Chapter 219 - 139: Spirit-Stealing Eye Demon and Gluttonous Slime
Through the efforts of Yadi and its assistant, a Death Devourer, the territory gained a large number of Symbiotic Eye Demons and Symbiotic Little Elves, as well as many Eye Demons evolved from Slimes, and the evolved Slimes.
The Eye Demons that evolved from Slimes became a completely different type of Eye Demon, unlike the Symbiotic Eye Demons.
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[Name]: Spirit-Stealing Eye Demon
[Grade]: Excellent (Minimum)
[Level]: 5 (Minimum)
[Attack]: 112.5
[Spell Power]: 225
[Speed]: 37.5
[Defense]: 225
[Health]: 225
[Description]: A new Eye Demon race that mutated and evolved by parasitizing a semi-energy life form and absorbing its essence.
[Skills]: Spirit-Stealing, Attribute Drain, Camouflage, Intermediate Spiritual Energy Mastery
[Talents]: Camouflaged Invasion, Resurrection
[Spirit-Stealing]: When the Eye Demon invades a creature, there is a small chance to absorb the invaded creature’s traits, including but not limited to talents, bloodlines, etc.
If it completely absorbs everything from the target, it is guaranteed to acquire a lesser version of one of the target’s traits.
[Attribute Drain]: While in a state of invasion, the Eye Demon can slowly absorb and replace the host creature’s attributes. (After absorbing an attribute, it replaces the stolen value with its own, preventing the host from noticing the change.)
[Camouflage]: The Eye Demon can camouflage itself by changing its color and physical properties (e.g., flesh turning into wood).
[Intermediate Spiritual Energy Mastery]: The Eye Demon can skillfully manipulate Spiritual Energy. This increases the power of skills cast with Spiritual Energy by 150%, accelerates the learning of Spiritual Energy skills by 150%, and boosts Spiritual Energy affinity by 150%.
[Resurrection]: The Eye Demon can store a part of its body in another location. When the main body dies, the severed part can redevelop into a new Eye Demon body, allowing it to resurrect.
The resurrected Eye Demon’s level is reset to zero. Only after its level returns to its peak (when body and soul are in sync) can it once again sever a body part to use as a resurrection tool.
[Camouflaged Invasion]: The Eye Demon can invade the interior of a creature and, by changing its color and sensing the biological signals within the host, camouflage itself as the host creature’s mutated tissue.
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If the Symbiotic Eye Demon is a dedicated support that grows alongside its host and even helps in combat (like an extra attachable weapon)...
...then the Spirit-Stealing Eye Demon is a thief that infiltrates the host’s body to secretly steal its treasures (attributes and traits).
It walks a path of stealing from all creation and making it its own, to ultimately achieve a state where all abilities are born from its will.
Theoretically, as long as this type of Spirit-Stealing Eye Demon can steal the traits and attributes of sufficiently powerful creatures, it could reach the apex of the Cosmos.
However, for the territory, this kind of Eye Demon is actually not as useful as the Symbiotic Eye Demon.
They can only be unleashed on enemies to wreak havoc.
Currently, there are no enemies within the territory for them to use their Spirit-Stealing on, so they have no opportunity to be useful.
Moreover, the Spirit-Stealing Eye Demon, like the Symbiotic Eye Demon, has lost the ability to reproduce by splitting. They can only be created through parasitic evolution. It is unknown if they can reproduce by mating; that is something they will have to figure out for themselves.
In addition, the Slimes that hatched the Spirit-Stealing Eye Demons have also undergone some changes.
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[Name]: Gluttonous Slime
[Grade]: Excellent (Minimum)
[Level]: 5 (Minimum)
[Attack]: 112.5
[Spell Power]: 112.5
[Speed]: 75
[Defense]: 202.5
[Health]: 427.5
[Skills]: Corrupting Purification, Fission-Fusion
[Talent]: Devour and Assimilate
[Corrupting Purification]: ...
[Fission-Fusion]: ...
[Devour and Assimilate]: The Slime can digest almost any substance, extracting and absorbing the energy and matter within.
The Slime can absorb a trace of something from every substance it digests, including energy, attributes, traits, skills, etc.
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The Slime’s skills haven’t changed; they are still the two skills obtained from the Natural Essence Manufacturing Plant.
However, its talent has undergone an epic evolution. The "Devour and Assimilate" talent allows it to consume any substance—organic or inorganic, harmful to normal creatures or not. None of it poses a problem.
There’s no risk of the Slime ever starving to death.
Furthermore, it can absorb energy, attributes, traits, skills, and more from what it consumes. Although the description says the amount absorbed is small—just a trace—as long as it eats enough, the Slime can evolve to become incredibly powerful and acquire numerous skills.
Most importantly, its retained "Fission-Fusion" skill allows it to split into more of its kind, unlike the Spirit-Stealing Eye Demons, which cannot increase their numbers.
Furthermore, by fusing with ordinary Slimes and then splitting again, it can spread the "Devour and Assimilate" talent, passing it from one Slime to the next.
Unfortunately, Slimes with the "Devour and Assimilate" ability can no longer be parasitized by ordinary Eye Demons. If any Eye Demon is bold enough to parasitize a Gluttonous Slime...
...it will be digested by the Gluttonous Slime before it can even incubate.
Therefore, to create more Spirit-Stealing Eye Demons, Lin Kong did not let the Gluttonous Slimes infect the ordinary Slimes.
Moreover, any Spirit-Stealing Eye Demon that refused to submit to the territory was turned to ash by the Death Devourers. This was mainly because their ability was a bit too broken; if an independent one, through some great stroke of fortune, managed to steal the abilities of many powerful beings (Gods?), it would be a catastrophe.
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For the remainder of October, Lin Yu’s territory accelerated the conversion and capture of Eye Demons.
It was imperative to obtain enough Symbiotic Eye Demons and Spirit-Stealing Eye Demons before the end of October, because these two types could only be obtained through parasitic evolution.