Rody looked around for a long time, finding not even a single butterfly. How could this be the Butterfly Fairy Kingdom? However, seeing Mitty shaking with fear, he decided to leave as she wished.
Flying through this vast sea of flowers for two days, just as he was about to leave, Rody suddenly noticed a patch of colorful clouds in the sky, slowly drifting. Mitty screamed in extreme panic at the sight of these clouds. Rody quickly put her to sleep inside the mithril bracelet and went to investigate. To his surprise, the colorful cloud turned out to be a kind of colorful butterfly.
They were extremely beautiful, with radiant colors like the world's most beautiful butterflies. However, Rody's psychic senses detected that these colorful butterflies possessed a strong killing intent and aggressiveness. They even knew how to use psychic waves to attack. Fortunately, with the 'Star of Faith' and the 'Star of the Galaxy,' Rody's psychic power was far superior to these beautiful killers, or else he would have been knocked to the ground by the thousands of tiny psychic beams of the colorful butterflies.
The moment these butterflies noticed Rody, they ferociously surrounded him, more savage than bloodthirsty orcs.
They completely ignored Rody's well-intentioned psychic ripples, exuding a murderous aura.
"Great Air Shield." After unlocking the forbidden magic of war, although Rody hadn't delved deeply into the various elemental magics, focusing instead on psychic, soul, and dark magic, he could still effortlessly cast expert-level or lower wind, fire, water, and earth elemental magic. Just like a Sword Emperor doesn't necessarily learn certain sword moves, but can easily imitate a great swordsman's techniques. No matter what kind of sword moves a great swordsman uses, they are no challenge for a Sword Emperor.
The largest of the colorful butterflies were just over a meter wide, and the smallest were palm-sized. Despite their size, their method of attack was extremely ferocious.
In front of Rody's Great Air Shield, thousands of butterflies fluttered up and down, trying to pierce Rody's body with their rainbow-like proboscises to suck his blood. However, waves of air pushed them far away. Rody's Great Air Shield, cast with his powerful psychic power, was far superior to that of an ordinary wind mage. This shield, like an air fortress, protected his body, making it difficult for the swarm of colorful butterflies to get close.
Realizing that neither psychic impact nor close-quarters assault worked on this formidable enemy, the butterflies began to vibrate the antennae on their heads, emitting strange chirps. At the same time, a kind of colorful powder rapidly spread from their bodies, filling the air.
The powder expanded like mist, carrying an indescribable sweet scent, extremely pleasant to smell.
Rody, however, was secretly alarmed upon smelling it. This colorful powder could cause intense paralysis in a person's body. If his body hadn't been tempered by divine fire and faith ice crystals, the consequences would have been unimaginable. In the midst of the cloud of powder, Rody released his psychic power to gather as much of the powder as possible, planning to collect it for use in battle.
The angrier the butterflies became, the more powder they released from their antennae, making Rody even happier to collect it.
Using this substance on the battlefield would spell disaster for the orcs and demons. Now Rody understood why there were fixed space-time rifts in the land of the seven clans, and why angels and other life forms couldn't enter or exit the land of the seven clans in large numbers. The reason was probably related to these colorful butterflies. Unless there was a way to bypass their territory, he believed that even the largest army would be buried in this beautiful sea of flowers and perish under this colorful sky.
Rody happily condensed the colorful mist in the sky into a powder ball and stored it.
He was planning to find a way to anger the butterflies to make them release more colorful powder, but suddenly, a buzzing sound appeared in the sky.
At the sound, the butterflies immediately showed panic, scattering and fleeing in all directions, no longer caring about Rody. From a distance, another small black cloud swiftly approached, turning into thousands of thin-waisted bees the size of fingers. These bees were faster and ignored the psychic waves and colorful powder of the butterflies, catching up to them and fiercely stinging them with their sharp tails.
Some of the slower butterflies were stung and lost consciousness, dying and falling from the sky.
Then, the thin-waisted bees, carrying the bodies, ignored Rody, the living human in front of them, and buzzed away as quickly as they had come.
Rody caught a few of these thin-waisted bees, which were fearless of the butterflies' paralyzing poison powder, and discovered that their bodies contained a type of bee jelly that naturally resisted paralysis, making him marvel at how one thing in the world could counteract another. On the surface, the thin-waisted bees looked extremely fierce, but they were harmless to humans, interested only in the bodies of the butterflies.
Following these bees, Rody discovered that they used the bodies of the butterflies to feed their larvae.
Their larvae were few, and more amazingly, the saliva secreted by these larvae was the bee jelly that the thin-waisted bees used to resist the paralyzing poison powder of the butterflies. By taking care of the larvae, the adult bees also ensured their own safety, as the adult thin-waisted bees could not secrete the bee jelly themselves.
