"Mu Hua! Mu Hua! Let's play together, let's play together!" Seeing Mu Hua on the lawn of the Ash Fortress, a group of bear-like creatures jumped towards him.
It has a head shaped like a hippopotamus, and because it is young, it looks a little silly. It has a childish voice and a clumsy body, but its movements are very agile.
Behemoth, or rather, the cub of Behemoth.
Reaching out and grabbing a Behemoth cub that was rushing towards him, Mu Hua kicked the Behemoth cub on the butt, kicking it more than ten meters high. The Behemoth cub drew an arc and was kicked far away.
"I want one, I want one too~~!" The eyes of a group of naughty kids, who are not small compared to humans, lit up.
Mu Hua rolled his eyes helplessly. Tina and Charles beside him followed suit and kicked them away one by one with a force that was enough to break bones and tendons of ordinary creatures.
Amid the laughter and calls of a group of naughty children, the three of them were able to avoid being entangled by the group of Behemoth cubs.
"Mamie, Amy, keep an eye on them. If they cause trouble again, I will break your bones." Mu Hua shouted from a distance at the two ugly and ferocious adult Behemoths.
The other party shrank his neck, bowed to Mu Hua, watched Mu Hua waved and left, then waved his sharp claws and showed his ferocious fangs to a group of Behemoth cubs.
There are some Behemoths raised in the Ash Fortress. Among the first batch of Behemoths that Mu Hua collected from the Snow Ridge Ranch, some were unwilling to surrender.
Some of them became the material for the members under Mu Hua to exfoliate their skin, while the others who were not so violent but did not want to become Saturday's followers were raised in the Ash Fortress.
These Behemoth cubs are the offspring of female Behemoths. Mami and Amy are two relatively docile female Behemoths who act as their nannies.
In fact, the reproductive capacity of Behemoth is not bad. An adult female Behemoth can give birth to a litter every five to ten years, and each litter can give birth to one to three cubs.
Originally, Mu Hua was very enthusiastic about breeding a legion of Behemoths, but it was not until he raised these cubs that Mu Hua finally understood why, although they were such a powerful race, whenever he saw Behemoths, there seemed to be no large groups.
Behemoth cubs are not fierce, they are even quite cute. Behemoths are also relatively united among themselves. Although there is bullying, there are basically no fatal fights.
The fundamental reason why the Behemoth population is so scarce is that these guys' childhood period is too long.
Just like the Behemoth cubs in Mu Hua's family, according to human age calculations, the earliest ones born are one or two hundred years old, but the largest among them is only the size of an ordinary black bear.
This is not because of the Abyss Island. Mu Hua has already conducted experiments on both monsters and humans.
The Abyss Island does not restrict the healthy growth of living things. Even though these Behemoth cubs were born in the hot spring town, their development rhythm is entirely due to their growth cycle.
Behemoths are stupid and cute when they are young, and they do not have the ferocity of mature Behemoths at all, but their childhood period can last for three to five hundred years.
During this period, although the Behemoth cub has a strong physique, its claws and fangs are fragile, and its strength can only reach the level of a mid-level monster at most.
Only after passing the infancy period, the Behemoth cubs will experience a fusion called blood ring liberation, when their size, posture, temperament, and even physiological structure will change overnight.
The long infancy period, coupled with the unruly nature of mature Behemoths, means they have a habit of killing their cubs when they encounter strong enemies trying to snatch them away, and there is never a shortage of people in Hell who are eyeing Behemoth cubs.
Due to various factors, it is difficult for the Behemoth population to grow, and Mu Hua's plan to establish a Behemoth Legion will obviously take a longer process.
A group of Behemoth cubs were fostered in the Ash Fortress. Each one of them was like a naughty child. They had been close to Mu Hua and others since childhood, which could be considered as their preschool education.
For some reason, Mu Hua thought of giving each of his children a Behemoth cub as a playmate since childhood, but he curled his lips and shook his head again.
Leaving the castle, there is nothing much to say about the blood collection site. Two unruly dragons had their teeth and claws pulled out, and have been hanging on to their lives for years by force-feeding and healing magic. The rest are vampires fished out of the abyss.
After years of destruction and damage to their origins, it was heard that the two evil dragons were almost dead. Mu Hua came to see if the magic could extend their lives. If it was too much trouble, he would leave them to the Terror Knight as evolution materials. He just didn't know if they could still be used after being tormented for so many years.
In a relatively remote area on the edge of the abyss, there is a greedy nest that is strictly prohibited from approaching.
Nowadays, the southernmost part of the Abyss Island is an uninhabited area. Except for the trap area specially designed to deal with difficult monsters like Fenrir, the blood collection site and the Greedy Nest are both located here.
This place is covered by Wednesday's illusion all year round and is usually guarded by Wednesday. The so-called Greedy Nest is where the abyss monsters that have been marked with the Seal of Oath by Mu Hua are stored. They can be regarded as Mu Hua's reserved summoned beasts.
A large area of empty land surrounded by high walls reveals a crude nest of greed. There are a few closed rooms like prison cells. Scratches on the ground outline independent square spaces. In each space there is a monster that sometimes wanders around and sometimes lies quietly.
These monsters are all in an illusion, and the illusion constructed by Wednesday saves a lot of manpower and resources for guarding these abyss monsters.
