"..." Moving closer, Fate saw clearly. Those were no black spots on the High-Energy Crystal at all, but tiny tentacled creatures the size of grains of sand, their minute feelers clinging to the crystal!
These tentacled creatures seemed to be "eating" the High-Energy Crystals.
As if sensing something unusual, the tentacled creatures attached to the High-Energy Crystal instantly erupted into a frenzy. The black blotches rapidly spread across the crystal, enveloping the entire High-Energy Crystal in an extremely short time. Some of them even wound around Fate's fingers.
The moment he thought of this thing's original form being tentacles and such, Fate felt a surge of disgust. Without another word, he flung the High-Energy Crystal in his hand aside. On the ground, the High-Energy Crystal completely wrapped in the massed-together tentacled creatures rapidly shrank. Before long, the creatures surrounding it had swollen into a huge lump as tall as a person...
"This thing... is seriously disgusting." Mokou bared her teeth, thoroughly unimpressed by the grotesque sight of the tentacled creature waving its glossy black tendrils. If she had not seen that Fate had other ideas, she probably would have been unable to resist setting it on fire already!
"Yeah..." Fate watched the tentacled creature's size explode and felt his teeth ache. It had only been an ordinary High-Energy Crystal, yet it had turned the thing into this. In other words, this place was practically a troop-spawning base!
As long as the High-Energy Crystals in this underground world were not completely depleted, the number of tentacled creatures would be endless. New tendrils kept extending from the feet of the swollen creature, continuously drawing in the surrounding High-Energy Crystals. Just as Fate thought another colossal tentacled creature was about to emerge, this one stopped growing after expanding tenfold.
Even though it continued