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Chapter 685
After shooing the two of them away, Eliza slipped into the pocket farm hidden within her pendant.
Since she was about to face off against Sophie, Eliza was determined to leave nothing to chance.
Back in Woteria, she had lost a lot of her
* poiso
parasites.
After she returned to Hasen City, she was swamped w
work, leaving her no time to restock her poisonous parasites.
So tonight, she planned to give Vexara another power boost.
After entering the pavilion, Eliza took out her parasite vessel guarding Centrina City.
“Placed inside it the King Parasite Tina had obtained from the sorcerer she killed while
As Tina had said, this King Parasite was slightly weaker in
power.
It paled in comparison to Vexara’s former strength.
Therefore, instead of cultivating it into a new King Parasite, Eliza let Vexara devour it.
With the aid of the magical energy in the pocket farm, the devouring process went off without a hitch.
In less than half an hour, Vexara’s power surged dramatically t
to
a whole new level.
What astonished Eliza was that when Vexara, the King Parasite, evolved, the entire swarm of poisonous parasites also surged significantly.
Among them, the killer bees showed the most dramatic increase in power.
Although the killer bees were subdued later and possessed formidable offensive power, they initially fell short of Eliza’s ordinary swarm of poisonous parasites.
During this time, Eliza put them in the pocket farm, Nourished by magical water and energy, their power did increase, but only by a mere 20 to 30 percent.
But this time, with Vexara’s power surge, they became the ones who, profited most among the swarm.
They leaped to become the most formidable among Eliza’s poisonous parasites.
Eliza suddenly had a flash of insight. She said, “Wait… Is it because Vexara tamed you? So, only after bonding with the new King Parasite can its amplified power surge through you with maximum efficiency?”
Eliza had bred all those earlier swarms of poisonous parasites, but Vexara, the King Parasite, came along later.
‘Maybe it’s because the King Parasite didn’t subdue them directly. That could explain the difference,‘ Eliza thought.
Eliza kept this theory in mind. Testing it would be easy. Next time she encountered a swarm, she’d have Vexara tame them before powering up again. Then, she’d know if her guess was correct.
‘But I’d need one more King Parasite to get another power boost, and King Parasites aren’t e
easy to
come
by,” she thought.
Little did Eliza expect that the next day, upon arriving at the Marquis’s estate, she would encounter yet another King Parasite.
The next day, Eliza set off from the Padilla family estate in a carriage with Rafe, who had arrived early.
Eliza asked, “What are you doing here so early? Did you get everything sorted out at the Duke’s
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Rafa had arrived an hour before dawn, while it was still dark. First, he quietly observed Eliza’s morning meditation, then tagrend into the be bossing the cook around until she whipped up a lavish breakfast just for him
Later, seeing Eliza still engrossed in reading, he wandered off to the garden pond to try his luck at fishing. After what felt like ages, he only mañas. catch one palm–sized fish.
Before he could even take it to the kitchen to fry it up, Eliza, having just finished her morning meditation, told him it was time to set off.
Eliza boarded the carriage while Rafe ambled alongside on his pony.
Hearing Eliza’s question from inside the carriage, Rafe, already masked, replied in a muffled voice, “Rest assured, Eliza. They won’t notice I’m gone even if I’m out all day.”
Hearing this, Eliza immediately realized Rafe likely had another trump card, one unknown to her.
And so it was. Back at the Duke’s estate, a figure similar to Rafe in every detail was sitting in the room where they locked Rafe up, which should have been empty.
