Assimilation, as its name suggested, meant turning prey into the same thing as its attacker.
Su Jiu began recalling everything about the innate ability "assimilation" from the various books she had read.
She first narrowed her focus to monsters. Among their kind, there were indeed monsters that awakened the innate ability of assimilation, but they were exceedingly rare.
Even among those she could dredge up from memory, most were plant monsters.
But a plant monster could not possibly control water.
Could it be some water monster whose existence she knew nothing about? After all, this world was full of bizarre wonders. Secrets buried ten thousand years ago had surfaced one after another; one more water monster capable of assimilation would hardly be strange.
Or perhaps assimilation was the innate ability that water snake had awakened.
While Su Jiu's thoughts roamed free, the other three imitated what she had done earlier and shattered the nets attacking them.
A large hand settled on Su Jiu's shoulder. "Stop overthinking it. In all likelihood, it's curse script."
Su Jiu frowned. "Curse script again?"
"We'll know if we search nearby."
Su Jiu shook her head. "I examined everything carefully on the way here. There can't be any curse script here. Even if there is, it must be farther ahead."
As she spoke, Su Jiu sensed the water flowing from the cracks weaving itself into nets again.
Su Jiu felt a faint ache in her teeth. "Does that mean they'll keep forming nets and attacking us until we find the source?"
Though she phrased it as a question, she was already almost certain of her guess.
"If the curse script is inside, why don't we charge in with these nets on our heels? Once we destroy the script, the nets will naturally fall apart," Qi Song