Mystical Journey

East Perrin looked at the sparse figures of Predators who were watching her from afar and sighed. She looked back at the people left on defense duties on the wall. There were only a dozen or so left and all of them were haggard and listless. They had eaten and drank to their heart's content, consuming the original portion of those who were dead. Since they were about to die now and might not live till tomorrow, it was completely meaningless to save on food.

"If another Invisible Predator like the previous one comes, just a few more of them and everyone will die," Malone tiredly remarked on one side.

East Perrin nodded and stopped talking. She was already extremely tired.

If it were not for the little hope on Garen's side, she might not have been able to hold out and just wanted to give up on her fate.

Looking back at the direction of the stone house where Garen was at, East Perrin renewed her perseverance.

"Never give up until the end."

She recalled her mother's last words. This was also the law of survival she had been depending on all the while in the radiation belt.

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Basement

After one hour...

Garen carefully watched the bloody creature that was taking shape in the Biochemical Pool. It was a one point six meter wolf dog-like animal. It seemed to have only the torso and the limbs had not fully developed. There was also no skin and the whole body was bloody, like a wild dog that was just skinned.

But what impressed Garen the most was that pair of eyes, dark green, giving people goosebumps.

He looked up at the timetable he had brought in.

"It's been an hour. The theoretical time has been reached, but it has not yet been completed. Maybe the cultivation environment is not ideal, the quality of the biochemical fluid is insufficient, and other reasons also lead to that."

He murmured the calculating of time.

The color of the biochemical fluid seemed to be slightly lighter at this time, not as rich as it was at the beginning.

He continued to wait and did not shift his gaze away from the Biochemical Pool for a moment.

He watched the wild wolf's limbs began to lengthen and develop fully. Then it was the tail and afterward, black skin gradually covered all over it.

Awoooo!

A black wild wolf slowly crawled out of the edge of the Biochemical Pool. When it shook its whole body, thick black hairs quickly grew. It crouched in front of Garen.

It was an hour and a half from the time he had put in the material to begin cultivating.

Garen walked over to it, ignoring the biochemical fluid that was still on the wild wolf, and reached out to gently stroke the head of the wolf.

The wild wolf was half a man's height in its squatting position, the same level as Garen's chest. As its head was being stroked, it also made a deep sound. There was no resistance at all.

Garen observed the wolf carefully. This guy looked no different from a normal wild wolf, except that its claws were sharper, its physique was stronger, and it looked like its combat power was not bad.

One could comprehend with a little imagination. If it were really an ordinary wild wolf, it would be impossible to get a rating of Level One combat power. After all, the Level One standard was based on the standard of a Level One pilot operating a Mech.

"Next is the most critical step..." Garen also began to feel nervous.

Although the wild wolf was only an ordinary Level One basic cannon fodder, the combat power was similar to that of a Level One Mech soldier, only slightly weaker than it. In fact, two wolves could barely confront a single Mech soldier. But if adding in the Distorted Seed...

Garen's outstretched palm slowly cracked open a mouth-like gap and a large number of blue silk threads swarmed out of it. In the center of the silk threads, a twisted and wriggling clump of blue flesh slowly wormed out. When stroking the wolf's head, it silently touched the space on top of the head between its ears.

Ssss...

The Distorted Seed drilled in as if it was virtual and penetrated directly through the wild wolf's skull.

Wooo!!

The wild wolf instantly froze. Its eyes bulged slightly as the glittering green eyes began to fill with red blood traces. Its whole body also started to swell up slowly. Its claws continued to lengthen, growing thicker and harder. Its back was vaguely arched with two strong muscles while its ears grew furrier and a little longer.

The entire body length extended to nearly two meters.

"The unit that had Distorted Seed attached to it will have their original quality increased by three times. I wonder how the wild wolf's strength will be after this increment..." Garen looked at the transformed wolf. "From now on, all these upgraded units will be called Big Wild Wolf."

He named it simply.

"Squat down!"

He ordered.

The Big Wild Wolf immediately squatted down and was very obedient. Obviously, the Distorted Seed did not affect the control center in its brain. That was the most critical core for Energy Machinists to control the cannon fodder units, same as what was deduced by Garen before.

The Big Wild Wolf gained a powerful growth from the Distorted Seed and had perfectly acquired the Energy Machinist's brain control.

"The trouble now is that the Distorted Seed is not limited by its quantity and as many as possible can be developed, but there is a problem in controlling it. On the contrary, the quantity of the Energy Machinist's cannon fodder units is limited but there is no problem in controlling it."

"Quantity and control. How to get the best balance between them both...?" Garen was brooding.

If he abandoned control, he could create an unlimited number of Big Wild Wolves as long as there were materials and biochemical fluid. He would be completely unrestricted by the upper limit number of control imposed on the Energy Machinist.

