Chapter 1474 - Preparation
Chapter 1474 – Preparation
"If only it was that simple," Sam said with a sigh.
"What do you mean?" Gail asked in confusion.
"The symbiote survives on a symbiotic relationship with the ecosystem. If every other creature within the surrounding environment is sent away, then the sonic cat would be the direct target of the symbiote.
If my guess is right, based on the size of it, it is already way too strong. The sonic cat would have some trouble to fight it if it goes all out."
"Then it could just flee after sending the other creatures away."
"There is another problem with that too. The symbiote is not exactly a stationary thing. The only reason it didn't expand through the whole forest is that the sonic cat must have been damaging it bit by bit.
It is also partly because of the limited and controlled availability of the small beasts nearby.
They are acting as a source that keeps the hunger of this creature in check.
"So, how far can it expand?"
"Once it becomes desperate for food and starts searching everywhere for it, then the stretching begins. The whole crystal can be transformed into any solid structure as long as it wills it.
From the size of a string to a large building. In fact, it collects the memories from various remaining souls that are present in the creatures that it absorbs.
And it can increase its nourishment as long as it gains any bone material in the world.
So, after expanding so much as long as it gets a small piece of bone, it can easily sustain for a few more days and expand a bit more.
It is a dangerous creature. In fact, it could be said the Sonic cat alone is saving a large area within that planet.
At its size and cultivation level, the symbiote could wreak some serious havoc in the planet all the while completely being invisible until it was too late."
"How do you know so much about it?"
"It is a material required for some very very high scale curses. I read an extraordinarily high-level curse guide before and this symbiote was mentioned many times.
But even in that, I have mostly read about the places and surroundings where I could obtain low-level symbiotes and going against the high-level ones and even thinking of capturing them was mentioned as suicide mission based on the cultivation level."
"So, do you think this is the resource that is keeping the sonic cat in that place?"
"In a way. This is providing a great level of combat experience to the cat. So, it is a resource for it too. But not as useful as it is to us."
"You want to use that symbiote?"
"Yes."
"How is that even possible? You said it yourself, it is going to be a suicide mission. I am thinking of asking you to hasten on the process of cat taming. You are thinking about occupying the symbiote directly?"
"Yes.
The symbiote's power level and strength are not calculated by a very different metric. They are not measured with the cultivation level, rather based on the size.
The size of the symbiote depends on the core growth level though.
Since it went to this size, the core of the symbiote is definitely very big. If we manage to capture it and use a proper curse technique, we can use it to get a constant source of the Bone ash crystal powder.
And as long as we capture the powder fresh right after it fell off from the core and the rest of the body, and process it with a special curse technique, we can create a temporary symbiotic curse.
This is going to be one of the perfect defensive and offensive measures of your clan. This will bring you back onto the map like nothing else.
We are going to capture it and I am going to tell you how.
I need you to go there tomorrow and meet the cat. Say everything you know honestly and say it that we want to help remove the symbiote from the planet permanently."
"Why would it believe me?"
"That is your job. Make it believe you. I am sure there is a reason why it lets you stay in that place. It is not just because of your strength.
It must have genuinely felt the connection and your fighting styles are also very similar. Combination of energy ripples and sound waves, if there is anyone who can convince the cat, then it is you."
"I will try my best. But how are you going to capture the symbiote?"
"There are always weaknesses for all kinds of creatures. The curse guide only mentioned that it is a suicide mission to capture the symbiote when it is that big, only for the people who don't know how to capture it.
It is not like it was never captured before.
I have my methods concocted in my mind.
In fact, I even have a much more efficient way. We would alright."
"Okay."
After that discussion, Sam handed over many of his responsibilities to the assistants he had from Grivon's stray realm and went to work on something else.
It is heavily dependent on the combination of ripple style and void style and he knows that it is going to be difficult.
But the one big advantage he has is that he had done something similar before.
He used it to destroy the walls of a city in a single sweep.
But this time, he just has to make it much more compact and it only needs to act on a much smaller area.
He worked on it day and night for the next three days.
In these three days, Gail went back and forth to the cat and didn't even fight in his latter two visits. After the third visit, he successfully managed to convince the cat.
"It really took a lot out of me. Of course, a mattress similar to that bolster helped a lot. I only managed to get a negotiating chance because of that. So, thank you."
Sam just chuckled and took out a large ball. It is twice as large as a normal football.
"This is going to be the primary tool you are going to use in capturing this thing. But it depends on how good you are going to do too.
I really hope that I can visit the place and do most of this by myself without your involvement."
"Well, it is impossible. For some reason, the cat is not willing to let anyone else come there. I really tried these past few days. It is only agreeing if I bring Giyon there as she is strong enough and also my daughter."
"I know, they behave like that. I wish I had my old body. It would have made things easier."
"How does your body make things easier? It doesn't change your strength by much."
"Well, it is complicated. Anyway, just remember what I am about to explain to you carefully and do exactly that."
Sam paused and took out some special metal pillars as he explained how they should be positioned and operated and how the ball links all of them together.
After an hour and a half and a bunch of simulations in the simulator, Gail finally got a sense of that and tried a few simulations before he convinced Sam that he is ready.
The next day, he went back to the sonic cat's abode and explained the whole thing to the cat too.
The cat felt a bit confused, but still got a sense after some struggle and finally, both of them planned their attack.
Both of them went to the entrance of the cave behind the waterfall.
They entered and stood at the edge of the entrance as Gail took out a few formation plates and placed them there.
These formation plates are created by Senior Elder Ma only for this capture.
A special membrane was created at the entrance of the cave and they are finally ready to tackle the symbiote directly.
Cat opened its mouth and roared.
*ROAR*
The sonic waves and the energy ripples combined together as they are targeted into one specific corner of the cave where the crystal structure was rattled completely and then appeared a large patch.
Gail jumped to that place with a whistling sound in the air as he stabbed one of the pillars in that spot.
As the symbiote tried to come back to that spot and occupy the pillar and Gail too, he pressed a button on top of the pillar and activated it.
*HMMM*
There is a humming sound coming from it and the energy ripples extremely rapidly creating a small field around the pillar that is completely impossible for the symbiote to enter.
It couldn't penetrate it no matter how hard it tried.
It used all kinds of different shapes, but there is no use.