Werewolf from hell!
Inside the Greedy Nest, one can see a large number of hell werewolves. Most of the vampires fished out of the abyss were taken to the blood collection site. Since Mu Hua mastered the Seal of Oath, Mu Hua no longer slaughtered the werewolves from the abyss indiscriminately, but sent them here.
Seal of the Oath, the special ability of the original sin greed half a beat slower. The reason why it is called half a beat slower is that it is of great help in the production of summoned beasts, but it can only be obtained after touching greed.
The name sounds decent, but the nature of this ability is definitely evil.
Greed can silently add this mark to other creatures. When those creatures are marked with the Seal of the Oath, if the marked creatures do not guard against the greed of the caster, the Seal of the Oath will gradually erode the marked creatures.
As time goes by, the Seal of Oath will subtly change the attitude of the person being sealed towards the person who seals it. Without affecting the person's rationality, the Seal of Oath will become a substitute for the Dependent Contract.
Well, this kind of replacement does not mean that the sealed person becomes a dependent of the sealer. After all, the Seal of Oath has no essential effect on the sealed person.
But it can replace the dependent contract and become a necessary part of the transformation of summoned beasts.
In other words, if one does not guard against greed, when the Seal of Oath is truly perfected, Greed can completely forcibly transform the recipient of the seal into their own summoned beast.
Because it does not affect sanity, there are inevitably some disadvantages, such as even if it becomes a summoned beast, it will still feel resentful.
However, since I have become someone else's summoned beast, what can I do if I feel resentful?
Not to mention being stuffed into the summoning space, Greed has countless ways to fully train the summoned beasts with immortal characteristics in various ways.
Even if the summoner tells the summoned beast to fight someone desperately, the summoned beast will still roll up its sleeves and fight.
The Seal of Oath is a rather evil thing, but it is not difficult to make it ineffective. As long as you notice a clue in your attitude towards the person who has been sealed and feel resistance, the Seal of Oath will be lifted.
Under normal circumstances, if Greed wants the Seal of Oath to take effect, he also needs to put on a show. At the very least, he needs to try to please the recipient from time to time so that the subtle change in attitude will not seem so abrupt.
After all, any creature with a normal brain would have no reason not to question unwarranted goodwill and approval.
And precisely because of this, people who have a little understanding of greed will keep their distance from them. Even if they become friends, they will always be wary and resist them.
However, when the Seal of the Oath fell into Mu Hua's hands, combined with Wednesday's illusion, the abyss monster could be said to be an excellent recipient of the seal.
They have lost their rationality but not their sanity, and their sanity is enough to provide the Seal of the Oath with nutrients to infect the soul.
Wednesday would occasionally construct the image of Mu Hua in their respective illusions, so that they would gradually develop the impression that Mu Hua was non-threatening.
As long as they don't attack Mu Hua when they see him, they can slap the seal of the oath and then swipe their faces from time to time. All that's left is to wait for the oath to mature.
The werewolves of Hell are not a strong group of demons, but first of all, their numbers are large enough. Secondly, Mu Hua is also optimistic about them. Like Behemoth, they are also sons of the earth who can restore their strength by standing on the ground.
It is such a waste to use one's own skeletons and undead to make summoned beasts. For this reason, among the land combat monsters in Mu Hua's "Final War", the Hell Werewolves have become the tentative first tier.
There are werewolves, six-armed Nagas, Minotaur who are good at close combat, big demons with comprehensive abilities, blue-winged demons who specialize in long-range combat, and even two Medusas locked in a single room.
The biggest drawbacks of the abyss monsters are their magic addiction and spellcasting defects. Transforming them into summoned beasts can solve the problem of magic addiction, but spellcasting defects are difficult to avoid, so monsters that tend to excel in spellcasting will basically not be selected into the Greed's Lair.
At this stage, most of the monsters imprisoned in Greed's Nest are relatively conventional monsters produced by smelting, but they all have their own strengths in terms of quantity or ability.
As mentioned before, although there was a bug, Mu Hua's "Final War" was only a prototype, but he never gave up on perfecting this evil yet brutal ability.
The Seal of Oath replaced the Family Contract, and the Field of Greed replaced the Soul Compensation. The Seal of Oath also opened a gap in Mu Hua's original sin energy.
It is precisely because of the lack of original sin energy that Mu Hua will try his best to pick monsters with higher attributes and throw them into the Nest of Greed.
Of course, to transform these monsters into summoned beasts, some necessary materials are needed. The large-scale expansion of the "Final War" will inevitably consume a lot of Mu Hua's financial resources.
In general, there are still many monsters of the same type as in the Greedy Nest that have either entered the Burning Furnace or the Blood Pool.
When one's strength reaches a certain level, skill stones and secret stones will no longer be so omnipotent.
Although Mu Hua was usually quite dissolute, he never gave up on improving himself.
Compared to the blood collection site, the Greedy Nest is an absolute forbidden area on the Abyss Island. The monsters here are currently dominated by the "standard cannon fodder" that are abundant in quantity.
But this may only be temporary. Even with the flaws in spellcasting, there are still some beings in the abyss with deadly talents and fierce melee combat.
As the nest of greed that Mu Hua values highly, what is bred here is——'the final war'. (End of this chapter)