However, if he wanted absolute control, then the number would naturally not go up because his current Energy Machine Imprint could only control one Big Wild Wolf. The characteristic of an Energy Machinist was that with the advancement of every two levels, the upper limit number of control would increase by one.

In other words, Level Two could control one, Level Four could control two, Inheriting Level Six could control three, progressing as such. Of course, because of the huge limit of the number, most people would choose to continuously strengthen the unit creature of their control. They would enhance it as much as possible and take the elite route.

In fact, there were also Energy Machinists who took the group fight route, but the individual strength of the cannon fodder would not be worth mentioning. This was also a very cost-effective way to burn money and was not subjected to the environment.

The way of the group route was to separately implant control chips for each cannon fodder unit. The advantage of doing so was that it would not completely burden the Energy Machine Imprint. The disadvantage was that it would lose the increment brought about by the Energy Machine Imprint.

This was because every level of the Energy Machine training method would upgrade one's control unit.

Just like Garen's NIS training method, each level could increase the speed and basic defense of his control unit by 0.5 level. This way, compared to the ordinary cannon fodder wild wolf, the wild wolf controlled by Garen could now have one level of advancement in speed and basic defense. The combat power would have increased a lot.

Of course, if this kind of wild wolf made by the same Level Two Energy Machinist was encountered, then it would naturally be about the same.

"Quantity... What I need now is the number that I can control..." Garen stared at the Big Wild Wolf and was deep in thought.

He used to be the top biochemistry master in Totem World and had a world of sedimentation and knowledge of civilization for the cultivation of biological genes. He had more different development ideas than the scientists in this world.

"The limitation of quantity is in the upper limit control of the training method. So if I want to increase the number, I will have to either increase the level of training method or weaken the training method Willpower required by one creature. If controlling one creature would need one unit of Willpower, then if I could reduce it to 0.5 a unit, I would be able to control two creatures."

Garen found the source.

"Then where is the key module where the Energy Machine Imprint controls the wild wolf?"

His consciousness went deep into the Energy Machine Imprint and began to trace the extremely complex structure to find the relevant module.

The Energy Machine Imprint was like a sophisticated manufactured quantum computer. There actually were traces that could be followed and the division of work in each major modules was clear.

Garen quickly found the module from the records of the Energy Machinist training method.

The Energy Machine Imprint was divided into two parts, the computing part and the production part. The Control Mod was part of the production part. It was a very compact black box-like encryption block. Many thin lines were stretched out from the inside and were gently waving like tentacles. They were releasing an inexplicable fluctuating signal. This seemed to be the source for controlling the Big Wild Wolf.

"The controlling of the wild wolf doesn't seem to be done through wireless signals?" Garen analyzed carefully and experimented several times before coming to the conclusion. "Instead, the built-in structure of the wild wolf's brain was implanted in advance so that it will instinctively view me as its master and intuitively obey my commands. At the same time, it seemed that a linguistic system has been implanted in it. Are these cannon fodders capable of comprehending simple command language?"

Garen reached a somewhat ridiculous conclusion, but in line with logic, this conclusion was indeed highly reliable.

"Can I transfer over here some of the techniques used to control the Silver Totems back then?" Garen began to ponder. The Silver Totems had given him a lot of help at the beginning. Despite its insignificant role in the later period, it did give a huge boost due to the early accumulation.

The current Energy Machinists were somewhat like controlling the Silver Totems at that time and both had somewhat similar effects.

"Back then, Black Sky's crystal ball's derivator was the core used to control the Silver Totems. The principle of that thing was to use a kind of ore called Resonance Stone to control remotely, which was not much limited by quantity. If I can find something resembling Resonance Stone as an alternative, maybe I can overcome this limitation."

Garen's heart moved as he seemed to find a breakthrough.

The Silver Totems in Totem World used the means of resonance to perform complex control.

The resonance of Resonance Stone actually only had a few simple combinations, but the people of Black sky used these combinations as basic units, like how computers used 0s and 1s to combine a myriad of different kinds of software. They also used this kind of combinations to construct an extremely complex crystal ball derivation to achieve the goal of controlling Silver Totems using resonance.

Garen had studied this skill back then. Adding on the information obtained from the help of that female in-house staff of Black Sky, he had done a thorough research on it. It was originally thought that he would not be using it in the future but he did not expect to be able to actually use it again here.

"In this world, although the research on resonance is not in-depth, many of the materials that can generate resonance are available." A variety of materials that Garen had seen before on the computer instantly flashed through Garen's mind. Most of which were plants and part of them were marine life.

He went out, picked up all the remaining unused materials and began to search through them.

Although the plants that could generate resonance were very rare, many plants in effect had such phenomena. Fortunately, there were many such plants in the radiation belt. Through resonance, these plants transmitted basic information including environmental information, survival suitability, and so on, in order to choose the optimum living environment.