[Your Apostle has created its own followers.]
[It is asking you to name them.]
[You may now name this new life.]
"This one will be called Shell Insect."
Faced with Abigail Flower's request, Mona thought for a moment before answering.
Soon,
after naming Abigail Flower's new follower,
he reached out and gently placed his hand on the insect.
In an instant,
all the colors of its soul emerged.
[Rot Spirit lv1] Shell Insect
[Age]: 0 years
[Traits]: "Hardened Shell lv2" "Life Energy lv1" "Growth Potential lv2"
[Habits]: None
[Sequence]: None
[A follower created by Abigail Flower by fusing fragments of life from various marine creatures. It possesses some ability to swim through the sea. When faced with enemies there, its hard body and sharp claws become powerful weapons. It has also inherited some of Abigail Flower's Growth Potential, and may undergo wondrous changes as it learns and reproduces.]
Mona knew
that this newly born Shell Insect
had a life structure very similar to a hermit crab's.
Clearly,
most of the life fragments used to create this insect
had come from hermit crabs.
That was easy to understand.
When Abigail Flower had first been created,
[Hermit Crab Life Essence] had made up a large part of it.
As a result, some of this Apostle's life structure had already contained hermit crab life fragments.
After devouring those ten hermit crabs,
Abigail Flower had thoroughly mastered their life structure.
The Shell Insect had inherited the hermit crab's hard shell and long, sharp claws exceptionally well. In fact, its shell and claws were even harder and sharper than the crab's, like upgraded versions.
As for
its fishlike shape,
that likely went back to when people who knew little about Abigail Flower had offered up fish along with everything else.
He could already see the two abilities with the greatest potential in this follower.
Just as he had expected,
this insect could swim through the sea.
With a species capable of venturing into the ocean,
the day their civilization officially entered the sea would arrive all the sooner.
And this insect, capable of entering the ocean, had inherited some of Abigail Flower's Growth Potential.
Its current state
was only its initial form.
What it would grow into in the future was something to look forward to.
"Not bad."
Mona gave the follower his approval.
At his side, the Apostle's blue glow brightened with excitement at receiving praise from its god for its creation.
Next,
his gaze quickly moved to the next insect.
This one was much larger than the Shell Insect, and far stranger.
Its appearance was exceedingly bizarre,
as if it didn't belong among any of the insects on this island.
The enormous insect had an extremely long body.
It looked much like a worm with a hard shell.
Its segmented shell gleamed in the sunlight with a metallic sheen and texture, while a faint blue tint shimmered across it like reflected sunlight.
Its mouthparts were highly developed. Two pairs of curved, hook-shaped mandibles sat symmetrically on either side, like the icy teeth of a beast.
If he had to say,
this fearsome-looking monster bore some resemblance to a kind of worm that lived on the ocean floor, from a distant memory.
Mona recalled something.
He placed his hand on the insect's body as well.
Soon,
this insect was given a name,
and the colors of its soul immediately appeared.
[Rot Spirit lv1] Bobbit Worm
[Age]: 0 years
[Traits]: "Longevity lv1" "Poison Element lv1"
[Habits]: Vicious
[Sequence]: None
[Skills]: "Corruption lv1" "Transmutation lv1"
[A powerful follower made by Abigail Flower from a mixture of numerous insect life fragments. But the abundance of life fragments has also left it with slightly less Growth Potential. It has inherited Abigail Flower's power of decay and a trace of its creative power. This Bobbit Worm will spit out corrosive mucus to dissolve stone, burrow underground, and absorb impurities from rocks, then miraculously transmute them through excretion.]
After examining it,
Mona soon figured out where the Bobbit Worm's life fragments had come from.
Put simply,
it had a little bit of everything.
Fragments from the island's worms, Yamal Spiders, and other powerful insects had each been taken in part, eventually becoming the life material used to create this insect.
Although this gave it great adaptability and a powerful life force,
its life force was also overly saturated.
As a result, it lacked the Growth Potential of the Shell Insect.
Still, it had begun life from a very high starting point.
Its burrowing mandibles, combined with its wondrous ability to digest stone and transmute impurities, would make it a formidable force.
Mona withdrew his hand.
If these two followers had any flaws,
it was simply that they lacked intelligence.
They hadn't escaped the limitations of insects and remained quite dull.
That meant
they weren't much different from the insects controlled by Abigail Flower. They would obey Abigail Flower's commands completely, but no longer needed Rot Spirit Mycelium to control them—as if they were tools that didn't need to be operated "manually."
Even if they could see god,
their intelligence
would never let them understand god's existence.
And without understanding god, they couldn't become true believers.
Therefore, they didn't count as his [Anchor Points].
But regardless,
this was still a good beginning.
Two new species, with two completely different abilities.
They could now make different, outstanding contributions to various aspects of civilization.
Thinking of this,
Mona looked at the believer named Ned.
Or rather, he looked at the Rot Spirit Staff in Ned's hand.
After Abigail Flower's Evolution,
the Rot Spirit Staff had changed as well.
Now that two kinds of followers had joined,
the Soul Imprint on the Rot Spirit Staff had been reset, and the number of imprints had increased to two.
The two imprints corresponded to the two kinds of followers.
Those who held an imprint naturally had some measure of control over the corresponding followers.
At the same time,
the existence of two imprints
meant that the Tribe's [Insect Master] would no longer have to be just one person.
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