Chapter 73 9 Alraune Family
Even though Moku can see the generator room in his body with his inner eye, he can't see the generator room in other orcs' bodies. The green light that enveloped the orc's body seemed to restrain its inner eye from taking a deeper look.
With dragon prana control maybe Moku can help them in the process of flowing dragon prana from the genitals into the generator room.
However, Moku could not help them to find the generator room in their astral bodies. It was because of this that Moku couldn't help the orcs to activate the generator room.
So to be able to evolve, orcs must have their own inner eye.
How to activate the inner eye is very simple, only by turning off the five senses and forcing the brain to use the inner eye as a source of information gathering.
However, the process to do so is very difficult and dangerous, it takes a very large will and a very strong mind power.
Moku himself who has lived for 98 years —If you count the two worlds— almost died due to activating the inner eye by mutilating the five senses. Therefore Moku was not sure if the orcs —the oldest was only 15 years old— were able to activate the inner eye in the same way as him.
After a long thought and deep contemplation, Moku found a way that might be the key to making it easier for the orc to activate its inner eye.
Moku theorizes that he can use the orc instinct to recognize gender as an aid in the process of awakening the inner eye. But he had to test this first before determining if this method would work or not.
Orcs have unique instincts. They can distinguish which are female and which are not even from all types of living things that exist.
This instinct can even make orcs distinguish which bodies are female plants (have pistils) and which are not (have pollen).
A very useless instinct ability. When he realized this ability was in him, Moku didn't know how many times he cursed his own race.
'I don't understand why this perverted race was created. All hero transmigrators usually have the instinct to sense danger, somehow I'm the only one who was born with the instinct to distinguish between sexes' cursed Moku.
Even so, orcs had the ideal standard of a female body. To them, beautiful women were women who were like Nezena, Nevare, Nerphyl, and the other four human women.
So when they see Alraune's body which is 100% female, there will be a conflict between these instincts and their sense of sight.
This conflict will confuse the orc brain, causing an overreaction like Laya and Swa did before.
But it wasn't Swa and Laya's reaction that made him believe this method would work, but his own reaction.
When Ornell appears Moku's body automatically activates the inner eye as a form of defense from instinct attacks. If only Moku didn't have inner eyes then he would most likely react the same way as Swa and Laya.
The inner eye is a way for Moku's brain to equate his perception of Ornell's 100% female body with his instincts that say Ornell is not a woman.
Even so, Moku can't be sure if the orcs can activate the inner eye just by confining and chaining them for one night in a closed room together with Alraune.
This was because only the sense of sight clashed with the orc instincts.
So there are two possibilities if this is done.
The first possibility is that the orc brain will sharpen other senses such as smell, touch, hearing, or taste to align them with the orc's instinctual perceptions.
The second and scariest possibility is the orc's changing taste for the ideal female body. As a result of such intense instinctual attacks caused the orc's brain was damaged and assumed that the alraune was the form of a real woman (don't have gender).
For that Moku must find another way to use these orc instincts to help them activate the inner eye.
In addition, alraune who have hypnotic abilities may also be the key to how to turn off the other orc's fourth senses without having to go through the mutilation process.
Because of these, Alraune is a monster race that Moku must be able to have in the monster kingdom he is going to build.
Moku and his group continued to follow Ornell until they reached the deepest part of the Toxic Jungle. Ornell stopped and looked behind her.
"This is the first time our leader has met another monster race. So I hope you guys can forgive her if she's a bit impolite" Ornell's face looked a little strange.
She's like someone who accepts an important task but when she does it, 80% of the work is just taking care of a naughty baby.
"Well.. I'm an orc, we don't have such strict manners. I just wish there wasn't a weak alraune that interrupt my conversation with your leader" Moku replied.
"Interrupting huh.. huuu.. I just hope you're not bothered by what our leader will say." Ornell took a deep breath.
"Hmm? What do you mean?" Moku is confused.
"Nothing, please come in!" Ornell stomped her roots into the ground.
Suddenly the ground beneath her feet shook and slowly opened revealing a hole with a long passageway.
Moku and the others were wide-eyed, they never thought that this was how the alraune hid their nests.
Ornell ignored the shock of those behind her. She walked into the hole.
Moku and co snapped out of their amazement and started following Ornell from behind.