Rody conducted an experiment: he drained the bee jelly from a thin-waisted bee using psychic power and then sprinkled some colorful powder on it.
The result was that the bee struggled for a while, quickly became paralyzed, and died.
They were very fragile; without the saliva of the larvae, their bodies had little resistance to the paralyzing poison powder of the butterflies.
Without hesitation, Rody caught a queen bee that was still in the nest and hadn't flown out to mate, and turned it into a slave of darkness. As long as this queen bee kept laying eggs, there would be no problem with the larvae's saliva. As for whether the unmated queen bee could hatch male and female bees, Rody didn't think too much about it.
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What he wanted were non-reproducing worker bees, not a large number of reproducing male and female bees that could pose a potential threat.
One queen bee was enough; it could become the queen bee.
Even without mating, she could lay a large number of eggs to hatch worker bees. Conversely, if she produced male and female bees, once the new queen emerged and took over, the old queen would be killed by her daughters, and the entire hive would fight and die, with the new queen taking over the nest and hatching new offspring.
Rody did not want to keep signing the dark slave contract with new queen bees; he only wanted the larvae's saliva.
As for the colorful butterflies, their fate was a bit more tragic.
After searching for a while, Rody caught up with the butterfly swarm again and turned ten of the largest butterflies, each over one meter in size, into his dark slaves. Rody needed them to continuously lay eggs, becoming food for the thin-waisted bees, thereby forming a food chain. This way, Rody could continuously harvest 'paralyzing colorful powder' and 'paralysis-resistant bee jelly'.
These would be Rody's secret techniques to defeat his enemies on the battlefield.
Once turned into dark slaves, whether the colorful butterflies or the queen bee, they lost their original consciousness. Their souls regarded Rody as their master and faithfully followed him forever.
If it were in the past, those who became dark slaves would lose their own lives. But now, with restored memories and possessing the 'Star of Faith' and 'Star of the Galaxy,' Rody already had enough ability to grant them eternal life using either starlight magic or dark magic. As long as Rody, their master, was alive, they, like Nicolas and his kind, could survive in the world.
Of course, since they were lower beings, Rody only retained their instincts and did not allow them to keep their previous consciousness.
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On the edge of the sea of flowers, Rody was astonished to discover the ferocity of the colorful butterflies.
Besides these natural enemies, the thin-waisted bees, all the magical beasts deeply feared them. Seeing the ten huge butterflies behind Rody, magical beasts of all sizes frantically fled in chaos, even more exaggerated than when a dragon passed by.
A slightly slower magical beast, resembling a hog-like creature, was taking a lazy nap in a mud puddle. It couldn't escape in time when Rody's butterflies swooped down. It managed to run only a few meters, freezing solid just meters from its burrow without dying. Rody observed that besides using their proboscis-like mouths to suck its blood, the butterflies also laid a few small eggs on its body.
In the bloody water, these eggs hatched at a visible speed into extremely unsightly larvae.
They greedily devoured the flesh and blood, growing rapidly.
In less than ten minutes, the fattened larvae began to spin cocoons on the skin, and within five more minutes, they emerged from the cocoons, transforming into palm-sized fluorescent butterflies.
This rate of growth left Rody dumbfounded. He had never imagined that the butterflies relied on flesh and blood for food and that their larvae's growth rate would be so terrifyingly fast. If they were allowed to rampage in the human world, it could be a catastrophe for the entire human continent. Rody was about to kill these newly hatched butterflies, but he soon discovered that these butterflies, not subjected to the dark slave magic, still recognized him as their master. They, just like their mother, were bound by the contract and completely obeyed Rody without their own consciousness.
In the following two days, Rody found that the larvae of the fluorescent butterflies grew incredibly fast, but their numbers were not large.
Moreover, the larvae from the same mother would cannibalize each other when there was insufficient food. These carnivorous butterflies, with the most beautiful appearance, were the most terrifying killers. Fortunately, their main range of activity did not extend beyond the sea of flowers, or else it would be the most beautiful and terrifying storm in the world.
Compared to the fluorescent butterflies, the thin-waisted bees' larvae were fewer, and they had a much longer growth period, with a surprising appetite.
They did not refuse any meat, but only by consuming the bodies of fluorescent butterflies could they secrete the bee jelly that resisted paralysis, making Rody marvel at the cycle of nature.
After experimenting with hundreds of fluorescent butterflies, Rody no longer ordered the ten mature mother butterflies to attack and lay eggs.
