#2600 - Advantages and disadvantages

"Calamities didn't exist in the Dead World. As far as we know, the source of calamities comes from the River of the Underworld. One theory suggests that the Hani clan summoned and brought calamities to the Dead World to overthrow Empress Persephone's rule."

"Actually, we don't know much about calamities. We only know that these blood-tumor-like life forms are one state of calamity existence. Destroying them can slow down the spread of calamities."

"Currently, calamities are spreading in the Dead World. We can block the spread of calamities from the north, and we hope the other four directions can stabilize the situation as well."

The Calamity Nests attached to the Rotten Lands do not possess attack abilities themselves and can only summon calamity creatures. Therefore, they exploded one after another under the bone dragon's attack.

The undead forces continued to advance slowly.

Fang Heng controlled the bone dragon to follow behind the team, listening to Notal's narration, frowning, and looking up at the black mist ahead.

The further he went, the denser the number of Calamity Nests became.

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River of the Underworld.

One of the most dangerous areas in the Dead World.

According to legend, the water of the River of the Underworld can absorb souls and wills, emitting a terrifying aura of death, and is also the source of the entire Dead World's birth.

Originally, the edges of the River of the Underworld were covered with rotten land.

But at this time, the rotten land was covered with large patches of dense Calamity Nests.

Black mist continuously overflowed from the Swamp of Slumber and was devoured and absorbed by the Calamity Nests densely packed along the coast.

Hundreds of meat cocoons, two to three meters tall, rhythmically pulsated beside the swamp, as if gestating new life.

Whirr... Whirr...

Waves rippled on the surface of the River of the Underworld.

A young man with long hair poked his head out of the water and walked towards the riverbank.

The young man slowly opened his arms as he walked, as if feeling his own strength.

"Prust."

Not far from the riverbank, a young woman with a beautiful face stood there, staring directly at the young man walking out of the swamp, with a charming smile on her lips, "How do you feel?"

"Very good." Prust nodded slightly, "The power of the River of the Underworld is too wasteful to use in the Dead World; it's best used to transform calamities..."

Prust paused, looked at the woman, and asked, "Mu Qingxin, would you say I've completed my evolution?"

"What do you think?"

Mu Qingxin looked at Prust and said lightly, "Completing evolution means you have developed more than 90% of the potential of your current state and completely conquered the native creatures. Do you think you have reached this level?"

"I need a little more time."

Prust clenched his fists again, felt his own strength, and said, "The fusion of calamity and the power of the Dead World is not perfect. I still need to learn from more battles, draw more experience from combat, constantly optimize, and try to integrate other modules in battle."

"Indeed, the single death power module is a bit insufficient, especially when dealing with Dead World creatures..."

Mu Qingxin nodded lightly, echoing, her gaze shifted to the rows of large meat cocoons pulsating on the edge of the Swamp of Slumber.

"Bang! Bang, bang!!!!"

The meat cocoons burst open one after another under Mu Qingxin's gaze.

Strange-looking creatures were exposed in the broken meat cocoons.

"After this period of battle, you understand the calamity that has fused with the power of death better than I do. These are the modules I have collected, and you can make some choices."

Mu Qingxin continued, "I still want to remind you that the higher the level of ability, the fewer modules can coexist. If you are not careful, the fusion of calamity may collapse at any time."

"I know, I will weaken them appropriately before performing module fusion."

Prust nodded and walked to one of the alien insects.

Prust looked at the insect and shook his head, "The biggest feature of calamity fusing with the ability of the Dead World is that it can inflict damage to the soul and corrosive physical attacks. Oh, and extremely strong reproductive ability, almost cost-free reproduction..."

"In comparison, the other attributes of calamity are very ordinary. Fusing the mimetic metal body can greatly improve the defense of calamity, making them more difficult to deal with, while greatly increasing their reproductive ability."

As Prust spoke, he slowly reached out his hand, and tiny black streamers spread out from his hand.

The streamers gradually formed threads in the air, spreading towards the insect body that had broken through the meat cocoon.

Huh?

Prust frowned slightly and stopped his hand in place.

Mu Qingxin looked at Prust, "What's wrong? Changed your mind?"

"It's nothing. Calamity is encountering trouble in the northern district." Prust frowned slightly, carefully sensed it, and added, "It's the bone dragon."

"Oh?"

"Bone dragon creatures have the ability to fly, and the current calamity cannot restrain them. Even if they fuse with mimetic metal, it will be ineffective, which is very troublesome."

"If devouring the local creatures is the goal of evolution, then the first choice to complete the goal is not mimetic metal..."

As Prust spoke, he slowly shifted his gaze to the insect cocoon on the right.

Mu Qingxin snapped her fingers lightly.

"Bang!!"

The insect cocoon exploded.

A kind of ugly and strange insect creature crawled out of the insect cocoon.

It was much smaller than other mutated creatures, only about 0.5 meters long, with multiple wings on its back.

"SS-level modification, Multi-Winged Terror Worm. Possesses flight, self-explosion, infection, spores, toxins, and parasitic abilities. Its advantage is that the mutated spore infection mode can reproduce through the enemy's body, causing great morale blows to the enemy, and extremely low reproduction difficulty."

Mu Qingxin shifted her gaze to the winged insect creature and continued, "In addition, the Multi-Winged Terror Worm is small, fast, and can quickly switch flight modes in the air. The most common attack method is to approach the enemy and then self-destruct, causing a huge amount of damage to the enemy through self-explosion."

"After the self-explosion, the spores diffused by the explosion will quickly parasitize in the enemy's body, absorb the enemy's flesh and blood, and complete reproduction within 1 minute, breaking through the flesh and blood from the enemy's body."

"The disadvantage is that this parasitic reproduction attack method cannot completely work on some creatures, such as machines, such as the undead."