Beast Taming: Invincible Breeder-Chapter 151 - 126: Death Crow’s Curse

Chapter 151: Chapter 126: Death Crow’s Curse
To craft a good set of metal armor, you need all kinds of metals—it’s simply a gold-eating beast.
"The family must have mines to afford Xiaoruan’s metal armor, Xiaoyi’s research, the limitless weapons of the Mechanical Pupil. Even the easiest to raise, the Dark Crow, requires a lot of curse resources."
Li Cunxu’s intention to conquer the secret realm suddenly waned a bit when he realized he was really short of money.
"If this secret realm is conquered, then the expenses for the future... it seems like there’s no need to worry for quite a long time."
Thinking of this, Li Cunxu was tempted.
Li Cunxu said to the White Spider: "Xiaoyi, how about conquering this secret realm? It’s one of the richest among all the conquerable bronze secret realms."
The White Spider hesitantly said: "There is a risk of life-threatening dangers. The one lurking in the shadows might have a trump card left by the Mechanical God Sect."
"There’s no absolutely safe thing in this world. You could be at risk of getting hit by a car just walking on the street. He has a trump card, don’t I too? Besides, the instruments you need for your research also require money to buy."
It is said that with the White Spider’s ability, if given enough time, it could mold the research instruments by hand, but that would be too time-consuming. Instead, it’s better to buy them directly, saving time and effort, allowing the White Spider to spend more energy on researching Mechanical Pupil’s weapons.
Hearing this, the White Spider didn’t hesitate for a second and immediately agreed.
Li Cunxu said: "You’re the smartest; you formulate the strategy."
Beast Mastery is a game of development, the strongest Beast Master only needs to focus on nurturing and training their spirit beasts; the rest of the tasks can be left to the spirit beasts.
After pondering for a moment, the White Spider provided its strategic plan.
"It is known that the core of the secret realm is most likely in the possession of the person behind the demolition robots, but they are in hiding, and we can’t find them. There’s only one way: to stir up the grass and scare the snake, forcing him to reveal himself."
"The best way to stir up the grass and scare the snake is to cut off the roots of his demolition robots and destroy those constantly producing mechanical mother bodies."
The White Spider frowned slightly and said: "Unfortunately, I only have two avatars, and the mechanical mother bodies aren’t gathered together. At the same time, I can only poison two mechanical mother bodies. If the opponent reacts quickly, I can only poison two mechanical mother bodies."
"Caw~ (Leave it to me, just need my feathers to touch the mechanical mother bodies, and I can curse them to death.)," said the Dark Crow.
Li Cunxu asked with joy: "You’ve realized a new exclusive curse?"
The Dark Crow couldn’t immediately curse all the mechanical mother bodies with a curse skill, but if the Dark Crow said so suddenly, it must have realized a new exclusive curse.
"Caw~ (Yes.)"
"What is the name of this curse?"
"Caw~ (I haven’t named it yet. Let me think of a good name?)"
The Dark Crow tilted its head, thinking of what name to give.
Li Cunxu immediately stopped it: "Wait, don’t name it yet. Let Xiaoyi know the effect of the curse and let Xiaoyi name it so it can mingle with destiny points."
The curse name given by the White Spider implies that the curse is linked to the destiny of the White Spider, henceforth, whenever this curse curses someone to death, the White Spider would be able to brew destiny points.
If it curses a King to death, then the White Spider would gain a vast amount of destiny points.
"Caw~ (My newly realized exclusive curse; the mode of cursing is through contact with my feathers. The curse explodes simultaneously, and upon activation, the person cursed will transform into a crow form fully. The day they completely become a crow is the day of their death.)"
Li Cunxu asked: "Is one certain to die by turning into a crow?"
"Caw~ (Certain death.)"
This curse is inevitably fatal, existing as a very powerful presence within curses.
"The stronger the curse, the greater the price. What’s the cost of this curse?"
"When the curse explodes, I will also die."
"[Time Crow!] Its talent can resurrect you, a perfect match for your curse."
The White Spider thought for a moment and said: "This curse is filled with death, how about naming it ’Death Crow Curse’?"
The name is straightforward and simple, not tongue-twisting, and the Dark Crow liked it.
The White Spider’s two avatars, holding the Dark Crow’s feathers, transformed into Iron Slime, infiltrated the dungeon, and quietly approached the mechanical mother bodies. Possibly this being the home base, confident that no one could pass through the layers of checkpoints set by the demolition robots to get here, the mechanical mother bodies had no guards set around them; the protection was very lax. Taking advantage of a moment when no one was watching, the White Spider slightly extended a feather held in its mouth, lightly brushing the mechanical mother body’s surface.
The demolition robot’s mechanical mother bodies resembled queen ants, with bulky bodies difficult to move, looking somewhat like a train car.
The massive body, coupled with the metal shell, made the mechanical mother bodies completely unaware of the feather’s touch.
The mechanical mother bodies continued to consume the metal raw materials needed to manufacture demolition robots. Within their stomachs, through various mechanical devices, the demolition robots were processed like on an assembly line. After exiting the stomach, a faint machine soul was born in the cold mechanical body of the demolition robot.
Before its self-awareness, the machine soul was infected by the ’demolition data virus,’ being manipulated and enslaved by the one behind the scene.
Suddenly, Li Cunxu remembered a question he forgot to ask the Dark Crow.
"How many people can your Death Crow Curse curse at once?"
"Twenty."
Li Cunxu felt a bit of regret, as the number that the Death Crow Curse can curse isn’t infinite. If it were, it would have been incredible.
After all, if a curse could affect infinite targets at once, the price of this Death Crow Curse would not simply be the sacrifice of a single life.
The more severe cost would be the soul’s annihilation.
But this is manageable.
The Time Crow! Talent, it can also resurrect.
However, if the cost were extremely severe as to involve the extinction of the True Spirit, even time reversal would be useless.
True Spirit is the primordial imprint left by creatures in the world, the soul of the soul. If this is lost, then that person would truly be gone for good.
However, a curse that demands the True Spirit as a price is powerful enough to curse a King to death, for involving powers at the True Spirit level is never a trivial matter.
Li Cunxu asked again: "How strong of an enemy can your Death Crow Curse curse to death?"
"Caw~ (Same level, if they’re higher, it won’t work.)"
"There are quite a few limitations indeed."
After ten days of exploration by the White Spider’s avatars, all the mechanical mother bodies of the demolition robots in the dungeon were finally identified, totaling twelve, all lightly brushed with a feather.
"Dark Crow, begin!"
The Dark Crow let out a sharp, mournful cry, its pupils instantly dilated, body stiffened, and tumbled onto the ground, lifeless.
Simultaneously, a pattern resembling crow feathers appeared inside the mechanical mother bodies in the dungeon.
This is the symptom of the Death Crow Curse taking effect.
As the Dark Crow mentioned, the period before fully transforming into a crow is the best time to lift the curse. Once transformed, only those with extremely high curse proficiency could undo it.
A pool of water appeared out of nowhere, submerging the Dark Crow.