When resting, he had to store all the fluorescent butterflies in a storage space; only then would Mitty dare to come out to eat something. Otherwise, she would scream and tremble at the sight of them. Unlike those thumb-sized flower spirits, as she explained, those flower spirits close to elemental bodies had no physical bodies like air. Even dragons couldn't harm them. It was these flower spirits that made the entrance to the land of the seven clans surrounded by such a vast sea of flowers.
The fluorescent flower butterflies like to stay in places rich in elements, as constantly absorbing elements allows their bodies to grow slowly.
Mitty estimated that the ten double-winged fluorescent flower butterflies over one meter in size, which Rody had, must have survived for at least hundreds of years, otherwise they could not have grown to such a huge size.
"These colorful butterflies can transform into demon butterflies? Like humans with butterfly wings on their backs?" Rody remembered the butterfly demons he met in the Exile Lands. Could these fluorescent butterflies evolve into powerful beings like the butterfly demons? If so, could there also be space-time rifts connected to the Exile Lands?
"It probably won't be like Sister Xingqing and the others. I've heard about it but never seen it. I heard those demon butterflies fly very fast!" Mitty didn't know much.
"Do you know where the Butterfly Demon Kingdom is?" Rody casually mentioned, scaring Mitty so much that her little face turned pale, and she vigorously shook her head.
Although Mitty was reluctant to say, Rody did not press her. Holding her, he slowly flew to the Fairy Kingdom. In this land of the seven clans, Rody felt the vastness of another space-time. Just the sea of flowers inside the Butterfly Demon Kingdom alone was larger than a small country in the human world, showing that the land of the seven clans was not smaller than the human continent.
On his way to the Fairy Kingdom, Rody passed through a boundless forest.
According to Mitty, this was the realm of the elves.
However, Rody flew over the forest for a day and a night and did not encounter a single elf. He had expected to be welcomed by countless elf arrows, but this worry was completely unnecessary.
Like when passing the Butterfly Demon Kingdom, Rody encountered elves only at the edge of the forest.
Unlike the violent attacks of the fluorescent butterflies, these elves did not attack Rody. Most of them were girls with bows and arrows, and a few were men holding crescent-shaped curved knives and exquisitely crafted short spears. The elf troops were engaged in a war with an enemy, oblivious to Rody's arrival.
Before the elf troops was an extremely ugly monster.
So ugly, in fact, that compared to the beautiful elves, they were unbearable to look at.
However, Rody noticed that although the monsters were ugly, their fighting was not ugly at all; on the contrary, they were winning a splendid victory.
The elf troops were three times the number of their opponents but were being pushed back on the battlefield. If it weren't for a kind of giant bear blocking the enemy, the elf archers would have been killed by the ugly monsters at the edge of the forest, with no chance to escape. The ugly monsters, using nets and their thick-skinned bodies, wreaked havoc among the elf troops, completely ignoring their arrows unless hit in the eyes.
"Ding, ding, ding, ding..." The sound of silver bells rang from the elf rear, and all the elves began to retreat.
The bloodied bears roared, dozens of them stood on the battlefield, engaging in hand-to-hand combat with the ugly monsters to cover the archers' retreat.
Some elf mages floated in mid-air, constantly chanting nature magic, amplifying and restoring the bears' strength.
There were also a few responsible for casting healing magic, but it was like a drop in the bucket. Dozens of giant bears were almost powerless under the assault of hundreds of ugly monsters, screaming endlessly. Some bears collapsed thunderously under the heavy blows of the ugly monsters' clubs...
Seeing the elves retreating, the ugly monsters' camp beat giant war drums with renewed vigor, booming and invigorating every monster.
"My God, this elf commander is such an idiot!" Rody couldn't help but exclaim in shock upon seeing this.
"How dare you, despicable human, insult our most esteemed high priest. I challenge you to a duel!" Despite his inner anger, an elf man elegantly saluted Rody, raising his crescent blade over his head, challenging Rody to a duel. Next to Rody, several other elf men glared at him, but when Rody looked at them, they did not forget to maintain etiquette and politely bowed to him, very graceful and polite.
"You're an idiot too, no, you all are!" Rody became furious.
Fortunately, these were unfamiliar elves; if they were his subordinates, Rody would have slapped them long ago. What duels and etiquette on a battlefield? In such a situation, they should defeat the enemy as quickly as possible, and even without asking, they should kill the enemy with a single strike; that's what's most important.
Now, Rody somewhat understood why the elves, despite their numerical superiority, were continuously retreating.
These elves simply did not know how to fight. By Rody's standards, they were even worse than human children playing with wooden sticks.
"You..." All the
elves were stunned, never having seen such an impolite human.
"Get lost, you disgrace the art of war!" Rody kicked the stunned elf man in front of him, flew into the midst of the battle, and shouted, "All you idiot elves, watch me and learn what fighting is!"