Versatile Mage: Get the Desert Emperor clone at the start

Chapter 240 An Unexpected "Business Opportunity": Selling Insect Eggs to Make Some Money?
The giant egg, flowing with dark purple star patterns, emitted an eerie and alluring glow under the spotlight.

It has driven countless people crazy.

Suddenly, Qin Xiaonan, who had been leaning back in her chair, sat up straight.

He was all too familiar with this thing!

What are these “symbiotic spirit beast” eggs from another dimension? They are clearly… void insect eggs!
Void Queen - Bervis!
When she ascended to become an emperor, in order to conceal the terrifying energy fluctuations she caused and prevent the Holy City from noticing her in advance, she used a trick!

She scattered one of her most powerful Voidlings, "Void Terror" Cho'Gath, along with a massive number of ordinary Voidling eggs, into the vast Mediterranean Sea like seeds!
Kogas stirred up towering waves and spatial turbulence in the Mediterranean, successfully attracting all the attention and firepower of the holy city!
The Holy City mobilized several archangels and their elite forces, paying a heavy price.

Finally, they dealt a heavy blow to and defeated "Void Terror" Cho'Gath!
However, void creatures are almost impossible to truly "kill" by conventional magical means!
Their life forms are incompatible with the laws of the present world.

When they suffer a fatal injury, their core essence does not dissipate, but rather shrinks and condenses in an almost "degenerate" way, eventually turning into an insect egg containing its remaining power and life imprint!
This egg will enter a long period of dormancy, then slowly accumulate power, repair its origin, and wait for the day it will hatch again and be born once more!
In the end, the Holy City could only bring the core insect egg, which was the embodiment of Kog'Maw and emitted a chilling void fluctuation, back to the Holy Mountain and place it under layers of seals constructed of angelic power, permanently suppressing it.

But in that earth-shattering battle in the Mediterranean, along with Kog'Maw, countless relatively "ordinary" Void Worm eggs were also scattered.

When the Holy City cleaned up the battlefield after the war, it naturally recovered a considerable portion of it.

After bringing back these "spoils of war," the research institutions in the Holy City became very interested in them.

They were astonished by the Void creatures' bizarre spatial abilities and tenacious vitality.

A bold (or rather, arrogant) idea began to take root in the minds of the Holy City's leadership: since it is difficult to completely eliminate them, could we... "tame" them?
They initially attempted to use the most powerful summoning contract magic to have human mages directly enslave these void worms, turning them into controllable summons.

However, the will structure of void beings is extremely unique and is fundamentally different from the soul of beings in the mortal world.

Every attempt to forcibly establish a master-servant contract failed, even causing several powerful summoning mages to suffer a mental backlash and collapse.

However, although the contract failed, a certain symbiotic relationship was formed with the mage.

Through this link, human mages can reliably and to a limited extent "borrow" the spatial power wielded by the Void Worms!
This power originates from the essence of the void, and its strangeness, penetrability, and destructiveness, in some aspects, even surpass human orthodox spatial magic!

It ignores the constraints of some spatial laws, can make more distant and unpredictable instantaneous movements, can create more distorted spatial barriers that can devour energy, and can even trigger void turbulence!

This discovery caused a huge shock and controversy within the holy city.

Supporters believe this is a major breakthrough in combating the Void and even utilizing its power!

Opponents, on the other hand, are deeply concerned about the potential risks posed by this unknown existence and coexistence with otherworldly terror.

But in the end, the allure of power outweighed caution.

After a period of "observation", those mages who had established symbiotic links did not show any obvious signs of being corrupted or rebelling against the will of the void.

The Void Worm also seemed to stay "well" within the symbiote, providing powerful spatial energy.

Thus, this "void symbiosis" technology was secretly and on a small scale promoted within the Holy City, gradually forming a special force that directly obeyed a certain archangel—the very "void watchers" that the auctioneer Veronica spoke of with great secrecy!
The drive for profit is endless. As the demand for this power within the Holy City increases, and with the tacit approval or even indulgence of certain high-ranking figures...

The "value" of those ordinary Voidworm eggs that were originally under strict control and recycled is being reassessed.

They are no longer dangerous pollutants, but have become precious "strategic resources".

Some channels began to loosen, and a small number of "safe and controllable" insect eggs, packaged as eggs of "symbiotic spirit beasts from another dimension," flowed to the general public of mages.

However, those self-proclaimed all-powerful figures in the Holy City, and the frenzied buyers in the audience, could never have imagined a cruel and ironic truth:

The reason these Void Worms so "docilely" accept symbiosis, even generously "lending" their power, and never rebelling, all stems from a supreme command.

From their true ruler, the Void Queen, Bervis, who is silently accumulating power!
She was unwilling to engage in a direct conflict with the Holy City before her power had fully matured.

They wanted to use this opportunity to let these Void Worms infiltrate the Holy City.

Unexpectedly, this power has now appeared among some ordinary mages.

Qin Xiaonan's unusual expression made Mu Nujiao, who was standing beside her, feel a slight tightness in her heart.

She gently tugged at his sleeve and asked softly, "Xiaonan? What's wrong? Are you... are you interested in that kind of power?"

Qin Xiaonan didn't answer immediately. Instead, she turned her head slightly, her gaze falling on Mu Nujiao's face, which was full of concern, and asked, "What do you think?"

Mu Nujiao shook her head without hesitation: "No, I... I feel very bad. That power is too strange, it's best... it's best not to try it."

"Don't worry, I won't buy it."

How could he possibly spend money to buy the nails that Pierre Vess had planted himself?

The two walked out of the Azure Eye with the dispersing crowd, leaving the frenzy and extravagance of the auction behind.

However, the insect egg that was just sold fetched a price of one billion.

"One billion..."

Qin Xiaonan never imagined that the Void Queen Bervis had casually thrown out these dangerous Void larvae as bait and expendable pawns to conceal her ascension.

After being "researched" and "packaged" by the Holy City, it was transformed into a highly sought-after and priceless "source of power"!
An extremely bold, even somewhat darkly humorous, idea popped up uncontrollably:

He can have as many of these void worm eggs as he wants.

Should I sell the insect eggs and make some money?

(End of this chapter)