ɴᴇᴡ ɴᴏᴠᴇʟ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀʀᴇ ᴘᴜʙʟɪsʜᴇᴅ ᴏɴ
"eeehh.. Ornell, I'd like to ask if I may, how do you guys make the door open like that? Do you guys have a certain mechanism or a certain tool?" Tam the goblin is curious about the technology of the alraune in building their nests.
"Hmm.. you know that alraune reproduce by dividing themselves. So it can be said that every alraune in this world comes from the 9 alraune that first existed.
So that in general Alraune is divided into nine major families. The nine families are Venus Fly Trap, Pitcher Plant, Butter Wort, Monkey Cup, Drosera, Utricularia, Roridula, Chepalotus, and Rafflesia Arnoldii.
We chose leaders who had better at three categories than any other alraune. She had to be prettier, she had to be sexier, and she had to smell nicer than all the alraune.
Currently, our leader is named Rafflesia Luna Arnoldii, or you can call her Luna. She is a very unique person and has a special interest in the flora that grows in the Toxic Jungle.
She continued to do research and experiments. Until she finally awakened the ability that only the first nine alraune had ever possessed.
She can talk to plants.
Luna then negotiates with the plants that grow in the Toxic Jungle and gets their help for building this nest.
So it can be said that our nest was formed from tree roots clumping together and forming a tunnel like the one you see today." Ornell explained in an even tone.
"Wow! Your leader is great! She can even talk to plants!" Tam was amazed.
Likewise with Nerphyl and Nezena. Even Swa and Laya whose eyes were still closed also nodded
As an elf, Nezena must have closeness to nature to awaken her mana-controlling power. Maybe she'll talk to Luna alone later.
Meanwhile, Nerphyl found Luna's power very attractive. Sylphs can't possess plants because they don't have blood to suck or blood flow to pass through. So Nerphyl has an interest in this ability to talk to the plant.
Moku just kept quiet and thought about Ornell's words with their unique and researching leader. If Luna has knowledge of plants beyond what he knows then Moku will have to rethink how to cooperate with Alraune in the future.
Currently, the value of the alraune race has skyrocketed, making Moku even more impatient to make them join the monster kingdom he will create.
Seeing Moku and others admiring their leader, Ornell didn't know what to say, "Well.. hmm.. how come.. she's great but.. hmm.. eehh.. ah we're almost there!"
In front of them was a very large tree root, this root extended from the ground and penetrated until this place.
Ornell stepped forward and tapped the root three times.
Then the root shook violently causing the entire passageway to shake. Slowly the roots rose upwards to reveal a large room behind it.
"Come on in! Our leader is waiting for you" Ornell said before stepping in first.
Moku and the others glanced at each other, then nodded and stepped inside at the same time.
In the room stood an alraune who was busy smelling the poisonous leaves on the table in front of her.
Her silver-white hair covered her lowered face. Her slick fingers were busy sorting through the hundreds of kinds of leaves that she had on the table.
She sang a song that they did not recognize but sounded very beautiful to the ears of those who heard it. The song was sung softly with a very melodious voice.
She seemed oblivious to the presence of those who came to her room.
"Luna. I've come with KuMoku and co" Ornell woke Luna from her busy research.
She stood up straight and brushed the long silver-white hair that covered her face, "Oh you guys have come" she said with a smile.
Suddenly all the eyes that looked held their breath.
Her face was so beautiful that even the most famous poets could not write it.
Her smile is so attractive that even famous painters cannot draw it.
How difficult it is to describe the face of someone so perfect in a very limited human vocabulary.
Luna stood with a body covered in leaves the same as the other alraune, but the leaves looked white as a result of blending with her smooth skin.
There is nothing wrong with her beauty so that everyone will praise her creator. Luna is like the moon whose existence insults those who think she is beautiful.
Everyone stared in awe, except for one orc.
He stood on trembling knees, his face turned pale, and cold sweat dripped down his back.
Moku looks like a mouse meeting a cat.
He was scared, how could he not? His trauma from his previous world started to resurface.
Moku is a fighter, he has fought in various rings in the world before.
Pencak Dor, Kick Boxing, MMA, you name it. He is there and fights a bloody battle.
So it is only natural that his body is covered with wounds. However, almost 70% of the wounds on his body were caused by someone he called 'sister' who needed a guinea pig.
With a quivering mouth, parched lips, and a stiff tongue, Moku said "B..Bu..Bulan?!!!"