Chapter 243
They were no longer scattered as before; instead, he noticed how they were being clumped and guided together in one place, far away from ordinary people.
He was very tempted at the time to command the puppets to cause chaos and break the fragile trust Erik had built with his people.
But after some consideration, he didn’t do that. Instead, he adjusted his plan, one which worked even better for him and one that would bite back at Erik’s plan.
This plan included the walk he took over his territory. Opening his mouth, a big worm the size of a hand crawled out. After clawing out, the bug squeezed together and fell asleep.
This bug is the queen and birth mother of all the parasites. Parasites born from other parasites all hold a strong connection to this bug. As Silas stated before, these parasites in the abyss were beings being stomped over, and no demon or existence in the abyss paid attention to them.
Yet there is always an exception, which is a parasite that has managed to host a demon at its weakest moment, showing the abyss demon and race the exceptional talents of these parasites.
These parasites, after taking a host, gain the ability to devour each other to grow stronger. Of course, if this was all, then the demons wouldn’t be impressed as devouring is the basic ability of all abyss residents.
What impressed them was how, with numbers, the talent of these parasites shows its full capability. Elites can be grown in a day as long as there is enough energy, and these are not the usual cannon fodder elites, but elites with high battle IQ and decisive strategic decisions. This level of coordination and intelligence was unheard of among the lower life forms in the abyss, and it was this very trait that allowed the parasites to stand out. They were not just mindless creatures; they were an organized, ever-adapting force.
Now the question is why such a race is taken for granted in the abyss. It all stems from the inherited memory, as at one point, a parasite queen was close to becoming an abyss lord but unfortunately fell, and memories of this race were grafted into the inheritance memory.