"Illusions?" Count Black frowned but didn't comment further. Personally, he didn't think illusions were a good idea.
The concealment and changeable nature of illusions could indeed be used as a scout.
However, they were much more effective against creatures from the material world than against creatures made of energy. Also, illusions were much more effective against intelligent creatures than against unintelligent creatures.
So far, Count Black believed that Infant Spirits were intelligent creatures. However, this was only a guess.
Infant Spirits were undead creatures in their most primitive form. They were souls with chaotic minds and only evil thoughts. In other words, Infant Spirits were creatures made of energy, but they were also creatures without intelligence.
Under such circumstances, illusions could only be used in a limited range of probing. Therefore, from the Dark Earl's point of view, illusions were an alternative but definitely not the best choice.
"I think illusions should be used on the edge of a knife," Dorcas spoke up. "As for probing, leave it to me."
What Dorcas meant by "blade" was actually to protect the two acolytes. It wasn't that he didn't like Angor's illusions. He just knew that illusions were the best way to protect the two apprentices at the moment.
If Angor distracted himself while using illusions, he might make a mistake in the moving illusion. Even if he succeeded, the Infant Spirits might attack him directly, which would make the moving illusion a target as well.
Dorcas didn't want anything to happen to Kael and Wai, especially Wai.
After considering the pros and cons, Dorcas decided that it would be better for him to do it himself.
"You were hesitant before. What now?" Angor raised an eyebrow at Dorcas.
Dorcas shrugged. "It's not the same. I'm not going to do it myself. If it's just a test, it won't be a problem. I've done this kind of thing too many times — Blergh! "
Dorcas didn't seem to mind the first half of his sentence. But when he reached the end of his sentence, his expression suddenly twisted. Under everyone's gaze, Dorcas vomited out a chubby, sticky worm.
Angor knew that the palm-sized worm was a baby of a sandworm. But even so, he still felt sick when he saw Dorcas spitting it out with water droplets on its body.
In the end, he managed to hold back his stomach. However, Wa Yi, who was peeking behind the crowd, couldn't help but cover his mouth and retch.
After a long while, Wa Yi finally calmed down.
"You're always like this. When will you get used to it, my old friend?" Dorcas looked over with concern.
Wa Yi wiped the saliva from his mouth as he retched and glared at Dorcas fiercely.
Instead of answering Dorcas' question, he turned to Angor and complained, "Dorcas didn't use to take the larvae like this a long time ago."
In the past, Dorcas would simply flip his hand and the larvae would appear on his palm. The larvae came out directly from the skin. Although it still looked a little uncomfortable, Dorcas's action of "flipping his hand" covered the process of the larvae coming out, so overall, it looked very normal.
But once, when they were on an adventure, they encountered a crisis. Dorcas' entire body was placed into a coffin-like torture device made of iron. Only his head was exposed.
In order to save himself, Dorcas used his mouth as a medium for the first time and spat out the larvae covered in saliva.
It was also at that time that the young and ignorant Wa Yi vomited when he saw this scene.
Dorcas seemed to find watching Wa Yi throwing up very interesting. Since then, every time he summoned the larvae in front of Wa Yi, he would do it with his mouth.
After complaining to Angor, Wa Yi's expression was still sullen.
Angor looked at the mocking Dorcas, then at Wa Yi, and couldn't help but sigh in his mind. Since when did he become an Arbiter? Why did he have to comment on such a trivial matter?
Angor really didn't want to talk, but Wa Yi's intense gaze forced him to give a half-hearted answer. "It's really bad behavior."
The boy didn't say anything else, but Vaey was already satisfied with the result. He had finally gotten rid of his grudge.
Since Dorcas would be following Angor from now on, Wa Yi had to listen to Angor's words no matter what.
