11 Chapter 11: Danger Comes (1/2)
With a cough, I laid my head down on the floor letting my mind drift off to sleep. With the mental exhaustion, I felt there was no way other than this to repair the damage quickly.
When I woke, I found the strangler curled up against my side sleeping there as well as a group of ten larvae pigged out on the small mountain of corpses. One larva was sitting on the monkey slowly eating the entire thing, its belly already swelled to the point it looked as though it could roll faster than it could walk.
More powerful beasts seemed to give a lot more biomass than their weaker counterparts. The drone was eating off large pieces of it as well, and seemed to shiver in excitement every time it ate the meat. The Godly Drone, on the other hand, didn't seem to have changed at all.
With a stretch, I picked up the small blob of shadows with legs and pet it like a cat as I walked to the mass of corpses. Placing him on the head of one of the creatures I smiled softly, ”Go ahead and eat with your sons and daughters!”
Planning on resting my mind, and mana since both were not fully recovered with the nap I had, I went out to gather herbs and plants from the surrounding area. With my creation magic, I should be able to make some of the tools alchemy needed, and the corpses would provide me with the gasses for fire producing tools. Otherwise, I would have to buy a cow and harvest the methane gas from it.
After thinking about the tubing situation, I started to write down what I would need to make a methane farm. After much consideration, I chose to instead rely on the death of creatures around me as they will be in heavy supply in the near future.
”Drone, start digging a hole for me.” Pulling up the evolution menu for the creature, I checked out the buildings it could create with its body. These would be of course only evolved into once the drone could create a superior version of the construction.
There were four buildings that I could make currently, the harvester, the meat pool, spawning lake, and evolutionary testing facility.
The Harvester was a building that took in raw materials and broke them down to make them easy to assemble or harvest. A drone would bring materials to it and it would turn it into a biomaterial that could be upgraded using various things. Like should one bring in hemp, and spider webs the harvester could produce a hemp-based fiber reinforced with spider webs.
The meat pool gathered magical energy and infused meat that was let to rot and dissolve into it. Creating a pool of rotten meat paste which is more nutritious for my creatures than just plain meat. Lesser meats would almost instantaneously be upgraded, and more powerful meat will take time and effort to process into the pool.
The spawning lake was a giant hole in the ground filled with toxic fluids from a tumor-like existence in the middle of it. It constantly leaked out these fluids and they would be very beneficial to the larva, enhancing their foundation to create better evolutions in the future. This took a long time though, soaking their bodies for several weeks, ripping and healing their bodies in a slow process. It was the perfect system to create elites among their kind though.
The evolutionary testing facility (ETF) was a long term investment. What it did was continually test a single trait that slowly pushed the evolutionary boundaries of it to try and give more options for later evolutions. It could also be used to create something like an evolutionary template, customizing creatures to a certain degree but only if you had the meat pool available as it created formulas for it.