rapidly. While its Strength, Agility, and Stamina attributes increase rapidly, it will also awaken new abilities in a short time (awakening 8–12 new abilities), depending on the characteristics of the devoured enemy.

Hint: After this ability is triggered, this unit will enter the growth stage, causing its existence cycle to be significantly reduced. The existence cycle is 1–5 hours, depending on the user's Intelligence attribute.

Hint: During the devouring process, this unit's body size will increase rapidly, and it will not distinguish between friend and foe.

Initial Form 2, Dark·Symbiosis (Passive): Due to the implantation of the 'Dark Eye', this Devourer has acquired parasitic characteristics. It can reduce its initial body size, parasitize within a host, and while coexisting with the host, it will grant the host powerful vitality and recovery. 20% of the Devourer's real Stamina attribute will be shared with the host (thereby increasing the host's real Stamina attribute by 40 points), and it will increase the host's Health by 5,300 points and physical defense by 35 points.

Hint: After the Devourer completes parasitism, it will fuse with the host to form the 'Cooperative Devouring' ability, thereby devouring enemies. Each time an enemy is devoured, the Strength, Agility, and Stamina attributes of both the Devourer and the host will increase together, gaining up to 8–12 abilities (if the host has potential for Intelligence attributes, the host's Intelligence attribute will also increase, but the Devourer's Intelligence attribute remains a constant 1 point).

Hint: Because it is in a parasitic state, the Devourer's existence time is significantly increased, being a base of 97 natural days + host lifespan x 0.12.

Hint: In this state, the Devourer can assimilate the host's memories during the initial stage of parasitism, thereby evolving into an intelligent creature to communicate and cooperate with the host. After detaching from the parasitic state, the Devourer's intelligence will rapidly decline over time, eventually reverting to an unintelligent organism.

Hint: While in a parasitic state, the Devourer still fears 'mixed inert gas'. Upon contact with 'mixed inert gas', the Devourer will be anesthetized and weakened, its comprehensive attributes will be significantly reduced, and it may even be temporarily stripped from the parasitic state.

Hint: In its initial state, the Devourer will choose a host it recognizes based on instinct for parasitism.

Hint: During parasitism, the host's mind will be influenced by the Devourer, becoming more aggressive.

Hint: When the Devourer is stripped from the host's body, the physical attributes and abilities gained by the host during parasitism will rapidly degenerate over time, with only a portion ultimately retained.

Hint: Once the Devourer is in a parasitic state, it cannot resist the creator's 'Absolute Command'. The creator can issue three 'Absolute Commands'. If the Devourer resists the 'Absolute Command' by sacrificing its own mobility or in any other way, the Devourer and the host will enter a 'Berserk State'. After entering the 'Berserk State', the creator can 100% control the Devourer's actions.

Hint: The Devourer's two initial forms, 'Dark·Hunger' and 'Dark·Symbiosis', will lose the other ability once one is chosen. Only when the Devourer dies or dissolves and is re-manufactured can a new round of initial form selection be made.

Dark·Hunger form: Always in an unintelligent state.

Dark·Symbiosis form: Intelligent state.

Initial skill, Host-Stored Memory (Passive): Due to the Devourer's unique body structure, after its death, the remaining fragments of its body will retain partial memories. If these fragments are added to the cultivation of a new Devourer, the newly born Devourer will inherit partial memory fragments from the previous generation of Devourers.

Seeing the Devourer's data, Su Xiao knew that the current Devourer had evolved from a large-scale weapon of destruction into a growable large-scale weapon of destruction.

The Devourer has two forms, 'Hunger' and 'Symbiosis'. The Hunger form is the form the Devourer had in the dream world, which Su Xiao had already seen.

The Symbiosis form is quite interesting. The Devourer will choose a host based on its own instincts. In the early stage of parasitism, the host's real Stamina attribute will increase significantly. During this period, it is difficult for the host to notice the existence of the Devourer within their body.

At that time, the host is very likely to think that he/she is the legendary Child of Destiny, but in reality, that is not the case at all. During this period, the Devourer will read the host's memories and rely on these memories to evolve into an intelligent creature.

The subsequent events are simple: the Devourer and the host defeat various powerful enemies and devour them after defeat.

The host chosen by the Devourer is likely to have a weak personality. The Devourer itself is very aggressive; choosing an aggressive host is not conducive to early development. Once the host gets carried away, the Devourer is not far from death, as the Devourer is not powerful in the early stages of parasitism.

The Devourer will not look for someone too strong to parasitize. In the early stages of parasitism, it can be stripped away. In that state, the Devourer has very few means of combat.

Su Xiao does not care how the Devourer and the host cooperate and become stronger. What he cares about are the three Absolute Commands. As long as the Devourer does not resist to the death, he can forcibly issue three commands to make the Devourer do three things. If it resists to the death, he can control it completely.

There is one more point: every time the Devourer dies, if its fragments are recovered and added when cultivating a new generation of Devourers, then the initial form of the Devourer will have a certain degree of intelligence.

If Su Xiao converts the Devourer into the 'Hunger form', this limited intelligence will be suppressed, and the Devourer will enter an unintelligent state, devouring rapidly first, and then destroying wantonly.

In principle, symbiosis with the Devourer is not entirely a bad thing. If one can ultimately survive, not only will one become much stronger than before, but one can also gain 1–2 extraordinary abilities with biological characteristics.

Fundamentally, the Devourer cannot parasitize those who do not accept it psychologically, that is, it cannot parasitize kind-hearted people. Those who do not have hidden intense hatred, darkness, and strong unwillingness in their hearts, plus a hidden thirst for blood, cannot achieve 'adaptive matching' with the Devourer.

The Devourer's change to the host's personality is merely amplifying these things hidden in the host's heart.

Su Xiao opened the glass pillar and put the Devourer inside into a glass pillar nearly 30 cm thick and half a meter high. In the future, when he first enters a world, he must release the Devourer first.

Su Xiao glanced at the Alchemy Codex on the test bench. He did not immediately upgrade his Alchemy. His current strength was already strong enough. It was time to explore how to use the finger bone of the first-generation Law-Breaker. He wanted to try what kind of boost this finger bone would provide to his own Qing Gang Ying ability.