Dorcas gave him an innocent look. "Bad? I think it's normal. "
Angor snickered. "If you spit out my Little Gold, Little Gold, I'll sew your throat shut right now. I have a lot of experience in making clothes. Trust me, I'll make sure it's tight. "
Dorcas immediately shut up. When Angor called him a bad person, he really did consider spitting out Little Gold right in front of Angor's face.
Seeing how Dorcas kept quiet out of fear, Wai cheered in his mind and looked at Angor with even more admiration.
After the little interlude, the Dark Earl looked at Dorcas again. "You're going to use this sandworm to test it?"
Dorcas nodded. "It's a normal sandworm, but I can sense everything it senses through my bloodline power. Even if it's discovered and killed, it won't affect us too much. "
Suddenly, Dorcas took out a small bottle from his pocket with a mysterious look on his face. "Do you know what's in this? Heh heh, I secretly collected some smelly gutters and put them in here. This way, when the sandworms crawl inside, they can disguise themselves as bugs from the gutters. It'll be better hidden! "
"You've prepared a lot," the Dark Earl commented.
Dorcas chuckled proudly. "Of course. It's not easy to come to the sewers. It'll be a waste if I don't take anything with me."
That sounded reasonable. However, the fact that Dorcas wanted to take away the gutters' smelly gutters really made everyone speechless.
Even the Dark Earl didn't know what to say anymore. Praise? Praise? Scold? None of those were good. Forget it.
Angor asked, "Are you sure the otherworldly Infant Spirits can smell the gutters?"
Dorcas replied, "It doesn't matter if he knows or not. We're just testing him."
Angor didn't know what to say.
Dorcas happily opened the bottle and threw the larvae inside to be "pickled".
Angor wasn't interested in worms, but he still looked away when he saw the larvae struggling in the bottle. It wasn't pity. He just thought that Dorcas was a bit … perverted. He was now a little doubtful. Was it a good choice to recruit Naddox?
When Dorcas took the larvae out again, it was already covered in the gutters' foul odor.
Still, it wasn't "pickled" for too long, so the smell wasn't too bad. Compared to the gutters, it was much more normal.
Even the Dark Earl didn't try to avoid it, which meant the smell wasn't as strong as before.
Dorcas was quite optimistic about this. "It'll be too much if it's too pungent. This is just right."
Dorcas looked at Angor. "I've already come this far. It's my turn to test it, right?"
Dorcas already pickled the larvae, so it would be inappropriate for Angor to refuse now.
Angor nodded. "I'll let you do it then."
"Alright! Don't worry, I'll bring you the best information! " Dorcas placed the larva on the ground. Relying on the characteristics of the moving illusion, his voice wouldn't reach the outside world, so he shouted loudly, "Attack, little bug!"
Angor was speechless. He already has a name?
Angor watched as the larvae slowly crawled into the ground. "If it's still alive, will you take it back?"
Before Dorcas could say anything, Vaay quickly answered, "Of course! Dorcas loves his larvae very much. Don't think he's happy now. It's just a facade. He's probably crying inside! "
Dorcas was confused. "???"
He had plenty of larvae. Losing a few wouldn't hurt him at all.
Vaay knew that Dorcas didn't mind losing some ordinary larvae. However, as long as Vaay spoke first, he could prove that Dorcas loved his larvae so much, and Dorcas wouldn't refuse.
"Dorcas' love for his larvae is sincere. This also means that he's a very righteous man. Even if it's just a larvae, he'll still cherish them. Let alone communicating with them. "
"Isn't that right, Dorcas?"
Dorcas nodded in a daze. "Uh, I think so."
Vaay grinned. "So, if the larvae isn't dead, I'm sure Dorcas will take it back. Also, Dorcas will take it back the same way he came! "
Vaay's last words revealed his true intention.
He wanted Dorcas to take the larvae back the same way he came! You like to act like a spitting larvae, right? Later, you'd better swallow it again for me!
Dorcas looked at Wa Yi with a face full of shock. At this moment, he understood what Wa Yi meant. Vaay wanted him to swallow a larvae that stained the gutter?!
