Irritable Xiao Zao

After Thor promoted to the Third Rank, the companion who had changed the most was Xiao Zao, which he had planted beneath the Purification Wizard Tower.

In the simulations of the Golden Page, Xiao Zao had once mutated into a massive tentacle monster due to Black Tide Pollution.

In reality, however, the Black Tide had not erupted on a large scale because of Thor's Sealing Array.

Yet, when Thor finished handling matters outside and returned to the Purification Wizard Tower, dragging his exhausted body, he was greeted by a room packed tight with massive, black, vine-like tentacles.

Xiao Zao... had rioted?!

It was only through Thor's emergency rescue that the butler Hope, who had nearly been squeezed into a pulp, was saved.

And the first thing Hope said upon emerging was, "Camus ignited Xiao Zao."

Thor squeezed through the gaps between the massive, thick tentacles, and after finally forcing his way to the second basement level, he finally understood what "ignited" meant.

There was no real fire on the second basement level.

But a vast number of pale spirits were acting as if bewitched, crowding one after another into the root system of Xiao Zao.

And every time a spirit entered Xiao Zao's body, the black tentacles would grow a fraction larger.

A small basement could no longer contain over a dozen tentacle appendages, each nearly a meter in diameter.

The ground had subsided, the floorboards were torn apart, and the laboratory on the first basement level looked as if a storm had passed through; everything was scattered across the floor.

The fragile glass instruments were smashed to pieces.

Thor had no time to mourn his wasted resources as he searched for Xiao Zao's main body among the several rioting black tentacles.

But when Thor finally found it, the once