"You're so mean …"
Vaay feigned ignorance. "Huh? What are you talking about? You don't love your larvae anymore? Then you can't be trusted. If you don't even love your larvae, how can you love someone else? "
Vaay's words were meant for Angor's ears. If Dorcas didn't love his larvae, he was a traitor.
If Dorcas loved his larvae, Ann would take it back the way he came.
Dorcas didn't know what to say. He couldn't really say that he didn't love his larvae. If he didn't, he wouldn't have taken the larvae as his main bloodline.
But if he said he loved his larvae, he would fall into Vaay's trap.
So mean!
Dorcas looked at Angor again. He believed that Angor could see through Vaay's scheme and give him justice.
But Dorcas had the wrong person.
Of course Angor saw through Vaay's trap. After all, Dorcas was the one who started it.
Angor was planning to set up his own trap. He didn't expect Vaay to see through it so quickly. Not only that, Vaay even put Dorcas on a pedestal by saying he was a man of virtue, only to bring him down again.
This was even worse than Angor's plan. This was great.
"Vaay's right."
Dorcas stared at Angor in shock. He couldn't believe his ears.
Vaay took advantage of the situation. "You're right too, sir!"
Dorcas felt the world spinning around him. It was as if he was standing in a boundless ice field. A bone-chilling wind was blowing from his skin to his bones. Even his blood was about to freeze.
"Let's talk later. Your larvae are about to touch the web," Dark Earl said.
Dorcas quickly returned to the real world and began to observe the movement of the sandworms while ignoring Way and Angor's banter.
Angor and Vaay didn't interrupt them either. It was fine to lighten the mood occasionally, but when it came to serious business, they couldn't afford to let it go.
Dorcas' fleshy larvae had already left the moving illusion.
Even so, it didn't attract the attention of the Infant Spirit.
This further confirmed Dark Earl's suspicion that the Infant Spirit was being controlled. Or rather, the Infant Spirit had intelligence. Otherwise, with the Infant Spirit's sensitivity to the aura of living things, it would have been impossible for it not to smell the sandworms.
Was the Infant Spirit planning to wait for them to enter the web?
And it was relying on these webs and red wax?
They didn't know for now. But they could use the larvae to test the effects of the red wax and the web.
The red wax covered the ground, but they could still climb up the walls or the ceiling to avoid it. However, the web was a different story. The web was tightly packed and sealed all the cracks on the walls.
Now, it was up to Dorcas to decide.
Should he go to the ground and touch the red wax first? Or should he go around the red wax and touch the web?
Dorcas rubbed his chin and decided to go around the red wax first. If the larvae could go around the red wax, so could they.
However, that was not the case for web weaving. They had to face web weaving, so the most important thing right now was to see what kind of effects the web weaving would have.
With that decided, the larvae began to climb up the wall. No one tried to stop them.
When they reached the ceiling, the larvae began to move again.
Soon, the larvae entered the red wax's range. However, since they were on the ceiling, they didn't touch the wax.
When everyone thought the larvae had successfully gone around the red wax, Dorcas suddenly frowned. "I think my control over the larvae is getting weaker."
"Weaker?" Angor was puzzled.
Dorcas remained silent for a moment. "Maybe it's just my imagination."
Everyone looked at Dorcas in confusion. Dorcas didn't know how to explain it either. He did feel that his control over the larvae was getting weaker, but now it seemed to be back. That was why he said it was just his imagination.
But soon, Dorcas felt his control over the larvae getting weaker again. Before he could explain, his control over the larvae came back again.
In the next few meters, Dorcas felt as if his control over the sandworm was on a roller coaster, sometimes high and sometimes low.
Dorcas didn't tell them about it yet. His control over the larvae was strange, but they didn't change their target. They were still climbing toward the web.
Dorcas wanted to wait until the larvae were caught by the web and see what happened.
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